Question that's bugging me.
POSTED BY: peacekeeper
UPDATED: Friday, September 4, 2009 16:02
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Originally posted by ShinyVera2517:
- The money had to have been pretty good if it was going to be enough to buy his own ship.
Not necessarily.
"The money's good enough to buy your own car" is equally relative.
You're probably thinking a nice new EXPENSIVE car, whereas I might be thinking of a used clunker that costs 5% of that.
Mal was able to afford his own ship, but it was a feces-filled death-trap that didn't fly.
www.stillflying.net: "Here's how it might have been..."
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I always felt like Jayne decided not to help Dobson more out of a niggling sense of loyalty to Mal (otherwise why would he have even asked if helping Dobson meant turning on Mal?), but strengthened by the fact that the money wasn't amazing. Contrast to "Ariel" where
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Jayne protests at the end that it wasn't like he sold Mal out (by attempting to sell out Simon and River), and Mal says it was.
Jayne does have some (if a very few) scruples.
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People before profits
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