Serenity's deleted scenes...
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He's broken and she wants to fix him.
Or could be just "because". It worked for me. 
I wonder if they're going to still follow the "Inara is dying" plotline or going to discard it.
Back on topic, I was bummed when they released the Collector's DVD and it was't an extended cut.
Especially since Joss has said that many of the deletions were due mainly to running time.
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Originally posted by Moose:
He's broken and she wants to fix him.
Or could be just "because". It worked for me.
I wonder if they're going to still follow the "Inara is dying" plotline or going to discard it.
Forget the timeline, but Joss even said that, had he gotten a chance for a few more seasons, either Book or Wash probably wouldn't have died. At least not so early on. I wonder, after ( I know the answer to this as I'm typing ) their deaths, would Joss even consider NOT offing Inara, as he apparently had originally intended ?
As for why Inara is drawn toward Mal, I don't see her as the Florence Nightingale type. He puzzles her, that much is true. I wonder if it has something to do with HER past ( possibly her own daddy issues ? ) , or maybe that she truly does see something unique in him that she's not seen in , I'm guessing hundreds , of other men.
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Back on topic, I was bummed when they released the Collector's DVD and it was't an extended cut.
Especially since Joss has said that many of the deletions were due mainly to running time.
Of all the deleted scenes, I think Inara at the Training House was prolly my fav, though Mal's " what a whiner " comment about The Operative, made me
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Quote:Her psychologist at the Companion Guild knew Inara was in love with the myth of Jesse James before she ever meets Mal.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
That, the stories being told about Inara's affair with a 'pirate', and how she reacted to the news of Mal hooking up w/ Nandi, bring me back to the 1 simple question...
What does Inara see in Mal ?
Other than he's ruggedly handsome,and it works for the story, why is Inara so smitten w/ him ?
Mal is Jesse James to Inara. She is aware of the historic Jesse James, the one romanticized in movies, festivals and museums in the 20th Century. She was actively looking for a character out of the past when she booked Serenity. It is to her great pleasure when Inara's own Jesse James is actually a far better man than the original.
There is a chasm between idealized outlaw myth and the unglamorous realities of frontier thievery, but the criminal gang behind the myth have a vulgar grace and the prosaic details of criminal endeavors become almost poetic in Inara's imagination. Mal keeps living up to her dreams.
This needs to be in sepia to look more like a portrait of the Jesse James gang.
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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I think of all the scenes cut from the movie, the one with Inara and Mal speaking when in route to Miranda, was the one that really needed to be saved. The movie from the get go was fast and hard and the ties that bind, that give people the strength needed while going through what they were going through, was never more present than in that scene. It is a shame it got cut.
Trying to figure out why one person loves another is a fools game. There is a saying I have heard over and over through out the years. I can't see what he, she see's in him, her? In the movie Book asks Inara why she was so enamored with Mal. She said "because so few men are". That was in reference to Mal being unpredictable While most men in her eyes are very predictable.
Let's face it. Mal is a strong and decent guy. Just don't cross him.
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
What does Inara see in Mal ?
Other than he's ruggedly handsome,and it works for the story, why is Inara so smitten w/ him ?
We got that answer in the pilot episode. Mal is a mystery, as "so few men are."
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Quote:With her exceptional conversational skills Inara is adroitly avoiding a straight & clear explanation that might reveal too much about herself. What is a mystery is how Mal has avoided death for so many years. He is either the luckiest person in the Universe or he is the main character in a TV show that can't be killed without canceling the show. See Castle for that phenomenon.
Originally posted by ecgordon:Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
What does Inara see in Mal ?
Other than he's ruggedly handsome,and it works for the story, why is Inara so smitten w/ him ?
We got that answer in the pilot episode. Mal is a mystery, as "so few men are."
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Mal is such a mystery, and yet he opens up most to ... YoSaffBridge , before he knew who she was. Now isn't that something.
I suppose Mal saw ' Saffron ' at face value, as who she appeared to be. Simple, god fearing, from an agricultural society, prolly not too much unlike his own history.
The simple answer is that the war changed Mal. Which, it certainly did, but I have to think there's more to it than just the war. There's a latent drive in Mal which I don't think was brought out in the series or BDM.
Inara may be right. There's more to Mal than meets the eye. Now, I'm not suggesting any sort of super secret Operative like past, as we suspect for Shepherd Book, but as Patience might say... " there's something there "
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Mal is such a mystery, and yet he opens up most to ... YoSaffBridge , before he knew who she was. Now isn't that something.
I suppose Mal saw ' Saffron ' at face value, as who she appeared to be. Simple, god fearing, from an agricultural society, prolly not too much unlike his own history.
The simple answer is that the war changed Mal. Which, it certainly did, but I have to think there's more to it than just the war. There's a latent drive in Mal which I don't think was brought out in the series or BDM.
Inara may be right. There's more to Mal than meets the eye. Now, I'm not suggesting any sort of super secret Operative like past, as we suspect for Shepherd Book, but as Patience might say... " there's something there "
I had more family as a kid is what Mal said to Saffron before he caught himself. Saffron asked back doesn't your crew talk to you about things, and Mal said they know better. Maybe Inara see's what Mal is deep in his soul?
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Originally posted by MIKER:
Maybe Inara see's what Mal is deep in his soul?
I'm thinking it is because she can't see deep in his soul is what intrigues her so much about Mal. She said that Saffron might have had Companion training because she could read people so well, and it is clear that Nandi thought she could read the "true" Mal. There are times Inara thinks she can read Mal, but then he also surprises her on many occasions.
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Quote:I know somebody who can see Mal's soul -- Jose Molina.
Originally posted by ecgordon:Quote:
Originally posted by MIKER:
Maybe Inara see's what Mal is deep in his soul?
I'm thinking it is because she can't see deep in his soul is what intrigues her so much about Mal. She said that Saffron might have had Companion training because she could read people so well, and it is clear that Nandi thought she could read the "true" Mal. There are times Inara thinks she can read Mal, but then he also surprises her on many occasions.
Jose Molina wrote the "Ariel" episode and half of "Trash". When Molina explains Mal, his explanations are better than Inara's or Nandi's or Saffron's because Molina was there when Mal was created. Molina shows us who Mal really is by jumping Mal's story 45 years forward.
Molina wrote Mal as a seventy-odd year old man in the story "Take the Sky" in the book http://titanbooks.com/firefly-still-flying-a-celebration-of-joss-whedo
ns-acclaimed-tv-series-4540/
That same story got reprinted in http://titanbooks.com/firefly-a-celebration-anniversary-edition-6372/ If the story is not near Mal's true characteristics, Joss Whedon could have edited it to bring it back into alignment with his vision of Mal.
Molina wrote Mal as an old recluse. Today there must be a hundred million of men just like Mal becomes. All those millions of lives aren't particular special. I've seen many. Once upon a time, Mal was somebody special because he was living with people who were very exceptional. You might think some of that exceptionalism could have rubbed off on Mal. You would be wrong if Jose Molina, who wrote for Firefly, is right. Even Jayne ended in a far better place than Mal, according to Molina.
As for the Tams: “If Simon was brain and Kaylee was heart, then River was spirit. The Tam family was a confluence of all good things, and it eased Mal's weary mind to think of them on some distant place far, far away from his desolate rock.”
As for Mal: “Happiness had visited him rarely in his waning years, the quiet and the stillness of age replacing the chaotic commotion of his youth.”
Mal seemed magical when surrounded by the best people. When they went away, the magic left with them, leaving just Mal, a witness to other people's greatness. Mal's biggest mistake in life was his going his own way, alone.
Making mistakes and not learning from them is a big part of Mal's character.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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