She says in the movie that she has seen to many different versions of Mal to know whom she is dealing with...this just speaks to her not looking past the superficial because Mal has always been up front about his life and his convictions...Inara, though she has known many men and been trained to seek out what they desire...she has failed miserably to meet Mal's needs...
She wore freakin' high heels to the battle, dangly earings, make-up and don't even let me comment on the outfit she chose.
She puts Simon's hand over his bullet wound and tells him to put pressure there...so basically she walks away from the whole gorram thing with a scratch on her cheek and not so much as a drop of blood on her hands.
Not the type of woman Mal needs...at all...
On River and his speaking to her not through others.
(((One symptom of this rise in apparent equality is that he talks directly to her most of the time; in the show he used to direct half his comments around her to Simon when she was having trouble communicating.)))
He seems to be aware of her without actually looking for her...I noticed this before I was even a River/Mal shipper. The way he just all of a sudden starts talking without looking in her direction over much.
I chose this pairing because I loved Malcolm Reynald's, but when I watched the show I didn't get these overwhelming Inara vibes. Sorry, Inara, but our Mal he needed something you couldn't give him.
Then, I thought how about Kaylee, but I only got big brother/little sister vibes from them and that creeped me out. So, Kaylee was out...Sorry, Kaylee, I really thought you had a chance.
So, I happened upon a story by an author I know only as mjules and the pairing fairly jumped of my screen, hit me upside the head, and then took off at a gallop.
I was like...GORRAM! Why didn't I see it before? That is what Mal's mate needed. She needed an understanding of all that he lost to the Alliance. She needed to be just as fractured as he was and River tam fit that bill...
The problem I have found now, is that finding only River/Mal fiction is like looking for a speck of dust in the vastness of the black.
He mentions his mother to Saffron, when he still thinks she's just his innocent accidental bride, and 40 ranch hands, but not his father; it seems likely that his mother raised him alone. This is likely at least part of the reason he is so offended by Saffron's apparent acceptance of the concept that she's a second-class citizen.
I have re-watched the episodes and the movie constantly since I found this pairing searching for bits into each of their history.
Something that Patience says makes me think that she could be his mother or at least someone from his past that was a maternal figure...
"Ahhh...Mal how you doin' boy?" (Patience)
"Walkin' and talkin'..." (Mal)
"Is that Zoe are you still sailin' with this old bum?"(Patience)
"Awful lot of men to haul three crates." (Zoe)
"yeah, well I couldn't be sure my Mal here wouldn't be lookin' for some kind of payback. You understand..."(Patience)
Patience is a strong woman who commands a fair few men. That might also go into Mal's trust issues when it comes to being manipulated.
This is just something that occured to me when I first saw the DVD episodes...Mal just seems a little too easily forgiving of her duplicity in shooting him...oddly he and Patience are oddly open and truthful with each other.
Sid
Side note* I love that something new we see in Mal when he decideds to go to Miranda...a man of deep conviction.
I LOVE THIS ESSAY!
On Inara...
She says in the movie that she has seen to many different versions of Mal to know whom she is dealing with...this just speaks to her not looking past the superficial because Mal has always been up front about his life and his convictions...Inara, though she has known many men and been trained to seek out what they desire...she has failed miserably to meet Mal's needs...
She wore freakin' high heels to the battle, dangly earings, make-up and don't even let me comment on the outfit she chose.
She puts Simon's hand over his bullet wound and tells him to put pressure there...so basically she walks away from the whole gorram thing with a scratch on her cheek and not so much as a drop of blood on her hands.
Not the type of woman Mal needs...at all...
On River and his speaking to her not through others.
(((One symptom of this rise in apparent equality is that he talks directly to her most of the time; in the show he used to direct half his comments around her to Simon when she was having trouble communicating.)))
He seems to be aware of her without actually looking for her...I noticed this before I was even a River/Mal shipper. The way he just all of a sudden starts talking without looking in her direction over much.
I chose this pairing because I loved Malcolm Reynald's, but when I watched the show I didn't get these overwhelming Inara vibes. Sorry, Inara, but our Mal he needed something you couldn't give him.
Then, I thought how about Kaylee, but I only got big brother/little sister vibes from them and that creeped me out. So, Kaylee was out...Sorry, Kaylee, I really thought you had a chance.
So, I happened upon a story by an author I know only as mjules and the pairing fairly jumped of my screen, hit me upside the head, and then took off at a gallop.
I was like...GORRAM! Why didn't I see it before? That is what Mal's mate needed. She needed an understanding of all that he lost to the Alliance. She needed to be just as fractured as he was and River tam fit that bill...
The problem I have found now, is that finding only River/Mal fiction is like looking for a speck of dust in the vastness of the black.
I have re-watched the episodes and the movie constantly since I found this pairing searching for bits into each of their history.
Something that Patience says makes me think that she could be his mother or at least someone from his past that was a maternal figure...
"Ahhh...Mal how you doin' boy?" (Patience)
"Walkin' and talkin'..." (Mal)
"Is that Zoe are you still sailin' with this old bum?"(Patience)
"Awful lot of men to haul three crates." (Zoe)
"yeah, well I couldn't be sure my Mal here wouldn't be lookin' for some kind of payback. You understand..."(Patience)
Patience is a strong woman who commands a fair few men. That might also go into Mal's trust issues when it comes to being manipulated.
This is just something that occured to me when I first saw the DVD episodes...Mal just seems a little too easily forgiving of her duplicity in shooting him...oddly he and Patience are oddly open and truthful with each other.
Sid
Side note* I love that something new we see in Mal when he decideds to go to Miranda...a man of deep conviction.