Firefly: Shindig
Oct. 9th, 2005 10:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieI was rewatching Shindig today. I love love love that episode. It's Jane Austen in space only with 10 times as much sexiness.
Plus, Mal telling Inara almost incoherently that he doesn't want her to take Atherton's "protection" is just...the shipper in me goes incoherent.
I think what bothers Mal most about Inara's profession is the fact that being a Companion is pretense. Everyone pretends it's what it's not: some kind of high art. He'd have much less trouble if she was a woman who was whoring because she needed to live and never claimed it was anything else. In a Western trope, he and Zoe and Kaylee would be from some small towns and people like Inara and Simon would be from Boston or Charleston.
I also love love LOVE the final scene where she tells him she would have never taken Atherton's offer and as an excuse she says it's because someone needs to keep an eye on Kaylee which makes Joss scarily consistent as that's Mal's excuse when he talks to Inara in the movie.. And then of course she says she'd never want to leave Serenity, looking straight at him, and you so know it's not the ship she is talking about.
Plus, Mal like a small boy trying to show off his wound. Heh. And leaning on her as they walk away from the dueling field (and I love his poking Atherton with a sword.) It's these quiet times they have that really do show that they are rather compatible. Sigh. I want more Firefly. Please. Please please please please.
Also? Zoe and Wash in bed is just...awwww. And Kaylee in her dress? Also, awwwwww....
One of my favoritest eps.
Plus, Mal telling Inara almost incoherently that he doesn't want her to take Atherton's "protection" is just...the shipper in me goes incoherent.
I think what bothers Mal most about Inara's profession is the fact that being a Companion is pretense. Everyone pretends it's what it's not: some kind of high art. He'd have much less trouble if she was a woman who was whoring because she needed to live and never claimed it was anything else. In a Western trope, he and Zoe and Kaylee would be from some small towns and people like Inara and Simon would be from Boston or Charleston.
I also love love LOVE the final scene where she tells him she would have never taken Atherton's offer and as an excuse she says it's because someone needs to keep an eye on Kaylee which makes Joss scarily consistent as that's Mal's excuse when he talks to Inara in the movie.. And then of course she says she'd never want to leave Serenity, looking straight at him, and you so know it's not the ship she is talking about.
Plus, Mal like a small boy trying to show off his wound. Heh. And leaning on her as they walk away from the dueling field (and I love his poking Atherton with a sword.) It's these quiet times they have that really do show that they are rather compatible. Sigh. I want more Firefly. Please. Please please please please.
Also? Zoe and Wash in bed is just...awwww. And Kaylee in her dress? Also, awwwwww....
One of my favoritest eps.
