Fantastic essay-- this pretty much sums up what I love and adore about the two of them. Love how you considered their respective professions-- it's very true that Mal can't stand the subterfuge about Inara.
Mal Reynolds has a very concrete sense of right and wrong, he's just a vastly disillusioned man, a cynical romantic.
And I have the sense that Inara is very much an embittered romantic as well-- the way she approaches being a Companion and the superstitious beliefs I think she has (the way she approaches a possible death by Reavers says a lot about Inara's viewpoint) is romantic, and I think Inara just enforces guards in her own mind to prevent it from hurting her.
The two of them are just so fascinating because the social/emotional/financial barriers between them, and this essay captured that wonderfully. xD
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Mal Reynolds has a very concrete sense of right and wrong, he's just a vastly disillusioned man, a cynical romantic.
And I have the sense that Inara is very much an embittered romantic as well-- the way she approaches being a Companion and the superstitious beliefs I think she has (the way she approaches a possible death by Reavers says a lot about Inara's viewpoint) is romantic, and I think Inara just enforces guards in her own mind to prevent it from hurting her.
The two of them are just so fascinating because the social/emotional/financial barriers between them, and this essay captured that wonderfully. xD