Everything I do, I do it for you (Han Solo/Luke Skywalker)

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Title: Everything I do, I do it for you
Fandom: Star Wars
Pairing: Han Solo/Luke Skywalker
Author: Angel
Spoilers: It’s 25 years old. Your fault if you haven’t seen them
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As killabeez discovered, writing about archetypal characters is tough. What is there to say about Luke or Han that everyone doesn’t already know? Anyway, let’s lift on this journey.

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Inara/Mal (Firefly)

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Title: Broken Angels (Hallelujah)
Author: butterfly
Spoilers: All television episodes of Firefly, aired and unaired. No movie spoilers.
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Firefly can be summed as a 'space western' and it means about as much as summing up The Odyssey as a story about a guy who took the long way home. True from a certain perspective, but ultimately meaningless if that's all you say about it. Firefly is a space western, but it's about the meaning of freedom, of tolerance, and of humanity. To paraphrase Joss Whedon, it's about nine people looking into the black (the void, the Abyss) and each seeing something different.

In much the same way, Mal and Inara can be easily classified as a 'type', as bickering almost-lovers in the vein of Beatrice and Benedict. They know each other, insult each other, flirt and touch and care, without yet daring to go the next step. But, as with the show itself, the meaning of the pairing is very different and much more complicated, based on the difficulty of resolving fundamental differences in ethics. What does it mean to love someone who was on the opposite side of a moral war that, in your soul, you've never stopped fighting? What does it mean to love someone who thinks of what you do as beneath you, as dirty?

( The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. (Pearl Bailey) )