> as flaws into merits.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Han Solo is a mercenary with a heart of gold. The mercenary is the flaw, the heart of gold is the good bit
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Firefly reverses that so that Mal's heroic moments are basically flaws or character inconsistencies
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Furthermore he runs Serenity like a patriarch and we're meant to be cool with that
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Protecting Simon and River is something that everyone on the crew except Jayne and Map unequivocally support
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But the show agrees with Mal that only HIS feelings really matter
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Nobody else gives a shit that Inara is a sex worker, but we as the audience do because Mal is a jealous prude. And so on.
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Mal's dickhead "I'm the Captain" thing isn't even true to real pirates, who typically did have votes and elections
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logically so, bc if you're not operating under the law how do you back up your absolute authority
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it is very true to the ideological contradiction at the heart of the American libertarian tradition though
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tbf a ton of the S1 plots are abt the crew challenging Mal on this and him walking it back bc he has to
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
still though it feels like the show never fully forces him to apologize when he should
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jfc remember him pointlessly insulting Kaylee bc he's threatened by her wanting to go to the Alliance ball
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