![]() ![]() ![]() “I won’t get et! You shoot me if they take me!” And some of the plot itself runs on luck – we’ve never heard about Mal’s injury moving his pressure point until after it became convenient, which is how Mal defeats the Operative, which is how he gets off his big Heroic Speech at the end. You can see how his need to get out a moral statement in the way that he sacrifices both plot and character for it many people have noticed that Mal, Simon, and Jayne’s relationships all seem to have been reset, and beloved commentor DJ JD has noted that the scifi explanation for the Reavers we get doesn’t completely hold together with what we saw in the show. Television gives him the scope to find nuance and character within his worldview, but film forces him to do one thing and one thing only, and so I think Serenity is the result of him cramming an entire TV show’s worth of ideas into two hours this is his Zodiac, the purest expression of Whedon. More than any of his other work, Serenity is a step-by-step explanation of what Whedon thinks is right and wrong. That first quote is from the film, and that second quote is from Joss Whedon’s director’s commentary, and it tells us two things: 1) Whedon has heard of subtext but has trouble grasping the practicalities, and 2) that Whedon is writing a manifesto. ![]() When he says, ‘I’m a fan of all seven,’ he’s saying that sin is just what people are it’s been codified, it’s been given a name, but all of those things we take as faults are also the source of pleasure and decency, and we should perhaps rethink it.” And you take that further and you say the idea of sin is in fact outmoded, is in fact more archaic than anything that Mal believes in. It’s just simply not how human beings are. It’s about the idea that you cannot impose your way of thinking on people, even if your way of thinking is more enlightened and better than theirs. ![]()
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