I've seen more than two episodes, but still only a handful, and my memory is as strong as wet toilet paper, BUT
I found him a somewhat welcome corrective to a kind of aspartame sweetness in the show overall. Whereas Mal seemed (to me; I know I'm in the minority here) awkward in his cowboy language, only every now and then remembering to stick in an ain't or to use don't instead of doesn't, Jayne felt like the real thing. His self-interested behavior was what I would expect from at least *someone* in a crew of smugglers. The problem with not just Mal but the group overall--except for Jayne--is that their hidden hearts of gold aren't hidden at all; they're right their on the surface. I felt like the writers didn't trust us to discover the goodness in the characters and so signposted it screamingly from the very beginning--except for Jayne.
This makes it sound like I disliked the show, which isn't true. I thought the plots of the various episodes I saw were fun. But I saw a lot more weakness in it than a lot of people did.
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I've seen more than two episodes, but still only a handful, and my memory is as strong as wet toilet paper, BUT
I found him a somewhat welcome corrective to a kind of aspartame sweetness in the show overall. Whereas Mal seemed (to me; I know I'm in the minority here) awkward in his cowboy language, only every now and then remembering to stick in an ain't or to use don't instead of doesn't, Jayne felt like the real thing. His self-interested behavior was what I would expect from at least *someone* in a crew of smugglers. The problem with not just Mal but the group overall--except for Jayne--is that their hidden hearts of gold aren't hidden at all; they're right their on the surface. I felt like the writers didn't trust us to discover the goodness in the characters and so signposted it screamingly from the very beginning--except for Jayne.
This makes it sound like I disliked the show, which isn't true. I thought the plots of the various episodes I saw were fun. But I saw a lot more weakness in it than a lot of people did.