I found him a somewhat welcome corrective to a kind of aspartame sweetness in the show overall.
That's a great line.
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.
He sounds like a valuable jolt of emotional grounding, then, as well as an interesting character to watch. So his self-interest is genuine, but he's also capable of more kindly behavior?
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.
I had worldbuilding problems with the show—I enjoyed the Chinese profanity, but it felt like there should have been more evidence of cultural fusion than just the dialogue. Like, some regular Asian characters couldn't have hurt. I was never sure how their absence was supposed to be explained. [edit] I can't believe I remember that when I can barely remember some of the main cast's characterizations. It must have really stuck out.
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That's a great line.
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.
He sounds like a valuable jolt of emotional grounding, then, as well as an interesting character to watch. So his self-interest is genuine, but he's also capable of more kindly behavior?
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.
I had worldbuilding problems with the show—I enjoyed the Chinese profanity, but it felt like there should have been more evidence of cultural fusion than just the dialogue. Like, some regular Asian characters couldn't have hurt. I was never sure how their absence was supposed to be explained. [edit] I can't believe I remember that when I can barely remember some of the main cast's characterizations. It must have really stuck out.