Did Mal Hint At Remorse In The BDM? by ShinyEd

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Did Mal Hint At Remorse In The BDM?

POSTED BY: SHINYED
UPDATED: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 13:52
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 7:28 AM

At the beginning of Serenity Mal asks River if she "knows her part" in the job they're about to do....River answers "do you?"....Then Mal gets a bit sullen and seemingly remorseful when he says..."This is what I do darlin', this is what I do." Especially the 2nd "this is what I do" ...lower in tone, he seemed to be ashamed of what he had become.

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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 7:32 AM

EVILDINOSAUR

I don't know that it was so much shame...maybe more disappointment. Like he wants to be at a place where he doesn't have to live from job to job. And it's quite possible he doesn't want to do so much of the thieving to make a living.

Could also be he wants to do something that matters with his life, which would kinda set up the movie nicely. He feels like this little insignificant person just floating around the edge of the universe.

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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8:33 AM

SHINYED

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Originally posted by EvilDinosaur:
Could also be he wants to do something that matters with his life, which would kinda set up the movie nicely. He feels like this little insignificant person just floating around the edge of the universe.

I think you're right all the way here. He really does want something more.....that's why he retrieves River when she is put asleep by Simon, 'cause he knows she is the key to his own freedom.

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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:18 PM

LAWMAN

that opening piece is funny and tragic at the same time. mal is definitely saddened at and disappointed at how his life has turned into. i remember that in the series first episode (serenity 1& 2, not train), mal clearly says, do the job and get paid. he's not the kind of person who shoots first, he doesn't even shoot/kill patience when he has a right to. but in the movie beginning, he's a changed man from who we saw at the beginning fo the series. that's like 1 yr later. and i think mal knows it too. mal is troubled through out the entire opening sequence. his willingness to help the folks inside the robbed building doesn't go as far as helping with the last guy. in fact, when mal says, war's long gone, we're just folk, it seems that he has completely lost what honorable notions he had during the series, let alone the war.

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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 1:13 PM

CYBERSNARK

Also, remember in the first episode. After they steal from the corpses and run away like rats? Jayne's all "I call this a win" and Mal says that bitter "Yeah. We won."

So yeah, Mal is remorseful and/or resentful of his lot in life. Has been for as long as we've known him.

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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 1:52 PM

BLUEEYEDBRIGADIER

Plus. let us not forget that by the time of the BDM, Inara has schelpped off to the Training House, so Mal doesn't have access to jobs and ports he once did with Inara's presence as a passenger on Serenity. Knowing that he's sunk low enough to be pulling jobs he once could say "No, thanks" to - like stealing the monthly payroll that trickles back into Lilac's local economy - in order to feed the crew and keep Serenity puttering about...he's gonna be all kinds of

at that point.

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