Well, yeah, I felt that way too. But the show seems to reinforce their feelings, not ours. It felt preachy to me, like "See what happens, people, when you have sex outside of a loving relationship?"
See, I never got that either. It's a running theme on all Whedon shows that sex complicates and intensifies situations, because... well, for most people that's the case. It could be societal, or ingrained, or blah blah blah, doesn't really matter. There it is anyway. But I didn't see any moral or tsk-tsk-you-should-have-known sort of connotation.
Contrast that to Katee Sackhoff's Starbuck.
I haven't seen this show, so I couldn't say.
Not the juvenile whore/virgin dichotomy of Firefly.
Mm... not getting it. Again, go back to
Out of Gas... Kaylee, everybody's little sister, having a grand old time with some guy based solely on the fact that he's got a nice chest and some cool tats. And afterwards, she's done up no differently than her standard sweetie character.
I know there's not a shitload of other scenes to refer to, but let's face it... there are thirteen episodes, and four female characters. One of those is characters is married, and another's a basket case.
I mean, the Millenium Falcon has it's guts hangin' out, panels blown off, etc. It looks like a flying jalopy hotrod. You almost expect it to honk "la cucaracha" when it tears out of Mos Eisly. But even so it looks like it could fly.
If someone threw it like a frisbee, maybe.
Not like Mal, the archetypical cowboy in a black-and-white moral universe. The entire show is set up so that he never has to do anything but the right thing, the thing we're all rooting for.
Weren't we just talking about what an asshole he is to Inara?
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