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[cmzero]

I was reading the Mark Watches review of Firefly and, although Mark and I both love Joss Whedon's work in a lot of similar ways, we heavily diverge on at least one point of interpretation. That of the meaning of Inara and her "career

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[westmarked]

"Heart of Gold" provides another, absurdly obvious example of this. Inara catches Mal leaving another woman's bed, and acts as if nothing is wrong. Her work "keeps her from being a prude" about sex, she says. The next scene she's hidden herself in a corner, sobbing