Hello fellow Bloggers! So today in class we had to give more in-dept thought to this episode of Firefly. The person I chose to write about was Mal. The scenes that I out together was when he stole the medicine returned and then proceeded to kill Crow. Even though he returned the medicine, he still stole it to begin with and then killed Crow, which I see as steeling a life. So do we still consider him as “good” or “moral”? In episode nine Jayne completely turns on the crew and gives out information to the Alliance. Even when Mal found this out he gave Jayne another chance. I feel like somewhere in on of the other episodes he had done the same thing, even in the first one he was considering turning on the crew. Regardless Mal still let him live after making him think he was going to kill him. So why is it ok for him to kill Crow? Even if he said he was going to hunt you down still he wasn’t going to do anything right then. I am not seeing where Mal is going to draw the line here. Yes Crow was a bad guy but so are a lot of people and he spared their lives? I don’t know if this is making much sense to anyone but it’s just what I think. I don’t know after having this discussion if I see Mal as “moral” anymore. You can’t just do something good and then turn around and do something bad and think you are still “moral”.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
The Train Job
Hello fellow Bloggers! So today in class we had to give more in-dept thought to this episode of Firefly. The person I chose to write about was Mal. The scenes that I out together was when he stole the medicine returned and then proceeded to kill Crow. Even though he returned the medicine, he still stole it to begin with and then killed Crow, which I see as steeling a life. So do we still consider him as “good” or “moral”? In episode nine Jayne completely turns on the crew and gives out information to the Alliance. Even when Mal found this out he gave Jayne another chance. I feel like somewhere in on of the other episodes he had done the same thing, even in the first one he was considering turning on the crew. Regardless Mal still let him live after making him think he was going to kill him. So why is it ok for him to kill Crow? Even if he said he was going to hunt you down still he wasn’t going to do anything right then. I am not seeing where Mal is going to draw the line here. Yes Crow was a bad guy but so are a lot of people and he spared their lives? I don’t know if this is making much sense to anyone but it’s just what I think. I don’t know after having this discussion if I see Mal as “moral” anymore. You can’t just do something good and then turn around and do something bad and think you are still “moral”.
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I agree with your post completely, Mal acts all hardcore and is only willing to look out for himself then he turns around and saves all these people. Then once again turns around and kills some guy. So I guess the only way it can be justified is that he saved I guess that whole train full and only killed 1 man.
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