![]() ![]() Jayne is a scumbag, and the mudders have constructed their legend around one inadvertent and uncharacteristically decent act. The Serenity crew finds this very amusing, because they know Jayne does not care about helping the common man at all. Assuming he helped them deliberately - in a manner similar to the legend of Robin Hood - the mudders consider Jayne a folk hero a defender of the common man who stands against abusers of power. Years prior, Jayne attempted to rob the local magistrate, but accidentally dropped the shiny yield of goods onto poverty-stricken mudders during his escape. Sometimes, maybe being cool is more important than being good. ![]() What we do know is Saffron easily manipulates the living daylights out of Mal and the rest of the suckers from Serenity - and boy is it ever satisfying to see those smug, constantly quipping jerks knocked down a few pegs in Episode 6. Saffron might be evil, but she's also totally awesome. So, isn't Saffron a cautionary tale against trusting women? Isn't there a misogynistic subtext to "Our Mrs. Later, she betrays Mal and the rest of the crew - who are, except for Jayne, all super nice to her before the betrayal - to homicidal scavengers. Reynolds," Saffron marries an oblivious Mal in a folksy wedding ceremony he has no idea he's participating in. There are certainly problematic components to Inara's whole deal, and the allusions to the pro-slavery Confederate army of the American Civil War seem deeply misguided and unnecessary. But what about Mal's kind-of wife, Saffron, played by a pre-"Mad Men" Christina Hendricks?
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