Firefly Blog 2

So I thought that this episode of Firefly hit home on more of a deep level than the first one did, especially with the captain. As I said in an earlier blog, I felt that the captain was kind of putting on an act and portraying himself as a hard and cold individual to cover up a softer side that he has deep down. At least from this episode, it appears as though this hypothesis was correct. We see the softer side of the captain in the scene in which Saffron is seducing the captain in his bedroom. Instead of standing his ground and continuously pushing her away, as he does when the crew is around, he lets down his guard some and allows her to get close to him and kiss him. I think that this scene was very important because it shows the caring and soft side of the captain that we don't get to see in the first episode. This episode just makes me wonder if the captain is going to begin to show who he really seems to be deep down or if he will continue to portray himself as the emotionless leader of the ship.