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*** ...Aw man, that just made me realize: ''Simon'' probably knew how to handle a sword. Damn you Fox, for canceling the show before we ever got to see that. ''Damn you''. |
*** ...Aw man, that just made me realize: ''Simon'' probably knew how to handle a sword. Damn you Fox, for canceling the show before we ever got to see that. ''Damn you''. |
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*** Not only did I reach the same conclusions when I first saw the episode, but something else occurred to me at the time as well. Simon's already shown blade-wielding aptitude - surgically-speaking. What if that talent isn't just limited to his medical aptitude but is also part of a more generalised blade-wielding talent? That would result in him not just being trained in fencing because of his breeding but actually being ''good at it'' as well (I don't mean River-good, just good by anyone else's standards). Given Simon's personality, I would assume he'd only be interested in the fencing sport and not in death-duels, but then the rather Alexandre Dumas-esque feel of "Shindig" did leave me suspecting that death-duels would only occur on outer planets, leaving core planets to practice it for sporting purposes, and I could see Simon mastering it as a 'gentleman's sport' rather than for gritty fights-to-the-death. That would leave Simon with a general talent for blades but a preference for channelling that talent into healing rather than harming. |
*** Not only did I reach the same conclusions when I first saw the episode, but something else occurred to me at the time as well. Simon's already shown blade-wielding aptitude - surgically-speaking. What if that talent isn't just limited to his medical aptitude but is also part of a more generalised blade-wielding talent? That would result in him not just being trained in fencing because of his breeding but actually being ''good at it'' as well (I don't mean River-good, just good by anyone else's standards). Given Simon's personality, I would assume he'd only be interested in the fencing sport and not in death-duels, but then the rather Alexandre Dumas-esque feel of "Shindig" did leave me suspecting that death-duels would only occur on outer planets, leaving core planets to practice it for sporting purposes, and I could see Simon mastering it as a 'gentleman's sport' rather than for gritty fights-to-the-death. That would leave Simon with a general talent for blades but a preference for channelling that talent into healing rather than harming. |
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** While the society is generally shown to parallel chauvinist/sexist standards of the nineteenth century, there's nothing to say that women are completely ''immune'' from dueling. Maybe Inara has to be ready to defend herself from some aristocrat's jealous new wife that he didn't bother to tell her he'd married since her last visit. |
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== Dueling Etiquette == |
== Dueling Etiquette == |
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