{"id":58700,"date":"2025-09-29T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=58700"},"modified":"2025-09-28T08:01:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T12:01:59","slug":"qotd-mal-reynolds-in-serenity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/09\/29\/qotd-mal-reynolds-in-serenity\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Mal Reynolds in <em>Serenity<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m not trying to make a polemic and it&#8217;s definitely not a partisan film in the sense that Mal is, if not a Republican, certainly a libertarian, he&#8217;s certainly a less-government kinda guy. He&#8217;s the opposite of me in many ways.<\/p>\n<p>Joss Whedon, quoted by Malene Arpe in &#8220;Just don&#8217;t call Joss Whedon a genius&#8221;, <em>Toronto Star<\/em>, 2005-09-24.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not trying to make a polemic and it&#8217;s definitely not a partisan film in the sense that Mal is, if not a Republican, certainly a libertarian, he&#8217;s certainly a less-government kinda guy. He&#8217;s the opposite of me in many ways. Joss Whedon, quoted by Malene Arpe in &#8220;Just don&#8217;t call Joss Whedon a genius&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28,41],"tags":[921],"class_list":["post-58700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-media","category-quotations","tag-firefly"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-fgM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98173,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58700\/revisions\/98173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}