In this episode Simon is quick to judge the hill folk who kidnap him and his sister as awful people, however, once he gets to the town how does his view on them change?
Well once Simon gets to the town and asks why they took him they say that they needed a doctor for when people got hurt. Simon seems surprised by this as they took him with the intention to keep him to help take care of their towns people. He was quick to judge them as wanting him for ransom or just for the hell of kidnapping but it turned out that they actually needed him and wanted him to want to be there. They even had set aside a house for he and his sister to live in while they were there. All in all Simon was very surprised at how polite everyone was and how gentle they were with he and his sister.
That was until they found out that the towns folk were a bunch of religious nutheads who wanted to burn his sister at the stake for being a witch...
Later in the episode Mal and the crew go out of their way to come back and save Simon despite the fact that they have to go way out of their way. What does this say about the crew?
This shows that even though they sometimes don't get along, they all still care for each other regardless. They are like family to each other and they go about their business in a manner that shows that. Simon even asks Mal why he came back, of course, Mal has a sarcastic reply but you get the sense that he does that because he knows that Simon knows that he is only joking and that they would never leave one of their own behind.
I think this episode shows the stereotype of "People aren't always what they seem".
ReplyDeleteYeah. I didn't really think about that at the time but that goes along with the theme of my paper actually
ReplyDeleteThis is very interesting episode to watch.
ReplyDelete'Don't judge a book by it's cover' comes to mind after reading the first half of this.
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