Unless the actor in question was specifically the one who fell down on the job and made the movie suck, I don't see anything hypocritical about keeping your paycheck and mocking the film, any more than you'd blame one of your friends for not mailing back all the paychecks from their last job before badmouthing the…

Funny thing is according to DVD commentary for this episode (yes, I know, I'm That Guy) Whedon added that scene because he was inspired by hearing Summer Glau mess around doing different accents.

Funny thing is according to DVD commentary for this episode (yes, I know, I'm That Guy) Whedon added that scene because he was inspired by hearing Summer Glau mess around doing different accents.

Interestingly from the DVD commentary for this episode you learn that the original plan was to have Mal be comically clumsy and unfamiliar with the steps of this dance and have Inara have to "lead" him.

Interestingly from the DVD commentary for this episode you learn that the original plan was to have Mal be comically clumsy and unfamiliar with the steps of this dance and have Inara have to "lead" him.

I cheerfully accept correction on the matter of the lesbian sex worker scene (with which I have little direct familiarity).

I cheerfully accept correction on the matter of the lesbian sex worker scene (with which I have little direct familiarity).

@avclub-438f54f8c5a3a6f58ce5a69d37294fe9:disqus I would actually still think that it was weird to see a sex worker being actively solicited by a female client, not because I think lesbians are weird or freakish but because women paying for sex is still extremely abnormal in our society.
If you read Dan Savage's column…

@avclub-438f54f8c5a3a6f58ce5a69d37294fe9:disqus I would actually still think that it was weird to see a sex worker being actively solicited by a female client, not because I think lesbians are weird or freakish but because women paying for sex is still extremely abnormal in our society.
If you read Dan Savage's column…

I think you actually hit the nail on the head there. Companions are like lawyers — they're highly paid, high status and "civilized" people generally respect them, at least on the surface.

I think you actually hit the nail on the head there. Companions are like lawyers — they're highly paid, high status and "civilized" people generally respect them, at least on the surface.

If things that are perceived as aliens despite their ultimate terrestrial origin count as "aliens", then Firefly shouldn't count either because of the upside-down cow fetus.

If things that are perceived as aliens despite their ultimate terrestrial origin count as "aliens", then Firefly shouldn't count either because of the upside-down cow fetus.

Talking about the fairy-magic-potion-induced love quadrilateral in A Midsummer Night's Dream is just as much wasting time talking about a wholly fictitious series of events based on a ridiculous, fantastical plot contrivance in something that was, in its time, intended as profiteering popular entertainment.

Talking about the fairy-magic-potion-induced love quadrilateral in A Midsummer Night's Dream is just as much wasting time talking about a wholly fictitious series of events based on a ridiculous, fantastical plot contrivance in something that was, in its time, intended as profiteering popular entertainment.

Why aren't they what now? You seriously think the Palestine issue gets more one-sided press in the US media than "FREE TIBET"? You think there's *any* Palestinian leader who gets more uncritical adulation than the Dalai Lama?

Why aren't they what now? You seriously think the Palestine issue gets more one-sided press in the US media than "FREE TIBET"? You think there's *any* Palestinian leader who gets more uncritical adulation than the Dalai Lama?

I'm not sure I want to get into this, but —

I'm not sure I want to get into this, but —

You're saying he's so virile his super-sperm plowed their way through the latex and impregnated his lover anyway?