Blog 6

Today in class we came up with many idea and themes for the Train Job episode. One of the ideas that we came up with about the episode, as a whole was how the crew was doing wrong but they also did what was right. One of the characters that this idea works with is Mal. They accepted a job from Niska and they knew the risk they were taking when they took the job. So they steal the cargo they are supposed to but the find out that the cargo is medicine needed by many. So Mal makes the decision to return the cargo and face Niska. If they did not finish the job, Niska would kill them but he put other peoples’ needs before his. That proves that he is a man who has morals but at the same time how can he be moral when he steals. One of the questions in class was, is it ever okay to steal? In today’s world that would be a no but in this series it doesn’t seem as bad. I still think it is not okay to steal no matter what the circumstances are. Another part that somewhat contradicts Mal being a moral man is when he kills Crow. We also asked if there was ever a situation in which killing someone is okay. Once again with the circumstances with what they were going through, it doesn’t seem as bad. Mal killed a terrible man and it did help get his point across and killing Crow almost seems like an exception to me. However this is a TV series and in real life there would be no exceptions for stealing or killing.