After you responded and before I read your response, I edited the above post for clarity. So the bit about Inara is removed, because I don't really see her prostitution as equal to Darla and Anya's. Her's seems different somehow. And Mal is definitely not Inara's pimp - if anything he resents her companion status. I agree with your take on that.
There is a heavy theme in Angel, Dollhouse, Buffy, and Firefly about the objectification of woman and pimping out of people. It is examined from multiple angles. I like it best in Buffy for some reason, I can't quite decide if it is because Buffy is the powerful one and not the victim, or if it's the humor.
Regarding Spike? I think he sums it up best with Harmony in Harm's Way - when he says that he was almost on the ship to track her down, when he realized that it would be wrong to go after her. That it would sort of undo everything he did in Chosen. Take away the meaning of what he did. Which was ultimately to set her free. To let her go. And to let himself go. She no longer needed him and he no longer needed her. It was time for him to travel down his own path - which lay at this point with Angel. Faith for similar reasons, leaves Angel and goes back to Buffy.
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After you responded and before I read your response, I edited the above post for clarity. So the bit about Inara is removed, because I don't really see her prostitution as equal to Darla and Anya's. Her's seems different somehow. And Mal is definitely not Inara's pimp - if anything he resents her companion status. I agree with your take on that.
There is a heavy theme in Angel, Dollhouse, Buffy, and Firefly about the objectification of woman and pimping out of people. It is examined from multiple angles. I like it best in Buffy for some reason, I can't quite decide if it is because Buffy is the powerful one and not the victim, or if it's the humor.
Regarding Spike? I think he sums it up best with Harmony in Harm's Way - when he says that he was almost on the ship to track her down, when he realized that it would be wrong to go after her. That it would sort of undo everything he did in Chosen. Take away the meaning of what he did. Which was ultimately to set her free. To let her go. And to let himself go.
She no longer needed him and he no longer needed her.
It was time for him to travel down his own path - which lay at this point with Angel. Faith for similar reasons, leaves Angel and goes back to Buffy.