Hey I didn't fight in no war. Best of luck though.

Friday, September 9, 2005 10:58 PM

Is it bad that I don't really consider myself a Browncoat? Mostly everyone on here kind of seems to take that side, but I never have felt a real compelling urge to take the Independence side. I identify more with Jayne who is kind of neutral, but loyal to who is in control of his livelihood.

I actually don't really see Mal as being that hell-bent on taking out the Alliance either, at least not in the show. Of course, he isn't content with their having won, but he is at most content to fly "under the radar" and do his best to ignore them. The trailers do show him maybe rekindling some of his war motives. At any rate, even though I do feel like I'm part of the show and dedicated to its protagonists, I don't really feel dedicated to their cause. Maybe for me the real charm that the show brings isn't that the goal is to destroy the enemy--it's just to avoid it and get by in a kind of sub-universe that the rest of the world is either ignorant of or irked by. The interaction with the Reavers is very similar, and it sparks an interesting point that the whole Firefly phenomenon is a similar sort of sub-Universe.

Anyone else have some thoughts on this?

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