Bushwhacked - scary as hell!
POSTED BY: bobknaptor
UPDATED: Wednesday, February 5, 2003 16:58
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Whedon's great at exploring the shades of grey in everything. As gross as it could potentially get, I want to learn more about the oxy-moronic "high-tech savages" known as the Reavers.
Despite everything we've learned about them, I still don't believe everything is black and white with the Reavers. Obviously they are intelligent and teamwork-oriented enough to fly large spaceships (albeit in a hazardous manor), track other ships, attach to and board them, etc. before plundering murderously. This suggests to me there is some sort of hierarchy on board a Reaver ship complete with roleplayers... mechanic, navigator, perhaps even a "Captain" like individual.
If they just sat around drinking bone marrow all the time, their ship(s) wouldn't get very far. It would have been interesting to further explore the "Reaver lifestyle".
Which, of course, brings us back to: Damn you FOX for pulling the plug on this show!!!
mattro
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That's my point. The bodies were there, all nice and stripped and gutted. Yet on the ship itself, no blood anywhere, no flesh, absolutely no evidence of a slaughter. Mal, Zoe and Jayne all did a good bit of looking around before they found the bodies. Wouldn't they have seen some blood somewhere? Or perhaps the Reavers don't kill and gut like savages but maybe more like surgeons? Guess we'll never know.
"...morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with" - Mal
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>>perhaps even a "Captain" like individual.<<
Funny you should mention that. I got the strongest feeling during Serenity, that the guy on Persephone who called Book Grandpa was a Reaver. His ship looked a whole lot like the Reaver ship. The captain may retain a certain sense of... sanity in order to conduct business, pick up unsuspecting passengers, but he enjoys a good chew as well.
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