One of those nagging questions that I MUST have answered

POSTED BY: Zoot
UPDATED: Saturday, October 29, 2005 16:28
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ZOOT

Thursday, October 27, 2005 4:29 PM

OK so I truly loved Serenity, as you might expect, and, each of the 4 times I’ve seen it, I have loved it more … and I KNOW that I shouldn’t require a film which is, after all, let’s face it, total fiction, flight of fancy and what-have-you, to be entirely logical, but I gotta know:

So the pax(iccillin) or whatever makes most of the population of a planet incredibly docile, what I’m gonna choose to term “sitting ducks” and one 10th of 1 percent (or something along those lines) of that same population vicious, homicidal cannibals …

So why did the reavers not just take out their raping and eating tendencies on the rest of Miranda (as they indeed do on the research ship) and rather than allowing their docile, cow-like fellow men to just die where they stood, why didn't they turn them into the human equivalent of beef burgers??

Apologies if anyone has asked this already and I know the answer is like to be; “’Cos it’s a film, you dummy, and it just wouldn’t have come across so well plot-wise” …but it’s keeping me up of nights, so any theories, let me know ….

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GEEKMAFIA

Thursday, October 27, 2005 4:48 PM

I think the main theory is that they would not have become maniacs immediately maybe only as slowly as the others became docile and once they became true reavers everyone else was dead and you know reavers like their meat live.

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HAIDON

Thursday, October 27, 2005 4:57 PM

My thought is this: The reavers didn't mess with many of the docile folk, since they didn't scream or put up a fight. boring to rape and cannabalize the willing, or the apathetic I suppose.

It's hard to stay angry when someone doesn't put up a fight. so, they went lookin' for one.

JOSSISAGOD

Thursday, October 27, 2005 5:05 PM

I'm with all other posts on this thread. I believe Reavers like their people alive and running for their lives when they start to feed, and I believe most if not all of the rest of Miranda's population had already laid down to die by the time the others went insane. also I thought it was one tenth of the entire population that went insane?

ZOOT

Thursday, October 27, 2005 5:18 PM

1. So that means, the way to avoid reavers is a bit like the way to avoid a ravening lion: Just stand very still and appear disinterested and they'll leave you alone? Shouldn’t someone have told our BDHs that?

2. Am pretty sure its a 10th of 1% in the movie - cos I remember thinking it was weird ... anyone got a Visual Companion handy?

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PURPLEYIN

Thursday, October 27, 2005 5:19 PM

keep in mind that in bushwhacked the infected guy took along time to convert to being a reaver. he was already suffering from malnutrition when found by serenity.

CITIZEN

Thursday, October 27, 2005 5:29 PM

I'm sure in the film it says they stopped doing everything, eating, breathing etc... so they would have died pretty damn quick, and the Reavers prefer their food to move...

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you Beeeer Milkshakes!
Okay, the talking ferret was a bit wierd...

FOLLOWMAL

Thursday, October 27, 2005 5:44 PM

I'm quoting from the book.... the Visual Companion.

"...about a tenth of a percent of the population had the opposite reaction to Pax."

Also in Firefly... when we first encounter the Reaver ship in "Serenity" the pilot... Mal tells them all to just stay calm, they aren't gonna run... because the Reavers would have to chase them... it's their way. I'm paraphrasing... but I think Mal already knows that running under certain circumstances will turn out worse.

ZOOT

Thursday, October 27, 2005 5:47 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by FollowMal:

I'm quoting from the book.... the Visual Companion.

"...about a tenth of a percent of the population had the opposite reaction to Pax."

There ya go! Hands up all those who were paying attention?

ME!!!!

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Okay, I'm lost, I'm angry, and I'm
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CYBERSNARK

Thursday, October 27, 2005 5:55 PM

*raises hand*

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