What did they do to Wash?
POSTED BY: PaxAlexa
UPDATED: Saturday, August 5, 2006 05:19
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Hi,
I'm new over here. I just wanted to bring up a question I had while watching Serenity today. And no, it's not "What was the deal with Book's past" although that is one of my questions, like it's a question for almost everybody.
NO, my question is a little bit more morbid but i really have to know what people think: Is there a chance that while the crew was inside the tunnel area leading to Mr. Universe's place in the final fight scene in Serenity, that the Reavers were doing anything...unspeakable...to Wash's body? I just think that perhaps Wash being dead would not have prevented them from doing something, or were they focused on killing everybody and THEN taking their skins? I don't mean to be morbid...just a question I had...
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First off, Welcome! 
I just joined here about a month ago and it's a great place. I think you'll feel at home here.
Now, on to your question... which, though mildly morbid (lol), is a valid one.
I don't know if we can really answer that question, not without more information. However, my best guess would be that, no, the Reavers did not do anything. I say that based on River's line while the crew is escaping from the Reavers in the beginning of the movie in the mule. They won't shoot the crew, only chase them. River says that (and I'm paraphrasing here, I don't know the exact line) they want their victims alive when they eat them. So, my guess would be they have no interest in dead bodies. But, I don't know for sure. That's just my opinion.
(And, of course, a huge part of me -- most likely the Wash fan in me -- is also saying "no!" just because it disgusts me to think about it... elch! lol)
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You know, I thought about that. And then I thought, Well, that wouldn't prevent a person from getting their skin taken by Reavers. Just because you can't eat somebody...
oh but yeah...the Wash fan in me is hugely opposed to this idea. I can't help but think though...what kind of horror people would have to go back to.
-Pax
I swear I saw an SUV driving around the other day from Iowa with the word "Jayne" on the license plate.
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In case this was icking you out - no I don't think the Reavers were doing anything unspeakable to Wash's body.
For a couple reasons - they're predators and they travel in packs. If you notice there's not really a singluar for Reavers. Even in Bushwhacked when the guy becomes one - doesn't Mal say something like "he becomes them"? I could be wrong, he might say "one" but other than that I don't remember anybody ever referring to a single Reaver. And the pack was in a frenzy to chase after the still living and breathing. Predators go after that which still moveth.
My two cents...
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Originally posted by PaxAlexa:
You know, I thought about that. And then I thought, Well, that wouldn't prevent a person from getting their skin taken by Reavers. Just because you can't eat somebody...
oh but yeah...the Wash fan in me is hugely opposed to this idea. I can't help but think though...what kind of horror people would have to go back to.
-Pax
I swear I saw an SUV driving around the other day from Iowa with the word "Jayne" on the license plate.
Did you think before you started signing yourself as Pax, or is it a coincidence?
Reavers probaby didn't get Wash is the general consensus. There was a "reasons why Wash is alive and 100% well" thread... but it sank into the abyss. Basically, the argument consisted on the .01% (it's hard to find the percent sign in the dark...) of people who survive such an injury. A recurring phrase was "STEERING COLUMN!" Other arguements are that Feds got to Wash in time to somehow or another save him. Anyway. There'd probably be a BIG WTF moment if Wash was mysteriously dissappear-ified.
The crew probably disposed of the body.
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Then what are we going to suppose about any Reavers that survived the Alliance attacking them and followed the Alliance troops that came to ambush Mal & Crew after that last stand? Are we just to assume that there were none left? Because I would think that there would at least be a few. And there would have had to have been a body for Wash to have a grave, I'm sure Zoe wouldn't have allowed for a lack of body.
Oh and no. The whole Pax part of my name was actually just a coincidence- it's Latin for PEACE ironically enough.
-Pax
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Originally posted by PaxAlexa:
And there would have had to have been a body for Wash to have a grave, I'm sure Zoe wouldn't have allowed for a lack of body.
Oh and no. The whole Pax part of my name was actually just a coincidence- it's Latin for PEACE ironically enough.
-Pax
First, they're memorials. They didn't tote Book or Mr. Universe, and they have "graves" too.
Second, it's only ironic if you look at it from a Reaver's standpoint, and if you're standing where a Reaver is, you are one. If you are a Reaver, you aren't sane enough to think about irony.
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Quote:Well, that'd be one way for Wash to reappear in a sequel.
Originally posted by PaxAlexa:
Well, that wouldn't prevent a person from getting their skin taken
Oh, come one. You were all thinking it.
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Cybersnark, you are psychotic! I wasn't thinking that! 
That's terrible! ick.
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To add to Lissa37's theory in the Mule chase,
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Mal says,"they wanna run us down, the up close kill." River says, "They want us alive when they eat us." When Mal shoots the guy who ran out and said, "Take me with you!" the Reavers just drop him like an animal that's no longer interested in what it's playing with.
I think it is kind of fun for the Reavers to run their food down and do things to it before killing it. that's why I don't think they messed with Wash.
Edit: Where are my manners, you need some Mudder's Milk, or per'maybe'haps some coffee, tea or soda? Welcome to the 'verse!
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