Reaver culture and American football
POSTED BY: gohm
UPDATED: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 07:27
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I kind of look at the Reavers as being, if you forgive me for the Star Trek reference, kind of like Klingons. Just more crazy. They are seen as violent, warlike and lacking in many social skills.
Or perhaps like a pack of wild dogs. They won't turn on each other while there is an abundance of food and supplies from the raiding parties they send out. I am sure their are cases of packs turning on each other or on other packs aspecially if their terriroty is tresspassed on or food and supplies are low.
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Plus serial killers capable of the most obscene violence are still often clever enough to mask their trails. At least for a while. And they can certainly drive or operate machienery while cruising for victims. I guess Reavers could have the excessively violent / serial killer part of their brain in overdrive. After all, they seem to go for sadistic pleasure (eating people alive, torture, that kind of stuff) rather than just random violence.
That's a scary thought... were the Reavers potential serial killers that reacted to the Pax? Would that be about a tenth of a percent of a population?
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That's a scary thought... were the Reavers potential serial killers that reacted to the Pax? Would that be about a tenth of a percent of a population?
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That's an interesting take on the Pax...that it just brought the absolute worst in one out of every thousand people.
One of the many, many bad things about the Firefly being cancelled so early is that Joss didn't have the opportunity to more fully delve into the Reavers.
I thought it could have been a fun twist if the Alliance had purposefully created the Reavers, so that they could fight the Independents.
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I don't know about making the Reavers on purpose, but I've often wondered if they used the same technology (in a more controlled way) to create River.
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After all, they seem to go for sadistic pleasure (eating people alive, torture, that kind of stuff) rather than just random violence.
One idea I`ve not seen mentioned before is the possibility that the Reavers deliberately leave evidence that they do this to itimidate people and cover up what they actually do in their raids.
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