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Q: How does Mal know so much about Reavers ?

POSTED BY: AURaptor
UPDATED: Monday, February 16, 2004 10:36
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SAINT JAYNE

Friday, February 13, 2004 7:13 PM

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Originally posted by Ankhagogo:
Interesting Point, Since revears are suicidal, driving around in all ships with no reactor shielding, extremely anti-social by the sounds of it, were do the next generation of reavers come from, do they :-
a) reproduce by rape or something
b) convert normal humans into reavers. Like some kind of virus.. ??

Hmm. I thought B, but it's interesting to think about a complete Reaver society with families. Or perhaps objectified women captives (sorry if this puts a bad taste in your mouth).

If you are born and grow up in a hostile (eg radioactive) environment, could you become used to it? The possibility of mutation here could also be interesting. Like Dead Bessy, only not so dead and human.

SHINY

Friday, February 13, 2004 7:17 PM

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Originally posted by Saint Jayne:
Hmm. I thought B, but it's interesting to think about a complete Reaver society with families. Or perhaps objectified women captives (sorry if this puts a bad taste in your mouth).

Heck, knowing how Joss likes to turn convention on its head, Reavers could be an amazon-like society run by females who only take male prisoners to reproduce...

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TALONPEST

Friday, February 13, 2004 8:21 PM

I agree with Static's theory. I had that same thought soon after watching Our Mrs. Reynolds. It nicely ties together how he doesn't like to talk about his family (not many people on the show other than the Tams talked about their families either, but with Mal they made a point of saying he didn't like to) and how he knows about Reavers.

ANKHAGOGO

Saturday, February 14, 2004 5:37 PM

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Originally posted by Shiny:
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Originally posted by Saint Jayne:
Hmm. I thought B, but it's interesting to think about a complete Reaver society with families. Or perhaps objectified women captives (sorry if this puts a bad taste in your mouth).

Well o' course it puts a bad taste in my mouth --but I like the realism of it. It makes sense to me that that is the type of things Reavers would do.
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Heck, knowing how Joss likes to turn convention on its head, Reavers could be an amazon-like society run by females who only take male prisoners to reproduce...

Ha! You could be very right -- and the idea that women would do the things Reavers are rumoured to do would be very upsetting to lots of people.
Cause only men do horrifying things -- we girls are too delicate and fragile to pillage and torture.

"But she was naked! And all...articulate!"

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GUARDIAN

Monday, February 16, 2004 10:36 AM

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Ha! You could be very right -- and the idea that women would do the things Reavers are rumoured to do would be very upsetting to lots of people.
Cause only men do horrifying things -- we girls are too delicate and fragile to pillage and torture.

Ha, in my experience modern women when deprived of civilisation i.e. there mobile phones become savage rather quickly...

Now someone asked where do the reavers come from, and I’d like to make some suggestions.
Firstly if you listen to the introductory narrative it say they found “a new solar system” this implies all the world in the firefly universe are in the same solar system which would explain why there is no mention of a faster than light drive, as it wouldn’t be need for interplanetary distances. Secondly earth was used up and abandoned as was presumably the whole earth solar system. So the colonists would have had to travel across the vast distance between solar systems. So presumably reavers are those colonists who only just managed to reach the fringes of the new solar system, where it was two cold to terraform productive planets and so reverted to cannibalism to survive, so perhaps reaver raiding parties are actually just hunting parties, coming in attack shipping, carving up the crew and taking the meat back to feed there colonies out on the fringe.

Guardian.