Stitch was Justified in his Action against the Man they Called Jayne

POSTED BY: RiveR6213
UPDATED: Thursday, March 29, 2007 13:39
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RIVER6213

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 5:08 AM

I don't know about you but I think that Stitch was totally justified about his feelings and actions regarding Jayne. Jayne totally back-stabbed Stitch in the worse possible way. Stitch spent 4 years in a prison box because the person he trusted betrayed him for money. Stitch deserved to get revenge. What do you think about that?

-River

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 6:50 AM

'Course he was.
But the final battle came down to scumbag vs. scumbag, and our scumbag won.
Jayne caught a lucky break when the kid threw himself into the shotgun blast, and killed Stitch.

Morality, justification, justice had nothin' to do with it, only survival.

SHINYED

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 1:01 PM

I'd have to say that Higgins should have been Stitch's target of revenge, not so much Jayne. Higgins is the one that stuck him in that box for 4 years...4 years inside a box, it's hard to imagine how anyone could survive that torture.

Stitch could have shot Higgins and the prod foreman right there & then gone after Jayne.
Any "sympathy" I had for Stitch's situation went away after he beat the crap out of Simon.

SPACEANJL

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 1:25 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:

But the final battle came down to scumbag vs. scumbag, and our scumbag won.
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Yay for Our Scumbag!

Jayne is not a cuddly teddy bear. He never will be. He is a big, violent, dangerous criminal.

The fact that I enjoy watching him beat the crap out of people says more about me than him.

But then I'm not right.

Stitch was justified. But like so many bad guys, he had to go and speechify. As Tuco said, "when you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk."

ODDSBODSKINS

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 1:32 PM

A recurring theme in FF was that Morality takes second place to survival in these kind of 'frontier' circumstance's.

In the case of Stitch, the scriptwriter subjected himself to this philosophy as well

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DONCOAT

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 1:35 PM

I agree, Stitch had a legitimate beef.

But the real bad guys here were Higgins and his foreman. They were the (semi)legitimate authorities on that moon. Rather than pursuing a legal prosecution against Jayne -- no doubt fearing an all-out Mudder revolt -- they empowered Stitch to do their dirty work for them. How can anybody blame Stitch for doing what they set him up to do?

I agree also that if I were Stitch and Higgins had just let me out of a box after four years and handed me a loaded weapon, the boss man would have had about three more seconds to live. It probably would have gone something like this:

Higgins: "Jayne's back in town".

Stitch: *BLAM* "...That's interesting."

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I'm pointin' right at it!

SPACEANJL

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 1:37 PM

It is a different code of morality out on the Rim.

Mind you, Jayne thinks ethics is a place on Dyton Colony...

TINADOLL

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 3:26 PM

I agree with several points that were brought up. Jayne is "our" scumbag -although he does learn by the Ariel incident that perhaps that he needs not to be square with Mal. I also think that there are a diffrent set of morals out in the black.

But if you remember how he even got on Serenity(Out of Gas) i don't think Mal trusts him. Or he wouldn't have thought immediatly thought that it was Jayne who ratted him out during Ariel.

Now was Stitch justified? Well partially but i would have shot Higgans and then gone and shot Jayne. And not talked so much too.

Bad guys tend to do that alot..

So whats wrong with a little Jaylee?

ANONYMOUS1

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 4:51 PM

RiveR6213,

Watch Mal's face when as Stitch talks...about how you don't treat the people with you...you know your crew. Mal gives a real stern look towards Jayne. Sort of like...this is what I let on my ship. Mal is agreeing with Stitch.

BAGHEERA

Wednesday, March 21, 2007 6:49 AM

yeah, of course stitch was in the right, although i still think he should have taken action against the bossman that threw him in the box.

jayne's a scumbag, sure, but he's not a total loss to be written off, and i think Mal recognizes that he's in the grey area of indecision... and needs to be "shown the way through the woods".

if jayne were a total loss, Mal would have easily written him off as he did with Saffron (though not without a preachy "you cant always depend on yourself, you need people sometimes" interlude, of course.

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