Wondering About Them Reavers...

POSTED BY: Yersinia
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 15:35
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Originally posted by Yersinia:
...I've been wondering: If the Reavers are really THAT savage and brutal, then how come they haven't raped and eaten EACH OTHER -- into extinction? Also, if flying "without core containment" is "suicide," how come THAT hasn't killed them off?

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Well, it is my opinion that the reavers are the equivalent of space zombies. The worst kind of zombies, too: they are fast, savage, can still use weapons, and they retain a little of their previous expertise, such as piloting spaceships.

It does seem, however, that as their technology wears out they don't have the attention span to fix it. Therefore they convert their broken weapons to simple spears and ignore any damage to their engines that might cause long-term health problems.

Like all movie zombies, they recognize and largely ignore their own kind, and are more subdued and possibly even slightly cooperative when normal humans (prey) are not around.

But I don't believe that Joss Whedon intended the reavers to be a never-ending menace that would survive for centuries. However, a TV series lasts about seven years if successful, and it's reasonable to expect the reavers to last as a dreaded spacegoing wild card for ten to twenty years and then gradually dwindle to very rare sightings and finally extinction.

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A la Shaun of the Dead, the reavers won't attack others who look like them.

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Originally posted by Yersinia:
If the Reavers are really THAT savage and brutal, then how come they haven't raped and eaten EACH OTHER -- into extinction?

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Because they're terrible in bed and they taste really bad?

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