Would the Reavers ever have talked?

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RIONAEIRE

Thursday, June 2, 2011 6:35 AM

I too always imagine the Reavers as pack animals, they clearly have a pecking order and some restraint as far as not eating each other, or at least not eating their packmates. The points about complex tasks like spaceship opperation are duely noted, it would be difficult to do those coordinated things without talking, but I always imagined that they sort of had sounds/grunts that could form basic commands, like animals do, animals coordinate to hunt in groups etc. so I figured that Reavers just had a slightly more complext communication method than pack animals like wolves or lions.

I do think it is cool that they weren't going to show the Reavers for a long time, that way everyone would find them a little more scary, the unknown and all that. That's the best thing that Joss said in this interview in my opinion, genius idea. Other than that though, the building up of the Reavers, I don't see anything here that would indicate to me that the continuing episodes would suit me into the third, fourth, fifth season, I'd probably only have liked the first two or three seasons based on this information.

But not showing the Reavers is genius and would have way cooler than the BDM in my opinion, creating major build up. And the other thing that he says here which I found interesting is that he wasn't quite sure where the Reavers came from until he was writing the film, this makes sense, in pretends I'm not always sure what I'm going to have happen to the charactors until I get there.

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ZEEK

Thursday, June 2, 2011 2:00 PM

I don't know about the not seeing reavers thing. I'd probably be like one of the people who wrote and article for Finding Serenity. The longer we didn't see the reavers the more I'd start to come up with conspiracy theories that they're not at all what people think. I think his theory was something like the government was hiding something and created this "boogie man" idea of reavers to keep people away. Then they just hired groups to carry out reaver like acts and leave no survivors so the stories continue to spread.

BYTEMITE

Thursday, June 2, 2011 2:32 PM

Hmm? I don't see that he particularly gave anything up about the third, fourth, or fifth seasons. What is it you disapprove of?

BYTEMITE

Thursday, June 2, 2011 2:34 PM

While a big part of the Alliance tries to deny the existence of reavers, I'm sure there are factors, maybe even Alliance factions, that have exploited the reaver scare to cover their own activities. That would be a fun plot point.

RIONAEIRE

Thursday, June 2, 2011 11:32 PM

You know me Byte. I don't know that I would like a continuing Firefly show after the BDM. I enjoy stories after the BDM well enough as long as I think everyone's written well enough, but concrete cannon without Wash and Book might be a real bummer for me, I'd miss them a lot. It would have to be amazing for me to stick around.

Yeah I guess you have a point Zeke, but that would be an interesting idea too.

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THESOMNAMBULIST

Friday, June 3, 2011 3:31 AM

I think with all the self mutilation they'd have split their tongues or at the very least cut into them significantly so that they were unable to talk.

I like the idea that they cannot speak, yet manage to coordinate tricky stuff like; flying a spaceship, equalizing cabin pressure or making sure they don't show up at a slaughtering wearing the same outfits... Imagine that Reaver faux pas!

Now I think of it... Are there female Reavers?

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KPO

Friday, June 3, 2011 5:30 PM

Only under an insane amount of torture.

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GREENKA61

Friday, June 3, 2011 11:53 PM

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Originally posted by Geezer:
Joss might never havew shown them talking, but I find it difficult to believe that Reavers could operate space ships and plan attacks as well as they did in both the BDS and BDM without some form of communication.

B]

Maybe they were driven crazy by being able to hear each other's thoughts. The constant noise of everyone's thoughts all the time with no silence would be maddening, but it would also let them be able to coordinate attacks without speaking.

THEHAPPYTRADER

Saturday, June 4, 2011 1:50 AM

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Originally posted by greenka61:
Quote:
Originally posted by Geezer:
Joss might never havew shown them talking, but I find it difficult to believe that Reavers could operate space ships and plan attacks as well as they did in both the BDS and BDM without some form of communication.

B]

Maybe they were driven crazy by being able to hear each other's thoughts. The constant noise of everyone's thoughts all the time with no silence would be maddening, but it would also let them be able to coordinate attacks without speaking.

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe there's even like a queen reaver and they're all hive-mindy, or maybe they are like the geth from Mass Effect.

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