Perhaps they could have made it so the original Reavers were, in fact, all dead, and the Reavers we know now are the victims they left behind, driven insane and to Reaver behavior (As shown in the original series).īut alas, there wasn't time. Perhaps we would have found out that in the absence of continued PAX air, they got a smudge more sane. I imagine the intention was that Reaver would be slightly less raving mad when out of range of victims, at least sane enough to keep their ramshackle fleet operational. If given time, I'm sure we would have gotten more 3 dimensional villains. This required that he rush through things, creating fairly rudimentary answers that could be given to the viewer in that short time frame, to questions that would have had dozens of hours over several years to flesh out if the plan had been followed. He needed to close the series out, while at the same time trying to deal with what he already had to lay out. Joss Wheden had probably 4 years of Firefly story stocked up (Not actually written scripts, of course, but I'm fairly certain he had a broad strokes version set out), but he only had 90 minutes to sort it all out. It's never too late for a bit of Firefly. So what did you think of Serenity's Reaver explanation? It certainly wasn't because they were some folks that breathed bad air one time that made them crazy forever. I'm aware that no explanation could have lived up to the mystery that was built around them, so I'm curious as to why the filmmakers even gave us one? It's like they didn't even understand why the Reavers worked in the first place and were as frightening as they were. They were mindless enough to just keep piling into that well defended hallway at the end there, getting mowed down. They don't even look intelligent enough to fly and maintain their ships. They've completely lost the hint of having transcended humanity that was previously present. They just shamble along doing violence, as zombies are wont to do. Boring! Their entire presentation in the movie was a let down. They breathed in the bad PAX air and became rage zombies. It's a mystery, are they simply madmen who take pleasure in pain, or something more? They are so corrupt that anybody who bears witness to their depravity becomes as they are. Murder, rape, cannibalism, self mutilation, anything to do with pain and suffering seems to be their very nature. The only thing we really knew is that they were utterly and completely depraved. Whether this was from their devotion to violence, or something more we don't know. They seem to have supernatural combat ability and prowess, judging by the threat a single Reaver ship poses and the swath of destruction wrought by the one 'survivor' in Bushwhacked. You also get the impression they don't lose many people, because if a Reaver corpse were documented they wouldn't be a myth for long. They lived on the edge of space and were a whispered myth among the rest of the galaxy. I thought it stunk! In Firefly, We barely knew anything about the.
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