I had never thought about Reavers in the context of the western allegory and now it makes complete sense to me why they probably felt the need to address it in the movie
To be fair, if done well, the plot from the film used as material for more seasons of show could have drawn on the falsehood of the narratives as a major plot arc, rather than just tying up loose ends.
Joss Whedon, creator of the Firefly series and director of Serenity, has said of Reavers, "Every story needs a monster. In the stories of the old west it was the Apaches".
oh come on. literally the movie was made to close a bunch of threads that were opened in the only season, which was cut off.
if you're going to assume bad faith, go bigger.
just say that Captain Malcolm Reynolds was literally a double secret slaveowner and that the finale of the series after 12 seasons was originally going to be him assaulting his human property on his own private planet for 45 minutes to the tune of Dixie on a loop while shouting "Serenity Now!"
because who can say that isn't what they had in mind all along??
I'd say you just don't need to narrate being huffy with them. Express that you are upset and why (as you did) and just leave the announcement that their media sharing attempt failed left unsaid because any reasonable person can figure it out and the conversation is no longer really about that. If they somehow need to ask or are oblivious, then of course there is no begrudging you giving such an account.
At least, that is how I would personally approach the issue since you express uncertainty of how one could.
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not sure if it matters but the movie explains that the reavers are Alliance colonists that got experimented on by the Alliance
I had never thought about Reavers in the context of the western allegory and now it makes complete sense to me why they probably felt the need to address it in the movie
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To be fair, if done well, the plot from the film used as material for more seasons of show could have drawn on the falsehood of the narratives as a major plot arc, rather than just tying up loose ends.
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right, but that's the myth pushed by the central planets of the alliance, not the true history of the reavers.
hegemonic discourses do be like that.
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oh come on. literally the movie was made to close a bunch of threads that were opened in the only season, which was cut off.
if you're going to assume bad faith, go bigger.
just say that Captain Malcolm Reynolds was literally a double secret slaveowner and that the finale of the series after 12 seasons was originally going to be him assaulting his human property on his own private planet for 45 minutes to the tune of Dixie on a loop while shouting "Serenity Now!"
because who can say that isn't what they had in mind all along??
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I'm pretty sure I've seen people pull this sanctimonious affect on you multiple times. He who fights monsters, etc.
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I'd say you just don't need to narrate being huffy with them. Express that you are upset and why (as you did) and just leave the announcement that their media sharing attempt failed left unsaid because any reasonable person can figure it out and the conversation is no longer really about that. If they somehow need to ask or are oblivious, then of course there is no begrudging you giving such an account.
At least, that is how I would personally approach the issue since you express uncertainty of how one could.