Firefly Discussion (Merged)

[Hand of Evil]

Re: Re: Re: Re: IMHO...

I dunno if this'll help shed some light on anything, but...I did some research on US fleet submarines of World War II. I did some interviews with ex-submariners, and was told that at that time the navy wanted men in their mid-thirties as sub skippers. Younger than that, they were too reckless; older than that, they were too conservative.

Well we find out that he only had the rank of sargent in the war and it appears he was ground force.

 

[Nightfall]

I think the deal is a kind of space madness. After all while, being out deep space and not having much human contact, they go a little nutso. Sort of like what happens to be people in a sensory deprivation tank. Reavers are guys that lose their humanity BECAUSE they don't have anyway other than artificial things to help adjust to the lonely life. Think of them as part Viking raiders, part madmen.

 

[Crothian]

I think the deal is a kind of space madness. After all while, being out deep space and not having much human contact, they go a little nutso. Sort of like what happens to be people in a sensory deprivation tank. Reavers are guys that lose their humanity BECAUSE they don't have anyway other than artificial things to help adjust to the lonely life. Think of them as part Viking raiders, part madmen.

Didn't they indicate that reavers work together? It seemed they were worried of them coming back for instance. It just didn't seem that well explained to me.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Didn't they indicate that reavers work together? It seemed they were worried of them coming back for instance. It just didn't seem that well explained to me.

Have a feeling that Reavers are going to be the big bad and we will be seeing them pop up evey now and then.

 

[Crothian]

Have a feeling that Reavers are going to be the big bad and we will be seeing them pop up evey now and then.

That would be good. They definatly foreshadowed them as being something to truely fear.

 

[Nightfall]

Well considering what they did to that NORMAL guy, I'm already impressed. Hell I'm considering making them a Pr-class for the Scarred Lands. (Change the name though) Chosen of Reaver.

 

[Hand of Evil]

That would be good. They definatly foreshadowed them as being something to truely fear.

I think it was Frank Herbert (may have been someone else) that wrote of taking men and removing emotions and rational thought from them to make a killing machines.

 

[Dark Psion]

There is more to the Reavers than presented here. Psycho Cannibals would not be smart enougth to set that booby trap.

Liked the Alliance "Office Complex" class ship and the silent destruction of the colony transport.

Any idea when we will see the real pilot??

 

[Crothian]

Any idea when we will see the real pilot??

I've heard decemeber but it's hard to say. We get one new epsiode next week, then Fox starts covering MLB postseason.

 

[Black Omega]

I'll have to sit down and try to watch the 9/27 ep again. I taped it and got started on it but it really didn't hold my interest even a little. I have no problem with the cowboys in space thing, I'm an old school fan of Battlestar Galactica. But Firefly made BG's cowboy theme seem subtle by comparison and that got annoying fast.