Browncoats+Pax=Reavers by CantonHeroine

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Browncoats+Pax=Reavers

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UPDATED: Saturday, March 25, 2006 18:53
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Saturday, March 25, 2006 5:24 PM

I had a weird thought when watching Serenity at 2 a.m.

A small percentage of the population has the opposite reaction to the Pax, right? So what if those people are the ones who are predisposed to fighting authority - those who refuse to 'lie down' and be controlled. Rebels, of a sort.

Would that mean that Reavers were formerly Browncoats?

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Saturday, March 25, 2006 5:32 PM

FOLLOWMAL

Interesting thought... hmmmmm.

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

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Saturday, March 25, 2006 6:09 PM

THEPISTONENGINE

Interesting parallel, but I'd have to say no real quick, at least about the conclusion you make.
"browncoat + pax = reaver"

You treat browncoat as a cause, but its a result, if you are right, of the same personality that gives people the opposite reaction to pax.

For example, gene X or rearing Y or trauma Z gives a person a disposition that generally leads to being a browncoat. XYZ, not being a browncoat, is the cause, combined with pax, that create reavers.

But I don't think so anyways. It's purely a biological response to pax that increases agression. Its not a refusal to lay down and die.

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Saturday, March 25, 2006 6:21 PM

ANONYMOUS1

Anyone reading this should have already seen Serenity...Spoilers...

Quote:
Originally posted by CantonHeroine:
I had a weird thought when watching Serenity at 2 a.m.

A small percentage of the population has the opposite reaction to the Pax, right? So what if those people are the ones who are predisposed to fighting authority - those who refuse to 'lie down' and be controlled. Rebels, of a sort.

Would that mean that Reavers were formerly Browncoats?

I think it could just as easily be the opposite. The government would have tested it on the most violent and/or most predisposed to fighting authority. They might never have tested it on the 'meek'.

Mal says on the Firefly DVD Deleted scene from Our Mrs. Reynolds:

"More than 70 Earths spinning about the galaxy and the meek have inherited not a one."

I think the meek inherited one.

"" from Serenity The Official Visual Companion
'' me
"calm the population, weed out agression" Pax might have worked real good on the 'real troublemakers' and they became 'normal'. They might have never tested on 'normal' people and the 'meek'. The 'normal' people just lied down and died without their 'normal agression'". But when the Pax found a 'meek' person with no agression at all..."Their agressor response increased"...it turned them into Reavers. And then the Reavers ate any 'real troublemakers' that became 'normal' or they turned into Reavers too like in the Firefly episode Bushwacked.

Or it could simply be that Pax worked on everybody in the lab...but on a real world that had been terraformed...things went wrong.

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Saturday, March 25, 2006 6:32 PM

CANTONHEROINE

Bear in mind I was thinking this at 2 a.m. folks, I might have been a touch sleep deprived.

Seemed completely rational at the time.

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Saturday, March 25, 2006 6:53 PM

ANONYMOUS1

Quote:
Originally posted by CantonHeroine:

Seemed completely rational at the time.

Your idea is rational. It could be the truth of it.

Only Joss knows.

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