Reavers scare the hell out of me. - Page 3

Osterbaum · 12-12-2009, 12:50 PM

So I suppose all of the Reavers should die out eventually.

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Would the movie be worth buying since I know none of the back story?

It would, but you get more out of it if you've seen the series.

synkr0nized · 12-12-2009, 01:01 PM

I sadly saw the movie before ever getting a chance to see the show. I enjoyed it a lot and thought it was great, but it retroactively got better as soon as I got a hold of the episodes.

Seil · 12-12-2009, 02:11 PM

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and Silent Hill,

Well, it was... a... hmmm.

Amake · 12-12-2009, 07:54 PM

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Where do the reavers keep coming from? I mean, shouldn't all of them die eventually. There isn't anyway they could multiply, is there?

I always assumed they may spread the "pax" to people around them, if the people survive long enough. And if they're in the 0.03% or whatsit that go nuts from it.

Of course I saw the movie before I saw the show, so I went in armed with scientific knowledge when I first heard the myths people made up about how reavers were made. Which was kind of unromantic by the way.

Nique · 12-12-2009, 07:56 PM

I have a feeling that the reavers ships use the same chemical in their air systems on their ships, which makes sense that they would use the same air as the planet they were from. Also it increases the chance that the captives would be incredibly helpless or go insane and became actual reavers themselves.

I like to think that if we had gotten an actual season 2, and maybe even 3, how reavers actually operate might have been explained in a simlar vein.

The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk · 12-12-2009, 08:29 PM

I always figured it was just a case, of "there's hundreds of thousands of them, and nobody's yet taken out many/any of their ships, so there's still hundreds of thousands of them".

I mean even most of the Alliance capital ship commanders didn't believe they existed, so that's pretty much proof that they've never engaged them in battle, and seeing how well/badly they did when their fleets finally did come into conflict, you'd probably NEED a capital cruiser to fight off Reaver raids.

Not many ships outside the Alliance really running around with guns mounted on their hulls in the Firefly verse.

Osterbaum · 12-12-2009, 08:36 PM

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I always assumed they may spread the "pax" to people around them

But it's a chemical substance that altered their brain functions. They shouldn't be able to "spread" it any way besides having containers of the stuff

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I have a feeling that the reavers ships use the same chemical in their air systems on their ships

Still they need to get it from somewhere.

BitVyper · 12-12-2009, 08:50 PM

And even then, it only works that way on like a fraction of a percent of the people it's administered to. I think it's mostly just that the movie had to jump into an answer too fast, when everything behind the Reavers was clearly intended to be drawn out.

Nique · 12-12-2009, 08:55 PM

You guys are gonna make the Whedon fans (me) cry.

Fifthfiend · 12-12-2009, 09:39 PM

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You guys are gonna make the Whedon fans (me) cry.

It's not that we don't like Whedon, it's just that we don't like-like him.

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