I don't see why it doesn't jibe. The Reavers were created by the Pax. This guy became a Reaver because his mind couldn't cope with the horrors he was forced to watch and some creepy internal switch flipped. It's not as though it's impossible for both methods to work.
Slap my hand now!
Anya ,'Empty Places'
Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
Mr. Broom - Oct 10, 2005 9:34:24 am PDT #6205 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Dana - Oct 10, 2005 9:46:35 am PDT #6206 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Some extraordinarily pretty pictures of the men of Firefly.
I'd like to thank Jesus, Buddha, Santa Claus, and Xenu the Clam Lord for those pictures of Sean Maher. Apparently I've been a very good girl this year.
amych - Oct 10, 2005 9:51:10 am PDT #6207 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
My. Xenu loves us indeed.
bon bon - Oct 10, 2005 9:55:52 am PDT #6208 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
More on Reavers: why is there this Reaver asteroid belt where they all hang out-- way too closely to one another, but anyway-- waiting to entrap some luckless, what, space tourists? (As I understand it, we were seeing and hearing the entrapment of other ships as Serenity passed through.) It'd be like coming across a web with thirty spiders in it. ETA: I mean, why would any ship come near there, ever?
It reminded me of the scene in Galaxy Quest where Sigourney Weaver and Tim Allen are running through a needlessly treacherous part of the ship:
Gwen DeMarco: What is this thing? I mean, it serves no useful purpose for there to be a bunch of chompy, crushy things in the middle of a hallway. No, I mean we shouldn't have to do this, it makes no logical sense, why is it here?
Jars - Oct 10, 2005 9:58:43 am PDT #6209 of 10001
Yes. Good Lord that is a pretty, pretty boy.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 10, 2005 10:00:41 am PDT #6210 of 10001
What is even happening?
Ron Glass is prettiest. He's the Legolas of the 'verse.
Una - Oct 10, 2005 10:15:03 am PDT #6211 of 10001
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
bon bon, I thought of that exact scene when Mal looks down below Mr. Universe's generator at the giant...spinny thing. Hee.
bon bon - Oct 10, 2005 10:17:47 am PDT #6212 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I did too, Una.
§ ita § - Oct 10, 2005 10:20:47 am PDT #6213 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The generator was very much a thing with only dramatic purpose. The Reavers having a home near where they were created, but far enough from other humans that they won't be exterminated, and can lurk and raid? Well, they gotta live somewhere. Doesn't stretch my brain at all.
bon bon - Oct 10, 2005 10:31:12 am PDT #6214 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
One, I don't think we have cause to believe that the Reavers feared being exterminated, so there's no reason for them to hide or lurk from anything. I mean, they scared the shit out of a massive Alliance battalion. Two, the Reavers apparently have one goal, which is rampaging-- not resting. Three, we could see and hear ships being captured, so it's not out of the way.