Especially considering how, in space and on newly-terraformed planets, there is no such things as 'natives'. At best, there's the conflict between we-were-here-first, leave-me-alone wildcatters and the legally-endowed, dominant-paradigm-perpetuating settlers. And cowboys-and-schoolteachers is a worthwhile conflict to study, but it doesn't carry the same connotations of racial/cultural conflict as cowboys-and-Indians.

OK-- so who has read the pilot and wants to talk?

Is there a link to the pilot online?

Me! Me!

Inara is so much less annoying in the pilot, and the tensions are higher, and...

Damn it.

Fox was on c-r-a-c-k

I'm with those that see a distinction between the Western genre (which has bloodthirsty attackers) and a depiction of the American West. Space Western only need draw from the former.

OTOH, I could see a Reaver story where we get the full "why" of it all. Which need not be as simple as what we've seen so far.

Megan -- it's where Shrift keeps her stuff.

I really! liked th pilot, although I was amused by the description of Kaylee as 'zaftig'-- although knowing Joss he really wanted zaftig and ended up with not-skinny.

The pilot explained TONS of stuff that I was confused about, and unless the acting was really bad, I don't see why they didn't air it. There was a ot of exposition, but alot of action, too.

Also, it explicates Jayne in a way I'm not sure I should share until more people have read it.

Megan -- it's where Shrift keeps her stuff.

I don't seem to have that bookmarked. Could someone send it to my profile address?

Shrift has it online? As in, the show?

the script. I read it where rayne keeps the pdfs, though. I don't seem to have shrifts site marked either.

As in the words.