and surrounding him with cartoonishly horrible enemies is kind of stacking the deck in his favor
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Replying to @arthur_affect
The over the top evil of the frontier was fascinating to me, and utterly dropped in Serenity
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
yeah, the Reaver retcon downplayed that whole Cormac McCarthy dark Western concept
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that Reavers are just what you get when all law and civilization goes away
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
I guess that's still metaphorically true but they made it the Alliance's fault so Mal could be Right
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taking away the whole tension aspect of what Mal was about
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Mal was fighting for "freedom", but the people on the frontier have that "freedom", and they are awful
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
there's a cut script where Mal has to work with an Alliance sheriff to take down a mass murdering mad bomber
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who turns out to be one of Mal's old war buddies still fighting the Lost Cause
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Replying to @arthur_affect
that episode could have redeemed it all but. Yeah
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it sounds like it was cut precisely because it ended up being too "pro-Alliance" a message
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
the ep they reworked it into w the organ thief guy was way more pointless
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Pretty impressive that Disney will go further to humanize the Empire than Whedon would the Alliance
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