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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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
because trying to change people, like say legislating anti-discrimination etc, is bad
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Replying to @ingdamnit @BootlegGirl
no, trying to change ppl with chemicals is bad, putting him on the side of anti-psych ppl trying to ban Prozac
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tbf the actual message is nonconsensually trying to change ppl by contaminating the air and water is bad
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
well yeah but I was going by Mal's speech and he was more general thing that it was changing human nature
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Replying to @ingdamnit @BootlegGirl
Whedon IRL claims to be progressive and consistently backs the concept of societal change
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but the eventual message of both Serenity and Dollhouse is firmly small-c conservative
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in Dollhouse Topher, the scientist in charge of all this, says a wiped personality is unrecoverable
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Ballard, who has no prior knowledge abt this tech, says "You can't erase a soul"
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and the finale has Topher pull a deus ex breakthrough proving Ballard is miraculously right
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which kind of wipes clean all the genuinely interesting moral dilemmas they'd brought up
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what about the mind copying tech as a cure for aging and death
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