SUMMER GLAU IS: Simon's sister River, who has PSYCHIC POWERS and is STEREOTYPICALLY NONVERBALLY AUTISTIC
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JEWEL STAITE IS: Kaylee, the ship's mechanic, who likes cute dresses and Simon and being sexistly demeaned by Mal
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THE DEARLY DEPARTED RON GLASS IS: Shepard Book, a mysterious semi-pacifist Christian preacher who is probably an ex- or current assassin
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MORENA BACCARIN IS: a sex worker who is RESPECTED by everyone except JAYNE THE GAMERGATER and MAL who is a dick
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So they go around space and rustle cattle - literally - and do all sorts of Western things.
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They decided to do the TOTALLY RACIALLY SENSITIVE THING and substitute for "SPACE NATIVE AMERICANS" "ZOMBIE PEOPLE WHO EAT YOU"
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I'm gonna be scrupulous and say Cormac McCarthy et al have explored the idea of "outlaws gone mad" w/o equating them to Natives
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It is true that the idea of "going mad outside of civilization" has unfortunately always had echoes of denigrating "savages" though
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Since "civilization" always must be defined by naming existing cultures alongside it as "barbaric"
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This is why the message of Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now is at once compelling yet so confused
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Is Kurtz bad bc he has "gone native" or is he the one bringing corruption and violence to their culture or is it both somehow
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