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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I mean, I like Lovecraft stuff and it makes sense to me that if you spent enough time in deep, deep space you might... change.
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Yeah, although I'd say the correct view isn't that one social context is better than another but that changing contexts is dangerous
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The white guy lost in the woods becomes "savage" not bc the woods are inherently savage but bc HE doesn't think of the woods as civilization
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The danger of being a place where things "don't count", even a virtual place
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This is the natural antithesis of Mal's love of "freedom" and a frontier where you can escape social context and reinvent yourself
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