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Bryon Bojengles III 
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| Firefly question (Posted on 12/28/12 at 7:48 pm)
If reavers are so primitive (cannibalism, etc) how can they function to the point if building a ship or even fly one?
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THRILLHO 
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Have you seen Serenity yet? If not, watch it when you're done with Firefly and it will answer some questions.
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Bryon Bojengles III
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| re: Firefly question (Posted on 12/28/12 at 7:54 pm to THRILLHO)
Well I know they evolved from humans but once they're transformed into reavers they can't possibly still operate a spacecraft. Maybe I need to watch Serenity again.
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THRILLHO
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The virus just made them super angry, not stupid.
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Bryon Bojengles III
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| re: Firefly question (Posted on 12/28/12 at 8:08 pm to THRILLHO)
Don't need to watch Serenity anymore 
But I will 
I'm introducing my wife to firefly right now.
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whodidthat
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| re: Firefly question (Posted on 12/28/12 at 8:10 pm to THRILLHO)
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The virus just made them super angry, not stupid.
This
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TigerMyth36
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| re: Firefly question (Posted on 12/28/12 at 8:20 pm to whodidthat)
Wouldn't that anger lead them to constantly attack each other? Thus shouldn't they basically attack each other until extinct?
Always bugs me in zombie flicks that brain dead zombies only attack the living. They should also be attacking each other.
The only semi-zombie/vampire films where they actually behaved in that manner was Lifeforce.
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whodidthat
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| re: Firefly question (Posted on 12/28/12 at 8:26 pm to TigerMyth36)
They do attack each other, but they prefer fresh meat. They don't even mess with a body unless it's alive.
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Athanatos 
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| re: Firefly question (Posted on 12/28/12 at 9:00 pm to whodidthat)
Revers enjoy torturing people and inflicting pain. Why would they attack others equally impervious to pain?
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Jcorye1
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If reavers are so primitive (cannibalism, etc) how can they function to the point if building a ship or even fly one?
If you're really looking for the plot hole in Firefly, why did the guy who survived the Reaver attack turn into a Reaver? Reaver isn't caused by PTSD, like they originally thought it was.
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Bryon Bojengles III
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| re: Firefly question (Posted on 12/28/12 at 9:41 pm to Jcorye1)
Maybe a reaver infected him somehow. It is a virus after all.
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Dr RC 
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| re: Firefly question (Posted on 12/28/12 at 10:36 pm to Jcorye1)
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If you're really looking for the plot hole in Firefly, why did the guy who survived the Reaver attack turn into a Reaver? Reaver isn't caused by PTSD, like they originally thought it was.
I always thought he had simply snapped and they were technically wrong that he had become one of them.
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whodidthat
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| re: Firefly question (Posted on 12/28/12 at 11:33 pm to Athanatos)
In the movie it shows them grabbing a guy and then dropping him immediately after Mal shot and killed him.
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Jcorye1
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| re: Firefly question (Posted on 12/29/12 at 4:37 am to Dr RC)
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I always thought he had simply snapped and they were technically wrong that he had become one of them.
Snapped is one thing, but the guy mutilated himself and was still a functional killing machine.
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