My second episode of Firefly was even more intense than the first. You definitely feel like you are on their side and that you want them to succeed. The tone of the episode from where they were playing their own space version of basketball to when they entered the ship was so dramatic I was on the edge of my seat wondering what they were going to find. River is so interesting to me I can’t figure out if she is physic or what because the way she goes about knowing things before the others makes me wonder even more what the alliance did to her. But in this case she led the captain to know what had happened to the people. The worst part to me was that the boy they tried to save turned evil. I wish that they would have had time to try to help him but the captain was right , after someone sees that much evil they can’t really cope or return to themselves ever again. This was my first real encounter with any of the alliance members and I can say that I dislike them strongly already. They were ignorant when listening to the captain and almost didn’t save their sorry asses by putting him in jail for killing all those people. If the alliance was really a better government then the independents I would think they would be trying to switch the brown coats to their side instead of condemning them for believing in something else. But maybe that’s just my own personal philosophy.
I agree. I didn't like how the Alliance presented themselves, either. They did seem extremely stuck up and what bothered me the most is that they were willing to put other people (like the Captain) in harm before them---like when they were trying to catch the diseased survivor guy. So, you're not the only one that feels that way. Nicely put. (:
ReplyDeleteI also think that River is very interesting. Her mannerisms and actions make me want to learn more about what the Alliance did to her too. I don't know if you watched the episode where Simon has a flashback to when he and River were younger, but she didn't act like she does when she is older. She seems like a happy, healthy child, where now she seems kind of distraught and it seems as if she can't trust people easily?
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