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Originally posted by barnaby36:
Definitely the best fanfiction out there. It's script-structured, and rivals Firefly's scripts in their balance between plot, character development, and humor. Don't forget action. I've wanted to see every one of these episodes (besides, perhaps, Hero Complex) on my television screen, and have definitely left each episode thinking: this is how it mights have been.

Ben

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Originally posted by DigificWriter:
As the person who created the story for "Hero Complex" and who was origially slated to write/co-write the episode (real-life concerns ended up keeping me from fulfilling my writing duties), I'm interested in hearing more about your thoughts on the episode.

In terms of the darkness of the episode, I don't personally think it's any darker than, for example, "War Games", but it's certainly more visceral than any of the other episodes of the series (either ours or Joss') and for good reason, since it needs to serve as a sort of sequel to "War Games" and to tie up loose ends from that episode and to serve as a bridge between preceding and proceeding events such as Kaylee's confrontation with Early from OiS and Inara's departure from Serenity. The episode's events also serve to sort of foreshadow Mal's eventual backwards slide into darkness and aloofness.

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Originally posted by DigificWriter:
As the person who created the story for "Hero Complex" and who was origially slated to write/co-write the episode (real-life concerns ended up keeping me from fulfilling my writing duties), I'm interested in hearing more about your thoughts on the episode.

In terms of the darkness of the episode, I don't personally think it's any darker than, for example, "War Games", but it's certainly more visceral than any of the other episodes of the series (either ours or Joss') and for good reason, since it needs to serve as a sort of sequel to "War Games" and to tie up loose ends from that episode and to serve as a bridge between preceding and proceeding events such as Kaylee's confrontation with Early from OiS and Inara's departure from Serenity. The episode's events also serve to sort of foreshadow Mal's eventual backwards slide into darkness and aloofness.

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It wasn't that it was dark. The trouble is more that

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Niska dies,

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and that it's Jayne who kills him. Ana was cool, and the whole involvement that the crew had with the situation was believable, but I think that the torture that Niska put them through would have lasting effects on the crew's relationships, let alone physical damage. After all, we see that Mal hasn't quite recovered from his "War Stories" wounds by the movie; certainly, less tough members of the crew would have even more noticable changes by that time. But really, it's the episode's conclusion, and the removal from the story of a great and menacing character that shakes my enjoyment of the episode. I think that the villain could have been put to a more climactic death by the one who hates him most: Mal.

Ben

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