Under the Alliance Boot by zzetta13

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Under the Alliance Boot

POSTED BY: ZZETTA13
UPDATED: Sunday, January 21, 2007 08:50
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Sunday, January 21, 2007 6:53 AM

Since becoming a fan and a browncoat almost a year ago I have come across many interesting ppl and lots of interesting topics on FF/Serenity. Some I agree with ,some I don't but at all times I do respect someones opinion and their right to post it. The Whedon verse is so in line with many of the things going on today that it's scary. Joss is a fantastic writer (along with many of the writers on FF) and I do find it very fun to take a story and dissect it into many pieces. I do this trying to see if the eps message is about family,hypocrisy, loyalty or anything else. I saw the BDM on dvd first. Then moved on to the BDS. One feeling that I get is that the movie Serenity moved way to fast and one thing in particular that I felt wouldn't happen the way it did was the turning of the operative so quickly. I mean he went from one instance where he was so loyal to the Federation.... I mean Alliace supremacy that he was able to murder children to a total convert the next. I do not see this happening in truth. With the falsities we are able to come up with in todays world, 500 years into the future you would think that proof of something would be hard to come by. The tape Malcolm Reynolds played to the masses and the operative as he lay pined to the railling could have been manufactured easily. Why wouldn't he ( the operative) believe as much. This is something I think needs to be explored further and this post is just about the BDM althought references to the BDS to prove any points i will consider helpful if a browncoat cares to address this.

Z, out

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Sunday, January 21, 2007 8:50 AM

BONANACROIN

It all depends upon the conditioning of the operative. "We are making a better world" is a quote he lives by to the point of a mantra. He kills three hundred people, when in fact he only needed to kill a couple in a cover so that the public wouldn't look in the right direction. He is willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good. He sees himself as Jesus Christ who went to Hell for the Rest of the World, but now the world is bigger and is a 'Verse. The level of brainwashing needed to create such devotion is a long, hard road that could have easily been River's fate. When it is done, the faith is as hard as diamonds.
Then along comes Mal, a dark mirror of himself. It is true that Mal wasn't the patron saint of lost causes that he was when he faught the Operative, but the Angry Mal was there for the last battle. The Operative saw in Mal a belief that was as strong as his. It was an unstoppable force comming after an immovable object, something had to give.
I'm not saying Mal was fighting with a noble heart. Mal was fighting to get back at the Aliance for taking everything that he held dear. "Aw hell, I'm kind of a fan of all seven. But right now I'm leaning towards Wrath."

The Operative knew that Mal had honor, he just fought an epic fight with him and lost. When Mal had every right to kill him the Operative was spared. It was at that moment that the Operative's faith was shattered.
The Operative knew he wasn't making better worlds, he wasn't making people better, he wasn't dieing for a noble cause. He was killing for other peoples' power. That is when he knew Captain Mal was right, River should be free, that the tape was genuine and not a fabrication, and the 'Verse might be doing okay without all the meddelin. At the end of the BDM. He was as lost as Mal, but I have a feeling that he will be back trying to make amends for his actions. He will still think that he knows best when he tries to help but he might come around to listening to other peoples ideas once in a while.

I died my Browncoat black for those whom have gone befor.
:shattered:

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