Re: [TML] What is the moral? Doug Grimes (19 May 2015 06:51 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Richard Aiken (19 May 2015 10:55 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Bruce Johnson (19 May 2015 16:04 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Bruce Johnson (19 May 2015 16:24 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Phil Pugliese (19 May 2015 16:55 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Bruce Johnson (19 May 2015 17:18 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Kelly St. Clair (19 May 2015 22:57 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Richard Aiken (20 May 2015 15:28 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Craig Berry (20 May 2015 18:35 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Kurt Feltenberger (20 May 2015 22:38 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Richard Aiken (20 May 2015 22:39 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Kelly St. Clair (20 May 2015 23:16 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Craig Berry (20 May 2015 23:18 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Jeffrey Schwartz (21 May 2015 18:49 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Bruce Johnson (21 May 2015 20:05 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Jeffrey Schwartz (21 May 2015 20:21 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? tmr0195@xxxxxx (21 May 2015 20:27 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Craig Berry (21 May 2015 20:57 UTC)
RE: [TML] What is the moral? Anthony Jackson (21 May 2015 21:49 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Kelly St. Clair (21 May 2015 22:25 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Jim Vassilakos (21 May 2015 23:10 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Craig Berry (21 May 2015 23:12 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Kelly St. Clair (21 May 2015 23:20 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Craig Berry (21 May 2015 23:24 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Ewan Quibell (22 May 2015 09:18 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Richard Aiken (22 May 2015 06:40 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Bruce Johnson (21 May 2015 23:29 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Jeffrey Schwartz (22 May 2015 13:32 UTC)
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Re: [TML] What is the moral? Kelly St. Clair (22 May 2015 17:01 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Bruce Johnson (22 May 2015 17:20 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Greg Nokes (22 May 2015 17:51 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Craig Berry (22 May 2015 18:06 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Jim Vassilakos (23 May 2015 01:15 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Kurt Feltenberger (23 May 2015 01:45 UTC)
The Harrison Chapters was Re: [TML] What is the moral? Phil Pugliese (23 May 2015 06:18 UTC)
Re: The Harrison Chapters was Re: [TML] What is the moral? Jim Vassilakos (24 May 2015 04:59 UTC)
Re: The Harrison Chapters was Re: [TML] What is the moral? Richard Aiken (24 May 2015 08:04 UTC)
Re: The Harrison Chapters was Re: [TML] What is the moral? Bruce Johnson (24 May 2015 17:14 UTC)
Re: The Harrison Chapters was Re: [TML] What is the moral? Kelly St. Clair (24 May 2015 21:00 UTC)
Re: The Harrison Chapters was Re: [TML] What is the moral? Richard Aiken (25 May 2015 06:28 UTC)
Re: The Harrison Chapters was Re: [TML] What is the moral? Bruce Johnson (25 May 2015 22:17 UTC)
Re: The Harrison Chapters was Re: [TML] What is the moral? Richard Aiken (26 May 2015 10:30 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Knapp (22 May 2015 14:37 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Postmark (23 May 2015 01:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Richard Aiken (23 May 2015 06:56 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Knapp (23 May 2015 22:15 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Phil Pugliese (24 May 2015 00:52 UTC)
Re: [TML] What is the moral? Phil Pugliese (22 May 2015 07:05 UTC)

Re: [TML] What is the moral? Kelly St. Clair 21 May 2015 23:19 UTC

On 5/21/2015 4:12 PM, Craig Berry wrote:
> Firefly played well with this trope. You initially know the "good guys"
> were on the losing side of a war, but you don't really have any reason
> to think of the winners as "bad guys" initially. So some of the more
> morally questionable activities of the characters really are
> questionable. Then you gradually find out just how bad the bad guys are,
> and the heroes look more like heroes all the time.

Mm... I'd say that in the Verse, there are some "good guys" and "bad
guys" (some of them very much so) on both sides, and a whole lot of
people in the middle, just trying to get by and/or do their jobs.  IMO,
that includes most of the Alliance's armed forces, as well as the citizenry.

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