From what I understand from this video is that the Serenity crew is a group of Rebels, or “Brown Coats”, refusing to join the Alliance. The crew’s survival techniques consist of cargo runs and smuggling. They clearly displayed that in this particular episode when they pull off a train heist. Normally I would peg them as the bad guys for this however they are forced to live this way, along with the rest of their current society. The Alliance is large and powerful, and seemingly corrupt. It is hard to put a label on who is right and wrong. Obviously the outskirt planets are suffering yet this giant allied government is doing nothing to help them. This is made obvious as the crew explores a planet whose inhabitants are deteriorating from their surrounding conditions. The sickness is treatable but the people do not have sufficient funds for medicine so they are left to rot and ignored. It makes me wonder if this series is supposed to parallel some current situations in our world today. Perhaps it is directed at the communist countries, criticizing them for their forceful techniques. Or maybe it is a parallel to the fact that most of the countries that are prospering and organized don’t reach out to those that are unindustrialized and suffering. To me this show is depicting our future economy, in which technology has changed but politics and warfare have not. Our habits and established government will stick no matter how far into the future our civilization gets.
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