"Rogue element" is too easy a cop-out.bz316 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 5:35 am Again, until the movie really decides to drop the ambiguity and beat us over the head with the Alliance being evil, the only directly bad thing we know about is the shit they did to River. But, by the same token, considering how large the Alliance bureaucracy probably is, there was at least a fairly good chance that the project was done by a rogue, section-31 type agency that was not actually sanctioned by the Alliance (again, this is all pre-movie).
"Ariel" didn't show the Alliance in good light - oops, secret thing, so we'll just kill people (unpleasantly) who were in the same area. There's no sign of the Alliance being oppressive to most of the people living in it, but it seems to cross the line too easily.