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My last season 8 meta talked about the concepts of power and consent in ’The Long Way Home’ and the show as a whole. While these are still important in ’The Chain’, I think the dominant themes this time are identity, choice and the nature of heroism. The story also, like the Firefly episode ’Objects In Space’, strongly expresses Joss’s Existentialist beliefs - perhaps too much so: unless you’re comfortable entertaining the notions that nothing has inherent meaning and all morality is (...)