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Firefly Again
ackblom12:
On the subject of jaded views of media that I still happen to like...
1. Firefly is about how the evil Union crushed the noble Confederacy; aka the romanticisation of the Confederate South.
2. The Battlestar Galactica reboot is basically about how Fascism is a pretty useful form of government.
3. The Wire is about how everything is terrible forever and always. This isn't really a jaded look at the show so much as the actual message though.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Unicorn on 07 Feb 2013, 14:43 ---well yes, but it's possible to enjoy something while still acknowledging that there's problematic elements to it. if you can't do that, then you may as well stay locked up in your room forever, 'cause damn near everything has something fucked up in it.
--- End quote ---
Thanks for the inspiration! I had an intuition to stay locked in my room forever, but hadn't quite figured out a good reason for it.
Akima, as I acknowledge that Firefly violated its core premise by not having Chinese-descended cast members, are you willing to give it credit for snappy dialog and interesting ideas ("Jaynestown", for example, on the social value of untrue symbolism)?
LeeC:
Honestly I like firefly because it pulls of the "space western" in a less cheesy way. I also rather like most of the characters.
BeoPuppy:
I always have the feeling that I am missing something about this show. I really don't like it but everyone else seems over the moon with it. What am I missing?
Obviously some controversy ... But beside that?
Zingoleb:
It's Joss Whedon. If you like him, great! because everything he ever does is very, very, very obvious that it's Joss Whedon. This has its ups and downs, because if you love his writing (like I do), he writes everything in the same style. If you don't (as you don't), welp, you're just plum out of luck.
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