Watching Firefly
Mar. 24th, 2009 01:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skull_bearerSimon is so like Mirek it's not even funny. Even looks like him, right down to the mad, 2,000 mile stare that always freaks Johannes out.
Weird.
Oh yeah, great series, sexist as hell, with the main captain dude being a textbook example of the nastier type of 'nice guy'. And all the so-called macho women needing men to save them from other nasty men who 'don't respect them'.
But it has spaceships and funny lines and a bunch of people who are basically nazis running the place and dark eldar on steroids hacking people to pieces. What's not to like?
Apart fromt he fact, y'know, that this is meant to be cowboys in space, and that makes the 'nazis' the Northern states in the Civil war and the Reavers... Native Americans. You know, the ones that had nine kinds of genocide inflicted on them? Those guys.
Yeah. The subtext sucks so hard it's painful to think about.
Weird.
Oh yeah, great series, sexist as hell, with the main captain dude being a textbook example of the nastier type of 'nice guy'. And all the so-called macho women needing men to save them from other nasty men who 'don't respect them'.
But it has spaceships and funny lines and a bunch of people who are basically nazis running the place and dark eldar on steroids hacking people to pieces. What's not to like?
Apart fromt he fact, y'know, that this is meant to be cowboys in space, and that makes the 'nazis' the Northern states in the Civil war and the Reavers... Native Americans. You know, the ones that had nine kinds of genocide inflicted on them? Those guys.
Yeah. The subtext sucks so hard it's painful to think about.
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Date: 2009-03-24 01:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-03-24 02:16 am (UTC)So, Joss gratuitously kills off everyone's favorite character, and then it turns out that River's amazing power is that . . . she's Buffy. With brown hair.
:deletes rambling about how much cooler it would've been to have had River turn out to be some kind of all-powerful ascended pandimensional being or something like that: