Watching Firefly

[skull_bearer]

Simon 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.

Comments

[wikdsushi.livejournal.com]

Amazingly, you've actually made me want to watch the series even less than I already did. This is probably borderline sacrilege, but I can't stand Joss Whedon. At all. I loathed Buffy, barely tolerated Angel, and haven't even gotten around to bothering with Doctor Horrible.

The funny lines won't save it in my eyes, unfortunately. :( Whedon's funny lines all fall flat for me. Like he's trying too hard. (Where's Heathers when you need it?)

Ignore terrible grammar. I'se tired.

[pepperjackcandy.livejournal.com]

I don't *quite* feel that strongly (I did like the first four seasons of Buffy (the ones that others call S1, S2, S3, and S5 -- S4 was painfully bad)), but otherwise, um, pretty much.

[deviantcreature.livejournal.com]

Doctor Horrible is by far the best of the bunch. The style fits his particular schtick whereas Serenity and the more "serious" episodes of Buffy (especially late season) are truly barf worthy.