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Just accept it, Firefly's never coming back 😉
Does anybody still want that? I feel like the Firefly love died right about the time we learned Joss Whedon is a piece of shit
I was never huge into firefly, then I tried rewatching it years and years later to give it another chance, before the stuff about Whedon and Fillion, and it just felt so... Not right. Couldn't place why though.
Then the stuff came out and it clicked - it was completely phony. Any pretense of feminist lenses are flipped into the male gaze, some sort of betrayal that's exponentially worse.
I liked Serenity more, but now the whole thing is just tainted in general. That's part of the tragedy of firefly. It could have been something great, but it was written by a misogynist which muddled an otherwise well put together world of conflict by turning it into a really, really weird fantasy. I never took Morena's role (actor who played Inara) to be created with good intentions. It was always creepy to me, then the events that ousted him made it all very clear why I had always felt this way.
Cause the dudes a creep and writes like one. Buffy is the only thing outside of marvel stuff that I can watch, and even those aren't safe from his sham.
All of this. Plus the Lost Cause/pseudo-Confederate undertones to the series really do not sit or hold up well
Man I had completely forgotten about that aspect until I read your comment and it all came flooding back.