Went to my uncles cabin in the woods for a few days to relax, he’s got the box set of the show and decided to give it a rewatch, was a pretty big fan in college. Got through like 3 episodes and shut it off.
Yes, Whedon is a creepy and maybe knowing that affecting my judgment, but honestly does feel like I’m noticing things my younger brain didn’t. A lot of the dialog seems overwritten, some of the “quirky” shit the characters do comes off more obnoxious than endearing, also the story is giving me weird AnCap vibes. I mean yeah the Alliance clearly is pretty evil but we never get much explanation as to what the Brown Coats political program is, why did they want to succeed? Them being confederate coded sure as shit doesn’t help.
Also, it almost leans TOO much into the whole western asethic sometimes, to the point I find it unbelievable. Okay, sure, humanity hastily colonized some planets and now some have regressed into SciFi Deadwood, I can dig that. But like, people on horses with cowboy hats seems a bit too comic for me.
Idk, just some random observations.
Edit: oh yeah and the intro song fucking sucks. That was something I thought even back when I liked the show.
The River character and all of that creepy command-language stuff about her aged like milk, especially now that I’m aware of what a sex pest creep Whedon is.
No but bro what if the dubiously aged socially vulnerable girl character was like, also a sexy blank assassin agent 47 manchurian killbot, but in a way that removes even the flimsiest pretext of her skills granting her agency?
River seemed outright plucked from Joss Whedon’s personal masturbatory fantasies, which made her “born yesterday” style emotional and developmental issues real fucking sus.
There was apparently also supposed to be something really bad planned for Inara
CW: SA
she was to have a scene where the Reavers would gang rape her, but they’d die because she’d injected herself with an anti-rape serum or something
:cringe: It really is better that there was never a second season.