I watched the movie serenity first without the show and it worked extremely well for me. I then went to look for the DVDs (there weren’t many) and fell in love with the show.

There are lots of well-documented instances of Klan and Confederate sympathizers becoming police officers. Watchmen, while awesome, wasn’t prophetic. They were just following and existing throughline in history. Sadly. 

Which is weird that they say that, because this is textbook terrorism. A bunch of non-government actors using violence to influence the certification of the president (and them threatening to get mad and riot again if Trump is impeached is also terrorism, while we’re at it).

> Whedon writes dialogue, not based on how people talk,

YEP. And the best part is that the FBI was well aware this was happening. We are in for one helluva ride. 

ie “you cant use that word cuz they not browwwnnn’

I sometimes look at all of this and think we got really fucking lucky that they decided a narcissistic grifter who cares only for himself was their messiah while being trained by the religious right to be good little capitalistic marks who see buying the latest in tacticool gear as training for the end times which are…

How about the ON DUTY cops who magically figured out how to de-escalate once their lives were actually in danger?

But Star Wars also celebrates rebel soldiers who lost a war like the Civil War (at least as much like the Civil War as in Firefly), as do countless other space movies. It’s a scifi trope.

1. No.

I read the whole article and the headline is 100% accurate and justified.

So much of that dialogue is bad, in the way Whedon dialogue is frequently bad: jokey, quippy, and writerly. Whedon writes dialogue, not based on how people talk, but based on how he wishes he was heard.

I saw the film before the series (without even knowing about the series), because it looked like a fun space adventure. And it was. The film is totally fine standing on its own, but having watched the series and the film multiple times now, it’s much better as a mega series finale.

I would argue that his punishment is that he continues to push Inara farther away when he clearly wants to be with her. I think that’s very clearly (to me) how the show punished him. As I recall the film actually states that he basically drove her off of the ship.

As a Californian, I thought THAT was the least believable element of “Buffy” as a show: not the vampires, magic, other monsters, or anything supernatural, it’s the Southern California town that’s very VERY white.

This is the culmination of a 30 year strategy of far right wing infiltration. The military weeded out the Black and Latino violent gang members that started to infiltrate the military in the 90s. But, some how they didn’t work as hard to weed out the white supremacists gang members.

True, Firefly needed more talking, blunderbuss-wielding, bi-pedal horses.

I’m probably an anomaly around here, but I’ve only seen the movie (I know, I know, I don’t have ‘not owning the DVDs’ as an excuse anymore) and I can tell you it absolutely stands up on it’s own- Whedon did a fantastic job getting newbies like myself up to speed without relying on too much clunky exposition; the…

I rewatched the show recently and I think the only things that really struck me as out of place was Mal being an utter ass to Inara about sex work. But even then the show is reasonably clear that Inara’s work is highly respected and valuable, and Mal’s being a huge asshole about it because he’s obviously got feelings…