"The browncoats were meant to be a parallel to the numbers of former Confederate soldiers walking around, but they were treated by the show as the righteous but failed revolutionaries."
Really?
I see it now, since hello, Amy! Wild West meets Space? What did I think it was supposed to parallel? But because they didn't say much about the motivations of the colonists IIRC, I didn't make the connection. And the movie Serenity said "Big Brother goverment made slaves of people because of drugs and mind experiments so obviously Mal and co were right!" so that blinded me further.
I still like cowboy mercenaries in space. :(
I think I also miss the days when I didn't see deeper messages in shows. Innocence lost makes for sad Amy. It's good that I do see it now so that I can encourage competing narratives of the underrepresented, but I think there will always be a part of me that wishes a show was just a show and a book was just a book. I know that's crap, but still.
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Date: 2011-09-02 12:18 am (UTC)Really?
I see it now, since hello, Amy! Wild West meets Space? What did I think it was supposed to parallel? But because they didn't say much about the motivations of the colonists IIRC, I didn't make the connection. And the movie Serenity said "Big Brother goverment made slaves of people because of drugs and mind experiments so obviously Mal and co were right!" so that blinded me further.
I still like cowboy mercenaries in space. :(
I think I also miss the days when I didn't see deeper messages in shows. Innocence lost makes for sad Amy. It's good that I do see it now so that I can encourage competing narratives of the underrepresented, but I think there will always be a part of me that wishes a show was just a show and a book was just a book. I know that's crap, but still.