I think the problem the browncoats had/has with the government is the same the problem many people in USA has with there government just more so because to my understanding the Alliance in Firefly is more akin to the North European governments with laws fore and against most things, (guns, taxes, how you are suppose to do your job etc.). Also to my understanding the Firefly was suppose to be a show with a grey-and-grey moral, it is just that we se the universe from the eyes of some weary bias people (who also happens to be criminals).
The Alliance is probably not worse than USA's government in the last century with all its double-dealing, CIA operations and wars.
I think that the problem is that if you are doing a semi-realistic space western then you need an excuse to why so many people are carrying guns and know how to use them. The easiest, and probably best, explanation for that is a war in the backstory, and any war in a western like environment is going to be associated with the American Civil-war with makes the losers of that war the Confederation.
Not to say that any glorification of the Confederation is right but the same can be said about the North.
On a different but similar topic have you seen the movie CSA - The Confederate States of America?
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Date: 2011-09-05 03:11 pm (UTC)The Alliance is probably not worse than USA's government in the last century with all its double-dealing, CIA operations and wars.
I think that the problem is that if you are doing a semi-realistic space western then you need an excuse to why so many people are carrying guns and know how to use them. The easiest, and probably best, explanation for that is a war in the backstory, and any war in a western like environment is going to be associated with the American Civil-war with makes the losers of that war the Confederation.
Not to say that any glorification of the Confederation is right but the same can be said about the North.
On a different but similar topic have you seen the movie CSA - The Confederate States of America?