Also, the music in those first episodes is awful. I'm assured this is because it represents the blended influences of the show and that it doesn't make everyone's ears bleed.
I also know that they changed or toned it down or something after that, so someone agreed it needed fixing.
in fairness, out of all the conspirators only like 4 of them actually did any stabbing
the rest of them dipped their hands in blood so they had something to put in the next fundraising email
Having a hard time believing this ides of March story, you're telling me senators did something other than send out fundraising texts
It's pretty funny that Dracula was assumed white by the 1970s because the swarthy Romanian count was clearly not intended to be "white" by Victorian standards.
And I'm seriously now all about the very "Eddie Murphy white guy" in golf clothes and such as a vampire as a character...
Or is this new show hoping a substantial new audience will on-board itself through the rough terrain of their original opening that caused so much trouble and left it as a short run series in the first place?
This is showing that got to make a movie as a wrap-up and the movie was promised be appealing and accommodating to new audience members and... was not that at all. Is that all on Whedon?
But in 2026, how much potential is there to expand that? Does the revival version plan to be friendly to a new audience?
I wonder who buys it though. If this, even as an animated project, we're going to be cheap enough that it would make a profit just pleasing this shows existing audience, it'd be a no-brainer. Those folks are dedicated and loyal.
And obviously the characters being the center makes it something pretty easy to want a reunion for. There's not, to my recollection, complicated lore to get right and expand on. Fans just want to spend some more time with folks they like.
Characters are Whedon's strength. I think it's at least as much his skill at casting as it is about writing characters. But once the infodumps are done, the characters are a solid hang and make it easy to follow, regardless of whether the adventures themselves are that great.
Because of that, I tried getting through those episodes several times, getting angrier each time, before finally powering through to the later episodes, which I found... pretty good mostly.
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This was a big deal for me.
Firefly was the last show to come out while I still thought of myself as a Joss Whedon fan and the basics of it felt made to order for my interests.
The problem is partly, as others will cover elsewhere, that the world is a lazily conceived Lost Cause allegory, but mostly in these episodes that their introduction is dull and feels shoehorned in.
After that, the connection will still be dumb, but will mostly be the background noise of the story.
They just showed the only later episode that sucks almost as much shit as the first episodes.
It wasn't a random decision. That episode touches on backstory stuff and it makes sense they thought it would work as replacement introduction actually.
Which isn't to agree that it does. It sucks.
Fans of the show will deny this, it being a point of faith that Fox ruined its shot at success by showing a later episode first. They did this, of course, because the first episodes suck shit and the show does get better.
This is bad for Firefly and the first three episodes absolutely suckshit.
(In a post-rewatch, I might update that number it might be only two that suck shit and the next couple are just kinda bad or it could be a full four that suck shit.)
This is a problem in parts of Buffy and Angel, where he decides to expand the concept, but their jumping off points were simple enough that it's not as much of an issue.
The first thing to be said is that Joss Whedon is terrible at world building.
Firefly discourse making me want to write stuff about my feelings. If I had an ongoing blog, that'd be easy. Seems weird to start blog on it without rewatch, which I do not feel like doing.
Look, this pitch does sound terrible, but did Paramount pass because it's too anti-fash?
again, we are entering a golden age of people pretending their octogenarian leaders with no clear successor are alive actually
I think "Luke" is too much like "Lucas" to need any other explanation.
On the other hand, that might not have been conscious. He could have come up with it another way and just felt comfortable because of that.
I feel like DEXTER was pretty poised to be in the OG Canon for a bit there.
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Y’all gotta stop blaming ketamine for the actions of rich asshole tech bros.
And still put that punctuation mark at dash height, so it isn't what they want it to be and isn't clear what it's supposed to be until you play out the options a number of times.
it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online
That's the finger trap design of trying to reframe progressivism.
"You know how you've been sending part of your income to the government to fund immoral wars and subsidize corporations that are too big to morally exist? We're going to use some of that for good stuff now."
I agree, but I think it's more difficult than any time in history to frame what those benefits are in a way that resonates for the average citizen.
