Mastodawn

Firefly came out on DVD at a very particular time in my life and my wife and I were huge fans. We even considered naming a daughter (if we ever had one) Inara.

But more than 20 years have passed and looking back at it leaves me uncomfortable.

Broken Chinese spoken mostly by white actors, but no time for Asian actors. This weird Confederate apologia. Hell, naming a faction the "Browncoats" when the Brownshirts were Hitler's paramilitary. The lead repeatedly negging his love interest and calling her a WHORE...

Ron Glass is dead so if they bring back Shepherd Book they'll have to recast it, but they made damn sure to bring back Adam Baldwin -- who I'll remind everyone was a damned GamerGater.

This whole thing is making me 😬.

There's no win here. What was accepted 20 years ago isn't (or shouldn't be) acceptable today. If they change Firefly, people will complain it doesn't match up to the original. If they don't change Firefly, people will complain it doesn't meet the current political climate.

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The Tech Lord ⊕ `Lex Pendragon Mar 15

@jenny753 You are not wrong.

... but this is also a new start and a chance for them to do a lot of those things correctly this time.

(As someone has ho did name their kid Inara. I'm hopeful.)

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Glowing Cat of the Nuclear Wastelands

@LexPendragon @jenny753 Speaking as a Trekkie who's had to stare down the gullet of "people are gonna bitch if they change it, people are gonna bitch if they don't update it to modern sensibilities", I quite frankly would prefer they update it and leave the whiners in the rear view.

I honestly ditched the Firefly fandom years ago because as I got older and wiser, I grew more and more uncomfortable with what I was looking at. There were absolutely some wonderful parts, and many members of the team both in front and behind the camera are wonderful. I'd love to see them brought back to an updated and more inclusive look at the verse, but there are absolutely people who I would not want involved in the new project (and frankly Joss Whedon is one of them) and would be enough to keep me from giving it a chance.

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Jenny753 Mar 16

@deathkitten @LexPendragon Adam Baldwin credited himself for naming GamerGate and was an avid spokesman for it.

His involvement alone is enough for me to not give it a chance.

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Glowing Cat of the Nuclear Wastelands Mar 16

@jenny753 I'd heard some things about him, but I hadn't learned about the GamerGate involvement until this thread. Considering how much other stuff they'd have to fix to make an updated series watchable, dismissing him from the cast seems like an easy addition to that list if they'll get me back.
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