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⌈ Secret Post #2715 ⌋

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[Tales of Innocence]

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[Transamerica]

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[Final Fantasy VIII]

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[Interview with the Vampire]

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[Andrew Lloyd Webber]

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[Critical Miss]

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[Great British Menu/Emily Watkins]

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[Mike Malinin, Goo Goo Dolls]

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[Pacific Rim]

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[Star Trek TNG]

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[Homestuck]

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[The Man From Nowhere]

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The thing is, it seems intuitively obvious to me that Whedon wanted to have some fun with Western tropes, but he also wanted to take out the more fucked-up elements of them. Because it's fun to have terrifying sneak-attack cannibal savages who come out of nowhere, but it's fucked-up to pretend, as old Westerns did, that Native Americans fit that description. It's fun to have a bunch of crazy outlaws who were on the losing side of a war for independence, but it's really fucked-up when the noble lost cause they were fighting for is slavery, like it was in all those old Westerns.

So you do new versions of those narrative structures that divorce them from their awful associations, and everyone can just relax and have a good time with them, without hurting anyone.

Except, apparently, not.

honestly I'm pretty OK with that. I'm mostly just saying that the parallels exist, and it's not fundamentally ridiculous to point them out.

I think it would have been cool if he had done more to distance the two things, like he did with the Reavers, instead of having the arguments be so closely the same, and I suspect he might have done if the show had gone on. It's mostly just something that niggles at me, rather than something that prevents me from watching it. But it is there.

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