[ SECRET POST #2206 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2206 ⌋

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Comments

[lunabee34]

I think this is a very interesting and nuanced reading of the show, but I don't think there's a one-to-one correlation between the US Civil War and the civil war represented in Firefly. I certainly don't think the show is an endorsement of slavery, for example, or a suggestion that "the South will rise again."

I've always thought of Star Wars and the civil war depicted in that show as one of the antecedents for Browncoats vs. Alliance.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I definitely agree that it's not a straight-up endorsement of slavery or anything (which makes sense, since the thrust of the narrative it's drawing on is to minimize the significance of slavery). But I think the show is very unselfaware about the things it's drawing on and the historical background generally, in a way that bothers me, and that's more or less problematic (the stuff with the Reavers is probably ultimately more problematic, the stuff with the Civil War probably bothers me more).

[lunabee34]

Fair enough, Anon.

[(Anonymous)]

Considering the fact that it's the Alliance that endorses slavery (ref: "It must have taken a dozen slaves a dozen days to get you into that dress" in "Shindig,") I'm not sure the analogy entirely holds up.

Not only that, but Joss has a tendency to subvert things, and had the show gone on longer, he might have given us a more nuanced view of the war. Or maybe not.

At the end of the day, I still love the show.