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sabotabby ([personal profile] sabotabby) wrote2024-05-17 07:44 am
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podcast friday

 Go listen to the Wizards & Spaceships episode "Some People Call Me the Space Cowboy." No particular reason. It's about Space Westerns, problematic representation, and why Firefly was bad, actually.
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[personal profile] sabotabby 2024-05-20 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, and I also can't stand the "we'll tell the world the truth and ... the problem will be somehow solved."
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[personal profile] grimjim 2024-05-22 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
There's something vaguely American Cold War about that trope.
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[personal profile] sabotabby 2024-05-22 10:51 am (UTC)(link)
It's deeply ahistorical.
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[personal profile] grimjim 2024-05-22 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, there's something naive about the optimism that people want a democratic revolution and just need a flag to rally around to get things started, and that's how tyranny will be defeated.

I'm now considering if Firefly is the SF equivalent of The Dukes of Hazzard.
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[personal profile] sabotabby 2024-05-22 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
You're not wrong.
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