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A few Firefly thoughts, containing no spoilers ('cause I don't want Te to hurt me <g>)

I'm continuing to like the show a lot, even though the plots for the most part don't make a lick of sense. I dig the evolving vibe of the ensemble more than I ever have the Buffy ensemble, which I think is largely because they're all adults, we're coming in on the middle of their life stories, and have the promise of much potentially intriguing personal backstory to be revealed.

Re: the whole Western-in-space thing -- I really wish this could be handled with a bit more subtlety, to be sure, but there's something about the deliberate anachronism that appeals to me. I read an interview with Whedon, which I can't now locate, in which he talked about reacting against the sort of naive-traditional SF vision of the future as All New! All Shiny! All Gleaming and Different! (I have a friend who's an architect, who as a student, back around 1970, was assigned to design a single-family house for the year 2000 [you cannot imagine now how incredibly remote 2000 seemed, thirty years ago]. She produced a plan for a house that incorporated some conservative technological advances but was essentially a "normal" home, and got a big fat F-bomb from the prof, who was vehement in his assertion that by 2000 domestic architecture would be utterly different! Completely revolutionized! Heh. Drive out today to any developing residential community and view the revolutionary architecture. The only really new thing about current housing seems to be its fierce nostalgia, its clumsy pasting-on of design motifs from decades or centuries past. To quote that great philosopher and left-handed relief pitcher Dan Quisenberry, "I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.")

Anyway. I really like the idea that the physical milieu of life in the future, especially in outlying frontier/provincial planets, would be gritty and low-tech and hardscrabble. There are moments in the show, especially in the Train Job episode, that make me flash on Ursula LeGuin's The Dispossessed, which depicts a moon-colony world cut off from its home planet, whose citizens live with hard physical labor, dirt, disease, poverty, making do with low-tech adaptations to a brutal climate.

I would like it better if, instead of simply cutting and pasting Western canon, the show depicted more of a melange of past cultural traditions. But then, I understand that this is television, and "Western in space" is an easier sell than "Even in the future, the past is always with us, albeit in complex and mixed-up and oddly-reinterpreted ways." Anyway, I'll keep watching, with fingers crossed that the show doesn't get cut off at the knees.

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I've been enjoying Firefly a lot--it feels like a quiet show to me, one that slowly grows on you and gets more and more interesting as it goes along. I'm really hoping Fox will give it enough time to develop, because I'm dying to hear more about everyone's backstories, particularly Jayne's. Wrt the "western in space" theme: I love science fiction but I *hate* westerns, so the "fusion" part of the show was at first a trial for me, but the characters and the relationships between them have been so interesting that I've pushed the other stuff aside or become less annoyed by it. I have to confess, though, that I'm growing to love the way they talk. Tomorrow, I'm probably going to feel terrible silly about havin' admitted that.

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