i mean joss weeden said that the show was inspired by the civil war. the confederates are the protags.
❝The appeal of post-war survivors scraping by on the outskirts of society—in a science-fiction context—struck a chord with Whedon. “I was taken with the idea of a civil war and rebuilding from the point of view of people who had lost the war,” he says. “There were people after the war who internalized it so terribly that it completely destroyed them.”❞
I prefer the similar plot of Farscape, but instead of space confederates being the protagonists, it's a bunch of minority alien convicts fighting a colonial empire and instigating revolution. Which is really just the plot of basically every space thing since Star Wars.
Yeah, the Alliance is basically supposed to be cyberpunk white dude China and built from a bunch of classic "the US literally did/tried to do this and the Soviets verifiably did not, but we're gonna write it as the Soviets doing it" tropes, while the secessionists were just like "yeah I can't handle all their rules you know *licks lips inappropriately* had to come out here for some real freedom you know *lips licks some more, for longer* heh heh heh you know what I'm talking about," Heinleinian (how the fuck is "Heinleinian" an actual word that spellcheck accepts) frontiersmen.
i mean joss weeden said that the show was inspired by the civil war. the confederates are the protags.
❝The appeal of post-war survivors scraping by on the outskirts of society—in a science-fiction context—struck a chord with Whedon. “I was taken with the idea of a civil war and rebuilding from the point of view of people who had lost the war,” he says. “There were people after the war who internalized it so terribly that it completely destroyed them.”❞
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I prefer the similar plot of Farscape, but instead of space confederates being the protagonists, it's a bunch of minority alien convicts fighting a colonial empire and instigating revolution. Which is really just the plot of basically every space thing since Star Wars.
It's the Fargate, with an F
That's my problem with how little is shown of the Alliance, making a faction all grey all day is not a substitute for showing me why it's bad
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Yeah, the Alliance is basically supposed to be cyberpunk white dude China and built from a bunch of classic "the US literally did/tried to do this and the Soviets verifiably did not, but we're gonna write it as the Soviets doing it" tropes, while the secessionists were just like "yeah I can't handle all their rules you know *licks lips inappropriately* had to come out here for some real freedom you know *lips licks some more, for longer* heh heh heh you know what I'm talking about," Heinleinian (how the fuck is "Heinleinian" an actual word that spellcheck accepts) frontiersmen.
"a civil war" is not the same as "the civil war"
Yeah this is like saying paradise lost is confederate apoligia