So suddenly you get this awesome merger of Star Wars and Trek with witty dialogue and a good cast. It was stylish and well executed
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But it is eminently obvious to me that the apparently awesome quality would not have lasted had it been renewed
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Serenity revealed Whedon had no idea what he was doing with world building - always a problem for him
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And as far as I can tell we're legitimately expected to sympathize with Malcolm Reynolds's small minded, bigoted ideas about the wolf's
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World, even. It's a show about a Han Solo with no redeeming characteristics, who travels with people he either corrupts >
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the Train Job happens in order to establish Mal has a conscience and then they constantly walk it back from there
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I mean I would argue he's not outright evil but he sets a low bar (as he says in his duel with Wing)
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and surrounding him with cartoonishly horrible enemies is kind of stacking the deck in his favor
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The over the top evil of the frontier was fascinating to me, and utterly dropped in Serenity
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yeah, the Reaver retcon downplayed that whole Cormac McCarthy dark Western concept
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that Reavers are just what you get when all law and civilization goes away
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I guess that's still metaphorically true but they made it the Alliance's fault so Mal could be Right
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The endorsing of Mal's libertarianism is especially hard to swallow in the wake of Mr. Baldwin
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