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Themes in Firefly

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UPDATED: Sunday, May 8, 2011 05:03
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011 2:38 PM

Hi everyone,

I'm new here. Been a Firefly fan for ages but I've never got around to joining any online communities.

Anyway...

What themes in Firefly do you particularly respond to? The strong women, the underdog rebels, the horror of the Reavers, the concept of a created family, the struggle for personal freedom etc?

What themes do you find appealing, exciting or interesting?

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Wednesday, May 4, 2011 3:28 PM

RIONAEIRE

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Themes that resinate with me:

Even though touched folk need proper looking after they are special, unique and talented in their own ways and deserve respect. River is touched, but she's also brilliant, talented, brave and loyal and has saved them all more than once, they should be honored to be her family and caregivers.

The concept of intense love that isn't about romance, friendship love and familial love.

The idea that Mal will do whatever it takes to keep flyin and keep him and his going.

The idea that Christians can kick arse, huzzah!

Loyalty to one's crew/family, whether its one you were born with or one you chose.

If you can't run you crawl, and if you can't crawl, if you can't do that, you find someone to carry you. And you be ready to help carry someone else you love too if they need it.

The idea that one can love a best friend and a husband, the husband shouldn't take the place of the best friend, we have the ability to love in different ways and they are all equally important.

I'm sure someone will come up with ones that I missed that I will be like "Me too, I totally agree!"

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Wednesday, May 4, 2011 4:04 PM

TWO

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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What themes do you find appealing, exciting or interesting?

Small people whose actions have large consequences, who live in their own awkward stew of contradictions.

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, May 4, 2011 11:26 PM

BORIS

I respond to the "don't mess with my crew" Loyalty factor. also the way they have created their own little family of missfits who fit when they're together. I do like me some misfit connections :)

Rose S

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Thursday, May 5, 2011 3:06 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

Welcome to our little corner of the 'verse Drizzle. Good to have you posting with us.

The "underdog rebels", "created family", and "struggle for personal freedom" all resonate strongly with me and drew me into the show. Before Firefly I had never felt so strongly about a show or it's message to consider joining an online community. That changed with Firefly and I was strongly compelled to seek out others of a like mind.

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Saturday, May 7, 2011 10:38 AM

IMNOTHERE

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What themes in Firefly do you particularly respond to?

The shades of grey - too many SciFi shows are "white hats vs. black hats". However, Firefly has no Evil Emperor - the Alliance is portrayed as no better or worse than the typical large present-day government (who undoubtedly have black ops assassins - as we saw this week - and have, in the past, dabbled with unethical experiments on human subjects) and no apology is made for the fact that our Big Damn Heroes are bone fide criminals. Most of the Alliance officers we meet are just indifferent or overworked or individually corrupt rather than comic-book villains.

You mention the "strong women" theme - its more than that: we get three or four very different types of "strong women" to compare and contrast - Zoe is your typical SF/Fantasy "warrior woman" type, Inara "has power over men" (ahem) and Kaylee is just a girl who likes frilly dresses, boyfriends, painting flowers on walls, fixing spaceship engines, making cakes and not getting in fights (deftly avoiding the usual "strong women" TV tropes).

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Saturday, May 7, 2011 4:22 PM

PIRATENEWS

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Making million$ off scifi fanboys and their bored dates.

Er, strike that, reverse it. I'm not really Joss. Really. Not.

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Sunday, May 8, 2011 5:03 AM

IMNOTHERE

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I think you misspelt "Strong female characters in empowering roles" there. Lots of people watch Firefly, Buffy, Dollhouse etc. to see strong female characters in empowering roles (or, in the case of Dollhouse, strong female characters in empowering roles as brainwashed sex slaves).

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