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2026-03-16 11:04 UTC
@ticho @lritter All readings are valid, but as another non-US person myself, I can't really wrap my head around the idea that US-produced cultural works don't have intrinsic ties to US cultural context... especially in this case where it's documented that the showrunner pitched it as a space western and intentionally drew on depictions of the US civil war (among other things).
I thought I'd tooted criticisms of Stargate SG1 from my first watch last year, but I guess I hadn't. I have many!
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@ticho@mas.to 2026-03-16 11:12
@Cheeseness @lritter Yes, he drew on the imagery of the US civil war and the era around it, but I doubt also on the ideologies. Just like a lot of fiction gets inspired by how the WW2 was fought (the slang, the graphical style of that era's propaganda flyers, things like that), without also including nazism or stalinism in their work. Therefore I do not find Firefly problematic in this regard.