Post #1293371
2026-03-16 11:12 UTC
@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.
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@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-03-16 11:25
@ticho @Cheeseness this might be one of them fingers pointing at moons. the confederate soldier angle is part of the finger. but what is the moon?
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@Cheeseness@mastodon.social 2026-03-16 11:42
@ticho @lritter Yeah, interesting. I see a lot more specific parallels and references to US cultural history I'm familiar with. There are also interviews with the showrunner about Firefly, where he talks about wanting to capture the mentality of confederate veterans who had to cope with life after losing. I struggle to find an angle where Firefly doesn't have at least some "lost cause" romanticism in its text. I don't think that's necessarily bad, but as I said earlier https://mastodon.social/@Cheeseness/116238403717462274