This is the Ent-like pace at which TV moves these days. The “Game of Thrones” prequel “House of the Dragon” took nearly as long to come back for its second outing. “Severance,” likewise a member of the debut class of ’22, will return in January, almost three years since we last saw it. The teen drama “Euphoria,” whose second season began in January 2022, will start shooting a third season … sometime in 2025. By the time it airs, one assumes its characters will be eligible for Social Security.
More and more, rejoining a favorite series is like trying to remember the details of high school trigonometry. Which hobbit did what to whom? What did they do all day in that “Severance” office again? Was “Stranger Things” set in the 1980s, or was it actually made then?
I was never huge into firefly, then I tried rewatching it years and years later to give it another chance, before the stuff about Whedon and Fillion, and it just felt so… Not right. Couldn’t place why though.
Then the stuff came out and it clicked - it was completely phony. Any pretense of feminist lenses are flipped into the male gaze, some sort of betrayal that’s exponentially worse.
I liked Serenity more, but now the whole thing is just tainted in general. That’s part of the tragedy of firefly. It could have been something great, but it was written by a misogynist which muddled an otherwise well put together world of conflict by turning it into a really, really weird fantasy. I never took Morena’s role (actor who played Inara) to be created with good intentions. It was always creepy to me, then the events that ousted him made it all very clear why I had always felt this way.
Cause the dudes a creep and writes like one. Buffy is the only thing outside of marvel stuff that I can watch, and even those aren’t safe from his sham.
All of this. Plus the Lost Cause/pseudo-Confederate undertones to the series really do not sit or hold up well
Man I had completely forgotten about that aspect until I read your comment and it all came flooding back.