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[nev@status.nevillepark.ca]

@geekysteven even at the time people were critiquing the whole "Lost Cause" Civil War-analogy undertones and the sprinkled-on Chineseness-without-actually-hiring-Chinese-actors!

[bstacey@icosahedron.website]

@nev @geekysteven And those problems were so, so avoidable. Hire Chinese actors! Make the war an attempted rebellion *against a slave society*! Canonically, they even have something like ancient Roman debt slavery going on. A free man who volunteered to fight for the cause of space!Spartacus is vastly more compelling than the nebulous backstory of "independence" that the Lost Cause imagery just drowns out.

[nev@status.nevillepark.ca]

@bstacey @geekysteven even at the time one could have pulled off one (1) Chinese secondary character, like a crew member

[guillotine_jones@beige.party]

@geekysteven
I don't know about others, geekysteven, but the "Firefly" that I remember was pretty darn good.

[guillotine_jones@beige.party]

@geekysteven
Who keeps the stats for the Fediverse?
Were there as many posts on Mastodon today about "Firefly" as there were about Linux?
#Firefly #Linux #Mastodon

[boysenberrycider@mastodon.social]

@geekysteven I'm willing to be convinced, but if the complaint is changed expectations around political coding in media, haters can eat one.

I'm all for rejecting awful messages, but evaluating art solely on how exactly and loudly it conforms to your expectations is anti-thought and anti-art.