Went to my uncles cabin in the woods for a few days to relax, he's got the box set of the show and decided to give it a rewatch, was a pretty big fan in college. Got through like 3 episodes and shut it off.
Yes, Whedon is a creepy and maybe knowing that affecting my judgment, but honestly does feel like I'm noticing things my younger brain didn't. A lot of the dialog seems overwritten, some of the "quirky" shit the characters do comes off more obnoxious than endearing, also the story is giving me weird AnCap vibes. I mean yeah the Alliance clearly is pretty evil but we never get much explanation as to what the Brown Coats political program is, why did they want to succeed? Them being confederate coded sure as shit doesn't help.
Also, it almost leans TOO much into the whole western asethic sometimes, to the point I find it unbelievable. Okay, sure, humanity hastily colonized some planets and now some have regressed into SciFi Deadwood, I can dig that. But like, people on horses with cowboy hats seems a bit too comic for me.
Idk, just some random observations.
Edit: oh yeah and the intro song fucking sucks. That was something I thought even back when I liked the show.
The intro slaps. And it’s a space western, so I don’t see how it could lean too much into it.
Some of it just came off bit goofy to me. I get it's the space west but you got people dressed up like they're going to one of those western theme parks.
I think that’s the budget they had showing through. Like TOS going to WW2 or gangster planet a couple times because they had those props to work with.
Yeah, the alliance armor is reused from Starship Troopers. It's not like they had the budget to create hundreds of custom outfits, and there aren't a whole lot of good looking sci-fi costumes sitting around that would have worked for the show.
Spacesuits they had were pretty good