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.
I never really minded it, but in any case it's got to be impossible to hate on the Firefly theme much when Enterprise using Faith of the Heart is a thing.
"Faith of the Heart" is the kind of song you dunk on until you end up liking it.
I liked Faith of the Heart eventually. It beat the generic Prestige TV bullshit that Kurtzman tried to smear the franchise with ever after
Fuck you for saying this while I'm still desperately trying to hold on to my hate for that song.
I always found it bizarre that they went with "Faith of the Heart" when they had "Archer's Theme", which has the exact same length as the intro sequence and was basically made for it.