No, there will be no rape involved. That’s not family friendly.
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I was thinking they would pivot to Reavers sitting people down in a comfy chair, buffeting them with soft pillows, and serving them only coffee between breakfast and lunch.
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Those are called Glowworms.
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I mean, if every episode involves him getting beaten up and/or shot in humiliating ways…I’d watch that.
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Might as well excise Reavers from the story-- most of those tropes turn out to be rather racist.
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too soon. 
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Meh. Remains to be seen. But if the family friendly speculation (and it’s ONLY speculation) turns out to be true, well…
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E chu ta and Dank farrik would like a word with you.
and politics? Wasn’t that like ALL of the prequels?
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In a progressive world where sex work isn’t any more stigmatized than any other kind of work - in a less bullshit world - the presence of a sex worker wouldn’t make the show ‘family unfriendly.’
Honestly I’m given more pause by the protagonist not only being a soldier but being a sci-fi analogue for a Confederate. That’s shit that kids don’t need to see.
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Maybe it is just me, but I kind of got the feeling that that Firefly’s civil war was won by the wrong people. Or maybe I missed the subtext that the author thinks the real civil war was (also) won by the wrong people?
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Boo to including the Honest Trailers video in the OP. I have never watched anything more painfully unfunny than Honest Trailers. OK, fine, Everything Wrong With videos are worse, but only by a hair.
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I have not seen Eternals so when I read “first real sex scene” I was quite surprised. Let’s hope they go with it, I really wanna see Hulk’s dong.
A fiercely anti-slavery Confederate? So extremely anti-slavery that he’s OK losing money, of which he and his crew are sorely short, in order to beat up slavers?
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i think that is the subtext. it’s inspired by the “lost cause” myth that romanticizes the south and its soldiers without acknowledging what they were really fighting for.
and there’s also the emotionally abusive relationship mal has with inara. which im guessing stands in for how joss treats women on his sets 
for me, the banter and the characters make the show. ( and distinguish it from starwars and mal from mando and han ) and i still like it.
but, it’s problematic in lots of ways. maybe if they directly address that stuff, it’ll be good. if they ignore it, or worse… add to it, hard pass.
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They announced the reboot/sequel/revival/whatever back in 2018 and basically have said nothing since. So… /shrug
https://screenrant.com/buffy-reboot-revival-release-date-story-details/
Not sure why there’s the assumption that it’ll be a “kids version,” just because it’ll be on Disney+. The Marvel shows on the service don’t seem to be any more “family-friendly” than the original Firefly. (I mean, it’s not like Firefly was on HBO or anything…)
The show really tread softly around that, though, because broadcast on Fox.
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I mean, I definitely did get a “What if the Confederacy actually had fought for the principles its modern-day apologists like to pretend it fought for?” vibe off the premise. But it’s a stretch to suggest that the show is actually pro-Confederacy.
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For sure. It just seems like there are a number of people commenting on the show with very little familiarity with the show.
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i think it comes across as white washing. i mean even the goram reveers - how ever you spell that - are stand ins for “headhunting indians” for goodness sake.
it’s basically like: can’t we have all this “cool history” without any of the bad parts that went along with it.
i find it problematic because - intentionally or not - it further adds to the halo that westerns and the lost cause tried to cultivate
we already got reagan ( and bush the junior ) because of the mythology of westerns, we don’t need more of that
[ edit: now if they want to use all that as a starting point to deconstruct and examine that history id be all in. scifi can be an excellent ummm… space… for that ]
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That is a fair critique, and likely to be worsened if they actually do try to further sanitize the mythology by making it “family friendly.” Maybe the only proper way to do a Western is to keep the ugliness instead of making one group out to be idealistic heroes.
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