Yeah, I never got into those, and actively bounced off Firefly back in the day, despite the hard-core evangelism for it.
I did recently watch through Firefly based on my partner’s advocacy and…if you haven’t seen it, you’re not missing much. Standard c-grade space opera stuff with really annoying dialogue written by a guy who clearly likes putting his ‘clever’ words in people’s mouths, and doesn’t know or care how people actually communicate (not surprising, in retrospect).
I remember hearing so much back in the day championing Whedon’s dialogue writing, but after watching Firefly I was struck by how grating it all was.
Though he could be the greatest writer in the world and it wouldn’t excuse him being a predatory choad who we probably shouldn’t be materially or culturally enriching by continuing to patronize his shit. There’s plenty of great art out there not made by predators out there.
