Oh hey, I just found this out, did you know that Joss stated in the Serenity Visual Companion that the book he read immediately after The Killer Angels, which *also* inspired Firefly, was a book about Jewish Resistance Fighters in WW2? I know we can interpret this as PROBLEMATIC but I think it's more that there are genuinely heroic aspects of the Serenity crew's rebellion (esp. when it comes to sheltering the Tams) in addition to the more ambiguous civil war stuff.
I didn't know that. Actually, I don't even want to be the girl who cries out Problematic but I'd be cooler if Serenity was inspired just by WWII resistance fighters than particularly Jewish resistance fighters. I agree that there were heroic aspects to the Serenity crew, but no one but River was being hunted for their intrinsic qualities since birth and yeah, the conflict in Firefly didn't seem nearly as morally clear-cut as WWII.
Although, I don't find the Jewish resistance fighters as obnoxious as comparing the outer planets + Serenity crew to the American Confederacy without any evidence of racial slavery en masse. And the Serenity crew diametrically opposed to any slavery that they encountered from a particular planet- i.e. Jaynestown. IMO, the Serenity crew aren't quite Jewish resistance fighters but they're closer to the former than the American Confederacy!
Oh hey, I just found this out, did you know that Joss stated in the Serenity Visual Companion that the book he read immediately after The Killer Angels, which *also* inspired Firefly, was a book about Jewish Resistance Fighters in WW2? I know we can interpret this as PROBLEMATIC but I think it's more that there are genuinely heroic aspects of the Serenity crew's rebellion (esp. when it comes to sheltering the Tams) in addition to the more ambiguous civil war stuff.
I didn't know that. Actually, I don't even want to be the girl who cries out Problematic but I'd be cooler if Serenity was inspired just by WWII resistance fighters than particularly Jewish resistance fighters. I agree that there were heroic aspects to the Serenity crew, but no one but River was being hunted for their intrinsic qualities since birth and yeah, the conflict in Firefly didn't seem nearly as morally clear-cut as WWII.
Although, I don't find the Jewish resistance fighters as obnoxious as comparing the outer planets + Serenity crew to the American Confederacy without any evidence of racial slavery en masse. And the Serenity crew diametrically opposed to any slavery that they encountered from a particular planet- i.e. Jaynestown. IMO, the Serenity crew aren't quite Jewish resistance fighters but they're closer to the former than the American Confederacy!
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