• SaraTonin@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Adam Baldwin has been pretty far-right/anti-feminism/anti-LGBTQ/anto-“woke” for a long time. He’s MAGA. He was even a GamerGater back in the day.

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      Adam was the one who started the term GamerGate to begin with. (Not that that’s some amazing leap of creativity. I hate how some unoriginal hack always has to throw “-gate” on any drama to make it sound juicy.)

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        Whedon, you mean? Oh, it gets worse.

        A few years after the series ended, Tim Minear, IIRC, put up a page where he outlined what the plans which never got fulfilled were. Or maybe it was a transcript of an interview, or something. I forget exactly what.

        What I do remember, however, is the resolution to the Mal/Inara will-they-won’t-they.

        So. Remember in the pilot when they think they’re going to be boarded by reavers? There’s that shot where Inara opens up a wooden box to reveal a syringe. Now, most people assumed that that meant she was going to kill herself rather than be taken alive.

        No no no no no.

        Oh no. That was a special Companion syringe full of a special Compaion drug. What does the drug do? It makes her vagina toxic. So anybody who has sex with her will die.

        Cut to a future episode. Serenity is overrun by reavers. “Hundreds”, IIRC. Inara is the only person trapped aboard. The episode focuses on the rest of the crew trying to rescue her. They eventually get on board to find her in a bad way, surrounded by corpses. Every single reaver raped her and died as a result.

        Mal picks her up and carries her to sickbay, and is then very attentive and loving while she recovers.

        Yup, that’s what brings them together in the end.

        I love Firefly. But, having read the ideas for the future (and knowing what I now know about Whedon), I’m glad it only had 13 episodes. It can be this beautiful little jewel of a show, before they had the chance to fuck it up.