>>6019320>>6019430>>6019702>Joss Whedon is actually mediocreIt is probably true. I think it is more that with fortunate, culturally synchronous timing he caught and rode the 1996-2003 era of female empowerment girl heroines (in England, this wasTony Blair before Iraq and the Spice Girls? argh) if you look at his recent stuff eg The Nevers, it is thematically consistent (Victorian steampunk X-Men, except, hot superhero magical suffragette corset women) it feels dated stereotyped formulaic and culturally jarring even though it ticks all the obligatory relevant cultural sensitivity checkboxes etc
Maybe the world where we re-enact the film Red Dawn or the Homefront videogames with !notChina surrogate Asians (I played all those videogames lol, I enjoyed the guns hehe) is too depressing, it leads to basically
>>6020053>>6019629>>6020120>>6020171these scenes. We must return to 90s 2000s happy post-WTO accession China Washington Consensus globalisation US relations, lobotomised Joss Whedon scifi escapism, before Whedon The Feminist Slayer got ironically betrayed by his fanbase, sunken into a morass of Harvey Weinstein esque sex abuse allegations that you can read about in Vanity Fair.
So you get the escapist space opera romance scene from Firefly / Serenity instead, it is pretty hot. Of course, Firefly / Serenity is set in the world of cool lever action space cowboy guns and interplanetary martial arts / prostitutes, the universe is at peace because there are no Chinese people but the Americans speak English / Chinese dialect? Joss Whedon linguistically tortured Summer Glau into speaking Chinese, no wonder he was a secret misogynist abuser of women all along, it was so obvious
Anyway, the scene is from the best episode of Firefly / Serenity in my opinion, it is the one with Christina Hendricks as Saffron. She portrays a perfectly domesticated sultry bride, she comes from an impoverished planet with a "Maiden House" that has little to offer in interplanetary trade aside from its women. Space opera settings should include brides that offer their bodies as er... vessels in exchange for interplanetary travel. Damn you Joss Whedon I was pretty turned on by this, you made me feel THE SEX argh
Firefly, Mal And Saffron "I made the bed warm for you"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FfIprXM72LYMAL
- I keep trying to explain...
SAFFRON
- Let me explain.
I lived my life in the maiden house,
waiting to be married off for trade.
I've seen my sisters paired off with
ugly men, vicious or blubberous.
Men with appetites
too unseemly to speak on.
And I've cried for those girls.
But not half so hard as I cried
the night they gave me to you...
I cried for I'd not dreamed
to have a man so sweet,
so kind and beautifuI.
Had I dared to choose,
I'd choose you...
from all the men on all the planets
the night sky could show me.
If I'm wed, I am a woman.
and I'll take your leave
to be bold.
I want this.
I swell to think of you in me
And I see that you do too
