“Firefly” & "Serenity”
Joss Whedon
Serenity is a movie that is related to the television show, Firefly. The show explores the lives of a group of people who are fighting on the losing side of a civil war. It is a space western drama that it is science fiction, however gives out an idea that in the future technology will be advanced, however the political and ethical problems won’t be different from today. Not that this only took place in the future, but the show also included psychical abilities, which is only held by one person, River Tam. Although the main character is Mal (Malcolm Reynolds), an owner and captain of his spaceship, Serenity, the whole plot itself all connects to River.
When I first watched this show, I wondered why people were using Chinese for curse words and were other Asian worlds included in some part of the show. I did some research and figured out that it was because in this futuristic world, only the two superpowers, the US and China, survived and fused to form the central federal government. I would understand the two powerful countries to come in power, however I surely was quite disturbed by the fact that there were literately no Asian cast for the show. Having to show no Chinese was just simply a mistake, I’d say since it may be quite an insult to Asian audience.
Despite the Chinese aspect of the show, I personally find the show quite entertaining since the political aspect of the show was quite realistic. All the problems that is going on right now are something that has been going on for a long period of time that I personally believe that it will continue on in our future and is something we can’t avoid. There are always going to be people who thinks different from others and conflicts will happen for sure. Firefly simply presents this kind of reality.
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