Joss, Call Me Back
Firefly is a fun show. There’s no denying that. “Wagon Train to the Stars” is a winning concept, as the dozens of Star Trek spin-offs and clones can attest. So long as there are televisions, there will be fat nerds to sit in front of them. I hear The Expanse is doing well. But it isn’t the mystery some people seem to think it is that Firefly got cancelled after just one season: characters routinely act contrary to what the audience is told about them; the set design, while charming, is pretty janky; and Joss Whedon’s dialogue fucking blows, to say nothing of his other proclivities. The list goes on. A cool concept only gets you so far. The Serenity The problem is they didn’t do anything with the concept. The crew of the Serenity are essentially ex-Confederate guerillas… in SPACE . Firefly could’ve been The Outlaw Buck Rogers , but wound up being closer to Little House on the Planet than anything else. It’s the anti- Trek . The core conceit of the show is an indictment of Rodden