#doesn't mean you can't like it though. I enjoy plenty awful bullshit pieces of media. This just isn't one of them.

[ozcarr]

above was re: my tags.

I don't really wanna fight you or engage in fandom discourse, I'm just here to be a hater. Hense the asterisks.

That said... you've opened the door for me. And I have I have thoughts. But I don't actually care THAT much so this is it. Not spending any more of my time on the subject after this.

The whole space western thing part of the reason of why it sucks, actually. You can definitely do good space westerns, it's been done for decades. But this particular show did it kinda... irresponsibly? Uncreatively? Dare I say shittily?

I feel like F****** was writing checks it couldn't cash when it came to theming and social commentary. Like, "This is a space western! We got gun slingers and horses and leather dusters! And uhhhhh we have manifest destiny! Yeah! Humans are terraforming this land to fit their needs! And um.... this was a planet with a habitable atmosphere but don't worry -- it was a barren wasteland with little recourses and nobody living on it. There's nothing to desecrate and noone to displace! Convenient!" That's a weird-ass choice to make when you had the opportunity to make a point instead.

And while there's no displaced extraterrestrial life, there's the reavers. And they're human too, sure, but they're evil and sexually violent and animalistic and live in the isolated "uncivilized" corners of space. Its pretty fucking bad even when you're not looking at through the specific lens of the western genre and it's associated tropes.

I think F****** had a great opportunity to really get nitty-gritty and deconstruct all the poorly aged issues with the western genre, but in a science fiction setting. And instead they sort of did the opposite? And when it comes to the actually intended theme of the show, it feels like all the writers had to say was "the government is bad and unethical and it'll either horribly exploit you or leave you to rot." Even with their limited time... I think they probably could have gotten deeper with it.

I dunno. If I wanted to watch a better written show with a similar outlook on space colonization and corrupt government and exploitation of the lower classes, I'd watch The Expanse. And if I wanted to watch a good, fun, human-only space western I'd just watch Cowboy Bebop.

meanwhile, F****** has a lot of the shitty aspects of westerns and not a lot of the meaningful social commentary or fun creativity I like to see in science fiction. So yeah. Sorry. Not a fan.

Since I've been talking about science fiction shows and j*** w****** today.... I just wanna come out and say I think f*refly kinda sucks.