#fireflyreboot

[cosmoshiden]

Firefly, does it need a reboot?

It’s been nearly 20 years since Firefly was taken off the air. There have been talks of a reboot floating around for years. Yet does this series need a reboot? Well, my stance on this is that, yes Firefly really needs a reboot. There are some things that I find infuriating about Friefly that need be changed and removed. First, get rid of the US civil war allegory; cause honestly, that is KKK propaganda and is an erasing of slavery from history via sci-fi; instead, replace the backstory with a Canadian history allegory for the violent rivalry between the Northwest Company and the Hudson's Bay Company. This could be done with the Blue Sun corp. once being two companies, now forced into one by the gov't much like the Northwest and Hudson's Bay companies were merged into one. This way Mal and co. have a less murky backstory since they took part in this corporate war. Second, why not cut the cast down to 5 to start the show, and gradually introduce the remaning 4 slowly. Third, I'd like to see some Asians cast in the roles this time around, while having more LGBTQ2IA+ characters. Hell, why not combine characters like Zoe + Jayne, Wash + River, Kaylee + Innara, Book + Simon, while making River/Wash Asian and nonbinary, Book/Simon Black and Transwoman, Kaylee/Innara Hispanic and Indigenous American, and intersex, and Zoe/Jayne is pan sexual and black. As for Mal, make him a middle-aged, out of touch type who thinks he owns the ship, and in a relationship with Simon/Book, with the latter three, Zoe/Jayne, River/Wash, and Kaylee/Innara, are in a polygamous relationship. Fifth, how about there being no captain of the ship, and anytime Mal tries to give an order, he gets lynched, (which I think should be the running gag). Sixth, I would keep the premise of pirating, but there being an actual arch-enemy like the operative with hired help, but making the enemy the Blue sun corp. instead of the Alliance. Seventh, I would prefer the telepathic powers be given by a device that the crew receives from a job that goes awry, and one of the 5 gets the powers, and the operative is sent after them. Anyhow, I don't expect this to be given a warm welcome from anyone who comes across this post (mainly from Firefly fans, be they neoconfedie or not), but then again, this had to be said. One other thing, can we please get rid of the Reavers; we can do without anymore Native American stereotypes; especially taking Josh Whedon out of the picture. I suggest that the reavers be made into space pirates who are made up of poor people who joined because of lack of opportunity or job loss after the corporate war. Seventh, how this can be achieved is by hiring writers of color and LGBTQ21A+ persons and women, for arranging the show’s plots, narrative, characters and dialogue. This entails removing Josh Whedon from the picture and thus having a director of color instead. In hindsight, it just makes for more diversity in the casting, crew, writer’s room and directing. Anyhow, that's my two cents.