Originally posted by: C3PX
Here son, take a puff of this.
Hmm, yeah, that just might work. If you feel like going to prison.
Firefly I think can go either way. It has the whole cowboy thing, and cowboys in America are considered very conservative. They have their guns and value their freedom. You also have the whole outlaw theme and the oppressive government theme going on. Liberals are control freaks, whereas conservatives are very much interested in individual freedom, something the crew of the Serenity is also quite fond of. Then you have the gov. in Firefly which is depicted as evil and it is very U.N.ish in that it is a one world/one universe government, something the conservative are typically very against.
Here son, take a puff of this.
Hmm, yeah, that just might work. If you feel like going to prison.
Firefly I think can go either way. It has the whole cowboy thing, and cowboys in America are considered very conservative. They have their guns and value their freedom. You also have the whole outlaw theme and the oppressive government theme going on. Liberals are control freaks, whereas conservatives are very much interested in individual freedom, something the crew of the Serenity is also quite fond of. Then you have the gov. in Firefly which is depicted as evil and it is very U.N.ish in that it is a one world/one universe government, something the conservative are typically very against.
That's a very good point.
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Another thing I noticed was that the government tried to chemically induce peace on planet Miranda with the PAX chemical; but it didn't work. People just lay down and died because the absence of aggression made them not care if they lived or not. The idea of peace at all costs is definitely not a conservative theme. Conflict is a part of human nature, and trying to take that away in Serenity killed a planet and created the Reavers.