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What is Cyberpunk?
Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.
Cyberpunk characteristics include:
- Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
- Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
- Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
- Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
- Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.
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Firefly made by awful people? I guess you mean whedon? Or are there others?
Adam Baldwin has been pretty far-right/anti-feminism/anti-LGBTQ/anto-“woke” for a long time. He’s MAGA. He was even a GamerGater back in the day.
TBF, Baldwin didn't "make" Firefly. He just starred in it.
Adam was the one who started the term GamerGate to begin with. (Not that that's some amazing leap of creativity. I hate how some unoriginal hack always has to throw "-gate" on any drama to make it sound juicy.)
Calling Inara a whore every chance he gets now finally makes sense.
Whedon, you mean? Oh, it gets worse.
A few years after the series ended, Tim Minear, IIRC, put up a page where he outlined what the plans which never got fulfilled were. Or maybe it was a transcript of an interview, or something. I forget exactly what.
What I do remember, however, is the resolution to the Mal/Inara will-they-won’t-they.
So. Remember in the pilot when they think they’re going to be boarded by reavers? There’s that shot where Inara opens up a wooden box to reveal a syringe. Now, most people assumed that that meant she was going to kill herself rather than be taken alive.
No no no no no.
Oh no. That was a special Companion syringe full of a special Compaion drug. What does the drug do? It makes her vagina toxic. So anybody who has sex with her will die.
Cut to a future episode. Serenity is overrun by reavers. “Hundreds”, IIRC. Inara is the only person trapped aboard. The episode focuses on the rest of the crew trying to rescue her. They eventually get on board to find her in a bad way, surrounded by corpses. Every single reaver raped her and died as a result.
Mal picks her up and carries her to sickbay, and is then very attentive and loving while she recovers.
Yup, that’s what brings them together in the end.
I love Firefly. But, having read the ideas for the future (and knowing what I now know about Whedon), I’m glad it only had 13 episodes. It can be this beautiful little jewel of a show, before they had the chance to fuck it up.
That's wild, this companion drug should be used for lyrics in a hip hop song.
oh god i hope it's just whedon
Ok, spoiler time. Don't click. You've been warned.
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Don't worry. It was just WhedonI warned you.