{"id":92259,"date":"2025-02-21T02:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=92259"},"modified":"2025-03-16T22:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T02:13:19","slug":"firefly-and-the-end-of-serenity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/02\/21\/firefly-and-the-end-of-serenity\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Firefly<\/em> and the End of <em>Serenity<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zhy2x3bbXsM?si=dSNz5z6AfKrtABXx\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 29 Mar 2023<\/p>\n<p><em>Serenity<\/em> did an admirable job of wrapping up <em>Firefly<\/em> after the series was cancelled. But the ending, which depends on the idea that exposing government misdeeds forces change, doesn&#8217;t work today. <em>Serenity<\/em>&#8216;s ending is premised on the idea that &#8220;sunshine is the best disinfectant&#8221; but the last few years have illustrated that we&#8217;re dealing with sunlight-resistant corruption these days. <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n00:24 Backstory<br \/>\n01:27 Chimerica<br \/>\n02:08 Unification<br \/>\n03:37 Secrets<br \/>\n05:12 <em>Serenity<\/em>&#8216;s Ending<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 29 Mar 2023 Serenity did an admirable job of wrapping up Firefly after the series was cancelled. But the ending, which depends on the idea that exposing government misdeeds forces change, doesn&#8217;t work today. Serenity&#8216;s ending is premised on the idea that &#8220;sunshine is the best disinfectant&#8221; but the last few years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[650,127,363,1593,921,299,101],"class_list":["post-92259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media","tag-civilwar","tag-conspiracytheories","tag-corruption","tag-feralhistorian","tag-firefly","tag-paranoia","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-o03","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94253,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92259\/revisions\/94253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}