At least with Dollhouse I got to see that Whedon was subverting that trope (that became clear in Man in the Street). I still wasn't wild about using it at all, but at least he recognized the issue.
With Firefly, it never did become clear, not even in Serenity.
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Date: 2014-12-18 11:16 pm (UTC)With Firefly, it never did become clear, not even in Serenity.