![]() It’s a sad ending to an episode that overall works well. The riches had fallen on the town and the legend had turned Jayne into a Robin Hood-like hero.ĭuring the course of the story, the truth of Jayne’s actions becomes clear and after a young miner dies to save Jayne from a gunshot, Jayne himself pushes the statue over. In the past, Jayne had attempted to steal a pile of money from the local boss but had to ditch the money as he escaped. ![]() When the crew visit a mud mining town to pick up some contraband, they find the workers have erected a statue of Jayne, much to the amusement of everybody but Jayne. With Jaynestown we have a story in which everybody’s hero turns out to be a fraud. Having said… Our Mrs Reynolds and Jaynestown one after the other, there are easy parallels to draw. It also obscures the role of the other directors, writers and actors on the show. It elevates Whedon to an auteur like figure for a show that’s trying to make the term “space cowboy” a popular narrative. Seeing Firefly purely through the lens of examining the influence (malign or otherwise) of Joss Whedon on modern popular culture, is itself a reflection of the problem. It’s about what they need.” Īnd wouldn’t you know it but that’s the one we are up to! “It’s my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of ’em was one kinda sombitch or another,” he says. When he confides to the crew’s captain that he’s unsettled by this development, the captain just stares into the distance. Jayne is not a good man, but when he returns to the town years later, he sees its residents have erected a statue in his honor. ![]() In Firefly, one of the crew members, Jayne, accidentally tosses the spoils of a botched robbery into the hands of the town’s poor. “Whedon once wrote a line that could have served as a warning to all of us. The second to last paragraph uses a Firefly episode as a metaphor. Entitled “The Undoing of Joss Whedon” by Lila Shapiro, it chronicles a history of bullying and abuse of power by the man. No sooner than we cover an episode that felt disturbingly close to the Problem of Whedon than we have a devastating profile of the writer/director’s rapidly falling reputation.
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