I appreciate the contextualisation from a Zoomer perspective and I definitely agree that Whedon was using the show to critique tendencies that he knew that he himself embodied. Being on Tumblr at the time, though, I remember it received quite a lot of backlash from feminist spaces. A lot of people definitely found it cringey at the time.
That's interesting. It definitely doesn't come off as feminist in the slightest and in hindsight all the signs that Whedon wasn't what he seemed were there. How polarizing was it, exactly? Apologize if I sound like a virulent zoomer btw, it's just that most millennials I know love it (and every time I saw it come up on Reddit it always received vast praise, which is par for the course for that site).
I remember it being highly polarizing on Tumblr (but probably not especially outside of there!). No need to apologise from your zoomer perspective - it was interesting, especially as I hadn't thought about 'Dr Horrible' in quite some time.
I appreciate the contextualisation from a Zoomer perspective and I definitely agree that Whedon was using the show to critique tendencies that he knew that he himself embodied. Being on Tumblr at the time, though, I remember it received quite a lot of backlash from feminist spaces. A lot of people definitely found it cringey at the time.
That's interesting. It definitely doesn't come off as feminist in the slightest and in hindsight all the signs that Whedon wasn't what he seemed were there. How polarizing was it, exactly? Apologize if I sound like a virulent zoomer btw, it's just that most millennials I know love it (and every time I saw it come up on Reddit it always received vast praise, which is par for the course for that site).
I remember it being highly polarizing on Tumblr (but probably not especially outside of there!). No need to apologise from your zoomer perspective - it was interesting, especially as I hadn't thought about 'Dr Horrible' in quite some time.