I think history is full of rulers who were hated by their people, but were deposed by their peers for selfish reasons, rather than by uprising.
But there is lots of wiggle room in that argument, I admit. My point was more of a technical one than a practical one.
I think that a rigid class/caste system can probably work purely on jealousy rather than on propaganda, but this isn't based on real world example.
Likely true by example, but not by definition.
Overthrowing power may be hopeless, but propaganda may still be used simply to prevent the masses from causing slight discomfort to the people in power.
Propaganda is a tool, not a last resort, of the powerful.
I did like that style of dialogue, at the time, so idk if that was the problem for me.
It's been a long long time since I saw it, so I don't remember details only general impressions:
I remember thinking that every characters weren't really differentiated. They were all just kinda amorphous, until an opportunity for their single defining trait had a change to come out for a bit.
I only watched an episode or two. I don't remember what order.
I really wanted to like Firefly, but the characters felt too silly and two dimensional.
I only watched one episode and it was just too pretentious
I recently watched a video by Jason Pargin, about how pretty much all TV shows are Lost-ing it, due to how modern TV production is done. If you don't think they're Lost-ing it, it's simply because the writers are doing a good job making it up as they go.
Hmmm
I haven't watched many sitcoms recently. I felt like those pauses for audience laughs were often where they'd cut to other camera angles anyway (likely to distract from how unnaturally long the characters paused in the middle of their conversations)... But I don't have any concrete evidence to back up my feeling.
Meat grass
I'd be interested to see an edit of classic sitcoms with laughs (tracks or live), edited to remove both the laugh and the associated pause in the performance.
The entire premise seems too preachy for me. They really kinda beat you over the head with it. And are usually kinda victim blamey, from the bit I've learned beyond the one episode I watched.