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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 8516824" data-attributes="member: 6799660">The stuff that best holds up well now -- Buffy, Dr. Horrible, Avengers #1 is stuff where everyone is an actual teenager (and thus muddling their way through life by trial and error and we kinda expect them to make mistakes), or deliberately flagged as deeply flawed characters (who we either love watching fall, or root for figuring things out). So if Xander seems a little like a 'nice guy' of the incel variety or Dr. Horrible says he loves Penny but can't turn away from from his selfish behavior or the Avengers act like bickering siblings until they pull it all together and best Loki in the third act, it... well it just fits. Shows involving adults (and not Byronic figures like four-color comic superheroes) making adult decisions -- like Angel and Dollhouse-- well, those seem a little more off. Firefly, by that measure, is about half-and-half. Mind you, it's my favorite of his works, but honestly I think that has a lot to do with the cast chemistry rather than the premise or writing or the like. To paraphrase XKCD, 'let me tell you about how important Ender's Game was to my childhood...'</blockquote>