I don't actually read what is going on with Boyd and Echo as anything that will ever approach a romantic relationship, they don't have that vibe, I feel like Whedon is trying to build a Giles-Buffy kind of relationship there where it will grow more paternal as time goes on. If it ever tends towards romantic, I am dropping the show no ifs ands or buts, you know if I don't drop it for other reasons first.

The sexualized propping of cut up bodies also deeply bothered me, it was like 'no, just no'.

And the stuff with the male actives are nice, but still discounted by naked vulnerable Echo and us not seeing them come off assignments where they are little more then sexual objects for skeevy men.