Serenity Now!

Mon, 10/24/2005 - 10:03 — admin

I finally went to see Serenity. Being a not-very-rabid-yet-somewhat-enthusiastic fan of Firefly, I had pretty good expectations of this movie. I was not disappointed - the movie indeed was pretty good. My gripes can be best presented in the following bullet points (if I had the time, I would have created a powerpoint deck for you):

  • No blue-handed men ("Two By Two, Hands of Blue") or any explanation as to why their hands were blue. And mighty Google brings back hilarious, but most unsatisfying results
  • "The operative" is not bounty hunter Jubal Early, but instead what seems like a one-dimensional character based on the early notes for Jubal Early.
  • I don't like the explanation of the nature of Reavers.
  • The soundtrack was worse than in the TV Series

Meanwhile, it seemed to me that I've seen Morena Baccarin, the actress who plays Inara, somewhere else. I was not mistaken - she had a bit role in a movie that I like very much, Roger Dodger. There she is, Cosmo in hand, next to the boss she has a crush on, right after talking to Roger:

I got to give her credit - so 2 out of 4 movies Morena took a part in are really good. I have half the mind to pick up the other two, to see maybe if they are good too.

By the way, I never really understood what's so great about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It always seemed like a cheesy show with wooden acting, but then again, I never watched an entire episode or learned the backstory. I guess I'll have to rent the first season DVDs and see if it's any good.


Shiny stuff:

Serenity comic book prequel - a bit of filler between the TV series and the movie:

Original TV series soundtrack. It's on pre-order still, but at least it's happening.

"Finding Serenity : Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly" contains rants about "Firefly" from various pundits, including an inflammatory (and labeled by some as "male-chauvinistic") article about the role of women in sci-fi by John C. Wright (as much as I like his science fiction and hate his fantasy, I have to say that he's full of it).

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Tue, 10/25/2005 - 06:42 — Alastair (not verified)

Personally, I would start with season three of Buffy, work your way to the end, then come back to seasons one and two. I don't really think the show hit it's stride until series three. YMMV.

Tue, 10/25/2005 - 08:10 — Tatyana (not verified)

As I was watching Serenity, I couldn't get rid of the feeling that this movie was of "made for TV" variety. It was pretty exicting to watch, but the jokes, the quality of the film (or camera equipment), and the actors were "TV-quality". I would have enjoyed it more on my couch.

Also, I agree with the poster above - first season was not show's best.

Tue, 10/25/2005 - 08:15 — Tatyana (not verified)

Incidentally, I went to see Spamalot (which was awesome!) and Alan Tudyk (Wash from Serenity) was in it and was quite good.

Wed, 10/26/2005 - 00:40 — Mike Akers (not verified)

***** COMIC BOOK SPOILERS LIE AHEAD *****

The demise of the blue handed guys is in the Serenity comic book. They get owned by Serenity's crew in a space battle IIRC. Basically they seem to have been working for the operative who at the end of the comic learns of their death and decides to go after River himself. We do learn one interesting thing about them though. Their whole bodies were blue, not just their hands... looks like they were some kind of cyborgs or something, but we may never know the whole story.

***** COMIC BOOK SPOILERS END *****

Fri, 10/28/2005 - 23:27 — penxv (not verified)

I found the entire Firefly series online (aired versions).
http://meatheadedlibertarian.blogspot.com/2005/10/serenityfirefly.html

Is my post, just click on the link.
I’m trying to get people to link to the Firefly series because it’ll drive up the box office an increase the movie’s market share.
- It’s important to reward good work.

Mon, 10/31/2005 - 18:22 — nagunak (not verified)

Wanted to ask you, do you get any reasonable return on the ads that you publish on your site? Did you try Google Adwords?

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