Incoherently unsophisticated

You Can't Take the Sky From Me

I managed to check out Serenity this weekend, while taking a break from a take home test. I really don't want to be taking this class. It's over a topic I will never EVER EVER go into in my field, and the professor does not understand what a "distance learning" class entails where 90% of the students are full time employees. So we have outrageous amounts of homeworks, exams, projects and term papers. And I'll get next to nothing out of it. But I have to take it. All for that nifty little piece of paper that will let me put an M.S. on my resume. It's kinda like turning 18. The night before you were not compentent enough to take part of our electoral process, but the next morning WHAM! Over night the Voting Fairy comes by and smacks you with his want so you are mature enough to cast a ballot. You're also wanded by the Selective Service Fairy, the Tobacco Fairy, the Porn Fairy and the Firearms Fairy and a few other Lesser Fairies. You're worked over by so many fairies like you were a drunk sorority girl who wandered into the football teams locker room. All this pain and suffering in a class I don't want to be in just for a piece of paper. So I took a break.

There will probably be spoilers. Ye be warned. Yar.


1) I finally figured out the geography of the Firefly universe. They never really talked about it in the show, and they don't talk about an FTL drive of any kind. I was okay with this. I figure you either have to actually make the physics work, or don't talk about it at all. The worst is when they come up with some bullshit 'dilithium crystals' solution. The movie indicated that they're just in one massive solar system with a buttload of planets. huh.
2) They got everyone from the original cast back. That's good. I worry that they would do something dumb like change out actors. Never works. Also kudos on not casting Hayden Christensen.
3) We find out where the Reavers come from!! Yay!
4) Kaylee is extremely open about her sex life.
5) Like all Weadon projects, this has a high hero body count. I figured Shepard was a goner when he showed up. He'd gone from a crew member to an old aquaintance. That sort of sideways move in the Weadonverse generally ends with you getting a) vamped b) dusted c) a then b d) sliced in the back e) impaled or some equally gruesome demise. I was a bit surprised, and irked! that Wash did not survive the movie. He was hilarious in the show, and provided some nice balance to the militaristic approach that Mal has. And he's not coming back. In Buffy or Angel, being dead was always kind of an iffy area. Heck even the main characters have been offed a time or two. But Firefly doesn't imploy magic.
6) The movie seemed a bit choppy. Like it could have been about 30 minutes longer to help flesh out some scenes. There's always the directors cut DVD.
7) More movies or return to TV? I dunno. I say TV. Firefly could return to the Sci-Fi channel and have 5 or so good seasons.
8) The answers to last blogs quiz: Frak -> Battlestar Galactica (the new one), Frell -> Farscape, Dren -> Farscape, Gorram -> Firefly, Swearing in Chinese->Firefly
9) I like the opening theme to the TV show. I was a bit disappointed it wasn't in the movie.
10) Fox originally aired firefly episodes out of order, preempted it repeatedly, and then canceled it. What exec didn't like the show, I wonder? Same thing happened to Family Guy. It got moved on a bi-weekly basis, and often put after an NFL game where it would be preempted. And that was because of some exec not liking the show. It got excellent ratings, until people couldn't figure out when it would come on. Seems a bad business practice to me.
11) I still have a hard time seeing Mal as anything but evil preacher man from BtVS season 7.

posted by wrmblnwrck @ 11:20 PM