Big Damn Movie
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I can't believe Wash is dead. I can't believe Simon and Zoe and Inara aren't dead.
I can't believe how gut-wrenching and sincere the death scenes felt. They felt like real battles... sudden, jarring, tragic but not cliche.
I'm not terribly broken up that Book died as he was my least interested character, but I'm still moved.
I can't believe how heavy the movie was. I mean, I was spoiled that someone would die, probably more than one, but I wasn't really prepared for the heavy darkness of this movie.
I went with a friend who'd never seen Firefly and didn't even know it was by the same person who did Buffy (all she knew was that it was a western and it was set in space), and she LOVED it. We squeed about it in the car and all the way home. Lots of squealing and gushing from both of us. She wanted to know if the tv show was like the movie and I told her that probably at least 80% of what she liked about the movie she's gonna like about the tv show, except more funny and much less Reavers and without THE DYING.
I wanted to tell her that the reason I loved Buffy and Firefly and Serenity and the reason it's so dark and why I'm a Jossfan is that it's not safe viewing. That there's real danger to their characters.
But saying that after watching Serenity seems a bit redudant.
You know what I really liked about this, though? I liked that as someone who has seen the tv show, I was able to fill in the missing months with adventures in my head, just imagining what would have happened in that time to bring the crew to where it was now:
Inara left, as she claimed she would in the end of Objects In Space. This made Mal generally grumpy and pissy more than usual. Then they landed on some planet and there was a whole adventure and Book fell in love with the people there and he decided to stay. And then River did something crazy and it put stress on the whole crew, and tensions between Simon and the crew and Simon and Mal especially got tenser, because the solidarity and familyness they'd found was gone again, and of course Simon is siding with his sister, and Mal's taking his no-more-Inara agression out on that situation, and without the two peacemaking, calming presences of Book and Inara on board the tensions all around keep rising, and maybe the Alliance is chasing them a little more every day, and meanwhile with this new rise in tension Simon's paying even more attention to River and less to Kaylee, and Jane's exactly the same as always, and that leads us...
...right to where the movie starts.
I wanna go see it again.
I was sad about Mr. Universe. I didn't particularly like him (BarbieBot? Gross.) but at the same time I liked the character. And there's the fact that I have a not-major-but-still-significantly-sized crush on his actor. ...And the detail/touch of the crushed glass at the fake wedding with the BarbieBot cracked me up. Not the fake wedding, but the fact that the fake wedding had a specific religious demonination. ::snicker::
I also loved the shot of the drop of blood dripping down the axe in River's grip. And I loved "You mean sex? ---Screw this, I'm gonna live!" (my friend cheered for that line). And I loved Zoe's dress at the end. And I love Wash.
Anyway, twas cool.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
I can't believe Wash is dead. I can't believe Simon and Zoe and Inara aren't dead.
I can't believe how gut-wrenching and sincere the death scenes felt. They felt like real battles... sudden, jarring, tragic but not cliche.
I'm not terribly broken up that Book died as he was my least interested character, but I'm still moved.
I can't believe how heavy the movie was. I mean, I was spoiled that someone would die, probably more than one, but I wasn't really prepared for the heavy darkness of this movie.
I went with a friend who'd never seen Firefly and didn't even know it was by the same person who did Buffy (all she knew was that it was a western and it was set in space), and she LOVED it. We squeed about it in the car and all the way home. Lots of squealing and gushing from both of us. She wanted to know if the tv show was like the movie and I told her that probably at least 80% of what she liked about the movie she's gonna like about the tv show, except more funny and much less Reavers and without THE DYING.
I wanted to tell her that the reason I loved Buffy and Firefly and Serenity and the reason it's so dark and why I'm a Jossfan is that it's not safe viewing. That there's real danger to their characters.
But saying that after watching Serenity seems a bit redudant.
You know what I really liked about this, though? I liked that as someone who has seen the tv show, I was able to fill in the missing months with adventures in my head, just imagining what would have happened in that time to bring the crew to where it was now:
Inara left, as she claimed she would in the end of Objects In Space. This made Mal generally grumpy and pissy more than usual. Then they landed on some planet and there was a whole adventure and Book fell in love with the people there and he decided to stay. And then River did something crazy and it put stress on the whole crew, and tensions between Simon and the crew and Simon and Mal especially got tenser, because the solidarity and familyness they'd found was gone again, and of course Simon is siding with his sister, and Mal's taking his no-more-Inara agression out on that situation, and without the two peacemaking, calming presences of Book and Inara on board the tensions all around keep rising, and maybe the Alliance is chasing them a little more every day, and meanwhile with this new rise in tension Simon's paying even more attention to River and less to Kaylee, and Jane's exactly the same as always, and that leads us...
...right to where the movie starts.
I wanna go see it again.
I was sad about Mr. Universe. I didn't particularly like him (BarbieBot? Gross.) but at the same time I liked the character. And there's the fact that I have a not-major-but-still-significantly-sized crush on his actor. ...And the detail/touch of the crushed glass at the fake wedding with the BarbieBot cracked me up. Not the fake wedding, but the fact that the fake wedding had a specific religious demonination. ::snicker::
I also loved the shot of the drop of blood dripping down the axe in River's grip. And I loved "You mean sex? ---Screw this, I'm gonna live!" (my friend cheered for that line). And I loved Zoe's dress at the end. And I love Wash.
Anyway, twas cool.
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Date: 2005-10-03 02:47 am (UTC)The only reason I saw stated (around my Friends List) about Wash's death is that the Reavers killed him, the Reavers were created by the Alliance and that pushed Mal to continue on. After coming all of that way, I think Mal's mind was made up by that point was to do it or die trying. Wash did not HAVE to die.
I may be in the minority, but after having two characters (one of which who played a more prominent part in the series) killed, I would rather Joss didn't continue making sequels. Yes, people die in real life, I know that better than anyone, but, Christ, Joss. For once, can't you let somebody live happily ever after?
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Date: 2005-10-03 06:07 am (UTC)In a way I'm almost glad Wash got a noble death (okay not really really but follow me here) because I know that if the tv show had gone on those two would have broken up/been widowed anyway because no one can be happy all the time on a Joss show. So it was inevitable in a way. This way we got a quick noble death rather than two-three seasons of soap opera heartbreak that convinces us that even if they don't die people will find a way to fuck up a good thing on their own anyway.
Crap reasoning, and yeah OMG WASH!
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Date: 2005-10-03 06:38 am (UTC)That's the thing - I never cared about Simon/Kaylee. I kinda liked Mal/Kaylee myself, but well, that's me. Joss needs to make me happy, dammit! ;) Kidding.
No, I'm not.This way we got a quick noble death rather than two-three seasons of soap opera heartbreak that convinces us that even if they don't die people will find a way to fuck up a good thing on their own anyway.
Another reason Joss has to work out his issues. I know Joss wants his drama, but can't he find another outlet, rather than wrecking relationships? Who knows? If he does another series, I dunno if I'll watch it. Depends on the subject matter I suppose. I like Joss's series'; Firefly (natch), the earlier seasons of Buffy most definitely and the first season of Angel ... everything beyond ... blah. I was so fed up with BTVS by the end of season five, I bailed. The only season six ep I watched was the musical and that even left me flat.
Don't worry - I was the exact same way towards Chris Carter. In fact, moreso. Since I was scarily into X-Files, as I've mentioned before.