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The Official Serenity Thread
09/29/05

Posted on 09/29/2005 5:18:15 PM PDT by KevinDavis

This will be the official thread for all Serenity/Firefly related info,reviews and pictures...


TOPICS: Astronomy; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: browncoats; chatwardbound; chittychittychatchat; firefly; offtochatwithyou; serenity
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To: skinkinthegrass; All

Nor did I... It should be Frell....


61 posted on 10/01/2005 3:35:24 PM PDT by KevinDavis (the space/future belongs to the eagles --> http://www.cafepress.com/kevinspace1)
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To: Braak; All
I would like to add something:

People wonder why Hollywood is not doing well.. Well maybe if they had the brains to make movies like this, maybe people will show up... Instead of making crap, they should make movies like this!!

A note to Fox Execs who canceled: "gun HOE-tze bee DIO-se"!!!!

A note to Sci-Fi: Thank you for showing the show...

A note to Universal: Thank you spending the money to produce this movie...
62 posted on 10/01/2005 3:59:59 PM PDT by KevinDavis (the space/future belongs to the eagles --> http://www.cafepress.com/kevinspace1)
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To: KevinDavis
Frell! = Frack! :D ...Point taken.

Who can keep it straight? ...it still starts with an "F" @ least it wasn't Klingon :D

63 posted on 10/01/2005 9:29:02 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
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To: KevinDavis
Went to the Saturday afternoon matinee. Serenity is great. I'd give it three thumbs up, if I could, but it was poorly attended. There were about 50 people in a theater with a capacity of 4 or 5 hundred. The theater was only scheduling 4 showings a day so they had low expectations. I am going to recommend it to all my friends, but if this theater (Centreville Multiplex) is typical, we need a major word of mouth bump if there is to be any chance of a sequel.
64 posted on 10/02/2005 1:39:01 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Truth29; All

That is not good. Maybe the dvd sales will help Serenity...


65 posted on 10/02/2005 7:53:23 AM PDT by KevinDavis (the space/future belongs to the eagles --> http://www.cafepress.com/kevinspace1)
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To: Admin Moderator; KevinDavis

I missed this on Search because of the misspelling of "Serenity" in the title. Would you please correct it?

Thanks
Dan


66 posted on 10/02/2005 8:14:53 AM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: BibChr

Fixed, thanks.


67 posted on 10/02/2005 8:16:46 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: AzSteven
What is browncoat? And what was so great about the spikee, being the lamented leaf he was?

Also why no kids in movie? No families. Just burning swing-set. Sort of Brave New World sex and relationship-wise -- bunkum for that. "Reapers" or whatever they were called (rippers? reefers?) really dumb. How could they fly ships for being so out-of-grountrol nigh-of-living dead-ish? No personality, no character. Dumb.

Also space is B.I.G H..U..G..E. Yet the passage to one planet is blocked by a five acre junkyard of ships. Very non real.

Also 83 pound 17 year old girl is physically incapable -- I mean by plain simple physics of being the super-warrior she is made out to be. Especially as anemic as that one looks. Very non real.

Also burning incense-bomb? Silly.

Don't get angry with me.

68 posted on 10/02/2005 8:28:51 AM PDT by bvw
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To: KevinDavis

Seeing the movie today with the Mrs.

Please add me to the Sci-Fi ping list, too.


69 posted on 10/02/2005 10:04:00 AM PDT by Liberty Tree Surgeon
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To: bvw
What is browncoat? And what was so great about the spikee, being the lamented leaf he was?

Browncoats are the name for the rebel army from the Firefly/Serenity background, and the term has come to be used for fans of Firefly and Serenity, sort of like Trekker for Star Trek fans. The spikee (lovely adjective) was a much-loved member of the crew for many fans, and per the movie and TV-series background was one of the best independent pilots around. Luck is a finite resource. And really one of the two major elements of this movie is that luck has finally run out for the Serenity.

Also why no kids in movie? No families. Just burning swing-set. Sort of Brave New World sex and relationship-wise -- bunkum for that. "Reapers" or whatever they were called (rippers? reefers?) really dumb. How could they fly ships for being so out-of-grountrol nigh-of-living dead-ish? No personality, no character. Dumb.

There were kids and families in the film, just not in the ship (of course, Simon and River are a family, but that's a little different I suppose). Pay attention to the backgrounds on the world where the robbery occurs, and on Haven; lots of families there. The Reavers are a dramatic construct; remember, this is science fiction!. As for the views pro- and con- on sex in the Firefly universe I refer to another Freep thread currently going on: Bloggers are Browncoats

Also space is B.I.G H..U..G..E. Yet the passage to one planet is blocked by a five acre junkyard of ships. Very non real.

The Reaver fleet was occuplying a bit more than a few acres, but again, dramatic construct is what you have here. Whedon is more a story guy than a science guy (how else can you explain a single star system with 50+ planets and hundreds of moons, all of which can be terraformed and are close enough to the star to not freeze?)

Also 83 pound 17 year old girl is physically incapable -- I mean by plain simple physics of being the super-warrior she is made out to be. Especially as anemic as that one looks. Very non real. This one I very much need to disagree with. I have studied jiu-jitsu, tae-kwondo and karate, and I can promise you that small students regularly kick ass against much larger opponents. The important thing is focus and reaction time, and River was programmed to excel in both. They did a very good thing in picking a dancer (Summer Glau) to play that part - she moves like a well-trained student.

Compared to what? Lightsabers? Phasers? Black powder and flah-bangs have been around a long time - no reason to think they would have forgotten all about them by 2500 AD.

Don't get angry with me. No reason to be - its a movie. One man's entertainment is another man's crap. Me, I still cannot get why anyone liked Napoleon Dynamite..

70 posted on 10/02/2005 12:06:21 PM PDT by AzSteven
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To: AzSteven
Napoleon Dynamite

That was a movie?

71 posted on 10/02/2005 6:58:57 PM PDT by dts32041 ( Robin Hood, stealing from the government and giving back to tax payer. Where is he today?)
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To: KevinDavis
How symbolic that

(highlight for comment that includes a significant spoiler)

the government's social engineering plan produces a population who can't take care of themselves and residue of vicious predators.

(end comment)

72 posted on 10/02/2005 9:57:19 PM PDT by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: bvw
Also why no kids in movie? No families. Just burning swing-set. Sort of Brave New World sex and relationship-wise -- bunkum for that.

I can't make heads nor tails of your fractured English, "Dadaesque" style prose. Try writing in complete sentences. No one likes to read Chinese fortune cookie style "critiques".

73 posted on 10/03/2005 9:38:00 PM PDT by Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy
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To: AzSteven
The spikee (lovely adjective) was a much-loved member of the crew for many fans, and per the movie and TV-series background was one of the best independent pilots around. Luck is a finite resource. And really one of the two major elements of this movie is that luck has finally run out for the Serenity.

That event served the dramatic purpose of making the audience (well, me, and I've heard others say they had the same reaction) believe that, yes, really, any or all of these people might really die. It dispelled the notion that (another spoiler -- highlight to read) killing off Book took care of Joss' need for "willingness to kill of a regular character" cred(end spoiler).

74 posted on 10/03/2005 10:05:58 PM PDT by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: KevinDavis

Absolutely wonderful movie. Going to go see it tommorow.


75 posted on 10/03/2005 10:19:53 PM PDT by Paul_Denton (Stom ta jora UN)
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To: KevinDavis

Absolutely wonderful movie. Going to go see it again tommorow.


76 posted on 10/03/2005 10:20:03 PM PDT by Paul_Denton (Stom ta jora UN)
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To: dts32041
Just got back from the 2210 showing and a 60 mile drive, all I can say is WOW, will probably see it again this weekend to see what I missed the first time.

I know. Very very good movie. I am seeing it again tommorow :)

77 posted on 10/03/2005 10:23:12 PM PDT by Paul_Denton (Stom ta jora UN)
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To: KevinDavis
People wonder why Hollywood is not doing well.. Well maybe if they had the brains to make movies like this, maybe people will show up... Instead of making crap, they should make movies like this!!

Exactly! I never saw Firefly but after seeing Serenity I am buying it on DVD. And it is one of the few movies with a pro-freedom theme.

78 posted on 10/03/2005 10:24:54 PM PDT by Paul_Denton (Stom ta jora UN)
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To: KevinDavis

Bump


79 posted on 10/04/2005 2:18:09 AM PDT by Paul_Denton (Stom ta jora UN)
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To: bvw
Also why no kids in movie?

You missed all the kids in River's class and the kids at Haven?

No families.

Actually family and love is at the core of this movie. Simon is ready to give up everything for love of his sister. She risks her life for him because in her confused mental state her love for her brother is the only thing that she still has to cling to.

80 posted on 10/04/2005 2:26:41 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Machina improba! Vel mihi ede potum vel mihi redde nummos meos!)
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