Did any regular SF readers have problems with The train job not introducing things propper like?

I thought this was a huge problem. For all that I love the show, I'm pretty sure The Train Job was intended to be the "new" pilot. And while I know the network wanted less exposition, I can't help but think that our boys could've at least worked in, say, INARA'S NAME. (I'm pretty sure they never call her by name, not through the whole episode.)

ETA: First chapter of the Serenity novelization is online. It looks like it is fairly spoiler free, as it is essentially narration of the first scene of the episode "Serenity," not the movie. It does reveal that Zoe has a last name (possibly I'm the last person to discover this). [link]

I'm pretty sure they never call her by name, not through the whole episode.

They don't. I've never noticed it before (probably due to watching the pilot first, as it was meant to be), but you're right, they don't.

They mention clients and Compantions and that the shuttle is hers and her respectability when compared to the rest of the crew, and emphasize that later when she comes in all her dress-up to save Mal and Zoe, but not her name. It runs along with how they try to characterize the relationships between all the characters right in the beginning, I guess - captain, losing side, "sir", wife, piloting, job, and all that spoken information right before the opening credits, between all the hitting and the visual information and the ship itself.

Did I hallucinate that post about the Serenity ad before Wedding Crashers? I can't have -- I mean, I went into the movie hoping I'd see one, but now I can't find the post that tipped me off.

Mikey's deleted one, perhaps?

'fraid it was--some overhurried clicking. Don't think the ad's tied to a particular movie BTW--just in the rotation at AMC.

As for the pilot. I agree with Nilly, but I make recommendations based on what I know about the people to whom I loan my DVDs.

ETA: First chapter of the Serenity novelization is online.

Huh. Not too bad, really.

but I make recommendations based on what I know about the people to whom I loan my DVDs.

The one thing that sold it to my mother? The French dubbing on the DVDs. She enjoyed the possibility of watching a show in her mother tongue so much, that she didn't even notice the things she usually dislikes (say, violence).

Nilly, please email me your address so I can send you a package. Thank you.

UK screenings of the movie, here:

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The amount of hassle these have caused me is unreal. So, enjoy, if there's any UK people here. Oh, and if you're in London, tough at the moment: Vue West End are being a bit retarded and refusing the sell the tickets for some unknown political reason.

Tamara, I would love to (yay! package!), but I can't e-mail you, since you don't have any address specified in your profile.

Yay, Dublin screening!

All my complaining about nothing ever happening in Ireland clearly pissed someone off enough to shut me up. Woo!

ETA - Except that apparently karma has an hysterical sense of humour, since I've tickets to a Weezer concert that night. Crap. What's a girl to do?