The Flick Filosopher's review of the first seven eps. Tomorrow is the second half of the series, and Friday is the movie review. Considering she's already ranked it as her third-favorite movie of the year so far, I'm guessing it's pretty favorable.

Kathy, I love the FF, but for some reason every time I try to go from your link to her "Introduction to Firefly" it's crashing my browser (3 times so far in the last 5 minutes). Which is mightily irritating, as I really want to read all her words. Might I beg you, if it's not too much trouble, to maybe send a copy'n'paste of the intro to my profile addy sometime?

eta: Grrr. Make that 4 times, and now her entire site is crashing me. Bah!

Will do--I don't know what's causing the crash (I'll let her know on her blog that there's a problem, though).

It's working for me, but the stupid interactive ad at the top of the page is screwing with my HID.

My DH just pointed me at PVP, for the cartoon but mostly for the two articles below it ("Joss has seen the shirt!"): [link]

Aw, thanks, Kathy!

I'll let her know on her blog that there's a problem, though

If you're not having a problem, don't worry about it. It's likely just my work computer -- Safari intermittently crashes with certain websites (mostly WaPo; it's never happened with FF before), but I'm fairly certain I'm working with oldish versions of, well, everything, since even when I get an alert that a newer version of some application or other is available I can't download it, because everything here is locked down so only administrators can download anything, including even new versions of stuff we already have. Grr argh.

My DH just pointed me at PVP, for the cartoon but mostly for the two articles below it ("Joss has seen the shirt!")

From that, I love this quote from Joss --

I am the fan that gets to have the most fun. I get to walk the set every day. I totally get to be there when the story's broken. I get to do all of the fun bits. Every day is fan day for me. That's who I am. I'm the fan that got the closest.

I almost think we should be assembling Serenity reviews at one place.

MSNBC review: Spirited ‘Serenity’ is futuristic fun

Even those who aren’t familiar with ‘Firefly’ should enjoy this rollicking film

Spoilery after paragraph 10 (but nothing major).

Joss post at the official Serenity Board:

Well boys and girls and boys dressed as girls and girls dressed as Kaylee, the time is almost upon us. This Friday we take that old rust-bucket out of the shipyard and see if she can breach atmo. It's been a long (to paraphrase a band I like) strange trip, and it'll be nice finally to show everybody what it is we've been tinkering with all this time. You already know you have my thanks, from the hardcore fans to the softcore... fans.... let me try that again. From the people manning the booths, buying DVD sets for their friends, getting banners seen everywhere on Australian TV, raffling artwork for ticketholders (Adam Hughes, take a bow), to the most casual fan who just wants to see the flick and won't ever even read this. You guys are the fuel in the engine, the Fire in the Fly, the weird green stuff coming out of Serenity's butt. (Hmmm. Forget that last one. I'm a little bit out of control here.)

Everyone needs something to keep them going. Mal has his ship. Zoe has her integrity. Jayne has Vera. And I've got you guys.

So what now? There have been so many posts about seeing it, seeing it again, the first weekend, the second weekend, being enthusiastic without being obnoxious (and yes, it IS hard to see over the pom-pom of a Jayne hat), buying tickets in advance, making a noise... I honestly wouldn't know what to add. I can tell you this: the movie will play in about 2200 hundred theaters, which is a good number. Too many, and you get empty theaters with no energy -- not enough, and you get, well, not enough. It may be hard to find in some areas but it'll be out there. Leave no multiplex unturned! This is going to be a ground war, peeps -- we have to hold the valley for a long while. However it opens, it needs to HOLD. Instead of the Alliance we'll be fighting viewer apathy, fear of something new, the urge to wait for DVD, and Jessica Alba in a bikini. (Although I have it on good authority that she spends 90% of the film in a huge wooly parka. Make sure that gets out.)

The day this puppy opens, I'll be seeing it with my family (don't worry, there's a lot of them, and they're all paying) and then I'm off to Europe to learn the word 'Browncoats' in nine different languages -- 'cause like I said, it's all about holding. I'll never be far from a computer, though, so I can check in with y'all. Thanks for every damn thing.

And remember, amidst all the urgency to make this an event, all the work and the worry, to take two hours and just enjoy yourself. That is, after all, what all this fighting's about.

-joss.

Leave no multiplex unturned! This is going to be a ground war, peeps -- we have to hold the valley for a long while. However it opens, it needs to HOLD. Instead of the Alliance we'll be fighting viewer apathy, fear of something new, the urge to wait for DVD, and Jessica Alba in a bikini.

Sometimes he needs to chill. 2200 is less than I would expect but that's an interesting theory about filled theatres.

Week-end movie scheds are out, and the nearest theatre is about 30 miles away from me. Not too bad, but considering that Emily Rose is STILL playing around the corner from me, a tad disappointing.