Whoot! Just chatting on lj with a friend - I stay with her for a few months when I first moved to Chicago, and when I moved out I accidentally left my Firefly DVDs behind. She sat down and watched one, and then got totally hooked and zoomed through the rest, and she's all fired up for the movie. Accidental toaster, you are mine!

Salon review of Serenity. Spoilery when you get to the middle of page 2. (eta: and as Sean K points out, And continues to be spoilery for a couple of paragraphs after that. Yeah, I shoulda made that more clear.)

Joss Whedon's feature-film debut, the science-fiction western "Serenity," is beautifully made, written with more wit and intelligence than we get from most contemporary movies of any genre, and features an ensemble of actors whose rhythms are almost supernaturally in tune. There's only one problem with "Serenity": It's not "Firefly," the TV show that first gave these characters, and this story, life in autumn 2002 on the Fox network.

eta: I suppose the link would be helpful: [link]

Spoilery when you get to the middle of page 2.

And continues to be spoilery for a couple of paragraphs after that.

I finished converting my friend.

After we were done, she said, "Why was this cancelled?"

"Ratings," I said.

She said she liked it better than Angel.

We're seeing Serenity in twenty-one hours.

Whee, toaster.

Yay Toaster!

Good review, the best I've seen yet -- but then Zacharek is admittedly a Firefly fan.

After we were done, she said, "Why was this cancelled?"

"Ratings," I said.

Anyone watch this week's Bones on Fox? At the end of the ep, they announced that the series was going on hiatus until the end of baseball. Fuckos. I mean, it's good they learned something, but Jesus.

Anyone watch this week's Bones on Fox? At the end of the ep, they announced that the series was going on hiatus until the end of baseball. Fuckos. I mean, it's good they learned something, but Jesus.

Yeah, I heard that and thought, "Oh, no...is this going to be the FOX kiss of death?" It's bound to happen to me at least once a season. (If you count The Inside, then I guess it has. *grumble*)

But the fact that they're finally recognizing that you can't just preempt willy-nilly until November and still count those ratings? If they'd done the same thing for FF, I bet you money we'd have gotten more than 11 eps. They're carrying baseball, that's not a surprise. So either start the shows in Nov., like they did with X-Files for a while, or take October off. But tell people, and don't fuck with it the way they did with FF. It's not rocket science.

The Age gives Serenity another good review. Interestingly, the reviewer closes her review with this: "Serenity has some busy action-adventure sequences, and CGI dogfights that have a touch of Star Wars Lite about them. Although they're capably done, they tend to detract from the pleasure of the film: this is a rich, tricky, smart and complex compression of past, present and future worlds, a creative enterprise given a welcome extension of life on the big screen."

You. All. Suck.

My movie options are The 40-year-old Virgin and Stygian Water, which, while a cool translation of the title, is still NOT SERENITY.

(unsubscribing, although not flouncing. Enjoy the movie, gang!)