'Underneath'
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
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!)
Am I right in thinking Serenity's only playing at one DC-area theater?
Seems to be playing at most of the big multiplexes in DC according to Fandango?
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.
I think Fox is putting everything on hiatus. I know House is on hiatus until baseball is over. I guess they are doing a sort of scaled down version of what SCI FI does in the fall.
Yeah, I checked again. Looks like it was just that they weren't all listing it yet when I checked on Tuesday. Hmm, dilemma!
Good review, the best I've seen yet -- but then Zacharek is admittedly a Firefly fan.
She had one interesting comment on why, despite how good she thought the movie was, she felt a little unsatisfied because watching SERENITY was akin to seeing a movie adaption of a novel she loved.
I'm worried that's how I'm going to feel.