Just got back. Nearly-full theater. Lots of geeks (I cannot recall the applause points, but they were there)
You know, if I hadn't liked it so much, I would be really upset that Joss broke my positive female role model who had the hot married sex.
Not that I'm not at least a little upset.
I just don't know where they can go from here. I mean, how do you..top?...this? I can't imagine anyone else's story having this scope. So, they keep on fighting the Alliance? Yes, and? But, I'd go see the next one, eagerly.
I adored all the little moments (intentional or not) that echoed the series. Was the sex-having in the Engine Room. Please? Also, Mal falling to the ground compused exactly like Out of Gas especially struck me. Actually, that's when I knew that they really were going to get out of it, and they hadn't been pulling our legs with the "three movies" and it wasn't all in River's head, or anything like that. I was really upset when they "killed' the ship. I was more upset when they killed Wash. I'm sad we won't get Book's story (though I bet we could, by proxy, next time around. He just won't be the one to tell it. [see what I did with the quote and the meta?]).
Mr. Universe can easily have fandom read onto him, good and bad, IMO. Intended, I don't know, but it's not a big stretch. I mean, what are we known for if not seeing everything and loving something that isn't "real".
I'm not sure how broken River's still supposed to be...
And I really wanted the series theme in the music over the bit at the end.
That's all I've got at the moment.
They did the series theme at the very very end of the credits, only different and without the singing. (Except for the hardcore fans in the audience stubbornly singing it.) I know nothing about music; I can't even describe how it was different; but at least it was there.
So. Back from seeing
Serenity.
I enjoyed it. I didn't love it. The visuals and the story-telling were very dense. A lot happened very quickly, and there was no time to really appreciate it or think about it. Instead of being left with "Wow, that was great! I'm sorry it's over. I want some more!" I ended up mostly thinking "Waitaminute! What?"
Or maybe I'm just slow.
Either way, I will like the DVD better, with the luxury of being able to pause, slo-mo, rewind, contemplate, and savor.
how it was different
It was the voice line alone, done instead on guitar.
I must stay through next time, then. My seeing-mates were getting antsy.
Was there a continuity problem for anyone else with what Simon knew from the brak out vs. what he claimed to know (and what he claimed happened) to get River out in the series? Or is my internal narrative just getting jossed?
It might be possible to wank around it, but it does look like a retcon.
It's funny. That one bugged me, but that none of the current reavers are probably the originals (and therefore, all of them were "converted"), given the whole radiation thing, didn't. And, if anything, just made it more effective. Although I guess that isn't a jossing so much as a clarification of possible assumptions, based on Bushwhacked
Action Simon bugged because he was very much a different character than Original Simon (and not really interestingly so). The reavers were a fleshing-out of something that had been very much vagued up in the first place.
Yeah, after that undercover, you'd think that the mud buyer would have been easy.
