Cool, Hecubus! I'm going to see it again on Saturday, and we're going to the Metreon, so maybe I'll see it in Imax. In which case I'll sit way back. Handheld cameras + Me = Unhappiness.

And I too, thought that the final sequences were much easier to follow. As was the opening: I think they added some text to the voiceover.

I think it's "If you can't do something smart, do something right."

The Visual Companion script says:

JAYNE - Shepherd Book used to tell me: if you can't do something smart, do something right.

Guh. Just... guh. So visually rich and emotionally satisfying and wrenching, and so very different from the preview. Which I liked, but which I mainly remember as full of snappy patter and some big gasping shocks. It all felt so very much more filled in this time: tighter, cleaner, every moment counting, and I could swear there were more reaction shots, more moments just resting on the actors' faces. Kaylee felt more present in this version, Book less blink-and-you-miss-him, Wash and Zoe more visibly a couple and a team.

Now I almost wish I could see the preview again to see what of my reaction to the finished version is editing and recutting and adding, and what is just me being successfully manipulated by cleaner visuals and a soundtrack.

Suela, unless the Metreon changes its schedule for the weekend (which is certainly possible, so definitely check), it's being shown on the IMAX and one other screen, with the IMAX show times exactly an hour before the regular theater. Today's evening schedule was: 4:40 - 6:40 (IMAX) - 7:40 - 9:40 (IMAX) - 10:40.

Damn, damn, damn. Can't wait to see it again. Hec pointed out on the ride home that it's very typically Jossian in the way it rewards multiple viewings.

Someone mentioned this before, but the moment when Jayne makes that comment about Book, drinks, and passes the bottle to Simon was just a lovely moment.

The commercials I've seen in the last couple of days have been really good, I hope they pay off.

It rewards repeated viewing. There's a lot in it. This time around I'm just noticing Mal's arc, and how it's about regaining faith.

I have to say I teared up bigtime in the final scene with River and Mal when she says, "I still like to hear you say it," and he answers, "Love." I am a sap.

Also, this is a geeky thing that has been bugging me. I keep reading in various places that it's supposedly been six months in between "Objects in Space" and the movie, but did they say that anywhere in the film? I think it has to be four months, because Simon and River had been on Serenity for four months in OiS and in the movie they mention that it's now been eight months since they arrived.

Now I almost wish I could see the preview again to see what of my reaction to the finished version is editing and recutting and adding, and what is just me being successfully manipulated by cleaner visuals and a soundtrack

I wonder if there isn't a torrent..

JZ was a wreck, sobbing uncontrollably from the minute Wash said "I'm a leaf on the wind" the first time. But she enjoyed it too.

Oh man this is so going to be me tonight when I go for my second viewing. Must remember the tissues.

Andi was feeling th good pain thusly as well.

I was manly and stoic, but oddly had allergies causing my eyes to water profusely.

I tried to hold it together. I was sitting next to a reporter during the early screening so I felt like a display of emotion would have freaked him out.

Funny thing was, I was spoiled for it. I KNEW it was going to happen. And yet it still surprised me. Joss is that good. The bastard.

The bastard

he killed Washy