Oh my, I'm having horrible Bronze homesickness, right now.

My SISTAH!!!

See. We need a place where we can be ourselves.

(At this point, you might expect me to pimp LJ to you, but my mind is elsewhere.) Sniff

But Five will be back. Not for years -- maybe 20 or so -- but it will come back. It wil be with your granchildren, and when it departs it will bite one of your children on the ankles and then, for old times sake, find you and Scott and nibble each of you. Five is like that.

You're right. I had Fifth Disease last summer, and I should have known much more than I did, just from it's name.

Missing Bronze more now. Some of it.

There's a lot of unspoiled reactions to Serenity here: [link]

Fun times. It seemed to go either way with people - the deaths (or rather, Washs' death) either completely forced people out of the story (self protection?) or drew them into an emotional wreck.

I just watched the movie again last night. I loved the movie but it doesn't do for me what Firefly does. I watched both multiple times, but I still go back and watch Firefly when I'm bummed, or tired, or upset. It has become an old friend, like I've become part of the crew. Which makes it sound old and tired, and it's not that. I still find nuances I hadn't seen before.

Serenity doesn't do that for me. It's a movie, not family. I'm not sure how much of that is a function of TV v. feature film.

I'm not delusional. I would be thrilled with more Firefly, but I don't see it happening. But deep down inside I really want it back.

eta: Anyway, I'm not delusional about the chances of getting Firefly back at this point.

Firefly isn't coming back, and honestly, I doubt there will be another movie. The casts contracts expire again, at which point it's pretty much all over.

The funny thing is, speak to Joss about it, and he'll probably say the same as you libkitty. Well - actually - it's not funny I suppose. Serenity, to me, is a good film. It's my favourite film of 2005. The aspect that interests me, however, is post Miranda bits -- eg, Mal's speech. At that point, it's a motion picture. Before that, it's a TV show trying to shoe horn into a motion picture -- there's too much going on, not enough time to exactly explore anything etc.

Firefly, on the other hand, was never trying to be a motion picture. So it never had those problems.

I think, in summary, Firefly works best as a character plodding along drama, and Serenity works best when it has the big story arc goin' on, which is by virtue of the format.

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Snakes on a Blog LJ icon contest winners: [link]

Note number 13, "Snakes on a Jayne." Should maybe be called "Snakes on a shirtless Jayne."

Greetings, sweet Buffistas!

It's been... what, about two years? I was reading your old threads--yes, from all the way on TT--as I watched my Buffy and Firefly collected DVDs (which explains the two years) and finished this thread only today and, coinkidink!--not thirty minutes later, while I was picking out something in the rental store, this woman started talking with the clerk about Firefly, she'd heard it was good... "It's great", said he, "only disregard the AWFUL theme song."

What were the odds, I ask you?! It is a sign, a sign... signifying... something. Wavy.

(Also, for the record, don't agree with this guy @ the theme song, it's fine, really.)

Anyway, I've nothing remotely interesting to say after alla youses massive years-long conversations, only if anyone's keeping tabs, my story goes like this: johnny-come-very-lately to Buffy (not a Buffy issue, just a general aversion to TV--to the point of not having one--yes, even today), looked forward to Serenity (I hadn't seen the series when they aired originally, living in Foreign Lands and all), liked it very much, got the DVDs, liked them very much too, and lo, all was good. Except for the random "Whyyyyy did they cancel it?", which hits me occasionally in the wee hours of the night.

I go now! Hope nobody minds this parachuting. I'd love to keep up with you guys, will try, and--it's been a joy reading you.

Welcome, Lola!