This may be a Serenity spoiler

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I remember seeing the BDHs robbing a bank or something, then being interrupted by Reavers. This was at Wondercon.

Killz Threads Ded

reequeen has delusions of grand ... ness.

If I could spell, reequeen's face would be SO red!

Hey, I killed it plenty. Not my fault it didn't stay dead, is it? That's the trouble with anthropomorphizing stuff, you can never be really sure when something is down for good.

Not that I'd want it to be in this case. Any killing I may or may not have done was purely accidental.

Maybe I just gave it the thread pox or something? I was almost a postal carrier once, so....

I killed the thread.

requeen is tryin' to steal credit.

You betcha.

OK. Is this a hardcore, everything goes spoiler thread, or a spoiler-lite thread? Because I just got back from the Boston screening and I'm happy to tell all if people want to hear it.

It is not a spoiler for the movie at all to say that both Sean Maher and Morena Baccarin were there. It was a hell of a surprise.

ETA: I'm stepping away from the computer for ten or so minutes to brush my teeth, and I really ought to be in bed soon (I have to be at the hospital in five and a half hours), so I won't be able to post for long.

I think hardcore, Jen.

Alrighty. I'm whitefonting just to be sure--HARDCORE spoilers ahead, in a somewhat disjointed fashion because I'm still traumatized:

First of all--the movie is several orders of magnitude more violent than the TV episodes. Caveat viewer if you're particularly sensitive to violence. I had a tough time with the TV episodes, and probably would have gotten up and left tonight a few times if it were any other movie.

The basic plot is fairly simple. Mal wants to use River for a job and takes her to a planet. While she's there, she seems an anime-like broadcast on a screen in a bar and goes batshit crazy and kicks the ass of every single person in the room (Jayne included). It turns out that the Alliance knows she's in the area and has triggered her through the broadcast. She stops only because Simon shows up and says a phrase that instantly makes her fall asleep. They leave the planet in a hurry because Reavers attack.

Once back on Serenity and having evaded the Reavers, Mal is pissed and asks Simon what the heck is going on. Simon says the people that helped him spring River from their "school" told him the disarming phrase because they knew she was being trained as a weapon. Jayne does his usual "why don't we kick them off the boat" routine, but this time Mal agrees and says they'll leave them at the next place they stop.

The next place they stop turns out to be the planet Inara is on, because she calls in saying that she needs Mal to do something for her. Mal knows it's a trap but goes anyway; there, he meets an Early-like character (I can't tell if it's supposed to be Early played by a different actor or if it's supposed to be a different character--we never hear his name); either way, the basic premise is the same--he's an Alliance operative who wants to get at River not because she's a weapon but because she knows some big Alliance secret. He knows Mal has a connection to River because he's got her whole asskicking session at the bar on tape and sees Mal leaving the bar with her and Simon; it's unclear at this point whether he knows that River is actually on Serenity.

Mal and Inara get away and they flee to a planet where Book is living; it's a place they've sought shelter before after a job and they hope the Alliance doesn't know about it.

Continued...

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