I read the whitefont. Thank you Jen!!! I have the advantage of a horrible memory and will likely experience the HSQ despite the spoilage. Also, sobbing now.

Oh, god yes. I still remember the GILES!!!!!!! heard 'round the world.

Oh, yes indeedy. My one regret about Serenity being released in theaters rather than on TV is that there won't be a watch'n'post.

I still remember the GILES!!!!!!! heard 'round the world.

That was so awesome.

Huh, managed to make it two hours, but read both the HSQ spoilers from later, so I figured it wasn't going to make a difference.

Damn, now we'll never get Book's backstory.

I know it, Frank. And he was always my favorite . Or my favorite who was not Mal or Jayne or Zoe or Wash or Kaylee or dammit I love them all. Maybe even Inara, sometimes.

Oh, I read somewhere else that there WAS sound in space. Is that the case?

It really does not sound like Joss plans this to be a series of movies; that is really tying up all the loose ends. BTW, as this is supposed to be a hardcore spoiler section, do we really need to go on whitefonting? Can we just make a note that if you don't want to be spoiled, don't scroll past this post in the HARDCORE SPOILER thread?

I'm usually the most squeaky-clean double-padlocked-chastity-belty of spoiler virgins, but I think I needed this spoilage. Movies are just so much larger than TV, so vast and loud and looming that when I see something on the big screen it sucks me right in and I get overwhelmed and disappear. I'm probably the only person on the planet who sobbed when Malkovich was horribly cruel to my Seth in the relatively crappy Knockaroud Guys; if I'd experienced the HSQ moments Jen describes totally unprepared, I would've deeply and profoundly lost my shit. So this is good. In a very bad way.

Also, Emmett has seen the preview several times and thinks it looks very cool, but it definitely sounds like something he doesn't need to see for several years yet. At least.

Also, Perkins, I got your email yesterday and replied, but I think possibly Gmail dislikes my work addy and it never got to you, so I'll resend from my own Gmail. When I started on the internets I was full of a naive delight in the wondrous instantaneous reliability of email, but after many years I'm about one step away from investing in a flock of carrier pigeons.

Book's death was more expected - in fact, I was surprised that he was alive when they found him. And he had the meaningful last words that motivated Mal through the rest of the movie. So his death had a point, sort of.

With Wash, we'd just gotten through the wrenching sequence where Serenity crash-lands and is torn to pieces. It finally grinds to a halt - you think, Serenity's totally trashed, but the crew, while banged up, has survived.

A moment of relief - then HOLY SHIT! - Wash is impaled. Totally random, pointless death.

::reads. wonders. contemplates reading the rest of the whitefont. backs out of thread, falling over things on the way::