Once again, I'm in agreement with Kalshane. I hate that Wash dies, but hell, I've been following Joss Whedon shows for way too long to not understand that sooner or later, all my favorite characters will be murdered. What I thought was a mistake was the way it was handled in the movie, with the full-throttle rush to the end with barely a moment set aside to mourn. And the extenuating circumstances of the show's cancellation and then the victory of the movie being made and released at all just add to the emotional gut-punch of it all, in a way that I, personally, found really hard to watch.

I just got back.

I don't have too many words right now, but I know that the pain I'm feeling is pain I like.

I'll be reading and maybe commenting eventually.

He killed Wash. AIEEEEE!

He killed Wash. AIEEEEE!

There was a loud, grieving "Noooooo!" cried out during the movie.

I thought the movie was excellent, but am also feeling the gut punch of Wash's death. I don't feel betrayed by it, though. That's storytelling. Folks don't survive the Pequod either. The movie was grainier than I expected, and there wasn't really much of any score at all, and some of the transitions were abrupt. All stuff that'll be cleaned up between now and then.

It was a little funny ticking off Joss' movie moments - he's a lot more obvious than Tarantino, that's for fuckin' sure. Blade Runner? check. Night of the Living Dead/Fort Apache/Assault on Precinct 13? Check.

Summer Glau was the most compelling cinematic fighter (female division) I think I've seen since Michelle Yeoh was young. And lordy, did she get a power shot.

I almost don't want Nilly to watch; don't want to think about her grieving over Wash. Though I don't know if she can be more traumatized than Kate and Kalshane seem to be.

Hec is much like me. Only more loquacious.

This is the quote the RQG has decided goes with Hec and Betsy's posts:

I don't give a good gorram about relevant, Wash. Or objective. And I ain't so afraid of losing something that I ain't gonna try to have it. You and I would make one beautiful baby. And I want to meet that child one day. Period.

I liked the movie, but I am glad I was spoiled, because then I didn't actually have to watch Wash die.

I also want to see how much difference the finishing touches make in the final movie that comes out in September.

Gorram double posting.

I do agree with the point of needing a moment of catharsis. There HAS to be more footage in there they can use...

Honestly, though, I have serious hopes that it will be made a lot better by having the right music in that scene, extra footage or no. Music can do pretty amazing things.

I really wanted Mal to make some sort of comment about the stupid stereotype of the Giant Whirling Blades of Death. It would have made that bit work a little better.

ETA: I "knew" the series was never coming back before I went in, because I'm a realist. But now I really know. You can't make this kind of paradigm shift twice. I'm not sure it will make the shift commercially successfully even once. Though I'll do my personal damnedest to make sure it does.

The lighting threw me off, much more than the music.