As soon as I saw her there just across from me in the tube, I immediately whipped it out and pointed it at her, heedless of doors that threatened to close on my precious appendage
I was talking about my camera, of course.
and then I noticed it was playing at the theatre just by my flat, and the temptation for scifi was great. But I heeded the words of the almighty Tycho , and decided to wait until I had seen the series, of which many of my friends are enamored back in the States. Turning reluctantly from The Great Silver Screen, I walk not a block before a box set of Firefly whores itself at me, with promises of of 1/2 pricey goodness. (£18.99 me love you loooong time) now I can watch those with Nobu, my lil otaku buddy.
Please allow me to diverge for a moment and gripe about region coding. To play DVDs on my little silver screen, the DVD drive has to be “tuned” or whatever to the region of the DVD, now Europe since thats where I be at, yo. SO apparently I can click “ok” to have the DVD drive switch over to whatever region code for whatever DVD is in the drive, BUT it says I can only switch regions 5 times. total. ever. OMGWTF!??! So now the Cowboy Bebop is useless because I’m afraid to switch back (hence the scifi withdrawal that Mr Chalker and Mr Crowley couldn’t satiate for long), the dvd-r’s i bought stateside are useless to all machinery here.
Raggumfraggumfraggum.
Anyway Firefly is good scifi. Cowboy themed, because it is a wild frontier, they capture that well. The poor and downtrodden thrown into space. I think that’s about the separating line between good scifi and the rest of the masses. Nobu said there’s a Japanese word for that concept, the idea of a non idealized reality like Star Trek or 90% of scifi books I’ve picked up, one “realistically” projected from the evolutionary lines of the present and past. What can be believed to be a real world, like that of William Gibson, or Bebop. Populated with real people. Ellen Ripley was a lowly trucker before the alien came and ruined her life. If I can’t believe your world is real, then how can I believe the fates of any of your characters to be any less contrived?
Ok. So let me just say, “wow,” I just got out of Serenity, and it is quite different from any movie based on a television series. Without giving anything away, let me just say the status quo was most rutting well NOT maintained from the cult favorite Firefly. The series was quite good through to its finish, but entirely open ended, no feel of finality. It just couldn’t really be the same afterwards, really, even though the universe does continue around them. It is a movie of answers. Periods and exclamations points, not so many question marks. Ties the series off nicely, but is completely divergent, doesn’t feel episodic, which may or may not be your cup of tea.
What you were expecting, well, it wasn’t that. Ok a little of that, and a lot more of the other than you would expect, and yet it didn’t at all do that. Watch the show. Maybe you’ll need to see more. Maybe the movie will satiate that need. That leaves a lot of ifs, questions you’ll have to answer for yourself.
–Ryon
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