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Serenity -- WTF!?

Posted 30 Sep, 2005 at 23:13 by kael in /MovingPictures | Permanent link

Joss Whedon, if you're reading this, you oughta know you're a goram ***.

Good job.

Now, I'm not saying that you didn't have a good story here. I thought the story was great. Darker than your normal Serenity fare, and in fact, almost written like a two part episode.

The special effects were emphasized a little more than would be to my liking, but the story is yours to tell.

Saying much more would be spoiling, and I aim not to have that done here, but I'll be cursing your name for the next few days.

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Yeah, so that was pretty fucking shattering, eh?

I disagree that it was "written like a two part episode". The Joss knows his craft in this respect: a movie should not just be TV on the big screen. The movie was more epic in scope than I think he could have gotten away with on television.
Posted 2005/9/30 22:34:10 by Matt
Oh Really?
I really thought the movie was divided up into a "Get the Scoobies together" segment, and a "Reckoning" episode, with the second part started with the meeting with Mr. Universe.

Now I didn't wear a watch, so I'm not sure that the timing was split as evenly as I think it was, but the feeling hasn't left me yet.

(Catchya said Wallawalla! *snicker*)

Posted 2005/10/1 17:46:46 by Kael
The first Mr. Universe bit was pretty early, I think, or at least it seemed that way to me.

My objection wasn't to the two-part characterization, but your use of the word "episode". This was very much not just an episode of the series. It was on a grander scale than that.

(For one thing, it answered more questions than it posed. It seems like there are hardly any big secrets left now to pick up and run with, fortune willing.)
Posted 2005/10/1 20:16:16 by Matt
Have to agree with Matt. The movie was much more revealing than any episode ever would be. Mostly because, you don't have to reveal as much in a TV episode to keep viewers hooked. Movie goers on the other hand, need to feel like they've seen a complete expereince.

And I think a complete experience is what Joss delivers. I felt there were likely a few additional scenes missing (at the end, you could sense that the captain and Zoe had something else to say between them and I would go as far as to suggest that there is a piece of film on an edit room floor that shows that), but overall, as Matt said, it effectively tied up most of the big questions from the series. In some ways, the series is now complete for me. I would enjoy seeing more of course... but don't feel now that it is 'unfinished'.

Posted 2005/10/5 06:19:07 by Blue
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