Universe and his lovebot were a callback to Warren and April on Buffy. The Operative, whose name we never learned, felt a bit like Jubal Early in "Objects in Space." I guess Joss Whedon wasn't done with Early. How about Mal with a pen knife, facing the Operative with a sword? Visually hilarious, and symbolic of the balance of power behind their entire conflict. Loved Inara with a bow and arrow during the siege. Do Reavers have children? I doubt it they'd probably eat them. Mal shooting the unarmed Operative in Inara's House was a bit from Raiders of the Lost Ark. The thing with the guard in the vault was straight out of Butch Cassidy. I'm glad they toned down the Chinese and the Western slang a little for the big screen. We finally saw Simon spring River from the Alliance "school." Much referred to, never seen before. It has been eight months since the pilot episode of Firefly. And there was a new and more exciting mule. Serenity herself looked much the same, only much bigger. The change to the big screen made the sets and the actors all look different.
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Please, would somebody give him the lead in a blockbuster or a series as soon as possible? He's such a fabulous leading man, exceptional with the comedy, the drama, the action. I'm even more in love with Nathan Fillion than before. Joss Whedon managed to establish a complicated science fiction universe and the basic plot lines from the series in about nine minutes. Would it have been too much to ask to have Mal and Inara succumb to an irresistible impulse after their long separation and fall into each other's arms?
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This movie is probably all we're ever going to get. I really felt that this was the one area where I didn't get what I wanted. Pardon me if I've misunderstood, but isn't Mal the lead character? I suppose that Whedon was hoping to explore it further at a later date, and I agree with his explanation in the extras that it didn't go with the flow of the movie. But why why why did Whedon leave Mal and Inara in relationship limbo? We got nothing. I was pleased that Simon finally gave Kaylee what she wanted that final scene with the two of them made me smile. I was, however, very emotionally invested in Wash and I absolutely hated seeing him die. I liked the character, but he always floated around the sidelines and I wasn't emotionally invested in him. (It takes a lot of skill to get an audience to that point, so I give a lot of credit to Joss Whedon.) It was a relief to get to the end with seven of the cast relatively intact.īook's death was sad, but didn't devastate me. At one point, after the deaths of Book and Wash, I started to believe that every one of the characters that I loved was going to die, and I got very upset I was feeling every blow each character took. That final siege really, really got to me. The violence was immediate and real without going over my personal limit of gore. Zoe said early on that a hero was someone who got other people killed. To Mal, River was like that boy, but he couldn't quite bring himself to toss her over the side even to save himself and his crew. The death of the boy that Mal abandoned during the initial heist was a topic that kept coming back. Much of the emotional conflict in this movie (as in the series) was between Mal, our antihero, and Simon, a very traditional sort of hero. Joss Whedon and those super teenaged girls, should have seen it coming. River sort of turned into Buffy in this movie. We finally got to see what River could do, and she was awesome. I didn't think I was all that into River's story, but I was wrong. I always thought the Reaver thing was a weak plot point before, but not now.Īnd we learned why the Alliance was searching so frantically for River. We also finally learned about the origin of the Reavers, and it actually made sense, too. Made perfect sense, but I kinda needed that one spelled out. We finally got the lowdown on the terraformed planets and moons, and that they were all in one huge solar system. Joss Whedon was able to tie up a lot of loose threads from the series, and give us an exciting story that really worked. This is a marvelous movie, satisfying on many levels.
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