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sobriqueWent to see Serenity on Saturday.
Thought it was well worth seeing. If you don't like the genre, or didn't like the series, well there's not a lot of point, but otherwise...
Generally a good plot, sort of a 'double episode' sort of feel, but a bit more of a 'Do or Die' sort of feel to it than the series. Oh, and it's pretty dark.
Overall, thumbs up. Thing that bothers me? What was the point of killing off Wash? I mean, Book gets dead to advance the plot, "We'll kill everyone who sheltered you" but Wash was kind of unnecessary. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind character deaths, but ... that one did absolutely nothing for the storyline. Unless they're planning Zoe to go boffing Mal or something.
Missed those scary guys with the 'explody brain' trick. Could have done with some of those.
And that agent guy - anyone else thinking 'hmm, so that's what Book used to do?'. He was pretty cool, in a 'chilled, calm killer' kind of way.
River was cool, as ever, although I'm _still_ not entirely sure what her purpose was. I mean, weapon, I get. But really, there's easier ways to flatten rooms full of people. Serious hardcore deep cover agent, maybe, but ... I dunno, she's just too flakey for that.
The Reavers were cool, and scary. Although despite their origins, I thought that in the series one guy 'went reaver' after they rescued him? That, to me, implied that it was kind of a 'torment until they crack' sort of thing, rather than chemical.
Characters were good, although there really wasn't a lot of spotlight on several of them. I don't know how well you'd 'get' what's going on if you didn't know the characters already. Inarra just comes across as 'Mal's bird, who he walks into a trap for', rather than anything more 3 dimensional. Book gets the Mystic Negro hat.
Oh, and I missed the theme music from the series.
And I still don't get why they killed off Wash.
Thought it was well worth seeing. If you don't like the genre, or didn't like the series, well there's not a lot of point, but otherwise...
Generally a good plot, sort of a 'double episode' sort of feel, but a bit more of a 'Do or Die' sort of feel to it than the series. Oh, and it's pretty dark.
Overall, thumbs up. Thing that bothers me? What was the point of killing off Wash? I mean, Book gets dead to advance the plot, "We'll kill everyone who sheltered you" but Wash was kind of unnecessary. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind character deaths, but ... that one did absolutely nothing for the storyline. Unless they're planning Zoe to go boffing Mal or something.
Missed those scary guys with the 'explody brain' trick. Could have done with some of those.
And that agent guy - anyone else thinking 'hmm, so that's what Book used to do?'. He was pretty cool, in a 'chilled, calm killer' kind of way.
River was cool, as ever, although I'm _still_ not entirely sure what her purpose was. I mean, weapon, I get. But really, there's easier ways to flatten rooms full of people. Serious hardcore deep cover agent, maybe, but ... I dunno, she's just too flakey for that.
The Reavers were cool, and scary. Although despite their origins, I thought that in the series one guy 'went reaver' after they rescued him? That, to me, implied that it was kind of a 'torment until they crack' sort of thing, rather than chemical.
Characters were good, although there really wasn't a lot of spotlight on several of them. I don't know how well you'd 'get' what's going on if you didn't know the characters already. Inarra just comes across as 'Mal's bird, who he walks into a trap for', rather than anything more 3 dimensional. Book gets the Mystic Negro hat.
Oh, and I missed the theme music from the series.
And I still don't get why they killed off Wash.
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Date: 2005-10-11 11:03 am (UTC)Wash's death heightened the tension, while it was probable that our heroes (tm) would survive it was by no means guaranteed. In this case it was done for reason of story telling.
We have no idea what was going on in the background, perhaps the Actor has been offered another role which would mean contracting to another show for X years.