Movie Serenity

[Enoff]

Well thanks for turning me on to the great "Firefly" TV series, I was really enjoying them and wish there had been a second season. I never understand how they know what TV series to continue. Seems they mostly over meddle with something that was original and good and just kill it off. I could name many series that have gone that route.

I am finding the movie "Serenity" just too depressing, its like an "Omega Man" meets "Mad Max" in space. I'll probably have nightmare's tonight.

I think one of the funniest episodes in "Firefly" was Shindig #4 episode. That was a fun script! Hey lets go crash some nobles ball!

 

[Rover]

I loved it all. Every Episode and the Movie Great stuff, and 99 and 44/100 % pure Traveller.

 

[Jackofjacks]

Great series with a smashing cross section of crew and laugh out loud dialogue, does make you wonder if some of the writers have played traveller as the series in particular unfolds like a rpg campaign!

 

[snapshotbygdw]

I find the oposite happening sometimes, players try to include fireflyisms into their gaming dialogue, when it gets real bad fines have to be issued! They all want to include sneaky little references.... sometimes they are just like children.

 

[Vargas]

Maybe I shouldn't go there but my favorite episode is Our Mrs. Reynolds because of all the great character moments. "The special Hell" and our introduction to Vera are both high points of the series.

 

[D. Foxx]

I really need to stop talking in movie theaters! :rofl:

 

[kafka47]

I view Serenity as Joss trying to kill off Firefly. After the series was canned, it probably felt a need for revenge against the studio and did a massive Swan Song...obliterating the series and whatever came after in a vendetta. And, still be the hero among many fans. The more that I play Traveller these days - the less and less I see it like Firefly and more Star Trek tropes creep in. Save nobody drives around a ship that large.

 

[Enoff]

I view Serenity as Joss trying to kill off Firefly. After the series was canned, it probably felt a need for revenge against the studio and did a massive Swan Song...obliterating the series and whatever came after in a vendetta. And, still be the hero among many fans.

I agree. I didn't finish watching it. I really enjoyed Firefly but as I stated Serenity just got way too depressing and apocalyptic. I needed something a bit more lighthearted.

 

[shadowcat20]

Loved the series, but the movie was so so. Half of it was catching the veiwers up on what happened, and half was spilling all the little secrets that should have had 2 seasons of build up before spilling. Killing off a few major characters was cheap also.

He may have enough left for another go at it but things would not be the same. He should have left more unanswered questions out there to get the fan base to demand another movie.

I still think the inital execs mishandling the whole thing and the programmers who did not understand the concept of a Pilot before airing the series should be spaced.

 

[Enoff]

I still think the inital execs mishandling the whole thing and the programmers who did not understand the concept of a Pilot before airing the series should be spaced.

I agree, strange how they mishandled the whole thing. Makes me wonder if those people weren't jealous of his creativity.

 

[Theophilus]

And let's not forget the two "episodes" that "aired" as Dark Horse Comics series. I wish they had been released on television, but alas, all we have is pen and ink, and imagination!

 

[snapshotbygdw]

Oooh a firefly comic of this I was not aware please tell me more.

 

[TashaG]

Serenity Books on Amazon.com

That should take you to all three Graphic Novels. They are fun.

 

[iron warrior]

Here's another free paper model of a ship that looks like the serenity, have fun with it.

http://www.toposolitario.es/workshop/chickenhawk.html

I'm surprised no ones posted a link to one of the several free models of the serenity itself, there are a few out there.

 

[Enoff]

Looks fun and interesting Iron Warrior

Came across something called
Browncoats Redemption - Serenity Fan-Film

Hmmm...

 

[iron warrior]

If you grab the free chickenhawk models from the above site, be sure to grab the free UCM viewer/editor and the "cristal" patch to fix the cockpits on some of them.

 

[leo knight]

I agree, strange how they mishandled the whole thing. Makes me wonder if those people weren't jealous of his creativity.

I believe a large part of this had to do with the fact that TV is a business. The people who run the business end really don't care at the end of the day what they put on the tube, as long as people watch it and advertisers pay for it.

The reality TV trend was at full steam. "American Idol" premiered on Fox in June 2002, "Firefly" in September. "Firefly" cost far more to produce, and pulled in much lower numbers. Even re-runs (sorry, 'encore presentations') of "Idol" had better ratings. The network wanted cheap, instant, no-risk hits. "Firefly" didn't look like that, so they gave it a half-hearted roll out, and almost no air time. Self fulfilling prophecy.

 

[Enoff]

The reality TV trend was at full steam. "American Idol" premiered on Fox in June 2002, "Firefly" in September.

Thanks for the enlightenment Leo, I didn't know the TV context that Firefly was involved in, makes sense now. I don't watch much TV from the simple fact of the Reality TV format. I never replaced my TV after all our signals went digital. I get all my news through the computer and my entertainment through suggested downloads like "Firefly."

 

[leo knight]

I only remember because my girlfriend became an "Idol" fanatic that year. It nearly ended our relationship. She wouldn't watch "Firefly", but she loved "Serenity", then devoured the DVDs in one day! My little Browncoat. Almost made up for the "Idol" audition episodes. Almost.

 

[Darkhstarr]

I liked the movie. I think part of the problem with Firefly was it wasn't picked up by a network. Instead it was a syndicated show at the time when the expanding networks pushed syndicated shows into bad time slots. Where I lived, it was on Friday night, they didn't show all the episodes(only 10), & some of the episodes were out of order.