Serenity

Ok so I've been watching Firefly all this week on Hulu. Thought I'd give it a shot since I love me some Joss Whedon and of course it most definitely did not disappoint. The show really pulled me in and I watched it all in a couple days. Of course Fox was a bastard and cancelled the show only after one season. So I guess to wrap things up or do something for the fans Mr. Whedon came up with Serenity. It's the movie that picks up where Firefly left off.

I have to say, Serenity was pretty awesome. Or I'm just coming off the high of watching a whole season. But I think it was awesome. The first half and hour just flew by with some nice never before explored backstory and some the same old hyjinks by the old gang. It was fun seeing bad guys that were only hinted at in the series. Also, this was definitely River's story as shown by her being the largest person on all the DVD covers. But still Joss is wonderful at making wonderfully disfunctional families. But because we've come to know these characters so well in the series they've kind of become predictable in their actions, especially Mal. I would have liked Mal to have a stronger arc. Another thing I was thinking through the movie was that nobody got hurt, unlike the show where ususally at least one person was majorly wounded per episode. As soon as I thought that, the whole last half hour everyone was practically near dead.

Overall, it was different than the series because there are nine main characters and every episode we get to focus on someone different. With the film they've had to streamline it so we could focus on some main characters and have others grouped together. But like I said, we've come to love and know this "family" we just want more of them. Also on the show the camera movements were more docu-based. I think the movie was a bit more slick. But these are small complaints.

<3justine