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Serenity Opens Today
joemite writes "As every Browncoat knows, Serenity, the motion picture based on the Firefly series opened today. For the uninitiated, Serenity is based on the short-lived Fox television show Firefly (created by Joss Whedon, [Buffy the Vampire Slayer]), which follows a group of outlaws in a unique space-western universe. While there are no aliens or temporal anomalies, the stage is set for our group of heros to out-wit and out-strategize the giant and evil Alliance. Go out and watch the movie this weekend and see why the Firefly series is an Amazon.com best seller." If you're on the fence, reviews available at SFGate, Wired, the Seattle Times, and IGN.
Serenity now?
For the uninitiated, Serenity is based on the short-lived Fox television show Firefly
If you're that uninitiated, you'll need to know this-- Slashdot is a "Web Site" where we talk about geeky things.
Surely, if anyone on Slashdot hasn't heard of Serenity, it would cause a quantum singularity and we would all get sucked into a blackhole.
Not to get all Treky or anything.
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
*ducks*
Good bye, karma. I barely knew you.
"how exactly do you hype a series about a rag tag group of cowboys flying around in a spaceship getting into scrapes?"
I've never been able to come up with anything short or snappy to describe it either. The best I've been able to manage is "it's a bit like Han Solo getting his own TV show", but I'm not sure if that description does more harm than good when people realise Jewel Staite looks nothing like Chewbacca.
In case you didn't realize, 12:01 am was today. Just wanted to clarify.
End transmission.
The male residents of Kashyyyk are probably just as disappointed that Jewel Staite looks nothing like a Wookiee.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
"Bright butt beetle"
All Troll + "offtopic" mods are meta moderated as "Unfair", because you abused the system.
To bad Whedon's a socialist. Weird.
I have it on good authority that in addition to not being a libertarian, Whedon is also not a teenage girl or vampire.
While Energy and Mineral Resources won't be as Scarce in a Futuristic Space Society, Communication and Community will be. Even in the Firefly 'Verse, which is set in a little "Planet Village", It still takes days, or even Months to travel between Colonies. FTL reduces that time period, but the three big FTL Mechanisms, (Warp Drive, Hyperspace and Wormholes) all violate most Laws of Physics.
Also, an Art Deco Space Ship would be impossible to keep clean. All that Polycarbonate (like in the Tantive IV of StarWars) scratches real easy (like my iPod), and Brushed Metal stains quickly when it get's some Body Oil on it. They'd need more Cleaning crew than Tech crew.
Since Mal had him tied up and in front of a large turbine, he just kicked the "bad" guy into it.
Yeah, me too.
That, and when he stuffed his own crew member out an airlock (during ascent) to incite a "come to Jesus" moment.
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
Andromeda and Firefly are the same show, except one is made by Joss Whedon and thus is incredibly well-written and well-directed, full of metaphors and philosophies, with astonishing actors, and just fun, and the other is not made by him and hence none of those things.
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
I had heard that he was supposed to use his whip to disarm him, and after countless failed attempts, used his revolver as an ad lib.
Well, for what it's worth, and knowing how us geeks can be both opinionated AND polite* in expressing those opinions, here's some contact information for 20th Century Fox TV:
askfox@foxinc.com
10201 West Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
Phone: 310-369-3553
Fax: 310-369-8471
*e.g.: My message to them upon finishing watching Firefly for the 1st time: "I fucking hate you guys SO MUCH. Signed, someone who just discovered firefly." This is only because I couldn't figure out how to say "Baboon's ass" in Chinese. Remember, you catch a lot of flies with honey, but you get them ALL with nuclear fallout.