With Firefly reunion rumors circulating and the show back in conversation, this was the perfect weekend to revisit Serenity. The 2005 film that gave Joss Whedon’s cancelled series the ending it deserved holds up remarkably well two decades later as a tight, confident science fiction action film that works both as a love letter to the show’s fanbase and as a standalone introduction to the ‘verse.
Wonderful film of a wonderful show. My intro to Firefly fandom was a mention in STarlog magazine. Then I shipped out for Basic and while in AIT, I saw an ad flash by on TV in the Student Company dayroom at Ft Meade, but did not get a chance to see it. Most of my fellow student Soldiers wanted to watch Lord of the Rings again. Then when I was assigned to Ft Gordon and went out with a wonderful Sailor who was this lady nerd who loved Babylon 5, and was smart as hell, Navy Cryptolinguist NCO, we went to see Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and saw trailers of Attack of the Clones and...Serenity. Then went to my hotel room and saw ST Enterprise Through a Mirror Darkly Pt. 1. It was a magic evening. I got to see Firefly for the first time when I went to Germany and found the DVD set in the PX. Introduced the whole staff of AFN Heidelberg to the show, that and Battlestar Galactica.
Definitely enjoyed both. But imagine missionaries in there? Plantingchurches on those planets, confronting the Alliance, giving sanctuary to the Independents, creating bastions of Christian men rebuking Evil, wherever the story leads!
Yup. Whedon was very much an atheist, and let that through in Mal's disrespectful jabs at Book. But Whedon at least tried to temper that by having Book be a a wiser, smarter, and more moral person than Mal. The problem with Book is that his Christianity is the kind of Christianity that a Hollywood atheist would find palatable: more focused on the psychological effects of faith than the truth of the Gospel. One of my hesitations about the new animated series (if it actually happens) is that the writers are unlikely to have even Whedon's attempt at respect. A well-written presentation of real Christianity in the Firefly 'verse would have been excellent.
I saw Serenity knowing nothing about the series, in fact it was while discussing how great the film was with friends that I was told there was a series. After then tracking down and watching the series I was so depressed realizing how insanely stupid cancelling the series was. Firefly deserved better.
Wonderful film of a wonderful show. My intro to Firefly fandom was a mention in STarlog magazine. Then I shipped out for Basic and while in AIT, I saw an ad flash by on TV in the Student Company dayroom at Ft Meade, but did not get a chance to see it. Most of my fellow student Soldiers wanted to watch Lord of the Rings again. Then when I was assigned to Ft Gordon and went out with a wonderful Sailor who was this lady nerd who loved Babylon 5, and was smart as hell, Navy Cryptolinguist NCO, we went to see Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and saw trailers of Attack of the Clones and...Serenity. Then went to my hotel room and saw ST Enterprise Through a Mirror Darkly Pt. 1. It was a magic evening. I got to see Firefly for the first time when I went to Germany and found the DVD set in the PX. Introduced the whole staff of AFN Heidelberg to the show, that and Battlestar Galactica.
I caught a couple eps on tv originally. They played a trailer for it at a local Star Trek convention a few months earlier and I was like what is this?
Definitely enjoyed both. But imagine missionaries in there? Plantingchurches on those planets, confronting the Alliance, giving sanctuary to the Independents, creating bastions of Christian men rebuking Evil, wherever the story leads!
SAD! Let's do it!!!
That would be a fun story!
That IS THE STORY. Of Western Civilization. That we won't tell.... And that they are erasing.
Yup. Whedon was very much an atheist, and let that through in Mal's disrespectful jabs at Book. But Whedon at least tried to temper that by having Book be a a wiser, smarter, and more moral person than Mal. The problem with Book is that his Christianity is the kind of Christianity that a Hollywood atheist would find palatable: more focused on the psychological effects of faith than the truth of the Gospel. One of my hesitations about the new animated series (if it actually happens) is that the writers are unlikely to have even Whedon's attempt at respect. A well-written presentation of real Christianity in the Firefly 'verse would have been excellent.
Jewel Staite, at that point in time was one of the hottest women on the planet. NONE of the others move the needle. No, not even the baccarena.
Not even in the same ballpark.
The fact that Jewel had to pack on weight - and worried about it - to reach that level of beauty says something about how screwed up Hollywood is.
I saw Serenity knowing nothing about the series, in fact it was while discussing how great the film was with friends that I was told there was a series. After then tracking down and watching the series I was so depressed realizing how insanely stupid cancelling the series was. Firefly deserved better.