Subj : Re: Serenity: My Thoughtful Review To : alt.tv.farscape From : Rick Savoia Date : Mon Oct 03 2005 16:53:38 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Trouble wrote in news:K_SdnR1O1_e93tzeRVn-jg@comcast.com: > RR wrote: > >> Jim Larson wrote: > >>>> I've got Disc 1 at the top of my Netflix queue and I'm going to try >>>> and check out the flick this week despite my ignorance. > >>> The movie is probably just fine on its own. However, certain events >>> lose some of their impact if you haven't been along for the >>> (regrettably short) ride. > >> I really would think that it would *have* to stand alone to be worthy >> of having been made on such a scale. The show's incredibly short run >> probably made that a fairly easy thing to accomplish. > > Actually there is a little time lapsed between the end of the series, > beginning of the movie, and the characters, while unchanged they have > been dialed up a 'little' to recreate tensions that were alleviated in > time during the series. The time lapse is sufficient for series > watchers to understand things are strained 'again' and for non-series > viewers to have tension and conflict to pin the story on. > > Sci Fi had been running the eps on Fridays, and had a marathon > recently of eps... BUT, you should be able to walk into the theater > without having seen the series, the first twenty minutes are laden > with enough character dialogue and camera/characters-still-moving > exposition enough to let you know who everyone is. > > Surprised I haven't seen this mentioned here, they have resolved the > Galaxy / Solar System conundrum, the Pilot originally said one thing, > the Series said another. The movie has picked Solar System. > Solar System just doesn't seem big enough though. Even if you have a solar system of a reasonable size, it just seems too small to support the multiple planets and moons they've been to as well as the concept of something like the Alliance. It's also very hard to lose a planet in a Solar System. If it were just a Solar System, I'd have pictured the Reavers overrunning the place by now. Personally, I always thought they were in a cluster of Solar systems with a few terraformed planets/moons in each. Oh, and on other nitpick: why do SciFi films always forget the concept of 'z' orientation? Ok,so there's a line of 'something' in between you and your target. Go up and around it. -- "I'm just very selective about the reality I accept." - Calvin .