Subj : Re: Serenity: My Thoughtful Review To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Mon Oct 03 2005 22:07:54 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Rick Savoia wrote in news:Xns96E4AC9D1F629rsavoiaNOSPAMyahooco@127.0.0.1: > 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. Thats what I thought when I heard about the change, why stick to pulling bankjobs in California when you can go to Bolivia? Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .