Subj : Re: Serenity: My Thoughtful Review To : alt.tv.farscape From : Jim Larson Date : Tue Oct 04 2005 00:58:14 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote: > 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? Because you need FTL drives to go to Bolivia. Anyway, everyone knows what happens in Bolivia... -- Jim .