Subj : Re: Serenity: My Thoughtful Review To : alt.tv.farscape From : Tyler Trafford Date : Tue Oct 04 2005 00:59:34 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Jim Larson wrote: > 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... Reavers. -- Tyler Trafford Enjoy your life; be pleasant and gay, like the birds in May. .