Subj : Re: Serenity: My Thoughtful Review To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Tue Oct 04 2005 01:19:14 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Jim Larson wrote in news:Xns96E4ACA194E163v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: > 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... > And they say Americans know nothing about world geography! So we are fine with space travel, terra forming and psychic assasins but not ok with FTL travel? Right, fine, ok, just so long as I know where to draw the line of sensibleness in the sand of made up stuff. We wouldn't want to cross that line now would we, even if it was by using the z axis. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .