Subj : Re: Serenity: My Thoughtful Review To : alt.tv.farscape From : Jim Larson Date : Tue Oct 04 2005 01:27:36 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote: > 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? Prexactly! > 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. Damn right. That way lies madness. -- Jim .