Subj : Re: Serenity: My Thoughtful Review To : alt.tv.farscape From : Tyler Trafford Date : Tue Oct 04 2005 01:32:04 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Jim Larson wrote: > 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! Of course, the show also said that the Reavers made it to edge of the galaxy. -- Tyler Trafford The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us. -- Mario Cuomo .