Subj : Re: Serenity: My Thoughtful Review To : alt.tv.farscape From : Jim Larson Date : Tue Oct 04 2005 01:48:22 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote: > Jim Larson wrote in > news:Xns96E4B19C342FD3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: > >> 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. >> > > Soooo just how did all those people get to a solar system that is third > star from the right and keep on till dawn, without FTL travel? A > sprinkling of fairy dust? Well obviously it was magic. Sheesh. Someone people...gotta explain every little thing. (A single one way trip taking maybe a couple of decades or a couple of centuries with most of a seed population in cold storage is a different thing than zipping back and forth between solar systems every five minutes.) -- Jim .