Dear Joss Whedon

[genericcow]

Nice. You're back on the "I will not completely ignore your shows" list. I'm still a little leery though, considering you're the creator of Buffy in its current form (how you decided a comedy movie starring Pee Wee and a 90210 alumnus should be reworked into serious television drama, I will never fathom

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[genericcow]

Eh, the movie could've been a two-part season finale/season opener. It just wasn't movie quality, to me.

---SPOILER ALERT, DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED THE MOVIE YET---

For one, the two deaths were completely pointless and not used for any kind of effect. Book just kind of popped up for one scene despite never having been shown as leaving in the series, and then dies the next time you see him, with barely any use of his character. Wash just dies out of nowhere, and Zoe is BARELY affected at all. Even when she goes "out of her mind with rage" in the fight with the reavers, it was lackluster. She hit one of them, and then gets sliced. Woo. Way to build the drama.

For two, the whole Reaver angle just seemed like a copout to me. We find out, after a whole season of buildup for this character, that she was only crazy because of a hidden secret in her brain, that got stuck there by chance. After the secret comes out, she's fine again. Hmmph.

For three, Book was one of the more interesting characters to me, and I would've liked to have seen some background, or some tying up of angles they were playing with with his character. Instead, he got jacked by the Alliance offscreen.

I don't think they really ramped up way beyond tv... as I said, it was barely worth a two-part season finale. The last episode of ST:TNG had much better resolution and a more refined/epic plot to it.

That said, I don't want you to think I didn't like the movie, cuz it was great. It just didn't seem like it was worth putting out in movie theaters. The saving grace to that, is that the cast and crew said at DragonCon that if the movie grosses over 80 mil, there will likely be a trilogy, meaning I may get to see some resolution where I wanted to. :)

huh...

[wraithtdk]

Sounds like the last Highlander movie.

O.k., great, you finished up the movie and got rid of Conner.

Now who's going to be the one?

[genericcow]

Ender, I think what you don't realize is that the actor who plays Book has cancer, and the actor who plays Wash won't be available to do any more movies, and or TV show continuation, due to other commitments.

[eolirin]

sorry, that's me... I don't seem to be logged in for some reason. odd.

[genericcow]

No, I hadn't heard the actor who played Book got cancer. Thought he looked a little gaunt, but everyone else looked a little less pudgy from the series too, so I figured they just hired a different on-set trainer. That kinda sucks, because he was one of my favorite characters. :(.

Is there a reason Wash won't be available for any sequels? Is he doing A Knight's Tale 2?!? Has he found his niche as "lovable-but-crazy psychiatric ward patient" from 28 Days and/or Patch Adams? What could he have planned that would supercede probably the only show/movie he's ever done that has a tangible and lasting fanbase? If that's the case, he's throwing away a lot of notoriety, I think. Again, :(.

Given those considerations though, I can see why they'd remove them from the picture. My main beef with that though is not that they did it, it's the way they did it. Although, given the information you provided, I can chalk it up to last-minute write-ins that weren't fleshed out properly.

Also, note: I have read in a couple articles that the cast/crew have said there won't be any TV continuation, no matter what, but that if the movie grosses enough, there will likely be two sequels to the movie.

[eolirin]

Yeah... Book was my favorite too. It's a real shame. Makes me wish the series had continued on tv if only so that we would've had more of him.