Serenity

[lapis_knight]

So I saw Serenity on Friday with some Early College folks. Those people are awesome. And Grimsley people who used to go to Early College. They're awesome too. But they didn't come to the movie. In fact, I didn't even *see* them all weekend. *cough* Anyway. I'm pretty sure Serenity was amazing, but since I'm not sure if I'm good at judging

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[coweringmeepo]

Serenity Valley sounds to me suspiciously like that one battle during the civil war that was supposed to be a major route of Northern forces but ended up failing miserably. I don't remember which, now. Was it the second battle at Bull Run/Manassas?

Inara was, for all intents and purposes, trained as a consort. And apparently she and Mal had a thing for each other but were both too proud to admit it (although I can't guarantee that. Like Zippo suggested I need to watch the show).

I kind of suspect that the "Believer" had nothing to do with the TV show, but was strictly a movie villain. He was some sort of super-duper-ultra-mega-secret agent for the dominant government institution, but completely believes that what he's doing it for the greater good. It kind of made me think of when Reagan (or was it Nixon?) was "deprogramming" hippies so they'd become normal, functional members of society. Except you start with someone who already agrees with you and push them even farther in that direction. So maybe it's more like when Napoleon was training the KGB puppies in Animal Farm.

Things I liked:
The acting was very, very good
Did you notice that signs/ship names/computer screen displays were shown in English and Chinese? I mean, we're all so used to sci-fi being really Americanized, but if humans were really going to settle other planets it makes uncanny sense that a huge Chinese speaking population would head off-planet.
A planet named Miranda. ^_^
Mal's creative use of the Reaver fleets (I knew what he was trying to do as soon as they fired the cannon)
"I don't wanna explode."

Would it be okay if I bumped your rating up another .125 points, Ryan?

[lapis_knight]

yes I'm working on watching the show... what did you think?

actually that was Japanese. I caught the katakana mixed in with the kanji, but it went by too fast for me to try and make it out. That's one thing I really liked, that the writing was familiar, yet not English.