I take it we aren't going to find out what's up with River before the end of the show (or the movie)?
Without getting into spoilers: the movie is fairly River-centric, and gets into some decent depth about her backstory.
Despite its short run, Firefly was one of the best shows of recent years -- the writing just sings, and it was a real shame when it got cancelled. I'll warn you now that the movie, while fun, is quite a bit different from the TV show: it takes what I suspect was originally intended to be a full season of the show and compresses it into 2 hours, so it is much more plot-centric, rather than being as deeply character-centric as the show tended to be.
I wonder if it would ultimately be cheaper to cancel the cable and just buy the interesting shows when they come out on DVD.
Not a crazy idea. msmemory and I have gotten to the point where we watch most shows after-the-fact (we're in the middle of doing the whole past season of 24 as a big blort right now), and I've begun to simply decide to pick up some shows on DVD. I suspect
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This past season I watched shows as they were broadcast, but only a few: West Wing, 24, Commander in Chief, Invasion (I think that's the complete set). Two, or more likely three, of those are now off the air. Good new shows might emerge in the fall (two of those four were new this year), but I'm starting to think that I don't have to watch things right away -- I can wait for the DVDs, since it appears that they are now released just a couple months after the end of the season. (Invasion comes out in August.) The trick with new shows is knowing what's good enough to seek out on DVD, but between friends' reviews, the occasional borrowed tape (maybe), and NetFlix, that's probably a solved problem.
Another point about the movie is that it takes place several months after the last television episode. This point becomes obvious eventually, but I remember wishing that I had known it going in. (The first time, I missed a reference that indirectly implied this fact.) Several notable events took place during the missing time, and I understand that some of the story is told in some in-canon Firefly comic books.
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Without getting into spoilers: the movie is fairly River-centric, and gets into some decent depth about her backstory.
Despite its short run, Firefly was one of the best shows of recent years -- the writing just sings, and it was a real shame when it got cancelled. I'll warn you now that the movie, while fun, is quite a bit different from the TV show: it takes what I suspect was originally intended to be a full season of the show and compresses it into 2 hours, so it is much more plot-centric, rather than being as deeply character-centric as the show tended to be.
I wonder if it would ultimately be cheaper to cancel the cable and just buy the interesting shows when they come out on DVD.
Not a crazy idea. msmemory and I have gotten to the point where we watch most shows after-the-fact (we're in the middle of doing the whole past season of 24 as a big blort right now), and I've begun to simply decide to pick up some shows on DVD. I suspect ( ... )
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