you can't take the sky from me

[dingogrrl]

Okay, first up, I'm gonna apologise in advance for any *more* typing error than usual because I have my right index finger bandaged up after an incident with the dogs resulting in my nail being ripped from my finger. It hurts a little, but I was very brave and willed the bleeding to stop so I didn't have to go to hospital and miss seeing Serenity

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[thepurpledevil]

Firefly! I've only seen the first episode so far, and there was no way I wasn't seeing the movie today. I loved it!! As one of the newspaper reviewers said, once you've seen the movie it makes you want to watch the show.

The Reavers were so creepy. I loved the bit where they had to go through Reaver territory, and when the Reavers followed them back. Very cool.

Poor Wash! Now that was a surprise. Now I'll watch the rest of the series knowing he and Book die. :( Seeing his dinosaurs sitting there at the end of the movie...so sad.

Now they just need to do a sequel :)

[dingogrrl]

So, so great! And I know what you mean about it making people want to watch the show because I know my sister kept dismissing it because she doesn't like space things or western things, but it was easier to hold her captive for 2 hours in a theatre than make her watch an episode of the show at home - and now she realises she likes the characters.

Now I'll watch the rest of the series knowing he and Book die.

Yeah, I don't know if I could handle that. Like the dinosaurs, it'd tinge every cute Wash scene with a little sadness. And Book, man I was so looking forward to exploring his past at some point and that death just *broke* me today. Joss sure knows how to hit where it hurts.

There definitely must be sequels. I hope it does well enough for that - it was in our second biggest theatre but the stab through the heart was that Deuce Bigalow 2 was in the biggest, which means it's getting more people in and that just seems wrong.

[natalexx]

That was awesome. Especially loved Serenity coming through the ion cloud with the Reaver army behind them. Heh. Cavalry's here. Cavalry's a bunch of cannabilistic, raping freaks, but it's here.

*g* That was just classic, wasn't it? It's one of those moments that could totally be on a Top Ten list, like right alongside Luke destroying the Death Star. Gotta admit, I think it would've hit me more as a shiny Definitive Moment if not for the Wash thing it ended with. But I think on repeated viewings, I'll see it more for its Big, Damn, shiny-ness.

Ooh, and I'm happy to hear it stood up to non-fannish viewing, too.

[dingogrrl]

I was so transfixed by that movie, and especially that moment. Which is rare, because I'm not at all a space/action-y type person usually. Actually, I was so completely immersed in the entire movie that I didn't even *notice* that the guy across the aisle from me (Joss fan we know - he has a dog called Buffy) had to leave for a bit when his phone rang. At the end, my sister was all, "Was that Keith's phone?" and I had no idea

[natalexx]

And honestly, the Wash thing didn't affect me as much as everyone else, it seems.

I gotta say, not that I didn't *love* Wash for his random funnyness, but I loved him most for what he was to Zoe. Damn, that marriage was close to my heart. *pain*

It made me fear for every single character in the final battle, which was the intention, I guess, and, well, from a Joss-trick point of view I did kinda dig the reaction it got in our theatre where that relieved laughter suddenly morphed into a horrific gasp. Such a Joss moment and I'm going to be evil and admit that maybe a little bit of pride at that crept in.

Hee. It was a *masterful* moment, really. Still very cruel. But masterful, man. And I won't listen to anybody who says it was "unnecessary," because dude. Firefly was always about the people who get up and keep flying after horror. And that's exactly what he did! That whole sequence post-crash landing was like a horror movie, very dark, with the Zombie-like enemy, and they didn't come out scratch-free, but in the end they just kept