THE BIGGEST DAMN SPOILERS I HAVE EVER STOPPED MYSELF FROM READING!!!!!

POSTED BY: Piffle101
UPDATED: Monday, July 18, 2005 02:04
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PIFFLE101

Sunday, July 17, 2005 4:48 AM

SPOILERS!!

Keep goin....

Okay, we're safe. I found this on: http://www.whedon.info (Buffy.nu)

Here it is:
(I dont know how to do that Highlight with your mouse thing.

Big Damn Essay I meant to post my spoilery thoughts about the movie right away after the first screening, but I didn’t do it right away, thus dooming it. So here’s my review and commentary after having seen the movie twice. There definitely was some clean up of the film between the first and second screenings. I think there might have been a tweak here and there, but they may only be having seen the picture twice.

*SPOILERS!!!!!!!!

The whole move is about believing unreasonably. After the first movie, I saw a reviewer who didn’t care for the Book and Mal scene in which Book urged Mal to believe in something, anything. They felt the line came out of nowhere; I find that completely untrue. The whole movie is about believing; indeed, Mal’s whole story is about believing. But for the movie, it all starts with Joss’ intro to the piece

[Firefly] was ignored and abandoned and the story should end there, but it doesn’t, because the people who made the show and the people who saw the show (which is...roughly...the same number of people) fell in love with it a little bit...too much to let it go, too much to lay down arms when the battle looked pretty much lost. In Hollywood, people like that are called ’unrealistic’ ... ’quixotic’ ... ’obsessive’.

In my world, they’re called ’Browncoats’.

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This movie should not exist. Failed TV shows don’t get made into major motion pictures unless the creator, the cast, and the fans believe beyond reason.

Big Damn Movie

Serenity opens with an Alliance schoolteacher explaining how man left earth-that-was and came out into the stars. The story is tweaked from what has been told/implied in canon and interviews. The changes are primarily that man left earth voluntarily due to a lack of resources and not because the planet went away. Also, the Firefly universe is a single gigantic solar system and not several star systems. The details make better science fiction sense with the technology of the ships matched with the tech on the planets; however, it leans away from the idea that earth-that-was ended violently... possibly in an apocalypse ... which, you know ties it into Buffy/Angel crossovers...well, the narrator is Alliance and therefore not necessarily reliable and there’s always wank ;-)

The small girl in the back of the room is River, so we know this is a dream or flashback. The teacher goes on with her history lesson explaining that the Central Worlds formed the Alliance and maintained civilization, while the border planets were, wild and uncivilized. The class erupts in commentary asking what motivated the Independents to fight the Alliance, and River tells them it’s because the Alliance meddles, getting into peoples’ business, getting into their heads, telling them what to think. The Alliance is meddlesome and people don’t like that. The teacher disagrees, claiming that the Alliance does no such thing. She sticks a pencil in River’s forehead.

We cut to a high tech science room where River is in a chair, fighting mind control by the Alliance. A technician confirms she is dreaming and jabs a needle in her head. The doctor in charge explains that it’s easier to implant triggers while they are dreaming. Simon is there, posing as a high ranking military officer, getting the overview on what’d being done to River - the Alliance is training her to be a psychic and an assassin.

This scene is a step away from what we were told in canon; however, we never saw River’s rescue in canon. Simon told us what happened when he first met the Serenity crew. Simon wasn’t necessarily obliged to tell the truth about the rescue. The big difference is that in the show, Simon tells us he paid people a lot of money to get River for him and that he knew nothing about what they had done to her. As we’ll fin

RKLENSETH

Sunday, July 17, 2005 11:34 AM

Ummm....yes. Pretty much an exact summary of the movie. Don't read unless you've seen the movie.

Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.

MIKEYMO

Sunday, July 17, 2005 2:18 PM

I think a little of the fanwank is a bit off the mark, but as far as a summary goes, that was pretty detailed.

DAMN I really want to see the movie again. Is it Sept yet?

"Be ashamed to die before you have scored some victory for humanity." -- Horace Mann

DEANNAMAY

Monday, July 18, 2005 12:16 AM

I know a lot of people poo poo the idea of reading spoilers. I don't, I love spoilers, especially when I still have two months to go for an anticipated movie. I still want to see my BDH do their thing for real, several times, it just prepares me for unpleasantless so I can really focus on the movie. If they could surprise me with the movie, that would be fine, but making me wait months and months for it, I need spoiling. I am terrible with anticipation.

LORA

Monday, July 18, 2005 12:53 AM

THANK YOU!

I love spoilers and I will see this movie as often as opportunity and budget will allow.

All hail Joss.

"Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity?"

FAHQ

Monday, July 18, 2005 2:04 AM

Read spoliers before I saw it. I'll see it as many times as I feel fit come the premier.

It aint going to please everybody, to be sure. I for one think it was great. Sorry about the deaths (Spoiler free for those who skipped past it) but hey- People die.

"My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."