My interpretation of the crappy Serenity DVD cover
POSTED BY: nakedandarticulate
UPDATED: Sunday, November 6, 2005 03:16
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Originally posted by SuicidalDuckling:Select to view spoiler:
i've seen the movie, so i know that women in the future only have brown eyes. Since the River on the DVD cover has greenish-bluish eyes, she must be a River-looking love bot. The Riverbot carries her llamas from planet to planet protecting them from the llama hunters. The Alliance used llamas during the War for Unification and that's why Mal and Zoe are hunting them now. Lastly, since i've seen the movie and know none of this happens, this Riverbot plot was obviously cut from the final version of the film, but is included in the deleted scenes because "You can't stop the llamas."
My interpretation is spoiler protected in case others that haven't seen the movie are expecting llamas.
well yes, it is true...the change of eye color is a DEAD give away that there is some evil afoot...
and it is wonderful to know that 500 years in the future we will no longer be plagued by annoying little blondes, they will only exist as lovebots
BTW I have a theory about Jayne rescuing Lenore and taking her away to his bunk....
maybe THAT should have been depicted on the cover!
And hopefully in the deleted scenes too.
I am personally far less concerned about the cover than I am about the extras....
I want at least 5 different commentaries,
and long hours of extras packed onto that DVD.
Including the wonderful classical guitarist playing Joss's 'Firefly' theme song from the end of the credits.
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and buy the 'Serenity' comics published by Dark Horse,
and have you joined the Browncoats yet?
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Quote:Is that a 'Buffy' comment?
Originally posted by embers:
and it is wonderful to know that 500 years in the future we will no longer be plagued by annoying little blondes, they will only exist as lovebots
Wanna see my imitation of Ghandi?
Just kiddin', that was funny.
Speaking of which, didja ever see the movie Cherry 2000? Now there's a hoot and a half!
I KNOW Joss had to have seen it...heh heh
Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:Is that a 'Buffy' comment?
Originally posted by embers:
and it is wonderful to know that 500 years in the future we will no longer be plagued by annoying little blondes, they will only exist as lovebots
yeah, you got me...I was totally dissing Buffy;
but I think it is hard to get the Summer Blonde bleach when you are out in the black....
don't get me wrong, I love the Buffster...in Sunnydale
But on board Serenity we don't have room for the little bitca
except of course that I have a theory:
Jayne rescued Lenore and she is down in his bunk as we speak....
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Larger picture: check
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I'm not sure what it is we're looking at in the top corner, it would be nice to have a larger image to make that clear.
Uh huh. Lasers coming FROM SERENITY, notice how the other two ships on the receiving end are BLOWING UP.
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But she does look like the River from the movie. Again I think this one is more a complaint on how the character is portrayed overall, than with the cover. By the way, that is part of the international poster that everyone seems to like ...
I'm not really sure what it is you're trying to say here. The woman doesn't look like anybody from any episode or the movie. She looks likes a porn star surprised to find herself on a DVD cover with llamas.
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When you hold the DVD in your hands, I will bet that that crowd is supposed to represent all of the dead people on Miranda.
...what? "Well, I think that it's a bunch of cloned Operatives, standing in line to receive free Jello-O fom the Tooth Fairy." Exactly. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
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None of them used the weapons they are using in the film.
??? They ALL did! Mal did. Zoe did. Jayne used at least three guns from the series! Not Vera, no, but other ones FROM THE SERIES.
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How often , really is an entire cast on the cover of a film? Be honest now ... exactly, it's very rare.
All the time. Seriously, ALL the time. All six Star Wars movies. All three Lord of the Rings movies. All of the new posters for The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. That's ten separate movies in the action/adventure genre that I can think of off the top of my head without even going to search online.
I don't think there's any lack of intelligence here, I just think that maybe you should SEE THE MOVIE before saying that this cover is dandy.
It would help out the arguments a whole lot.
(No, Mal doesn't pick up the Operative's stun gun. No, I just made up the free Jello-O scene. etc.)
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I think it could have been better (looks like a wallpaper that somebody Photoshopped together if you ask me) but at the same time, it's what we've got.
Seems everyone is wanting to go running off and signing petitions everytime.
Remember when we were signing petitions to bring back the series - in comparison, this seems trivial to me.
But of course, if it can be done, it should be done.
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That's not a llama? And here I was looking forward to the special llama edition of Serenity.
Really though like the guy said just spend some time on photo shop or whatever nice little program you all have on your 'puters and make your very own shiny custom cover art.......I know I will cause that cover is just wrong on so many levels. Just like all the other marketing strategy for the BDM that Universal brainstormed.
It's a nothing part til you don't got one, then you have to go to ebay.....aaaaagh!
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A little historical perspective here; check out the original theatrical posters for classics like Forbidden Planet -- which has the benign Robby the Robot acting like some sex-crazed alien off a Planet Stories cover -- or Star Wars -- where Priness Leia and Luke Skywalker look like a Vegas showgirl and a Chippendale dancer, respectively.
Misrepresenting content is an old tradition in SF media. My advice is to just relax, and enjoy the ride.
Besides -- the DVD cover at least gives the impression that this is an action movie, as opposed to the domestic poster, which made me think of some John le Carré knockoff spy novel..
"Future events such as these will affect you, in the future"." -- The Amazing Criswell
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The only good marketing ideas were the 10 min freebies and the River Tam Sessions.
And even then WE had to tow the line, pass it around via word of mouth. 
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"Hey, support it best you can! I believe supporting this as far as we can will get Serenity restarted. Right now seems VERY "Out Of Gas", and the Fans are Mal. We need to get her running to get the Big Damn Button pushed."
"I don't care what you believe in! Just BELIEVE!"
- Self Quote from a reply to a post about Serenity
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