Is Serenity's portrayl of the characters true, or Did your Firefly go out?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Friday, August 4, 2006 20:13
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There were some, slight differences from the Big Damn Series to the Big Damn Movie
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(mainly with Serenity herself)
of course, that's what makes Joss's shows great they are ever changing. The reverse happened with Buffy. None of these differences had any effect on how I precieved them however. I have enjoyed all things Whedon! and I still think he had a reason for season six and seven.
JOSSIS(Most Definitely)AGOD
Self appointed Forsaken! Been on the list for a while now!"Look at me, I'm STUPID!" The Doctor.
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Serenity brought me in as a fan then watching Firefly I became REALLY hooked. Now, can't get enough it. Online or on the t.v.!!
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Quote:I remember HK's eloquent analysis when Serenity came out. Now that I've gotten a chance to watch the movie more often, I think many of the character inconsistencies HK complained about are only there for exposition.
My esteemed collegue HK mentioned that for him, Firefly 'Jumped the Shark' with Serenity.
For example, Mal fighting with Simon. It's silly--after what they've been through together in War Stories, Ariel, and Heart of Gold. But the tension is sort of a emotional recap ("previously on Firefly") of what happened between Mal and Simon early on. Not to waste time, Joss used the exposition tension as an excuse for Simon and River to leave the boat.
And so forth. A lot of exposition doubling as a jumping point to move the story forward. I don't think Joss bastardized the characters to make them more marketable.
As least that is how I saw it. The movie didn't have the graceful finesse of the TV show. But it was grander in concept and ambition. I see it really as a play, disguised as a movie.
My only regret was the deleted scene at the end, where Mal says, "What a whiner." Damn, I wish he had kept that in there. It encapsulates Mal--the non-whiner, the guy who bites the bullet and does what he has to do. That was THE perfect ending--would have moved the movie up several notches for me had it ended with that line.
Can't Take My Gorram Sky
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I think the characters were about the same in both the show, and the movie. I might just have to say that they were definitely a bit more hard core in the movie, but to me that was to be expected....
You can't take the sky from me....
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No, I would never say BDM "jumped the shark".
I loved the turns and twists in our heros' fates, and most of it was unpredictable just from watching the series, and still it was completely logical and believable.
I loved how River came to her own and became a savior herself, how Mal was forced back to be a hero from being a petty thief concerned only with survival. I read great fanfics from before the BDM and none of them imagined that coming - that's what makes a story coming from an original powerful author so special.
But I watch Firefly in a loop, can't get enough of it, and never rewatch Serenity. I don't have a need to look at BDHs in Serenity because I don't like how they look anymore, somehow. And there's not enough of them - too many action and explosions instead.
I'm put off by Gothic!River in Serenity because I liked Hippie!River so much. I don't know why that was changed. Ditto with Simon - I accepted his personality changes but was put off by his silly (in my opinion) new looks. Inara, Kaylee, Wash, Zoe - they all looked different, washed out and somewhat alien, chemistry was different.
And the movie was so sad, in a way. I think the main reason I don't rewatch it is that Serenity never felt like home in BDM. They all just suffered on it, tormented each other or been through some bad events, and it looked cold. In the end, when they were rebuilding it and going back on it, it felt like they were hammering themselves into a prison. Never felt like that in the series - because there were all those fun and family moments which really made her home.
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double post.
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Originally posted by RMMC:
Kaylee isn't quite as happy and shiny either, probably feeing the effects of a.) Inara's and Shepherd Book's departures and b.) the tense atmosphere on the ship, especially between mal and Simon. She is also thinner, showing signs of the lack of money available on the boat.
In some DVD feature somewhere, Jewel mentions that she gained ~20 lbs for Firefly, cuz Joss didn't want her to be that skinny. Probably just didn't have time or inclination to do it for the movie. Worked out nice, though, since it can be explained like you say.
Glänzend!
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what do BDS and BDM stand for and i dont care how stupid i look
I'm an idiot!
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never mind i just worked it out
in fact evry one ignore me
imstillanidiot
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