I know why I love Serenity. Why do you?

POSTED BY: agirlyman
UPDATED: Tuesday, March 7, 2006 03:12
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AGIRLYMAN

Sunday, March 5, 2006 7:55 AM

I see a little bit of myself in every character. Mal the badass hero, Zoe the dedicated friend, Jayne the big dumb animal, Kaylee's sweetnees (not so much), Inara's heart, Simon's Devotion, Book's faith (again, not so much), The humor of Wash, River's fractured mind, and most importantly Serenity is home, my soul.

P.S. Oh yeah, Reaver's for when i'm hungry, and/or horny!

AM I NOT MERCIFUL?!?!?!?

Tee Hee

THEPISTONENGINE

Sunday, March 5, 2006 8:03 AM

Oh, young one, I definately see River's fractured mind in you.

In all seriousness, why do I love Serenity?

Because it's great to see character based science fiction with some undercurrents of modern political commentary that doesn't drown you out in Democrats vs Republicans. It's so easy to identify with all the characters, even when they are at odds with each other. We never see a character sacrifice his motivation for plot, and that's a rareity.

Tristen

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Originally posted by agirlyman:
I see a little bit of myself in every character. Mal the badass hero, Zoe the dedicated friend, Jayne the big dumb animal, Kaylee's sweetnees (not so much), Inara's heart, Simon's Devotion, Book's faith (again, not so much), The humor of Wash, River's fractured mind, and most importantly Serenity is home, my soul.

P.S. Oh yeah, Reaver's for when i'm hungry, and/or horny!

AM I NOT MERCIFUL?!?!?!?

Tee Hee

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Carry the Nuttin'

MER

Sunday, March 5, 2006 8:32 AM

hmmm. Ok, let's start with the show. The fact that everybody's sort of like a family unit. They also look for redemption or peace in some way boarding onto Serenity. Plus knowning the fact that Simon changed his future for his sister brings me to tears (literally). It would have to be the most unselfish thing anybody could do for someone.

Now the movie? Well...*spoiler alert!!*

They risked their lives to tell the people of thrd naughty thing that the Alliance never told anyone. River knew about it and never understood it.

For an artist standpoint, the way Joss used the camera shots, color to emphasize emotion, and of course lighting .

ALGUS

Sunday, March 5, 2006 9:27 AM

The theme song. It says all that needs to be said.

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Where's the KABOOM?! There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom! *sigh* Delays...delays...

HUMBUG

Sunday, March 5, 2006 11:31 AM

I love Joss' distinctive style of dialogue......

And the way that all his work includes a really strong sense of belonging and family between his groups of characters. There was the Scoobies in Buffy, Angel's agency, and of course the Firefly crew!!

Jayne is a bit of an outsider (at first) but Joss' work also has a theme of including outsiders into the family unit..... I'm thinking in particular of Fred in Angel, Spike in Buffy and Angel and Anya in Buffy.

I love Joss' sweet, likeable characters - Willow in Buffy, Fred in Angel and Kaylee in Firefly. And I also love to hate Joss' completely outspoken characters - Cordy in Buffy, The Host in Angel and Jayne in Firefly. They may be annoying to live with, but they're essential to the group dynamaics - they provoke and get things moving when they've almost ground to a halt plot-wise!!

(By the way, I'd love know what Adam thinks about Joss statement on the Serenity DVD commentary, that Jayne is Firefly's Cordelia!!! Would it make him laugh... ??!!)

Joss in boss! Three cheers of Joss- hip-hip hooray, hip hip hooray, hip-hip hooray!!!!

Thanks Joss, for giving us a series we don't just like, WE LOVE IT!!!

JONESTEIN

Sunday, March 5, 2006 5:24 PM

For me, the humor. More specifically, the brilliant mix of humor and drama. In the movie and the series, Joss (and all the writers) are just great at taking typical comedic/dramatic scenes and flipping the tone of the scene right when you THINK you are about to see a comedic/dramatic cliche.

Two of my favorite examples from the movie:

After the intoduction to the Operative, we get the beautiful opening and visual intro to Serenity, with the inspiring music (that I'm listening to now). The camera pans around Serenity, the inspiring music building up as we pan, starting to reach it's climax as we begin to make out Wash & Mal on the bridge, then *THUNK*...primary buffer panel falls off the ship and we get the great bookend line from Mal, "What was that?". Great dramatic-to-comedic flip...cracks me up everytime I see it, which is often.

The comedic-to-dramatic flip I love was the scene in the cargo bay after the heist, where Kaylee asks Simon, who didn't even go on the heist, if he was ok...followed by Mal saying "Is HE okay?", which was immediately followed by the reaver popping out to say "boo".

And the scene from the series that hooked me and infected me with Browncoat Fever:

In the REAL pilot for the show, when Dobson had ahold of River in the cargo bay, see's Mal coming back on the ship, and starts with the cliched line "Don't anyone move or I'll..." (BLAM!), Mal nonchalantly(sp?) draws his gun and shoots Dobson in the face, and just keeps walking. Absolutely brilliant. Got me hook, line, & sinker.

-Jonestein

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OPERATIVE: ...and I'm unarmed.
MAL: Good.
(BLAM!)

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NUCLEARDAY

Sunday, March 5, 2006 6:34 PM

It encompasses so much of what I look for in good science fiction. The whole 'verse looks like a place that people actually live in. Just because we're dealing with a story where people fly around in spaceships doesn't mean it can't feel like a real place, and Joss does a great job with that.

("River, psychic? That sounds too much like science fiction."
"We live in a spaceship, dear."
"So?")

I care about these characters because they feel real to me. I still catch myself wondering what they're up to now. They're not there to fill in the plotline, the plot is there to serve the characters.

It's always an emotional rollercoaster. I love the humour for it's own sake, and also because it contrasts so well with the dramatic points. I know good writing when I want to laugh and cry at the same time, and the BDM was the first movie in a long while that did that for me.

Finally, heart, fnord. I see this point coming up alot in the forums, and the podcasts, too. 'Cause it matters most. Everyone involved in this show cared so much, it's hard for me not to as well.

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You can take my hope when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

13

Sunday, March 5, 2006 7:28 PM

The characters, and how it is entirely about them, not about, ooh, look at the spaceships and guns! Although, a small budget doesn't allow the Lucas Effect to be put in use.

I think a little chaos is in order.

13

Sunday, March 5, 2006 7:29 PM

Ya Know What? Just read what nuclearday said. That sums it up.

I think a little chaos is in order.

FIREFAN06

Sunday, March 5, 2006 9:28 PM

Well, I think what got me into Firefly was the Narration by Mal before they played the Main Theme the one where he says "If you've got a job, We can do it...Dont much care what it is." That combined with the Theme Music is what got me into Firefly.

However what got me hooked to Firefly was the Storytelling and the BDH's, All of them from Mal To River are what make Firefly well Firefly without them there would be no Firefly or no Serenity.

Also I liked the way the Story's unfolded over the course of each Episode in that the Plot slowly begins to pull you in whiel watching it, And the big part of why i like Firefly is the Acting Firefly has the best group of Actor's i have ever seen in any other Movie or TV Show.

So in closeing i guess there were many diffrent things that got me Hooked on Firefly, Ive got to say tho ive been a Trekkie ever since Deep Space Nine came on the air and i have never stopped watching it Untill Enterprise came on the air that is, But i have to say from everything ive seen Firefly beats Star Trek hands down in my opinion.

Quote:
"You know its funny, We went to the war never looking to comeback but its.....its the real world i couldnt survive....You two carried me through that war now i need you to carry me just a little bit further...If you can." - Tracey to Zoe and Mal (The Message)

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