But I think we all knew Mal - bluster aside - saw River and Simon as members of his crew - and he doesn’t abandon members of his crew.ĭespite the oft-cited similarities, Mal is not Han Solo, who truly did avoid galactic conflicts for a long time. Jayne - and even Mal himself, to some degree - questions why Mal doesn’t dump River at the nearest port. Mal is a worthy action hero although I’m not thrilled with how extended the blockbustery action and violence are in the final act, both Nathan Fillion and his principled character are worthy of the bigness. Six characters get worthy characterization (although Jayne seems a bit too nice, even performing crash webbing checks on his crewmates), and Book - although his past remains mysterious - at least gets a good death scene. Still, inasmuch as “Serenity” had to be in movie form, it’s a good one. We’ll never know even Whedon probably doesn’t know. In some ways, “Serenity” seems like it would’ve been the Season 1 finale, in some ways, the Season 2 finale. He knew he was only guaranteed one movie, so rather than doing a small story - say, the equivalent of episodes 15 and 16 of “Firefly” - he jumped the narrative ahead to make a big damn movie where Mal is a big damn hero fighting a big damn bad guy in the final act. None of this is writer-director Joss Whedon’s fault, of course. Stars: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk
(You know what really gets my goat? Tim Minear’s assertion on a “Firefly” DVD commentary that they had something special planned for Inara but he doesn’t share what it is on the off chance they get to tell the story someday.) Some of these questions would later be addressed in the comic books and short stories (which I’ll tackle in my next “Firefly” post), but other questions remain unanswered to this day. Universe guy who’s suddenly their best bud?
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What about Blue Sun? What about Book’s past? How’d they get the new mule? Why does the Serenity seem more blue than it did on the TV show, where it seems more brown? Why did they redesign the bridge to have two consoles? Who the heck is this Mr.
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But by 2005, we had finally gotten to appreciate the 14 episodes in chronological order on DVD, and along came this film where - as with the original haphazard airing of the series - we felt like we were missing something.
It’s a solid movie by every important metric (the 7.9 IMDB rating, compared to 9.2 for “Firefly,” seems about right). Like a lot of “Firefly” fans, I have mixed feelings about “Serenity,” the 2005 movie that continued the saga.
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