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Serenity to Premiere at Edinburgh Film Fest 130

Posted by Zonk from the I-don't-care,-I'm-still-free dept.
CABridges writes "Serenity, the science-fiction/western/comedy/drama based on Joss Whedon's TV show Firefly will receive its official Gala Premiere Screening at the 59th Edinburgh International Film Festival on Monday, August 22nd, with a 'Reel Life' interview with Whedon the next day. Serenity will make its U.S. debut September 30th and will open in the UK & Ireland on October 7th. More info available at the official movie website."
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  • We could still be watching the actual TV show if fox hadn't screwed it over by running the episodes out of order. Man I love that show!

    • Re: Gorramit Fox (Score:5, Interesting)

      by Jurph ( 16396 ) on Friday July 15, 2005 @05:56PM (#13077977)
      ...and assigning it the death-slot (Friday 8pm), and cutting the advertising for it. I don't think they ever really wanted Joss to have a hit on FOX. Someone made the deal, and someone else got put in charge of fulfilling FOX's obligations, is my theory.

      They were pissed that it cost so much to make, while "reality" was dirt-cheap and selling like hotcakes, so they torpedoed it. I hope the who cancelled the TV series all get invitations to the L.A. premiere. And then I hope that ABC picks up Firefly, and those same execs have to watch Firefly's second season kick the out of Fox's lineup.

      • They were pissed that it cost so much to make, while "reality" was dirt-cheap and selling like hotcakes

        I'm interested - are studio bang-per-buck decisions like this really sensible in the long run, or only for the next quarterly statement? Firefly was certainly expensive to make compared to reality shite, but I can't see reality shite being good for reruns or overseas syndication or wildly successful DVD sales in the way that Firefly has proved to be.

        • I'm interested - are studio bang-per-buck decisions like this really sensible in the long run, or only for the next quarterly statement?

          That is exactly the reason why you or I can sometimes make better decisions than professionals. The same phenomenon applies to mutual funds: in many (not all) cases, a fund manager is evaluated on short-term performance (say, quarterly or yearly). If they can't beat an index during each term, they lose their job. So they have no incentive to produce any long term results

      • Re: Gorramit Fox (Score:4, Insightful)

        by x136 ( 513282 ) on Friday July 15, 2005 @07:15PM (#13078441) Homepage
        From what I gathered from commentaries and the like on the DVD set, Fox wanted a show that would do for Fox what Buffy/Angel did for WB/UPN. When Joss came back with "space western," Fox balked at the idea, instead of just trusting him or giving the show a chance. Sounds like the Fox execs had decided the show's fate before a single episode had aired.

        Considering that they didn't even bother the explanatory pilot episode until the end, that sounds about right.

        Having finally caught the show within the last month or so on DVD, I can see that the show would have done well if it were treated correctly. Had they shown it in order in a steady timeslot, the amount of viewers would have grown as word of mouth spread. Alternatively, since TV executives can't seem to fathom "letting a show find an audience" despite it working in the past, and insist on a combination of heavy advertising and instant success, they could have hyped the hell out of the pilot episode as a "Two Hour Special Event" or something.

        Oh well, Fox blew it. It's not the first time, and it surely won't be the last. They seem to be perfectly happy with more instances of She-Male Brides Attack Bachelorettes and American No-Talent Ass Clown. Why they even bother to develop new non-"reality" shows and then instantly cancel them, though, is beyond me. Sigh.

        Fox, liu kou shui de biao zi he hou zi de ben er zi!
    • more proof of bad programming decisions that cant be fixed by optimizing compilers !

  • Not really a premiere (Score:3, Informative)

    by tenchiken ( 22661 ) on Friday July 15, 2005 @05:51PM (#13077966)
    Not sure how much a debut it is given that it's been screening fairly frequently in the US. Still one would hope for some good buzz so te trade rags notice.

    I also will be interested to see what changes have occured since the first showings. I am certain there will be some.
    • Not sure how much a debut it is given that it's been screening fairly frequently in the US.

      An unfished version has been previewed for a small number of people.
      • Only if you think that 45 theaters, sold out every time is a small number of people. It's not huge, but it's certainly much larger then whatever occurs here.

        • 45* say 600=27000 totally tiny insignificant number of people if this is every going to go anywhere and be a hit we must be talking millions.

          And its not the number of people that make a premiere but the state of the film.
          • ... and at the June 23rd screening I went to in Chicago, there were a number of folks who'd been to at least one of the two earlier screenings. Apparently the third version that I got to see was a lot further along. I have to see I can't wait for the real premiere. The un(but near-!)finished version screened on June 23rd was the best movie I've seen so far this summer -- I really don't get why it's not premiering sooner.
            • Mostly because studio execs didn't want to blow what will likely be a relatively meager ad budget trying to market against "Episode III: Maybe Lucas Is Finally Done," "War Of The Remakes," "Non-Horrible Four," etc.

              I'd love to have already seen Serenity (thrice if it was as good as the series), but for the sake of the "franchise" (yes, I'm hoping it's good and there are sequels) releasing it in September is probably a good move.

  • From the bits about the storyline as it is described on the official site of the movie, this all sounds exactly like the pilot episode also called Serenity, which was more like an actual movie, well over an hours length.

    Is this a remake of that episode or that exact episode?

    • Re:Remake of the pilot? (Score:5, Informative)

      by Blackbrain ( 94923 ) on Friday July 15, 2005 @05:59PM (#13077995)
      I was lucky enough to see one of the previews and can can safely say that the movie in NOT a remake of the pilot. The story stands on it's own. There is a nice introduction to bring people who have not seen the series up to speed and plenty of new material for the fans. The movie also wraps-up a number of story lines left dangling after the series was canceled.

      Considering the craptastic movies that have been released this year, it may turn out to be the best movie of the summer.
      • It will also be the latest movie of the summer, what with its September 30th release date.

        But yeah, kickass movie. I just hope it's not the fanboy in me that thinks so. I really want to see it succeed so that more films can be made.
      • "The movie also wraps-up a number of story lines left dangling after the series was canceled."

        if by 'a number' you mean 'one' then yes.

        Good flick tho'

        • Re:Remake of the pilot? (Score:4, Insightful)

          by Krach42 ( 227798 ) on Friday July 15, 2005 @06:38PM (#13078247) Homepage Journal
          Do you mean that the movie only wraps up one tangling story line, or that Firefly only left one story line hanging.

          Because I've seen the series, and it DEFINITELY left a ton of story lines hanging... in fact, just about all of them were left hanging. You can definitely see that the cancellation came as a horrible and sudden event.

          Serious, I gotta say this WHAT THE FUCK is up with FOX? Like, I buy all these 1 season series on DVD that aired on FOX, out of order, and they all kick butt!

          I'm just reminded of the beginning of the newly-uncanceled Family Guy, and their first episode back. You know, where he lists of shows canceled by FOX for like 5 minutes. I've seen many of these series, and I know they're awesome.

          Speaking of which, I'm still waiting for Space above and Beyond on DVD.

          • Speaking of which, I'm still waiting for Space above and Beyond on DVD.

            Ask and ye shall receive... [web-worthy.com]

          • Re:Remake of the pilot? (Score:4, Funny)

            by Thing 1 ( 178996 ) on Saturday July 16, 2005 @12:43AM (#13079813) Journal
            I'm just reminded of the beginning of the newly-uncanceled Family Guy, and their first episode back. You know, where he lists of shows canceled by FOX for like 5 minutes. I've seen many of these series, and I know they're awesome.

            I'm somewhat amazed that they didn't mention John Doe. That was on after Firefly, and I really liked it.

            Family Guy, "North by North Quahog"

            Peter: "Everybody, I got bad news - we've been canceled!"
            Lois: "Oh no, Peter how could they do that?"
            Peter: "Well unfortunately Lois, there's just no more room on the schedule. We've just gotto accept the fact that Fox has to make room for teriffic shows like Dark Angel, Titus, Undeclared, Action, That 80's Show, Wonderfalls, Fastlane, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Skin, Girls' Club, Cracking Up, The Pitts, Firefly, Get Real, Freaky Links, Wanda at Large, Costello, The Lone Gunmen, A Minute with Stan Hooper, Normal Ohio, Pasadena, Harsh Realm, Keen Eddie,The Street, American Embassy, Cedric the Entertainer, The Tick, Louie, and Greg the Bunny."
            Lois: "Is there no hope?"
            Peter: "Well I suppose if ALL THOSE SHOWS go down the tubes, we might have a shot." (cue intro music)

            And, because I wrote this one down too, here's another funny moment from the episode:
            They go on 2nd honeymoon but Peter wrecks the car and they end up at a truck stop:

            Lois: "Peter there's a hooker on the bed!"
            Peter: "Stand perfectly still, Lois. Their vision is based on movement."
            Hooker (after pause): "Where'd you go?"

            • Totally off-topic, but Fox are resonsible for Wonderfalls being cancelled? (It's on Sky One in the UK - got quite good reviews in the TV guides. Apparently, they're going to show the whole series - Sky One doesn't tend to cancel stuff mid-series; it's usually short enough of programming as it is.)

              Getting all these series that have already been cancelled at source in the US is startng to get annoying. (Incidentaly, Firefly isn't one of them; I think it might have been shown on Sci-Fi, but I can't get that
              • Yes. Wonderfalls lasted all of 4 broadcast episodes, and I had programmed the ReplayTV to save 3 of them. I got busy, so by the time I went to check it out I had lost the first episode.

                I really, really liked the second episode. It was amazing, really cool with a catch phrase that meant different things throughout the episode. Remembering just those few words was enough for me to remember basically the entire episode, for several weeks; that is excellent programming, in several senses of the term.

                Th

        • Number of story lines left dangling:

          1) What about River? What did "they" do to her?

          2) What about Book's background? WHy does he know so much about crime, and get so much respect from the feds?

          3) Will Malcom and Anara ever get together? Did they really close down that story line, or was that just a teaser?

          4) And speaking of Anara, what's with that whole companion thing? It sounds like a geisha religion.

          4) Will Kaylee get to tell her mom she married a doctor?

          1) What's with the whole Blue Sun Corporation

    • Re:Remake of the pilot? (Score:4, Informative)

      by Sancho ( 17056 ) on Friday July 15, 2005 @06:01PM (#13078003) Homepage
      It's nothing like a remake. The closest I could see to it being a remake is the fact that, as a movie, they have to revisit some of the background. The plot itself is completely new for the series.
    • No; it's completely new. Same core cast, but all-new script, storyline, SFX etc. It's set some time after the end of the series; there's a short comic just appearing now to bridge the gap.

      Watch the trailer [apple.com] and see for yourself.
    • Nope. It actually wraps several arcs that started in Serenity TV.

  • Gloat (Score:1, Funny)

    by Sanity ( 1431 ) *
    My GF got me tickets to this yesterday without even knowing what it was ("that guy who did Buffy has a new movie, I scored two tickets, wanna come?").

    I love Edinburgh during the festival ;-)

    • My bro managed to score tickets for it, so am going to see it on the Wednesday. Apparently they were all sold out within an hour and a half, and so they've organised two more screenings, and are trying to move the Q&A to a bigger room. Good sign for the success of the movie!

  • And the series starts on SciFi NOW! (Score:5, Informative)

    by Snaller ( 147050 ) on Friday July 15, 2005 @05:55PM (#13077975) Journal
    If you live in the states, get in there and swich on - Scifi are showing the entire series (followed by new episodes of Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis and the new Battlestar galatica)

  • Non-believer and trailers (Score:4, Informative)

    by Telastyn ( 206146 ) on Friday July 15, 2005 @06:03PM (#13078018)
    I admit I've never watched the series, and wasn't a huge fan of Whedon's other stuff, the little I saw of it. I did see the trailer for Serenity though before Mr and Mrs Smith, which was better than I expected.

    The trailer too was better than I expected. Good eye candy, interesting looking story, enough to get me to likely see the film when I wouldn't before. It made the film look like a [big] film, and not just a long TV show like so many converts these days.
    • If you liked the trailer even a little bit, then you'll absolutely love the movie. At least, that's my opinion after having attended two preview screenings.

    • Comment removed (Score:4, Insightful)

      by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Friday July 15, 2005 @06:23PM (#13078135)
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      • You just told the full history of my relationship with Firefly.
      • I have a similar story:

        I had never seen the series.

        Then I kept reading /. articles about Firefly.

        I was finally interested, so I got Firefly Season 1 and watched it all in 2 days.

        I wouldn't say I *hated* it, but I was completely unimpressed. I like science fiction, but there seems to be precious little of that in Firefly. It's basically a western in space, and I can't stand westerns. Blame it on growing up in a rural community where cliquish assholes came to school in belt buckles and cowboy hats.
        • I like science fiction, but there seems to be precious little of that in Firefly. It's basically a western in space, and I can't stand westerns.

          Why ever would you have thought, past one instant of the series, that it WASN'T a western in space?
          • Why ever would you have thought, past one instant of the series, that it WASN'T a western in space?

            I was holding out hope based on all those glowing reviews I've seen here and elsewhere. You'd think if a bunch of self-described geeks rave about a show that takes in space, there'd probably be some technical or scientific aspect to the show.
            • "You'd think if a bunch of self-described geeks rave about a show that takes in space, there'd probably be some technical or scientific aspect to the show.

              Yeah, but that's only a small part of the story that happens to only entertain certain types of people to a heightened degree, such as ourselves, and we are the few. The series is extraordinarily entertaining, even with a bit (there is certainly some) of the techno babble and a tad of the physics removed.
              • Yeah, but that's only a small part of the story that happens to only entertain certain types of people to a heightened degree, such as ourselves, and we are the few.

                That didn't seem to stop Star Trek from being successful for many years. Do you think fewer people are interested in that type of SF now than used to be?

                The series is extraordinarily entertaining, even with a bit (there is certainly some) of the techno babble and a tad of the physics removed.

                I suppose it might be extraordinary if you're in
            • You'd think if a bunch of self-described geeks rave about a show that takes in space, there'd probably be some technical or scientific aspect to the show.

              1: Why? I've seen geeks rave about 24, American Idol, and Survivor, for crying out loud.

              2: Sure there is, but it's all in the cinamatography.

              And more to the point, I'd wager that fantasy-geeks far outnumber "science fiction"-geeks, possibly by an order of magnitude. FireFly was quite obviously set in a semi-escapist world quite different from our own
              • 1: Why? I've seen geeks rave about 24, American Idol, and Survivor, for crying out loud.

                None of those take place in outer space. Furthermore, it seems to me that westerns are about as ungeeky as you can get.
            • See my reply to your parent message. At least half the shows are straight SF, with several of the others more SF than western.

              Well, at least what passes for SF on TV. If you're a purist (in which case you won't like almost any self-proclaimed SF TV series), then I might limit it to "Objects in Space", "Bushwhacked", and "The Message". Probably "Trash", too; that's mostly a "heist" story but the SF elements (eg the trash pickup system from the flying island) are essential to the story line.

              As for self
          • Cows, horses, and train robberies aside, it ain't a western.

            Was "Objects In Space" a western? "Trash"? "Ariel"? "The Message"? "Shindig"? "War Stories"? "Out of Gas"?

            Yeah, several of the frontier planets (moons?) they've set down on have a decided "old west" flavor, but if you look at the chronology the series was getting away from that after the first couple of episodes.

            Not that I mind the "western" flavoring, although I've never been a big fan of the straight western genre. If you prefer straight
        • I like science fiction, but there seems to be precious little of that in Firefly. It's basically a western in space, and I can't stand westerns.
          You shouldn't have assumed that it was hard core science fiction just because it's set in the future in space. It's always been described as a western in space. Certainly if you read many /. articles about Firefly you should have know what to expect.
      • Allow me to join the chorus of "my story exactly".

        Though it was my cousin who pushed me over the brink; she had the DVDs and we were on vacation with nothing to do.

        And minus the Cowboy Bebop reference.
      • That is EXACTLY what happened to me.

        The show seems cheesy for the first few minutes, then you really get into it. You end up loving the style, the characters, and the story. It's the best TV show I've watched, bar none.
      • I had a similar story. Whedon does some really amazing stuff. If you watch Buffy, it's quite good, too (if you can get past the bad acting in the first couple of seasons, and the teen love stories don't make you sick).

        Whedon has five remarkable talents (in my opinion): he lets the audio/video artists really do their stuff and he expiriments, he is quite witty, his character developments are amazing, his foresight for serialization is unmatched, and he really understands how to write female character
    • I too am not a huge fan of Whedon's other recent stuff (namely, Buffy & Angel). But I am a HUGE fan of Serenity & Firefly. This is truely GREAT scifi, folks.

      So if you're not a Joss Whedon fan, don't let it stop you from seeing Serenity (& getting into the Firefly DVD set).

      I was lucky enough to get a ticket for the last Serenity preview showing in K.C. - I talked with a lot of people while waiting in line to get in, and though most were huge Joss fanatics, not everyone was. (And did I ever get

  • Boycott? (Score:1, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward
    I was thinking. If you really want to protest FOX's decision to cancel Firefly, then start a boycott. Not of the fox station, but of their advertisers.

    If you can get enough people to stop drinking Pepsi's products to make it worth dropping advertisements from FOX, then that would be a major incentive to bring the show back. Some of these advertisers have to spend enough money, in total, to pay for one TV show.
  • Man are you people slipping up or what....

  • any more preview screenings in the US (Score:3, Funny)

    by grungebox ( 578982 ) on Friday July 15, 2005 @06:34PM (#13078223) Homepage
    Are they doing any more preview screenings in the states? I missed the last, um, 3...or was it 4, and don't want to miss the 5th screening if there is one.
  • I'm willing to give Mr. Whedon a chance, but a movie generally has a different pacing and flow to it then a episodic TV series. With each hour of a series, you have to develop a conflict, resolve it, then show how it chains to the next episode with some "twist" ending.

    I just don't know if a movie like that would be appealing, even with special effects, interesting characters, and lots of action/fights.

    Oh, and the formula I described above is nearly everyepisode of "Buffy" and "Angel", and "Fantastic Fo

    • There wasn't a single 'cliffhanger' ending to any of the firefly episodes. It was pretty different from his other works. Firefly is in another league compared to buffy/angel.

    • Joss Whedon also has track record in writing screenplays. IMDB credts Joss Whedon as the writer for:

      • Wonder Woman (2007) (announced)
      • Serenity (2005)
      • Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
      • Titan A.E. (2000)
      • Alien: Resurrection (1997)
      • Toy Story (1995)
      • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

      Full details here [imdb.com].

    • I agree with you, for a similar but different reason. Like everyone else, I kept hearing nothing except "OMG Serenity is going to be awesome, I can't wait", so I had to watch the Firefly DVD's to see what it's all about.

      In short, yeah, it's a great show, I've watched every episode twice now *. I'm looking forward to the movie, but a Firefly movie is not what I really want. I want to watch another 2-3 years of episodes of the TV show. There's so much crap on TV these days that it makes me cry that neith
      • I watched 'Our Mrs Reynolds' three times, you know why

        Come on, fess up. The third time it was just the scene with Saffron in Mal's cabin.

        (This is where we lament the much under-used* "angle" feature on DVDs.)

        *Well, on mainstream discs, anyway.

  • Comic available (Score:4, Informative)

    by gmhowell ( 26755 ) * <gmhowell@gmail.com> on Friday July 15, 2005 @07:25PM (#13078479) Homepage Journal
    The comic book that bridges the movie and the series is now available. Issue one of the three issue Dark Horse mini series was released (in the US) this week.
  • Sci-fi/western/comedy/drama, the good old recipe that also made Star Trek a success. I am looking forward to see the movie. Glad to see that this refreshing effort got appreciated by the organizers of the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

  • Due to all the acclaim the show got here on /., I rented season 1 on DVD.
    It has absolutely no Sci-Fi in it! The guns even look like 6-shooters! And everyone acts like they are right out of the wild wild west.

    It's just a western in space.
    It cant hold a candle to ST:TNG. ST made you think about what it could mean to be a human. They brought up a lot of anthropological issues. It was a study in the humanities.

    Firefly is just... Inara is hot but, she wears waaaay too many clothes.
    Its a western drama. nothing
    • No sci-fi in Firefly??

      So, what does define sci-fi for you then?

      I won't deny the huge western influence, but even as someone who usually hate westerns, I loved Firefly.

      Maybe you just didn't liked it, but it's certainly sci-fi.
    • It has absolutely no Sci-Fi in it!

      There is NO sci-fi in it, but there are spaceships, spacestations, government-created psychics, super-efficient organ-transplants, holographic HUD brain scanners, floating estates, flying cars, terraforming, sonic weapons, hand-held laser weapons... but no sci-fi! Nope, no siree Bob, none!
      • I guess it is kind of hard to imagine compelling sci-fi. Really, the only thing I know about sci-fi I learned in ST:TNG and having read Foundation 15 years ago... oh and star wars Ep. 4-6. In Firefly they just all seem like plot devices to me. Or just "A gun". or "an ultra modern medical facility". How is it interesting to have the rich guy with the original laser gun live in a place that floats in the air bespin-style? That just does not tickle my brain in any way. Look at how much slashdot interest was

        • Re:It's not Sci-fi (Score:3, Insightful)

          by AJWM ( 19027 )
          You're right. Firefly is not Sci-fi. It is SF. It's not space opera, either.

          If you like skiffy and space opera, but not SF (eg, you don't read any of the magazines, or science fiction books that aren't TV/movie tie-ins), you probably won't like Firefly.

          (There's a great scene in "Objects in Space" where they're discussing River's possible psychic abilities. Wash says something like "I don't believe that science fiction stuff". Zoe gives him a look and says "You're living on a space ship". Wash looks

          • OK looking at IMDB.com, it appears that if a movie has something in it that we currently cannot build, or an alien, then it's sci-fi (or SF?).

            http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Genres/Sci-Fi/ [imdb.com]

            So I guess Firefly is SF.
            But, I don't understand how it helps make a show more interesting to have the guns shoot lasers instead of bullets. Or spaceships instead of boats.

            In your example:
            "(There's a great scene in "Objects in Space" where they're discussing River's possible psychic abilities. Wash says something like "I
            • Let's see if we can't use good ol' English to decypher the meaning of 'Science Fiction.'

              Science, being that subject we all know and love, about how the universe works and how we manipulate it.

              Fiction, being a story that is untrue in its entirety or in part.

              So... science fiction really ought to be, well, a made up story that involves made up applications of science. Which, I have to say, Firefly had a lot of. I won't bother listing them again; they've pretty much been covered(although they forgot the


              • Yeah, damn words don't mean what I want them to.
                I admit that Firefly will fit the definition of Sci Fi for ... almost everyone but me.

                So yeah, Firefly is SF. And I dont like it.
                I maybe didnt get my point across well... There was definately a lot of drama in ST:TNG. I cried when Data's daughter died.

                But where are the new ideas? There are none in Firefly excpet maybe the idea that whores can be socially acceptable.
                Livng together in a ship has been done a million times:

                Das Boot
                The life aquatic with Steve Zi
                • Take a look at the first season of ST:TNG. It was hardly a mastery of storytelling, I guarantee you that. And yet Firefly did more with its setting and characters in those fourteen episodes than most shows do in their entire lifetime. So you're comparing the detail of fourteen episodes of a show to the detail of a series of shows that have been going on for decades.

                  I'll also point out that all but one of the Star Trek's were about, you guessed it, living on a ship. The other one was about a space station.


                  • Well folks, I think we have come to understanding.
                    Though I dont agree with your entire post, you hit the nail on the head with the DS9 reference.
                    I couldnt bear to watch that show.

                    And you are right, I am being unfair pitting a big budget 7 season show (TNG was 7, right?) against a low-budget first season.

                    But yeah.. its' just not my thing and I guess I never understood why people liked DS9 and firefly and the multitude of others I dont watch.
          • (There's a great scene in "Objects in Space" where they're discussing River's possible psychic abilities. Wash says something like "I don't believe that science fiction stuff". Zoe gives him a look and says "You're living on a space ship". Wash looks at her, "so?")

            Wash: Psychic? Sounds like something out of science fiction.
            Zoë : We live on a spaceship, dear.
            Wash: So?

            -------

            Mal: Here's how it is: Earth got used up, so we terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths, some rich and flush with

      • You missed the no sound in space :)

    • Re:It's not Sci-fi (Score:3, Insightful)

      by AJWM ( 19027 )
      Didn't get past the first two episodes, did you? Try the third and fourth discs. Or even the third episode (on the discs, not by air date).

      Oh, and you probably didn't notice that little motor or turbo spool up whine as they cock one of those "6 shooters". Not that it matters -- slug throwers can be manufactured and maintained with the low tech infrastructure you'll find on a frontier planet, and they'll kill you just as dead as the laser pistols more prevalent on the core planets. (Inara has one too, c
  • I've never complained about a Firefly or Serenity post before, and I'm not asking the editors to stop posting them or the submitters to stop submitting them.

    I would, however, like them to be placed in a category of their own so I can filter them out. Seems like these Serenity stories are coming faster than ever, and I know I'm not the only one who has no interest in this space western. (Let's hope the mods today aren't all Joss Whedon fans...)
  • Hi, http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/news/articles/detail/ 16 [edfilmfest.org.uk] rumor has it that their server crashed when Serenity tickets went online. I hope it will be good, score lots of money and they make sequels.

  • Serenity now.... (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    ...Serenity now!
  • I recently saw the first two or three episodes of Firefly. In spite of the very good production values, I found it to be utterly lame. Bad acting by TV actors who look like TV actors, shallow sententious dialogue, dumb story, standard TV show characters and character development, it is essentially a not-witty Buffy Goes Sci-Fi without Buffy, Xander, or Willow. I crapped out in the middle of an episode and returned the DVD to Netflix.

    The cult surrounding this crappy show is baffling.

    • ... the bat killer, or something so such, which /.ers seem to have in high regard...

      In other news, /.ers know shit about movies and art.

      Oh yeah, there was yet another article about "is programming an art" last week.
  • I'd seen a bunch of posts here about firefly, and I just couldn't see what the fuss was about. So fox cancelled a Joss Whedon TV show... So what?

    I enjoyed Buffy and Angel in the early days, but towards the end, Buffy was just crap and Angel went through some bad spots.

    Then I finally saw the pilot to Firefly on TV over here in the UK. It looked ok, so I bought the DVD set.

    My wife and I sat down and re-watched the pilot. Then she said 'Can we watch another episode?'. We watched 7 episodes that night at her
  • Joss Wheadon is my master now.... but seriously, this IS going to be the next star wars, i aim to see it at least 4 times in the cinema, joss needs the series screened in the uk, not to many people know about it and the dvd set is non existent in retail i had to buy it from ebay, after i borrowed a box from a friend and was blow away by it. Fox is now my mortal enemy. slightly OT but over here we just got stargate atlantis and i'm like WTF is with this the acting is all over the place.
  • These are going to be teh longest 10 weeks ever.
  • As if copyright wasn't enough, many of their downloadable trailers require a license. Their 720p trailer is unplayable under mPlayer/Xine because or this (wm9dmo can't dl licenses under linux). Files are drm V1 protected, so freeme doesn't seem to work. Shame on them!

    BBH

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