1st October
Taking The Sky
-- tycho garen • (commentary)

Wow.

Really, that’s all I can think to say. Last night, I went to see Serenity, the Joss Whedon movie that was made as a part of his late lamented Firefly TV series.

Wow.

I’ve known that it was going be be heart wrenching for a while, one of my friends got to see it in a sneak preview in late May. But somehow, amazing actually, she didn’t give me a spoiler. I totally would have broken.

I usually attach to characters, and am completely broken when characters I love die. When I watched it, I completely didn’t react, it wasn’t real. Until later, and then it was.

Despite the heartbreak, the movie was perfect, basically. I have a few complaints. Like, why there wasn’t more Chinese spoken. (One premise, is that humanity was united by an anglo-sino alliance, so the characters pepper their speech with chinese phrases, much like I use yiddish.) Why did you have to do it Joss, why?

Other than that… amazing. I really think that it was a pretty damn perfect job with the movie. I don’t know what more to say, so there.

Cheers, sam

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  1. THE FIREFLY SERIES

    The Firefly series is probably as close to excellent as any series the sci-fi series has aired in a long time . It isn't the sort of pop culture kitch like Dungeons and Dragons or that ever so jejune and banal Stargate Sg-1 .

  The actresses that play River and Inara are especially  beautiful and those characters are fascinating .

  One drawback is that in a recent interview the creator of the series made some relativist/postmodernist typically weird comments when he made a statement to the effect of talking about a utopian world in one of these episodes AS IF utopia was somehow bad . To be ANTI-utopian/to speak of utopia AS IF it were somehow bad, shows typical *yuppie-minded* postmodernist sensibility . Utopia is long overdue .

   The creator (or one of the creators) of the firefly series claimed some false proposition to the effect that whenever you have a utopia ---you (SUPPOSEDLY) have a dark side underneath . These yuppie-minded postmodernists give the sense that resignation is somehow an acceptible outlook (which it is NOT) and that words 'perfection' and 'utopia' are somehow dirty words . That is so bloody weird of them ! Resignation, selling-out

    Comment by Jason Leary — 27 October 2005 @ 5:50 pm


  2. if theres a dark undeer belly, then it’s not utopian, is it? and I think that’s the point he’s making.

    don’t knock postmodernism for real unless you have something better. I mean I hate to love to love to hate to love postmodernism, but really, is modernism better? nope. existensilism? feh. romanticism, oh yeah, there was a good idea! but seriously folks….

    a prori utopia/perfection, is arguably even more yuppie minded, if by yuppie minded, you mean vague and unsubstantial…

    cheers
    sam

    Comment by Sam Kleinman — 31 October 2005 @ 1:20 am


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