01-15-2006, 01:54 AM
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Location: Waterloo, Ontario
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I don't know if details of the series or the movie can really be considered spoilers but, just in case, it's all in spoiler space!
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Originally Posted by meepa
Spoiler: I did not like the fact that the movie went in a different direction than the show in that it became much more epic. I'm not against "explaining" the universe more, e.g. how the Reavers came to be, but I didn't like the fact that it was "the crew against the Alliance" to bring out the truth. It began to feel too much like typical action movies where a small group takes on everybody and wins. This was even worse, in my opinion, when they turned River into an unstoppable superhero soldier. I thought they were making her eerily strong by just having her with some psychic abilities in the show. That, to me, made her fill a "niche" in the crew. Having her totally psychic as well as Rambo^3 just makes the rest of the crew look insignificant, which is BAD when the glory of the Firefly universe is the strength of each individual crew member making up a hole.
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Spoiler: It sounds to me like you've forgotten a bit of the series, where they strongly hint that she's a physical genius, as well as a mental one. In fact, this was established well before she was given psychic abilities, so you should really be annoyed that the rambo was also psychic, rather than the other way around.
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Originally Posted by meepa
Spoiler: Oh, and one more quibble. Normally I have a healthy dose of "suspended disbelief" when watching sci-fi, but did anybody else think "WOW everything sure is close together" in Serenity. In Firefly, it seemed like they actually had long voyage times (what with the cosmos being pretty... big). But in this film, it felt like, "Hey, we're only 30 mins away from here, and once there, only 2 hours away from there, then only 10 mins away from our final destination!"
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Spoiler: Actually, this is a common misconception of the series. Then entire series takes place in the same solar system, and not the entire "cosmos." Just so you know... |
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