You can't take the sky from me...

[locker_monster]

- I can't believe that it's been ten years since Serenity came out. I still remember the heady excitement the day the movie came out. I actually managed to meet up with some of the local Browncoats and it was such fun, sitting in that theatre, waiting for the show to start. We sang "The Hero of Canton" and "The Ballard of Serenity". There's nothing like seeing a movie with a room full of fans. You're all on the same wavelength and you all feel it when the hard moments come. I will never forget the moment when [ten year old spoiler]Wash dies. Everyone was laughing at the "leaf on the wind" joke and then bam! Reaver spike through the window and there's just stunned silence. It's still amazing how the scene can go from such a high moment to a low one.

- It seems very doubtful that we'll get more Firefly on our screens. The best we can do is the Firefly Online game when it comes out. I'd like an animated Firefly series, though. It'd be cheaper and you don't have to worry about the actors aging. It worked for the original Star Trek, so why not Firefly? Most of the cast has done voice over work by now - hell, it seems like most of the DC Animated Universe is made up of Whedon alums - so you know they can deliver the goods.

- I started reading Cinder, the YA book series retelling Cinderella with a cyborg, and it's okay so far. I like the setting, which is futuristic Chinese, but I think I've already figured out the twist in the plot. It also bugs me how there must always been a romance in YA books. Yes, this is Cinderella, so there has to be a prince, but why does Cinder need to fall for him? I'm only half way through the book, so maybe things change down the line, but it gets so boring, seeing her angst over the prince. Oh, I was very pleased to see that the book was written in the third person. So many YA books are written in the first person and it feels so lazy to me.

- Trying to figure out a Halloween costume for this year. I have plenty of cosplays to choose from, I just can't decide which one to do. I kind of want to do something new, which is kind of ridiculous since I don't need to spend more money right now, but I think I could cobble together something from stuff I already own. Like, Shaun from Shaun of the Dead. I have a white, short sleeve dress shirt and black slacks and I can borrow a cricket bat. I would just need a red tie. Easy peasy!

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[browncoat2x2]

Time sure does fly, eh?
I didn't see the film opening weekend - we went to an SCA event and *EVERYONE* was talking about this great film Serenity... this was before I'd watched firefly, you see... so my husband and I said to ourselves, guess we'd better see this movie!
I knew it was a follow up to the series, and I'd heard there was character death, so I asked my friends for their firelfy DVDS - I wanted to be invested in the characters (yes, glutton for punishment, or just my love of the angst, I know) and we marathoned the season in about 3 days I think. We were hooked after the first opening scenes of the pilot :) And then we saw the movie.
I remember at the time I was annoyed by Book not being on the ship - I didn't know there'd been a comic that bridged the series - and annoyed by how they had regressed Mal and Simon's relationship - Simon and River no longer being crew etc. I understand that it was done for the non-fans, to try and make it a movie for anyone, but having just immersed myself in firefly, it was disappointing. And I was disappointed that the tone of the movie differed so much from the tone of the show - much heavier on the action and sci-fi, and almost no western... I had a lot of complaints, as I recall, LOL. But that didn't mean that I didn't like it :)
And the next year, I went to the first CSTS screening and got to watch it in a theatre full of fans, so that was awesome. Nice memories!

[locker-monster.livejournal.com]

Huh, I totally didn't know that you didn't watch Firefly right from the beginning. That's so cool that it was word of mouth that got you into the verse. :-)

[browncoat2x2]

It was stubbornness kept me from the 'Verse initially - I knew some folk that were crazy - and I mean CRAZY - into Buffy, and that was all they talked about, all the time, to the point that I was like, I don't want to hear about it at all! So when they started talking about this new show by the same guy that did Buffy, I was like, no thank you! OF course, they didn't tell me that it was spaceships and cowboys and the like!

[shivver13.livejournal.com]

I had never heard of Firefly or Serenity when the movie came out. (I'm not one for watching TV, honestly.) My company bought tickets to the movie for everyone and I went, not even know what genre the movie was or that it was part of a TV show. It was so beautifully done - introducing all the characters and the world and the plot so well that you didn't need to know any of the history - and it was so intriguing that we went from the theater to the DVD store to buy the box set, and I've been a fan ever since. I consider it my #2 fandom, behind DW.

Re: Cinder, my question is why does everything have to have a romance in it? Even Ant-Man, which was a superhero action movie with only two females in the entire cast, had an ending in which the hero kisses the only major female character. Meh, I suppose as a person who doesn't care about romance in stories, I'm getting cynical. :)

[locker-monster.livejournal.com]

Your company bought tickets for everyone? You clearly work for the best company ever. :-)

It's great that the movie inspired you to go out and buy the DVDs. As someone who went into the movie will full knowledge of the fandom, I never stopped to think if the movie did a good job of bringing in non-fans.

Re: Cinder, my question is why does everything have to have a romance in it? Even Ant-Man, which was a superhero action movie with only two females in the entire cast, had an ending in which the hero kisses the only major female character. Meh, I suppose as a person who doesn't care about romance in stories, I'm getting cynical. :)

You're not cynical. I thought the exact same thing about Ant-Man. Some stupid studio exec probably said, "There's no romance in this movie! No one is going to watch it if no one kisses!"

I don't mind romance when it's done right. When it's organic to the story, I love it. When it's shoehorned in or feels forced, then I can't stand it.

[shivver13.livejournal.com]

It was the best company ever. ;) Web development studio. Loved working there and they treated us very well, but the management was bad with getting new work and eventually had to downsize from about 200 people down to 25, when it was bought out. The new management is fantastic and it's thriving again. Since then, I've worked at two game software studios, and both sponsored (well, sponsor, as I'm still at one of them) premiere-day outings to superhero and sci-fi movies. To be honest, one was a Disney studio, so we got to see all the Marvel movies. :)

Exactly - I hate shoehorned romance.