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On 10 May 2006 09:05:01 -0700, "tilvios" <toxaristhrasoe@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>
>littlemute wrote:
>> For fans of the series or someone having even watched it a few times,
>> I'm sure this film was great, but judged as a film on it's own, and not
>> simply another, longer episode, it was mediocre at best.  Character
>> development was very weak, especially with the brown haired girl that
>> showed up near the middle of the film.  Why was she even there?
>>
>> A lot of the one liners were quite painful as well, again, those of you
>> that saw the show had some character arc/development context to fit
>> those one liners into, but the to the rest of the folks phrases like "I
>> aim to misbehave" and the leaf in the wind stuff was shockingly cheesy.
>>  You knew you were supposed to feel some emotion when the pilot dude
>> died, but you didn't, because the character dev in the film just wasn't
>> there.
>
>The movie was made for fans of the show.  It'd be like going to see a
>Star Trek movie, having never watched an episode of the television
>show.  If you already know the characters, you don't want to waste
>plot/story time on developing characters that the audience should
>already be familiar with.
>
>I'm sorry you had to wonder who Anara (sp?) was, if that is who you are
>referring to as the brown haired girl (I'm sure you don't mean River).
>She was an important character and not just a plot device for the
>movie.


I just watched both the film and the series and thank god I watched
the series before the film.  Anyone who went into the film "cold"
would've been instantly lost and bored.  The film relied far too much
on the audience being fans and knowing the characters and the
backstory.  The way the movie played out, kinda made a mockery of
Whedon's intro on the DVD, I think he filmed this for a ComicCon
screening, asking people to get everyone they knew, even non-fans,
into theatres to watch the film.

I was also pretty confused as to why the SHepard had left, until I got
ahold of the DarkHorse Serenity comic which fills in the blanks,
especially the fate of those blue gloved guys.

One other question, in the series pilot, the DOctor says that River
was smuggled form her "school" in that cryo container and he just
picked her up at some rendevous point, but in the film he is clearly
shown breaking her out and escaping with her fully conscious.  Did I
miss something?

Lynley