🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 11 May 2006 07:18:30 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net>
wrote:


>>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 didn't find it so.
>I bought the film on DVD one day at Walmart having read a few mentions
>of it in one of the newsgroups I read.   Didn't remember anything except
>the title so I took a chance and bought it.
>
>On the strength of the movie, I later bought the series on DVD.
>
>Never saw the show when it was aired - didn't even know it existed -
>mostly because I don't even own a TV.

Then how did you watch the DVD ;O)
>
>>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?
>
>Basic retcon to establish why the Alliance has been hunting River and to
>introduce the Operative as one evil nasty dude.
>Especially to all those people who hadn't watched the series.
>
>Although it could be that having broken her out, she was then put in
>cryo and shipped out, while Simon travelled out alone and thus avoided
>searchers looking for the pair of them.
>
>I don't have my dvds at the moment, but did he say that they broke her
>out via cryo, or did it say they could get her out and then she was
>shipped in cryo to whatever that planet was where he boarded Serenity.
>
>Xocyll


I remember him saying something along the lines that she was smuggled
out and he picked her up, implying that she was in cryo from the
beginning.

Lynley