Blogging for Serenity

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

so true... so very true

/me weeps

[Entsuropi]

So, I'm watching the series for the first time, and in the second episode ('train heist') an alliance deskmonkey says, "cargo theft of medical supplies in the Georgina system".

Discuss.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Well it was the least consistant episode,... essentially written in a day because the FOX execs hated the pilot (episode 1) and threatened to cancel the show before episode one was finished filming. One of the many screw-ups that sank the show....

But the planet is actually a moon around a gas giant, so that could be part of the answer... could just be a way to catagorize the system 500 years in the future... like saying a theft in the Shire of York, or Fairfax County... especially since the Giant itself is not habitable but the system of moons around it was.

[Entsuropi]

Heh. Also, the G-men said they had come 86 million miles. I dont know the distances from planet to planet but that seems too much for one system but too little for interstellar.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

its 886.7 million miles from the sun to Saturn (generally thought to be the farthest we could live from earth using massive t-forming (Titan)

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

So I dont know how Rottentomatoes scores itself but Serenity has an 80 again after dipping down to the high 70's... Im not quite so sure why some of the "critics" actually get weighted as high as they do, you can see some serious bias in more than a few of the "Its the worst movie ever made posts" serious sci-fi hating bias not to mention I dont think they saw the same movie I did. Theyre talking about laserguns, and River wearing SS boots when she goes all wonky and murderous.
Still..
Most of the posts have been overwhelmingly positive, and the one or two critics I think people listen too (Namely Ebert (a 45% rate)) have raved about Serenity. Personally I want to see the movie get a RT value higher than Star Wars III, just for effect.

80% approval is good though... dont y'all think?

[Entsuropi]

Episode 3 got 82%. So, close.

[stacer]

the sad part is they'll just tell you that you want the Dark Angel movie next summer.

Is this a rumor you're starting or a real thing that's going to happen? Because I've been renting Dark Angel and just finished the last disc tonight. Only TWO seasons? No fair!

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

rumor... but It could happen Alba is a hot tamale in Hollywood right now, and reviving dead shows seems popular...

[Patrick_Gibbs]

And she was so incredible in "Fantastic Four." You almost believed that she was real instead of C.G.I.

[Spriggan]

Episode 3 got 82%. So, close.

It's down in the 70s now.  Seams the biggest complaints of the movie are:

1) the main character is unlikeable
2) It's too smart for it's own good, to the extent that sometimes is seams like whole scenes were set up just for whitty banter and didn't help in advanceing the plot much.

Haven't seen it yet but they seam like fair criticisms, especially #2 which he did in his TV shows too often.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

its been teetering at 79-80 and honestly the biggest complaint I saw was... "it science fiction" I dont think I ever saw one that said Mal was unlikeable. Too talky yes... and more than a few saying its sci-fi so why do the guns look like guns and not rayguns...
But as RT has expanded to some rather dubious critics Im less inclined to get worked up over it.

For instance take this womans bad review

Horrible.
SERENITY
By
Victoria Alexander
FilmsInReview.com

This is a woman who gave Rob Schneiders "The Animal" a Fresh rating...

Its quite obvious that her Judgement is in question,

[Eagle Prince]

The movie was okay, not awesome.  It could have been a lot better, but some stuff seemed kind of pointless or just dumb.  I know nothing about the TV show, never even saw a preview or anything, so I don't know anything about that.  Like I always thought it was supposed to be some ripoff of Taken or something until I saw the movie preview.

Of course I would kind of expect for Joss Whedon to screw up a good idea once he started tinkering with it, ie Buffy was dumb, but Angel ended up being pretty cool cause he handed it off to someone else. (further proof IMO is that the few episodes of Angel that he did direct were lame).

[Spriggan]

Well it's hard to grab the full gripe with a rotten review, or even a good one for that matter, from the one sentence blurbs on RT.

[Entsuropi]

So despite my efforts I came across a spoiler in someones LJ. Blah. Stupid smacktards who won't give spoiler warnings before blabbing plot points.