You can’t stop the signal
Tonight, with a last-minute invitation, I went to see an early screening of Serenity with Jenny and James. We are all big fans of the Wheadonverse—specifically the Buffyverse—and had all been majorly disappointed with the loss of Firefly from television (FOX, you suck!), upon which Serenity is derived.
Set 500 years in the future, Serenity is what I would term a sci-fi-western space opera. It tracks the lives of the crew of the eponymous spaceship, and the rather dirty, messy and unclear future that unfolds for them. Unlike Star Trek, with its antiseptic vision of the future, Serenity is messy, just like life. There are no villains masked as aliens, just humanity as its own enemy.
The trailers, of which there are several, all give clues as to the story—and the fact that we begin to unravel the character River—but the real story is more layered than that. The characters are a little more layered, and their relationships more difficult than before. The future, a bit bleaker. Hope, a little more tenuous. The movie, excellent.
The signal awaits, are you listening?
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