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Date Posted: 20:31:20 10/15/05 Sat
Author: Jay
Subject: This is us, out on the brink... (Serenity spoilers)

I'm not sure what direction I want to go in, so I'm just going to go in all of them. First of all, fan reaction. I've seen the big damn movie with five different audiences in the last 22 days, mostly matinees. The best audience was the second day of release with an 80%+ theater who applauded at the end of the film. Every audience I've been a part of since has been a fraction of the first one. Capacity was the first to go, but while the movie hasn't gotten ovations since the big crowd, the enthusiasm of first timers hasn't been diminishing. Hearing the laughs for the Kaylee - Mal - Jayne sex jokes and the gasps for what people are shocked to see right after the leaf on the wind stuff never stops hitting the mark.

Speaking of that scene with Kaylee whining about her sex life. The movie has slowed down enough for me to notice Mal cringing before his all out "GOD!" moment.

What's becoming one of my favorite scenes in the big damn movie is right after Mal is on Haven and hangs up on the Operative and starts barking out orders. The scepticism and revulsion of his crew, when Mal has really questionable reasoning is prime stuff. Only River escapes his wrath. Every scene afterwards, River is front and center. Previously she was hiding in the back or on the floor above or below, now she starts sitting at the front of the class. This precedes her "I'm okay" diagnosis for Simon.

Book really did seem tacked on in this movie. He had more characters quote him, (Kaylee and Jayne) than he had onscreen conversations with (Mal, twice).

I really was trying to find the post where someone was symbolizing everything. We, the loyal audience are the reavers, using up everything we can crash our ship into. I can't find the post so I can't distinguish between what I've read and; oh, never mind. If it's worth a thought I didn't come up with it. But I seem to remember that the post said that Mal had taken Wash's place as Joss's voice. Which I agree with even more looking at my post heading which I'm trying to copy from the beginning of the movie. But where I wanted to take it was the population of Miranda. The people who just died doing a whole lot of nothing. To me, they represent the people who could, should, or would be fans of the Whedon, but are not. They don't watch. They don't care. Me, I'm a reaver. Peeling the skin off my face in hopes to wholly consume another ship (story) another day.

Probably leastly, I'm fascinated by River and when she chooses to wear shoes. Am I going to the movie too often? Barefoot River is usually on Serenity (but not always). She is always in the dreams, and/or flashbacks. So if River has (god forbid) combat boots on, your ass is getting kicked. Joss ain't lying. This movie has the best bare feet you'll see in a movie this year. Not that I'm into that sort of thing.

You can't stop the signal, Mal.

I believe that this is the Whedon's biggest hope. That he can reach enough audience to write what he wants to write. To tell the stories he wants to tell when he wants to tell them. That the audience will always be there, tuning in. I wish it was more true than it seems to be. I know the most rabid fans are, well, most rabid. But it doesn't seem to be true enough for the average fans or the love-bots. Damn love-bots, just sitting there humoring us. Doing nothing but wave while you get carved by a sword when you should be getting your thirty pieces of silver. Stupid love-bots.

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