No Book in the movie? I was hoping some of his past would come to light now.
Chase | Email | Homepage | 09.30.05 - 2:10 am | #

Just read a review in the local paper. Guy isn't a Firefly browncoat but he said it's a pretty good movie. That's high praise. Tomorrow's my birthday so wife's taking me to see it as a present.
Rod | Email | Homepage | 09.30.05 - 6:51 am | #

Just made arrangements to see it tonight.
Greg | Email | Homepage | 09.30.05 - 9:54 am | #

Found a mp3 of Ballad of Serenity yesterday. Rarely does a show get so much right. I applaud Fox for running it if only for one season. I'm a new fan to Firefly (storing episodes on my DVR via Sci-Fi Channel), so I'm looking forward to seeing Serenity even though I'll have to work to convince my wife to go with me. Thank God I don't have to work that hard to get her to the range.
Jon | Email | Homepage | 09.30.05 - 1:09 pm | #

I'm also a later arrival to firefly. I started watching it on the DVDs about a week ago, and I am thoroughly hooked. Best sci-fi since the original Star Wars trilogy. And unlike other sci-fi, what really moves this is the characters. Two in particular are my favorites.

Mal. I love the idea of his character. Here's a guy who didn't like his overly bureaucratic nanny-state society and just said fuck it and left, but he didn't ever lose himself. He's still a very honorable man, he just lives by his own code now. He reminds me of Davy Crocketts famous quote after losing a political race in Tennessee "Ya'll can go to hell and I'm going to Texas."

Doc. Not many like him because he acts kinda wussy at times, but I just have to admire a guy who'd throw everything away for his family, despite his parents and his whole society telling him to look out for himself. Here's a man who, deep down, knows what is important in life. I hope that if I'm ever faced with something like that I have one half the courage he does.
happycynic | Email | Homepage | 10.01.05 - 1:04 am | #

Lets see... a review of the movie so you saw it free, right.
Tyler D. | Email | Homepage | 10.01.05 - 1:18 am | #

I did see it free, but my review would have been the same either way.
Chris Byrne | Email | Homepage | 10.01.05 - 3:12 am | #

As happy as I am that SciFi ran the series leading up to the film's release, they really messed up the sound, and the pan & scan was painful to watch.

Jon, pay the $30 and get the DVD set. Wheadon filmed the show in widescreen for a reason.
Chris Hamilton | Email | Homepage | 10.01.05 - 7:38 pm | #

That was rip roarin fun. My wife and I were hoping to hear the theme song as we lingered during the closing credits. Anyone hear them? We both loved the movie and my wife, who's not a sci fi fan, loved the series and the movie as well. She thought is was much more believable than Tom Cruise's War of the Worlds.

Definitely get the DVD set. I caught an episode on Sci Fi and the quality is grainy and sounds funny. Plus you get all the DVD extra commentary.
TheLurker | Email | Homepage | 10.01.05 - 11:22 pm | #

I'm gonna have to get the DVD set now. I saw the movie. It was a great ride.
KPR | Email | Homepage | 10.02.05 - 2:05 am | #

Can't wait to see it! Firefly being the best series ever made - a tall order. But alas, Serenity comes out a week later in the UK.
Adriana | Email | Homepage | 10.02.05 - 7:00 am | #

FYI, Shepard Book is in the movie, he just no longer is on Serenity. He's an "honorary" crewman.
sam | Email | Homepage | 10.02.05 - 11:07 am | #

*sigh* Looks like I'm going to have to choose between Battlestar Galactica season 1 and Firefly. My Christmas list is getting longer and longer with nothing but DVDs. I didn't know that it was filmed in widescreen. Strange considering Sci-Fi is running it in P&S (yuck).

Thank goodness my wife tolerates Firefly better than BSG and Bablyon 5. I won't have to "trade" too much for her to go see it with me.
Jon | Email | Homepage | 10.03.05 - 11:11 am | #

Jewel Staite: Yes SIR!

Not to diminish the other three ladies, but that character, (not to mention the actress that plays her), is a magnet to my inner-geek. Outer geek too.

Yum.
tomWright | Email | Homepage | 10.04.05 - 2:37 pm | #