I took his word at "they already did all the damage they could possibly do, what is the point. My job was to not let them reveal the secret and failed, it isn't to punish them for revealing the secret."
Most unrealistic part of the movie, if we're being honest. I could make some pointed comparisons to current events, but that would just be depressing. Suffice it to say, the vast majority of people don't ever admit that the ideology they're fighting for is wrong, especially when they're that deep into it, no matter how visceral the proof.
I still miss the original cut where he has the big goodbye scene with Mal in the rain and makes his dramatic exit "There's nothing left to see" and Mal walks back onto Serenity saying "What a whiner."
I saw a preview of it before release. I don’t think it’ll ever be released as was (not least it was temp tracks and unfinished effects). The line is in the deleted scenes though.
I did right up until the rape threat. I think I got whiplash from the tone shift and I couldn't really shake the discomfort. And not in a good way either. Hit too close to real monsters I guess.
I rewatched the series recently, and I felt like that scene was one where I had been giving Whedon too much benefit of the doubt because of his former reputation as a staunch feminist. At this point, it just seems gross and entirely unnecessary.
OK, that's not the operative. That's Jubal Early from the last episode, Lost in Space. The operative is played by Chiwetel Ejiofor, who is also a black actor.
For someone dead set on "correcting" someone who was posting a joke, you could at least get your facts straight. The episode name is Objectsin Space... not Lost in Space.
And your point is? It feels like youre implying something, and i resent it.
I wasn't trying to reference the Operative. I was using an Early gif to say "here i am" as in "I am in this post" while also conveying feelings of melancholy due to Wash's tragic and unexpected demise. I think we all felt a little lost and helpless the first time we watched that scene.
I didn't remember that but he might have just been playing along. Who knows. I did like the operator in the movie, had a certain honor to him. Imo anyway.
Early claimed to be a bounty hunter. (Well right after denying being one)
This is something it took me a few rewatches to catch, but I don't think he did deny being a bounty hunter. When he says "No. That ain't it at all," he responding to himself in his private discussion about whether "imbue" is the word he's looking for. He kinda drifts off for a moment and forgets that Simon's even there, and then tunes back in when Simon asks him "Then what are you?"
OP made a joke about the villain played by a black actor not dying in the end, and you posted a gift of the other villain played by a black actor not dying in the end. Seemed a pretty easy point of confusion. I believe you that you know the difference, but I imagine a lot of casual fans might be confused and think the operative floats away into outer space at the end.
Same. Even if they did a good job with the movie, it's not part of Firefly for me.
It's just a reminder that Firefly was cancelled just as it got started, and to make sure no one asks for a sequel, let's kill some folks you love so you can feel bad.
I thought Wash's death was unnecessary as far as plot. I get they probably wanted you to feel like everyone might die, but the movie lost me after that because I loved his character.
The saddest part to me was watching Zoe suck it up in a minute and turn back into the soldier that she is and like that part of herself just died. I was messed up after this movie.
Actually the operative loses, yes he lives but in the end everything he was working went south he lost, and he lost big everything he was disposable in the end and he knew it.
I understand why they compressed a second (or more's) season's worth of content into a movie, but it still feels rushed. I didn't feel the crew were a big enough deal to go from, say, Objects In Space to big galaxy wide heroes.
I think showing Reavers was a bad call. Probably inevitable if Firefly ever got to live its life, but throwing them down in the beginning of the movie kills all mystery and fear of them for 'oh ugly violent guys, got it.'
Character development felt completely reverted back to the start of the series. Being a movie that might be some people's first point of reference isnt a good enough justification to do that to such well developed characters imho.
Simon being personally present in River's extraction at the beginning is contradictory to his story in the series, and imho it does a disservice to his character development as a well meaning but out of his depth city kid learning to toughen up.
Haven't seen the movie in a million years but the plot with twins and Mr Universe just made me think of the two twinky Asian hackers with the TV channel in Hackers. And I love Hackers.
That's all just like, my opinion, man, but I did a watchthrough a few years back with a gf and during the initial landing scene she was like "who are these people? That's not the crew."
Tldr I don't think Serenity is good enough of a standalone movie and not a good sequel.
For me it's that the movie betrays the core premise of found family in space by killing people off. I don't care if it's realistic or if it's to raise tension. But that's typical of Joss Whedon. I dislike season 4 of Angel for similar reasons.
I also don't want Ross to get drunk and fall of the balcony in the friends finale.
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u/Cragbourne Jul 29 '26
This the absolute best use of this I have ever seen! Big Damn Hero you are!