Rowan Tree and Red Thread

My wife and I took advantage of my in-laws yesterday to skive off for a couple of hours to go to see Serenity, Joss Whedon's new SF "western in space" movie based on the ill-fated series Firefly. sammywol and I don't get to the cinema much nowadays. It's hard to find the time and babysitters to make it happen and the whole business is too much work most of the time. This film, of course, we made an effort for.

We both greatly enjoyed the TV series and bemoaned the short-sighted accountants and producers at Fox who canned the show before it had a real chance to find its legs. We both followed the news as the film was first mentioned as a possibility and then as a certainty. We heard the rumours and avoided (or not; I'm looking at you, sammywol) the spoilers. It was inevitable that the film wouldn't match the long build up of expectations.

It came close though.

I don't know if Serenity is a good film for people coming to it without any experience of the TV show. I don't know that it would do much for an audience of non-fans, or those not already receptive to genre fiction. For me, however, it worked just fine. The dialogue was there, the character play was as I remembered it, the thrillin' heroics and the dusty planets and moons were all present and correct. Serenity is a good Firefly movie.