Serenity

Jen and I saw the movie Serenity this afternoon. She was out of town helping a friend move to Mexico for the last two weeks otherwise we would have been there a lot sooner. This is one kick-ass Movie. George Lucas has the writing skills of one of Joss Whedon's toenail parings. To properly review it would give away a few things that should be savoured in the theater but let us say that it was one of the better movies that either of us have seen in a long long time. Serenity follows a one-year television series called Firefly that aired in 2002. FOX mucked with the schedule and shuffled the episodes around so the series "tanked" when it first aired but it continued to have a strong (rabid --ed.) fan base and when the DVD set of the first season was made available for sale, the response was so overwhelming that Joss got the chance to make this movie. Serenity is a complete story so you do not need to have seen the Firefly series but the interplay between characters and the history evolved in the series deepens the plot-line in the movie so if you see Serenity and like it, check out your local library and get the Firefly -- The Complete First Season DVD set and watch and enjoy their world and then go see Serenity again. Also nice is that although Serenity is a complete story, there are a few loose ends that could be nicely tied up by another movie -- sequel time!