“This was designed to be a TV series because I wanted to tell the boring stories about Han Solo smuggling when he wasn’t involved with the Rebellion, I wanted to tell the stories about the people who live in between and the stories themselves that live in between the greater stories. After the initial idea for the pilot, I increased the cast from five to nine members so that I could generate stories from within the ship and not have to constantly go out to new and exciting worlds and guest stars that we couldn’t afford, and I made every planet Planet Earth so that we didn’t have to go to Yucca Flats and pretend it was an alien planet every other week. It was a deliberately television idea.”
— Joss Whedon, talking about Firefly
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Movie: good (but frustrating).
Series: much better.
I got to see an early screening on Tuesday. I’m going again today to watch my friend’s reactions to it. Not all of them have seen most of the show, so it should be interesting.
September 30th, 2005 at 8:59 am
So, have you seen Serenity yet?
I thought it suvived the translation to big screen well, although nothing can replace another seasons of Firefly. I think people expect too much of the movie (I know I did).
October 1st, 2005 at 2:59 am
I’m going this morning (in about 10 minutes, in fact). I’ll post my reaction later on.
October 1st, 2005 at 10:05 am