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October 14, 2005
Spoiler-free Serenity review: GO SEE
My brother loves his DVD collections, and he’s something of a Joss Whedon fan to boot, owning all of the Buffy, Angel and Firefly DVD collections. I’m not so good at either watching TV programmes regularly or buying DVDs (I don’t own a single one) but I did watch all of the Firefly episodes a few months ago.
They were great, and I’m sure ardent Whedon fans grit their teeth whenever they hear this, but I did spend 15 minutes going “There’s the Giles character! And the Cordelia character! And the demon equivalents!” But it’s not actually true, and every episode of the series was great fun.
They set me up nicely to go see Serenity last night, and it was excellent. Really, really good. I was a bit worried as a friend of mine at work, dragged to see it by her boyfriend, claimed it was so dull she fell asleep mid-film. I am relieved to report she is either wrong or perhaps narcoleptic.
It was heart-warming to see all the characters from the TV series again, and one of the best bits (as a viewer of the TV series) was seeing how the rich back-stories of each character develop. The person I saw it with hadn’t seen any of the Firefly episodes at all and still really enjoyed it, but I thought it was stuffed full of little treats for the long-term fans.
Now, I wonder when my brother will buy the DVD…
Posted by Oliver at October 14, 2005 03:01 PM
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Must…go…see…it!
Posted by: Audrey at October 14, 2005 05:39 PM
You are, of course, deeply right. I will be going to see it, shamefully for only the second time, tomorrow. The whole world needs to see this film, simply because if they do, we’ll get a sequel. Tell your brother the DVD is being released on 20th December, apparently.
Posted by: Shazzle at October 18, 2005 01:18 PM
I told him this and he gave me a look that said “Paying fans of Joss Whedon know this, thank you.” What? I was only trying to be nice.
He’s even got the Joss Whedon comic books. Though I suppose his livelihood is in comics illustration, so he has good reason beyond Whedon love.
Posted by: Oliver at October 21, 2005 03:43 PM
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