Anyone else seen Serenity this weekend?

There is a character called "The Operative" (who is one of the best "bad guys" I have seen in a long time, BTW) who uses a short Asian (Chinese/Japanese) looking sword. I was wondering if it is based on anything close to historic.

By the way - that was a really fun movie - lots of action and smart writing.

Gordon

I just saw it: I really liked it! I'd recently rented the series Firefly a couple months ago, and I think they did a great job staying true to the original series without baffling people who'd never seen it before.

The sword looks like one of those "tactical" katana styled blades that United Cutlery and a few other makers have done, i.e. a single edged blade with a nylon wrap around the tang and a kydex back scabbard. I don't recall ever seeing anything historical like that aside from machetes.

Enjoyed the movie also but to get all the in jokes and to get the full emotional impact it helps a lot to be familiar with the series. Since I bought the series and watched all the episodes it hard for me to evaluate how I would have responded to the story if the characters were not already familiar to me: I think I would have liked it.

If you liked the movie go buy or rent the series. :p :lol:

The Buffy and Angel series seem to use a lot of the lower end United Cutlery swords and some MRL stuff.

Saw it twice: Went to see Serenity a second time with friends and enjoyed it almost more on it's own merits than the first time I saw it: The first time I was focused more on the way the film rapped up loose ends that were left over from the series and the second time I could just concentrate on the plot as if it was any other film and it really stands up on it's own.

Hope it makes enough money to justify in the minds of the " SUITS " making more films or resurrecting the series or a few made for T.V. movies.

I guess a series would be the best for the fans: More content, more often than a film every two years.

Don't know what would be best for the actors careers: Movies or a new series ?

At least this movie answered most questions left hanging.

There won't be a TV series, Fox has seen to that. Killed any hope of more Firefly on TV good and thorough. All we can really expect are more movies (at least two sequels should be forthcoming if the first one makes any profit) and potentially direct-to-DVD episodes (nothing official has been said, but since Fox owns the TV rights and is unlikely to let them go, that's really the only possible avenue besides feature films).

I thought the sword closly resmbled the strait bladed, one edged katana that a Japanese ninja would carry into a mission, But thats just my opinion i could be very wrong

Fox and the Sci-Fi channel seem to have a habit of cancelling series out of hand for pretty foggy reasons. They've done it with Firefly, Farscape, and a few others inspite of their popularity. At the same time they really latch onto far less interesting efforts like Stargate: Atlantis and Andromeda. Since the new Battlestar Galactica is both interesting and original (considering it's a retread) I'm waiting for it to get the axe.

I'm planning on catching Serenity soon. I appreciate Joss Whedon's sense of dry cutting humor that manages to avoid catering to the lowest common denominator.

I saw it sunday. Go-ing in w/o fore knowlege, I spotted sci-fi chanel ilk asap. What the heck happened to our sci fi/ fantasy genre's? I remember good films. Dirty realism and fresh blood. Now everyone seems to shop at Xena-mart, prefer hand to hand over using the blaster their holding, and have a 9 dan in every martial art...

It was cute and I enjoyed it, but could have been a tv special, as have been many a film of late.

Due to being in Japan at the time, I didn’t see Firefly until it was long dead as a show and out on DVD. Overall I thought it had the potential to be one of the best sci-fi shows ever made. I liked Farscape as well, which appears to have been cancelled due to some political subtext in a few of the later episodes. It’s very sad, because there’s a dearth of good sci-fi these days.

One other thing that Fox did was to air the Firefly episodes out of sequence so that nobody had a clue what was going on. TV networks have yet to catch on to shows that have well-defined story arcs. They much prefer the episodic shows that feature a self-contained “adventure of the week”, both because they have a very low and insulting opinion of our attention span and because it’s harder for an arc-heavy show to attract new viewers once it gets going. I’ll sum that up be agreeing with the clueless asshat comment.

But, hey. A TV network canceled Star Trek once upon a time, but like Obi Wan, it only became more powerful than they could possibly imagine. :D I for one would have liked to see them make another go at a series. There isn’t anything you can cover in a movie that you can’t knock out in two or three episodes, story-wise. But then, TV networks are stupid like that.

Loved this show. Really fits into a kind of "feel" of a story a few friends of mine and I tried to write, eerily similar.

The best thing was that I got the wife hooked on it, she likes it maybe even more than I do, a very rare bonus!

I was disappointed they did not use the original theme with words anywhere in the movie...was it too "country"?

I'm really liking the DVD series so far. Even in the 26th century, they still have duels of honor with rapiers! God, I love it! :lol: Thanks, Mikko, for those lyrics. That's a great song. Oh, BTW, is that song in the movie?