and we shall call it...this land
"This is gonna get pretty interesting!"
"Define 'interesting.'"
"'Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die?'"
All of my geek molecules are bouncing off each other in abject joy: The "Serenity" movie trailer's now up!
For the uninitiated, "Serenity" is the movie spinoff of "Firefly," a Joss Whedon show that ran on Fox back in the days before the Wolfs had Tivo. It was a program that featured space and cowboys! Together! With a nougaty center! My mistake! That was the whore! Yes! Whore!
The premise was set five hundred years in the future: Earth was dead, humans lived on terraformed planets, the Chinese and Americans basically became one corporate-controlled goverment (the model UN run by Microsoft?), and one Firefly class space vessal was helmed by nine renegades, looking to right the wrongs of the universe, or at least get paid.
And, I swear, the pilot episode was built around the imagery in U2's "Bullet the Blue Sky."
Then again, I can be a bit of a fangirl, so never mind.
I didn't get to see an episode before Fox yanked the series off the air. It wasn't until Jordan loaned me his DVDs that I became hooked. And hooked doesn't begin to touch the obsession. While I was working on the first draft of BOOMERANG, I'd keep the DVDs looped in the background for company. First readers swear they can pick out the influence.
"Firefly" was fabulous television, another example of brillance cancelled before its time. But! Sales of the DVD boxset and the rabid, vocal fanbase convinced Universal to finance the spin off, and boom! We have "Serenity."
I cannot wait to see this movie. I'd gladly trade multiple viewings of "Episode III" for one shot at "Serenity." Oh, but irony! An unfinished version of the flick will be screened for fans next week in Denver and I! CAN'T! GO! (the Editorial Board would never forgive me for ditching them four Fridays in a row.) (You don't tick off the Editorial board. They're the rainmakers, y'know.) (Also, the screening's sold out, so fooey.)
It's a day of estatic highs and woeful lows. Just, go download the trailer. You'll see.
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Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell 'em I ain't comin' back
Ugh, Ticky. You just turned my stomach with those U2 lyrics. Firefly's tainted now. Tainted!
Why must you have such awful taste? Why? Why?
Because someone has to. :)
Anyway, back to the theme song.
Burn the land and boil the sea,
You can't take the sky from me
I guess you'll just have to watch Serenity when the rest of us poor schmucks with no connections do.
It's not even connections. It's just bastardly luck on my part.
I am sad panda.
Serenity!Yay!! :D
September is sooo far away. :_|
-Chris
If the one in Atlanta wasn't sold out, I would so be there. *sob*
But yeah, totally more interested in Serenity than Ep III.
-Rachel
OMG. Adam Baldwin is such a dreamboat.
Mmmmm. Jayne.
BAH! Serenity will be best when properly aged. You'll see. The poor folks who see it before the release will have to deal with the harsh tannens and lack of nose. Yup. We'll be getting the better viewing.
"Take me, Sir. Take me hard."
"Something 'bout that's just downright unsettling!"
JAYNE! The man they call JAYNE!
I too would much rather see Serenity than Episode III. I'm almost just seeing E3 out of duty as a Star Wars fan. I'm not excited. Which is sad. Maybe when I'm actually sitting in the theater with my soda and my popcorn I'll get excited. Here's hoping. :)
-Judy
P.S. If the dinosaurs aren't on Wash's console, I'll be sad.
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