Serenity (mild/vague spoilers)

Kevin and I went to see Serenity this afternoon. I have to say, I was more excited about it than any other film release since The Two Towers (which didn't quite live up to expectation in the end). Serenity, however, did.

Without going into too much detail, I thought the plot was good. It was bigger, grander than those of the TV series, but that fitted the scope of a film better. I was quite impressed with how Serenity still had the feeling of Firefly for the most part yet was still most definitely a Movie rather than a Two-Hour TV Episode on the big screen. I guess I was suprised that so little time had elapsed between "Objects In Space" and the film (it's getting harder and harder to pretend that Summer Glau is 16/17 years old) but that didn't really have much of an effect anyway.

I was pretty well convinced that I would go to see the film a second time in the cinema, but ironically, it's the brilliance of Joss Whedon's film-making that's stopping me from doing so. The [major spoiler] really shook me, and I've had that image going round in my head for the last seven hours. I'm not sure I want to see that again; once was hard enough.

They did a pretty good job with making sure that newcomers would get the backstory and background without having too much obvious exposition; a nice balance for those who have and who haven't seen Firefly. In conclusion: Go see it, 'tis good.