{"id":435,"date":"2004-07-27T15:16:45","date_gmt":"2004-07-27T15:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/?p=435"},"modified":"2004-07-27T15:16:45","modified_gmt":"2004-07-27T15:16:45","slug":"a-few-serenity-panelpreview-thoughts-in-no-particular-order-and-redundant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2004\/07\/a-few-serenity-panelpreview-thoughts-in-no-particular-order-and-redundant\/","title":{"rendered":"A few Serenity Panel\/Preview thoughts, in no particular order, and redundant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>*<\/b> I saw four panels besides the Serenity one at the point in which stars were introduced. NOTHING matched this level of energy in this room. Honestly, I can&#8217;t think of a rock concert that saw more screaming. Seriously, Firefly fans are nuts.<br \/>\n<b>*<\/b> Joss is clearly focused on making One Good Movie and not worrying about other projects &#8212; all he&#8217;s working on right now is Serenity and the X-men monthies &#8212; that&#8217;s practically a vacation for him. He did mention it would be nice to make a trilogy, and it doesn&#8217;t sound like he&#8217;s going to push to get the show back on the small screen &#8212; he wants his Big Damn Heroes on the Big Damn Screen.<br \/>\n<b>*<\/b> The pseudo-trailer (you won&#8217;t see it in theaters; it starts with &#8220;They&#8217;re Back&#8221; and follows with a series of shots designed to get the hardcore faithful amped up) looked really, really tight and better than the show. As much as I liked the guy who did the TV show and hoped they&#8217;d use him for the movie, their new stuff is hot.  The backgrounds, costumes, and environments looked a bit more SF-y than the show, which may help folks get over their &#8216;horses in sci-fi?&#8217; reactions.<br \/>\n<b>*<\/b> In the trailer, we see:  Mal and Zoe holding up a back-room gambling set-up with all their classic panache and snide comments, Jayne doing things from the back of a hover truck of some kind, Inara in what looked like a Companion temple and meeting one of the movie&#8217;s Big Bads, and River.<br \/>\n<b>*<\/b> Lots of River. People who don&#8217;t like River are going to get her shoved down their throat anyway, cuz that story is the movie, people.  And just so we&#8217;re clear, this is the River of <i>Objects in Space<\/i> and <i>War Stories<\/i> &#8212; this is psuedo-mind-reader River with Gun-fu Grip.<br \/>\n<b>*<\/b> There&#8217;s not much (overt) Blue Sun\/Blue Hands in the movie; the Alliance presence is there via &#8220;The Operative&#8221; (a bounty hunter that we see visiting Inara).  He is the Hard Place &#8212; the Rock on the other side consists of the Reavers.<br \/>\n<b>*<\/b> We&#8217;re going to see a lot of the Reavers in this movie &#8212; they might have even been in the trailer if one shot I saw was what I think it was.)  <i>Serenity: River and Reavers<\/i> &#8212; I&#8217;m there.<br \/>\n<b>*<\/b> Literally no swag.  Bummer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* I saw four panels besides the Serenity one at the point in which stars were introduced. NOTHING matched this level of energy in this room. Honestly, I can&#8217;t think of a rock concert that saw more screaming. Seriously, Firefly fans are nuts. * Joss is clearly focused on making One Good Movie and not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2004\/07\/a-few-serenity-panelpreview-thoughts-in-no-particular-order-and-redundant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A few Serenity Panel\/Preview thoughts, in no particular order, and redundant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-fanboy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}