Can't Stop the Signal

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Serenity.
Amazing.
Wow.

Now I will try to compose myself enough to write a blog post.

Trey Stokes: you wanted a movie with smugglers and spaceships, this is it. No rules, deep characters, and great lines. This is the movie we waited for.

To a beat the dead horse of a worn-out cliche, this movie blew me away. It was grainy and the color-timing wasn't properly balanced (oh, what words you learn at an advance screening), and apparently the soundtrack wasn't there for 75% of the movie--I wouldn't know, because my husband had to inform me afterward. I was too busy looking at all the pretties.

And about "can't stop the signal" itself, which had no meaning for me prior to the movie except "that Firefly-related website where we can find info on advance screenings," just know this. You will know. And in the meantime, it is a metaphor, and it means: go and tell your friends, because come September you will see box office records crumble as this non-star-driven movie amazes an entire nation of people used to formulaic films. This movie could fly on its own--but it won't have to, because everyone who has seen Firefly and now everyone who has seen Serenity will come out, impassioned by this story, and will bring their friends, and we will show everyone that this is the most successfully cancelled show, the most incredible movie--I can't even say so many good things about this movie that it would later come as a let-down to you. No disappointments here.

Let me clarify:
ROTS is great. It is the movie I waited for--years, then weeks in line. It did not disappoint.

Serenity is a different film altogether. It is the unasked-for gift--or rather, the gift we all desperately wanted after Firefly was torn from us in its genius infancy, but that we knew we would never receive. And miraculously, here it is, and it's something incredible that we couldn't have even imagined.

And I must say, I doubted. Not once the trailer was released--!!!--but when rumors circulated that Joss was re-visiting the earlier story to bring in an audience that had not watched the series. I thought, that's ridiculous. He can't re-tell the series in one movie, and it will be all boring re-hash, and we'll have to sit through short versions of key show scenes.

Do not doubt. Believe.
I know this resounds with those of you who have seen Serenity.)

Oh, and bring ten other friends with you to the theater in September, okay? It shouldn't be hard--show them the trailer, and if you're really a good friend, you'll kidnap them for an entire weekend--don't worry, you'll only have to convince them to watch the first episode, and then they'll watch the entire rest of the series on their own, that weekend. But those that you can't kidnap, bring to the theater anyway. They can watch the series while they wait for this movie to come to DVD--what, a freakin' year from now?!!

Sigh. Sometimes the incredible parts of life make the other parts--and the waiting parts--really suck.

Okay, that's it, who's lining up for the September showing?