The crew of the ship Serenity tries to evade an assassin sent to recapture one of their number who is telepathic.
Can I just express my gratitude that I watched this way after all the hype? I would have cried if I had to wait 2 years to see the ending of the Firefly series.
The summary for this movie is not exactly descriptive but I think that's mostly because if you wanted to see Serenity then you had already watched Firefly and so you don't need a whole lot to go on. The fact that the ending was turned into a whole movie was just freaking awesome...enough said.
Serenity is the sister film to the tv series Firefly (if you didn't already get that). This movie was action packed and let me just mention they were NOT afraid to kill off characters. Granted it was more towards the end of the movie, but this one was not exactly a happy wrap up.
River, the telepathic one, is being chased by the central government because they fear she knows too much (they experimented on her brain for years). The Firefly crew finds out this knowledge and has to overcome some serious obstacles before saving the world. Of course.
That's it. That's all I'm saying because like every review of this movie has ever said this is a cult classic. You can't just pick this one out of a line up and say, "I'm gonna watch that!"
If you haven't seen Firefly you're not going to watch this and if you have seen Firefly there's no way you'll skip it.
Overall 5 stars. I would give more if I could. It was THAT awesome!
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Firefly (2002-2003)
Five hundred years in the future, a renegade crew aboard a small spacecraft tries to survive as they travel the unknown parts of the galaxy and evade warring factions as well as authority agents out to get them.
Everyone said I would like this show. Netflix kept telling me to watch it, messages kept begging me to sit down and get sucked in. Well I finally did watch Firefly and it was actually really really good.
Firefly is one of those recommendations that I would see after I rated pretty much every movie or tv show that I watched. I thought it was just a glitch in the system, but evenutally I gave it a try and wow was I surprised.
The pilot, to be completely honest, was not that engaging. I had no idea what was happening or who the characters were. I knew there was a war going on...and that was about it. This show doesn't actually give you any background until the beginning of episode 2 (which is technically episode 3 because the pilot was 2 hours long. I can't believe I actually watched the whole thing)
But AFTER the pilot everything started getting good. Interesting was flying at your face from every direction. I was excited, scared and freaking out all at the same time.
The premise of the show is this: in the future, Earth gets used up so everyone moves to another galaxy to live. In this galaxy people inhabit new planets and moons, each one looks different because each one has different resources. The Firefly crew (Firefly is the brand of spaceship they travel in) takes smuggling jobs between planets to make their money. Essentially they live off the grid because the central government doesn't like them.
If you can imagine it, this show is a mix between a sci-fi and a western. Kinda trippy, but it actually works.
This show only had one season, but they also made a movie, Serenity, to explain the abrupt ending of the tv series. I can honestly say that if I watched this show while it was aired on tv I would have been yelling at the screen when the 'last' episode finished. There wasn't really a cliffhanger...it was just another episode. There essentially was NO ending!
Thank god the writers had the sense to fix this because the movie gave the series an awesome ending...at least it went out with a bang. Literally :)
Overall 5 stars. If you can get past the pilot this show is awesome. Each character brings their own personality to the table and the show didn't last long enough to screw up. Totally worth watching!!
Everyone said I would like this show. Netflix kept telling me to watch it, messages kept begging me to sit down and get sucked in. Well I finally did watch Firefly and it was actually really really good.
Firefly is one of those recommendations that I would see after I rated pretty much every movie or tv show that I watched. I thought it was just a glitch in the system, but evenutally I gave it a try and wow was I surprised.
The pilot, to be completely honest, was not that engaging. I had no idea what was happening or who the characters were. I knew there was a war going on...and that was about it. This show doesn't actually give you any background until the beginning of episode 2 (which is technically episode 3 because the pilot was 2 hours long. I can't believe I actually watched the whole thing)
But AFTER the pilot everything started getting good. Interesting was flying at your face from every direction. I was excited, scared and freaking out all at the same time.
The premise of the show is this: in the future, Earth gets used up so everyone moves to another galaxy to live. In this galaxy people inhabit new planets and moons, each one looks different because each one has different resources. The Firefly crew (Firefly is the brand of spaceship they travel in) takes smuggling jobs between planets to make their money. Essentially they live off the grid because the central government doesn't like them.
If you can imagine it, this show is a mix between a sci-fi and a western. Kinda trippy, but it actually works.
This show only had one season, but they also made a movie, Serenity, to explain the abrupt ending of the tv series. I can honestly say that if I watched this show while it was aired on tv I would have been yelling at the screen when the 'last' episode finished. There wasn't really a cliffhanger...it was just another episode. There essentially was NO ending!
Thank god the writers had the sense to fix this because the movie gave the series an awesome ending...at least it went out with a bang. Literally :)
Overall 5 stars. If you can get past the pilot this show is awesome. Each character brings their own personality to the table and the show didn't last long enough to screw up. Totally worth watching!!
Roswell (1999-2002)
Living among the citizens of the infamous New Mexico city of Roswell are some who are not there by choice. They are there to follow a destiny given to them by the members of their dying race, a race that they are someday destined to save.
I don't know why I love supernatural tv shows so much but I do. It's clearly an obsession and Roswell is no exception. And it was on the WB which was in my opinion the best tv network of the 90s-2000s.
So Roswell is an ironic teen drama about aliens living in Rosewell, New Mexico...for those of you who don't know, that's where the infamous 'alien crash' took place in the 1940s. The main character Liz Parker is a normal teenager until she gets shot in her parents' diner: The Crashdown Cafe (see the irony? it only gets better...)
As she's on her deathbed a classmate, Max Evans, jumps to the rescue by placing his hand on her wound and healing her. Liz is obviously confused by this and confronts him. He confesses that he (and his friend and sister) are all aliens. Liz takes this surprisingly well, as most female leads in supernatural media tend to. Take for example Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, any other book involving ghosts or demons or vampires...you get the idea.
As the seasons go on, more people are taken into the circle and let in on the secret until finally the whole gang gets confronted by the government and stuff goes down. Big time.
This show is honestly worth watching so I won't spoil the details. Once I start spilling I can't seem to stop so I'll leave this post extremely vague.
But for all the good things I have to say about this show, out of all 3 seasons only season 1 and the series finale were really worth watching. I'll admit the writers set this show up really well because season 1 had all the complicated romance and mystery solving that a supernatural drama should have. The characters don't get too mushy but there is obvious sexual tension. When this gets boring to watch, there's a break in the case and the teens are off chasing something alien related. Everything overall was paced to make an exciting but oddly relatable tv show. Yes the aliens make it slightly harder to relate to, but somehow that's overcome...like I said the writing was brilliant!
Season 2 was just a huge flop. A dud. LAME. I read that the producers wanted the show to appeal to more people, not just love-struck teens, so they turned to a more sci-fi storyline. The love story went out the window as the gang chased down signs from home and tried to fulfill their destinies.
Well I lied. The love story didn't totally get thrown out the window, it was just put on the backburner for a while until they ran out of sci-fi material. Insert predictable love triangle here. Another alien is discovered in season 1 and she falls in love with Max. Liz feels awkward and tries to break up with Max by sleeping with her ex-boyfriend. It works so well that Max gets his new lover pregnant. Oops. Explain that to your 'soul mate' Max!
He tries but Liz can't forgive him...enter season 3. More sci-fi crap here and don't forget the Max/Liz drama. Other relationships have drama, but it's not as annoying. This season also introduced a LOT of new characters that were more irritating that anything else. Suddenly there's a new love between an alien and a human but I think this was just a new spin on the whole 'we have to protect our secret' thing.
Like I mentioned before the government does some stuff and the series ends. For all the pain and suffering through seasons 2 and 3 the finale was pretty satisfying. It ended the way it should have, happy...for the most part.
Overall I give this series 4 stars. Watch it when you have the time, especially the first season. But you've been warned...it's SERIOUSLY ADDICTING!!!
I don't know why I love supernatural tv shows so much but I do. It's clearly an obsession and Roswell is no exception. And it was on the WB which was in my opinion the best tv network of the 90s-2000s.
So Roswell is an ironic teen drama about aliens living in Rosewell, New Mexico...for those of you who don't know, that's where the infamous 'alien crash' took place in the 1940s. The main character Liz Parker is a normal teenager until she gets shot in her parents' diner: The Crashdown Cafe (see the irony? it only gets better...)
As she's on her deathbed a classmate, Max Evans, jumps to the rescue by placing his hand on her wound and healing her. Liz is obviously confused by this and confronts him. He confesses that he (and his friend and sister) are all aliens. Liz takes this surprisingly well, as most female leads in supernatural media tend to. Take for example Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, any other book involving ghosts or demons or vampires...you get the idea.
As the seasons go on, more people are taken into the circle and let in on the secret until finally the whole gang gets confronted by the government and stuff goes down. Big time.
This show is honestly worth watching so I won't spoil the details. Once I start spilling I can't seem to stop so I'll leave this post extremely vague.
But for all the good things I have to say about this show, out of all 3 seasons only season 1 and the series finale were really worth watching. I'll admit the writers set this show up really well because season 1 had all the complicated romance and mystery solving that a supernatural drama should have. The characters don't get too mushy but there is obvious sexual tension. When this gets boring to watch, there's a break in the case and the teens are off chasing something alien related. Everything overall was paced to make an exciting but oddly relatable tv show. Yes the aliens make it slightly harder to relate to, but somehow that's overcome...like I said the writing was brilliant!
Season 2 was just a huge flop. A dud. LAME. I read that the producers wanted the show to appeal to more people, not just love-struck teens, so they turned to a more sci-fi storyline. The love story went out the window as the gang chased down signs from home and tried to fulfill their destinies.
Well I lied. The love story didn't totally get thrown out the window, it was just put on the backburner for a while until they ran out of sci-fi material. Insert predictable love triangle here. Another alien is discovered in season 1 and she falls in love with Max. Liz feels awkward and tries to break up with Max by sleeping with her ex-boyfriend. It works so well that Max gets his new lover pregnant. Oops. Explain that to your 'soul mate' Max!
He tries but Liz can't forgive him...enter season 3. More sci-fi crap here and don't forget the Max/Liz drama. Other relationships have drama, but it's not as annoying. This season also introduced a LOT of new characters that were more irritating that anything else. Suddenly there's a new love between an alien and a human but I think this was just a new spin on the whole 'we have to protect our secret' thing.
Like I mentioned before the government does some stuff and the series ends. For all the pain and suffering through seasons 2 and 3 the finale was pretty satisfying. It ended the way it should have, happy...for the most part.
Overall I give this series 4 stars. Watch it when you have the time, especially the first season. But you've been warned...it's SERIOUSLY ADDICTING!!!
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