Voices

Adam Baldwin is going to be a guest at this year's Emerald City Comicon. Sweet.

I'm sure most everyone here has heard about it by now because of Penny Arcade, if nothing else, but still... a Firefly MMO? It's another one of those situations where the realistic part of me shudders, while one tiny part of my brain jumps up and down, screaming with glee and throwing something around. I'm not sure what. Maybe bananas?

I followed byrdie's link to the IMDB poll to vote for the best and worst movies and work of 2005. I cast my votes in the areas in which I felt qualified to cast my votes, and then I looked closely at the results. I noticed that Serenity (or someone involved in making Serenity) ranked between #4 and #8 in all the following categories: Best Picture (English Language), Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, Funniest Movie, Best Action Movie, and Most Entertaining Movie. However, what's really interesting is that 2/3 of the movies that beat out Serenity in these categories also appear somewhere in the "Worst of 2005" lists, while Serenity does not.

It just goes to show that what we Browncoats have been saying are true: Almost everyone who actually saw Serenity liked it; it's just a shame that the number of those people was so small.

Bad News: I stayed up late last night, despite already being very tired.

Good News: I stayed up late last night because I was watching Serenity again.

Bad News: I have to work today, like I always do on Saturdays.

Good News: I get off work at noon instead of 5:30 pm today.

Bad News: I need to make a grocery store/Best Buy run on Christmas Eve day.

Good News: My roommates are gone, so I can use their car to do this.

Bad News: You had to read this Bad News/Good News post.

Good News: It's over.

Todays top sellers on Amazon.com...

#1 - Serenity, Widescreen Edition.
#6 - Firefly, the complete series.

Top selling TV show dvd on Amazon:

Firefly, the complete series

Boo-ya!!

I'm going to talk about Serenity some more, okay? Specifically, I'm going to talk about the soundtrack.

I enjoyed the music in the movie; it did a great job of enhancing and punctuating certain scenes without ever being overbearing. I have a particular fondness for faux-Irish music as well, so several of the pieces that fell in that category were particularly delightful to me. Overall, though, I had little interest in buying the soundtrack, as movie scores (even really good ones) can rarely hold my interest for long.

Then I saw the movie a second time. At the end of this second viewing, Jason and I sat quietly through the closing credits, not talking, merely basking in the glow of what we had witnessed. The credits begin with a reprise of one of the earlier pieces in the movie, the faux-Irish one I mentioned earlier, with some variations. It lasts around a minute-and-a-half. Then, another piece begins, and it is familiar. It took me a few moments to realize what I was hearing, and then I turned to Jason and said, "Is that...?", and he nodded.

It was an instrumental version of "The Ballad of Serenity," the original Firefly opening song that I had ached to hear throughout the movie, and it was glorious.

So, all this is to say that, based solely on this realization, I bought the soundtrack on Monday. And you know what? IT'S NOT ON THE FREAKING SOUNDTRACK ALBUM ANYWHERE! They're just toying with my emotions in every way they possibly can. I can't express enough how disappointed I am by this. I think I might just die.

Cheers.

I'll refrain from spoilers, as much as I would like to just gush over this movie. I've been following the creation of Serenity for nigh on 2 years now. The only other movie I've lavished this much attention on prior to its actual release was LOTR. All that to say I had a lot invested in Serenity, and I was not disappointed. The first 15 minutes or so left me feeling a little uneasy, as there seemed to be some slight history revision going on between what the movie was showing and what had occurred in Firefly. Granted, I have not yet read the 3 issue comic that is supposed to bridge the two, so that may help some. Once that initial stage passed, though, it was like coming home and being surrounded by old friends. This may seem silly, considering how few episodes of Firefly were made, but this show became my favorite of all time upon first viewing. 'Nuf said. There were highs and lows, great wins and great losses. In several places I was in tears. I'll be seeing it again with Jason on Monday.

I passed my practicum at work today, which makes my promotion official.

apawn got the math teaching job in Shoreline that he interviewed for last Wednesday.

The trailer for Serenity went up today.

Rock.