Jon, Josef, Terra, and I all went to go see Joss Whedon’s Serenity on Saturday. As a fan of Firefly, I was guaranteed to love it and I did. I can’t imagine someone that liked the series but didn’t like the movie.

If you haven’t seen the movie yet and still want to (without
spoilers being ruined for you), I wouldn’t read anything below this
point.

Although I can easily say that I love the movie now, when it was
over I was a bit conflicted. Maybe it’s because I was still
reeling from it. You see, in the movie, two major characters from the
series die. The first one, is Ron Glass’ character Shepherd Book.
Although a regrettable loss, you knew it was coming the second that
Serenity made planet fall on Haven. In his last moments, he got some
one-on-one exposition time with Nathan Fillion’s character Malcolm
‘Mal’ Reynolds. We got to grieve and be mad for his death before moving
on with the story.

It’s been rumored that Ron Glass asked Joss to be written out of
Serenity due to health reasons, but as of yet, I can’t confirm that.
Hopefully, Ron is doing just fine and he just lost some weight for the
role.

The second one came as such a shock that I think that everyone in
the theater made one collective gasp when it happened. After pulling
the crew through a disastrous landing, Alan Tudyk’s character Hoban
‘Wash’ Washburn, was impaled by a huge grappling hook spike in the
middle of his line “I am a leaf on the wind…”

First of all, I really like the character of Wash. I thought he was
great, so I was completely shell shocked when I saw him get impaled.
The minute I saw it I thought to myself, “How the hell is Simon (the
doctor) going to fix that?!” Then, right after his death, the audience
was rushed into another do or die situation leaving us with no time to
grieve for Wash. Damn you Joss, if you weren’t such a good storyteller,
I’d wring your neck.

For those that are too torn up over the character deaths in Serenity, there is hope.

During an interview in Melbourne, Joss had some interesting things
to say about his characters. Notably, “In fact, if there were a sequel
I can say, without hesitation that he [Wash] in fact would be in
it. And not in a cheesy twin brother way. I can’t stress that enough.”
and “The only sweeping statement i will make is that two people i plan
to see again are Book and Wash, and not in the aforementioned cheesy
way.”

All in all, I hope that there is something after Serenity. I love the characters and the storyline too much for there not to be but the future doesn’t look good
considering the movie’s less than stellar box office grab on its
opening weekend. With all that being said, no movie had a stellar
opening weekend with Flightplan (1st) earning just 4 million more than Serenity (2nd)).