BIG. DAMN. MOVIE.
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permetaform and fashes last night.
Simon. Oh, my god, Simon! Best hair in the verse and oh my GOD, but he was working that sweater. And in the beginning, when he crouched down and jammed that thing onto the floor before getting River out? I noticed River got in the same position when they boarded the lift that got them out of there. It's the Tam Family Hotcrouch. Yis.
Simon learned how to fight! Oh God, the punching. He knocked Mal on the floor. And then Mal shoved him and he shoved back and Mal actually got shoved back and how much do I love that with the exception of the married couple he had chemistry with the entire crew? Hot fighty squabbling chemistry? SO MUCH OMG.
Me: Simon punching people was the hottest thing ever. And actually getting some leverage in instead of just getting beaten up.
fashes: Yes, he must have --
Me: It's the hair.
fashes: ::laughs:: No, you're right. It is the hair. He is like Samson.
Me: ::collapses into giggles::
See, in the happy place in my head? Jayne taught him how to fight. Hand to hand. There was scuffling involved. Also, thank you Joss for giving me the lovely Simon/Jayne moment of the shared drink. Thank you. Just thank you. I'll be in my bunk.
Jayne! JAYNE IS LOVE. On the show, he was crass and vulgar and said stupid shit making you think that he was an idiot who'd probably be a horribly inconsiderate lover, but then I'd see him worrying about what Kaylee thought of him and braiding that blonde prostitute's hair (and don't think I wasn't pointing and flailing at the screen the episode that happened) and LOVE. JUST LOVE.
The movie? It was Jayne at his best. As for the inconsiderate lover thing, well, any guy who enjoys hearing a woman talking about getting herself off that much clearly has a vested interest in the subject (oh Kaylee, I will come back to you later). When he gets in the argument with Mal and God, but he's actually making valid points and being all reasonable and even kind of caring in a kind of heartless way and how much do I love how he was all, "Don't walk away, I'm talkin' at you!" and specifically said talking at, not talking to? Yeah, that's right. SO MUCH.
Jayne at his smartest, both in his thinking and in his actual verbal delivery, the latter of which was a particularly nice development. Clearly he picked up some vocabulary from Simon along the way. Possibly when he was teaching Simon how to fight. Mmmmmmm.
It should be stated that I am, in fact, writing this post from my bunk, to which I absconded four paragraphs ago.
Where was I? Oh, yes. Jayne. The grenades. The tight t-shirts. The PRETTY.
<3
Zoe. So. Fucking. Hot. After the movie, all three of us gushed over Zoe's staggering hotness. And OMG when Wash died and she had her moment of mindless vengeance and Jayne had to pull her back and save her from herself and YES THIS POST IS ALL ABOUT JAYNE BECAUSE JAYNE IS LOVE, AS PREVIOUSLY STATED.
But seriously. Back to Zoe. Holy fuck, Zoe is hot. And oh god, the funeral scene, and I missed Wash, and I missed Book, but I couldn't help but notice what a GODDESS Zoe was in that dress.
I love how Mal was all, "If something goes wrong, come get me," and Zoe was all, "And risk hurting my ship?" with her hands going all fondley over the nav controls.
It is a very good thing I am in my bunk right now.
River. WINZ AT LIFE. No, seriously.ficbyzee said it so beautifully I'll just quote her directly: "I loved the subtext of that: the Alliance created the Reavers because they were trying to make humans 'better.' The Alliance experimented on River because they were trying to make her 'better.' They could have turned her into a Reaver-equivalent, but instead she took that on and she *beat* it, all by herself." (source)
At one point in the movie, before the reavers broke in the room, I remember leaning intopermetaform and murmuring, "You know, this would be a really great time for her to start killing people with her brain." But then she killed them with her body. And that was just so much sexier.
River going for the bag. River saving EVERYONE. River beating a battalion of reavers like THE MOST AWESOME VIDEO GAME CHARACTER EVER. Lara Croft? Laura who?
I must say, amidst the panting hotness and total awesomeness of her standing there over the dead reavers, I was terribly amused at the fancy sword and battleaxe she was left holding. Where did the reavers pick that one up? Did they pause in their people killing/eating/raping to break open a museum? Perhaps one of those innocent ships they attacked with the poor people being resettled happened to carry antiques.
I almost want to write a fic following that axe through the ages. Like The Red Violin only, you know, really, really not.
Then again, it would just end up angsty, angsty and full of angst if I wrote it.
In conclusion? Still in my bunk.
Mal! Mal was never my favorite character, though I always liked him, but in the movie? I loved him. I really, really did. I loved him and Inara and their cute bantery cuteness. I loved him fighting with Simon. Because that was just scarily hot. I loved him arguing with Jayne and losing the moral high ground. I loved him being papa bear to River, despite his own common sense. I loved that we got to see more of his hardass side, even though it hurt to watch a little because he made hard choices that he shouldn't have had to make. In the show, I always felt like he couldn't move on from the war because it was a war he just couldn't afford to lose. And he still lost. And he couldn't really deal.
But now? He finally won something. He can finally move on and grow again. I wanted this for him. I wanted him to have this. I'm so glad he got to have it.
And his plan at the end? God, you just know the assassin guy must have been like, "Malcolm Reynolds, you're going to fight moi? Ahahahaha! You and what army?"
"..."
"Oh. That army."
Heh heh heh.
Kaylee! She lost weight! Or, asfashes put it, "Jawline!"
God, I love Kaylee. "There ain't been nothin twixt my nethers weren't run by batteries since..." HEEEEEEEE. And Mal being like, "TMI!!! TMI!!!" And Jayne being like, "Please. Go on." And Simon being all, "I wish we could have been together," And Kaylee being all, "Take my love, take my land, TAKE ME TILL I CANNOT STAND."
I love that she and Simon hooked up at the end. Mainly because it involved Simon losing his shirt. I love even more that it happened in the engine room because we all know that engines get Kaylee hot. And, of course, I love River watching raptly. Because, well, RIVER.
Book, well, I never actually liked Book in the show because River was scared of him and that therefore meant he was shady. His death scene was heartbreaking. I am sad that he died. I am even more sad that Wash died. Joss executed that scene extremely well from a narrative standpoint. He got us fans doing the relieved laughter thing, and we hadn't even started to wind down yet before he stuck the knife in and twisted. As much as I grieve for Wash, I feel strangely at peace with his death. I think I was so utterly unsurprised by it, despite not having been spoiled and having no idea it would happen. I was kind of prepared for it the moment I told my best friend from high school about the series after first watching the DVD's a year ago and he said, "Wait a second, there's a happily married couple in a Joss Whedon show? You must be shitting me."
Overall, I am just utterly in love with this movie. It was so perfect. I know a lot of people were devastated by the deaths to the point that they couldn't really absorb the rest of the movie until a second viewing. I found I was actually gutpunched by the joy and the triumph in the movie than by the heartbreak.
This movie left me how I wanted to feel at the end of BtVS but couldn't. I remember wanting to be happy for the survivors but just feeling all twisted up inside because Anya died, and most fans may not agree, but Anya was my absolute favorite character on the show. She felt the most real to me. She was probably the first character on any tv show that I really loved without being physically attracted. So the heartbreak in Serenity didn't break me like I thought it would, and perhaps I am jaded in that respect.
But in a way, I am glad. Because this time, I'm not watching the series finale of BtVS, and I'm not fixating on my favorite character's death, and though I am sad for those who died, I can still step back and look at my show, this brave crew, and think, they won. In spite of everything, they won. There were losses, but. They WON.
FUCK, YEAH.
permetaform and fashes last night.Simon. Oh, my god, Simon! Best hair in the verse and oh my GOD, but he was working that sweater. And in the beginning, when he crouched down and jammed that thing onto the floor before getting River out? I noticed River got in the same position when they boarded the lift that got them out of there. It's the Tam Family Hotcrouch. Yis.
Simon learned how to fight! Oh God, the punching. He knocked Mal on the floor. And then Mal shoved him and he shoved back and Mal actually got shoved back and how much do I love that with the exception of the married couple he had chemistry with the entire crew? Hot fighty squabbling chemistry? SO MUCH OMG.
Me: Simon punching people was the hottest thing ever. And actually getting some leverage in instead of just getting beaten up.
fashes: Yes, he must have --Me: It's the hair.
fashes: ::laughs:: No, you're right. It is the hair. He is like Samson.Me: ::collapses into giggles::
See, in the happy place in my head? Jayne taught him how to fight. Hand to hand. There was scuffling involved. Also, thank you Joss for giving me the lovely Simon/Jayne moment of the shared drink. Thank you. Just thank you. I'll be in my bunk.
Jayne! JAYNE IS LOVE. On the show, he was crass and vulgar and said stupid shit making you think that he was an idiot who'd probably be a horribly inconsiderate lover, but then I'd see him worrying about what Kaylee thought of him and braiding that blonde prostitute's hair (and don't think I wasn't pointing and flailing at the screen the episode that happened) and LOVE. JUST LOVE.
The movie? It was Jayne at his best. As for the inconsiderate lover thing, well, any guy who enjoys hearing a woman talking about getting herself off that much clearly has a vested interest in the subject (oh Kaylee, I will come back to you later). When he gets in the argument with Mal and God, but he's actually making valid points and being all reasonable and even kind of caring in a kind of heartless way and how much do I love how he was all, "Don't walk away, I'm talkin' at you!" and specifically said talking at, not talking to? Yeah, that's right. SO MUCH.
Jayne at his smartest, both in his thinking and in his actual verbal delivery, the latter of which was a particularly nice development. Clearly he picked up some vocabulary from Simon along the way. Possibly when he was teaching Simon how to fight. Mmmmmmm.
It should be stated that I am, in fact, writing this post from my bunk, to which I absconded four paragraphs ago.
Where was I? Oh, yes. Jayne. The grenades. The tight t-shirts. The PRETTY.
<3
Zoe. So. Fucking. Hot. After the movie, all three of us gushed over Zoe's staggering hotness. And OMG when Wash died and she had her moment of mindless vengeance and Jayne had to pull her back and save her from herself and YES THIS POST IS ALL ABOUT JAYNE BECAUSE JAYNE IS LOVE, AS PREVIOUSLY STATED.
But seriously. Back to Zoe. Holy fuck, Zoe is hot. And oh god, the funeral scene, and I missed Wash, and I missed Book, but I couldn't help but notice what a GODDESS Zoe was in that dress.
I love how Mal was all, "If something goes wrong, come get me," and Zoe was all, "And risk hurting my ship?" with her hands going all fondley over the nav controls.
It is a very good thing I am in my bunk right now.
River. WINZ AT LIFE. No, seriously.
ficbyzee said it so beautifully I'll just quote her directly: "I loved the subtext of that: the Alliance created the Reavers because they were trying to make humans 'better.' The Alliance experimented on River because they were trying to make her 'better.' They could have turned her into a Reaver-equivalent, but instead she took that on and she *beat* it, all by herself." (source)At one point in the movie, before the reavers broke in the room, I remember leaning into
permetaform and murmuring, "You know, this would be a really great time for her to start killing people with her brain." But then she killed them with her body. And that was just so much sexier.River going for the bag. River saving EVERYONE. River beating a battalion of reavers like THE MOST AWESOME VIDEO GAME CHARACTER EVER. Lara Croft? Laura who?
I must say, amidst the panting hotness and total awesomeness of her standing there over the dead reavers, I was terribly amused at the fancy sword and battleaxe she was left holding. Where did the reavers pick that one up? Did they pause in their people killing/eating/raping to break open a museum? Perhaps one of those innocent ships they attacked with the poor people being resettled happened to carry antiques.
I almost want to write a fic following that axe through the ages. Like The Red Violin only, you know, really, really not.
Then again, it would just end up angsty, angsty and full of angst if I wrote it.
In conclusion? Still in my bunk.
Mal! Mal was never my favorite character, though I always liked him, but in the movie? I loved him. I really, really did. I loved him and Inara and their cute bantery cuteness. I loved him fighting with Simon. Because that was just scarily hot. I loved him arguing with Jayne and losing the moral high ground. I loved him being papa bear to River, despite his own common sense. I loved that we got to see more of his hardass side, even though it hurt to watch a little because he made hard choices that he shouldn't have had to make. In the show, I always felt like he couldn't move on from the war because it was a war he just couldn't afford to lose. And he still lost. And he couldn't really deal.
But now? He finally won something. He can finally move on and grow again. I wanted this for him. I wanted him to have this. I'm so glad he got to have it.
And his plan at the end? God, you just know the assassin guy must have been like, "Malcolm Reynolds, you're going to fight moi? Ahahahaha! You and what army?"
"..."
"Oh. That army."
Heh heh heh.
Kaylee! She lost weight! Or, as
fashes put it, "Jawline!"God, I love Kaylee. "There ain't been nothin twixt my nethers weren't run by batteries since..." HEEEEEEEE. And Mal being like, "TMI!!! TMI!!!" And Jayne being like, "Please. Go on." And Simon being all, "I wish we could have been together," And Kaylee being all, "Take my love, take my land, TAKE ME TILL I CANNOT STAND."
I love that she and Simon hooked up at the end. Mainly because it involved Simon losing his shirt. I love even more that it happened in the engine room because we all know that engines get Kaylee hot. And, of course, I love River watching raptly. Because, well, RIVER.
Book, well, I never actually liked Book in the show because River was scared of him and that therefore meant he was shady. His death scene was heartbreaking. I am sad that he died. I am even more sad that Wash died. Joss executed that scene extremely well from a narrative standpoint. He got us fans doing the relieved laughter thing, and we hadn't even started to wind down yet before he stuck the knife in and twisted. As much as I grieve for Wash, I feel strangely at peace with his death. I think I was so utterly unsurprised by it, despite not having been spoiled and having no idea it would happen. I was kind of prepared for it the moment I told my best friend from high school about the series after first watching the DVD's a year ago and he said, "Wait a second, there's a happily married couple in a Joss Whedon show? You must be shitting me."
Overall, I am just utterly in love with this movie. It was so perfect. I know a lot of people were devastated by the deaths to the point that they couldn't really absorb the rest of the movie until a second viewing. I found I was actually gutpunched by the joy and the triumph in the movie than by the heartbreak.
This movie left me how I wanted to feel at the end of BtVS but couldn't. I remember wanting to be happy for the survivors but just feeling all twisted up inside because Anya died, and most fans may not agree, but Anya was my absolute favorite character on the show. She felt the most real to me. She was probably the first character on any tv show that I really loved without being physically attracted. So the heartbreak in Serenity didn't break me like I thought it would, and perhaps I am jaded in that respect.
But in a way, I am glad. Because this time, I'm not watching the series finale of BtVS, and I'm not fixating on my favorite character's death, and though I am sad for those who died, I can still step back and look at my show, this brave crew, and think, they won. In spite of everything, they won. There were losses, but. They WON.
FUCK, YEAH.
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Date: 2005-10-03 08:12 pm (UTC)Hee!! *SQUEALS*
YES!!
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Date: 2005-10-03 10:49 pm (UTC)XD
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Date: 2005-10-03 08:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-03 10:54 pm (UTC)XD
First rule of pimping anything: sex sells. And as far as I'm concerned, this movie is all about the sex. The well characterized, angsty, snarky, pretty, it's not plot so much as foreplay, *good* kind of sex.
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Date: 2005-10-03 09:36 pm (UTC)::howling:: You win at Teh Intarnets.
I am basking and rolling naked in your squee. (:
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Date: 2005-10-03 10:55 pm (UTC)I'll be here all night.
:P
:::basks and rolls naked with you::
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Date: 2005-10-03 11:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-07 12:17 am (UTC)Oh, and
Date: 2005-10-03 09:39 pm (UTC)Re: Oh, and
Date: 2005-10-03 10:56 pm (UTC)Re: Oh, and
Date: 2005-10-03 11:28 pm (UTC)I'll email you and/or send particulars when more people get back to me, but it's looking like 7:40 pm Saturday at the Metreon.
Re: Oh, and
Date: 2005-10-04 08:55 am (UTC)I... I can't go Saturday. *frets* Stupid retail job.
Re: Oh, and
Date: 2005-10-04 05:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-03 10:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-03 10:57 pm (UTC)This explains so much.
::molests your brain::
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Date: 2005-10-03 10:44 pm (UTC):::nods:::
joss loves us so-o-o-o much!
Jayne. The grenades. The tight t-shirts. The PRETTY.
and the arms. the big, big upper arms.
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Date: 2005-10-03 11:00 pm (UTC)::goes back to happy place::
Joss is full of love.