{"id":5454,"date":"2009-09-10T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=5454"},"modified":"2009-09-10T07:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T23:05:00","slug":"serenity-and-firefly-%e2%80%93-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/09\/10\/serenity-and-firefly-%e2%80%93-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Serenity and Firefly \u2013 Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite that the series comprised just 14 episodes before it was cancelled, the series was commercially very successful on DVD sales, and spawned a film called <em>Serenity<\/em> in 2005 that continued the stories that ended after the 14th episode in 2002. Funnily, I got into this series by way of the film first, so it was like watching the last episode before the first.<\/p>\n<p>The film had all the nine crew characters back in their roles, and enjoyed a much larger production budget than normal TV production allows. It was had story and plot points that significantly changed the story progression from the TV series \u2013 i.e. key characters were killed in the film \u2013 which is very unusual for films based off TV series. Just think of <em>Star Trek<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" title=\"blog-firefly-02\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/blogfirefly02.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-firefly-02\" width=\"580\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I liked the film a lot when I first watched it in 2005, but I didn\u2019t get to rent the series from Blockbuster as I was too busy finishing up my thesis then. When I was back in Singapore, the series wasn\u2019t available for rental here too \u2013 that is until recently when the home DVD rental service I\u2019m on finally acquired the 14 episodes. So, since last night, Ling and myself have been watching the first episodes.<\/p>\n<p>Like so much of the other stuff I watch on TV at least, <em>Firefly<\/em> won\u2019t appeal to everyone. It\u2019s not grand space action at least with exploding ships and dog fights everywhere that you\u2019d find in <em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em>, and certainly not a series with Alien of the Week showcasing c\/o <em>Star Trek<\/em>. But persons who enjoy wild west-esque stories and well-developed characters, watching <em>Firefly<\/em> and <em>Serenity<\/em> are pleasant ways to enjoying evenings.<\/p>\n<p>And oh yes &#8211; Ling likes the series too!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/star.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/star.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/star.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/star.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/blankstar.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite that the series comprised just 14 episodes before it was cancelled, the series was commercially very successful on DVD sales, and spawned a film called Serenity in 2005 that continued the stories that ended after the 14th episode in<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/09\/10\/serenity-and-firefly-%e2%80%93-part-2\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Serenity and Firefly \u2013 Part 2<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-entertainment","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-10-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}