Another New Serenity Trailer

CABridges writes "Brand new U.S. trailer for Serenity debuted on the SciFi channel tonight, and went online immediately afterwards. A combination of the first trailer and the international trailer, with more new stuff lines. Spoiler virgins beware: some plot is revealed."

Re:The real question is...

[Adrilla]

From what I remember from previous stories, there's contracts with the tv show producers that wont let it comeback on tv for something like 10 years. But there is a 3 picture deal, so the question is "How much money does it have to make to get a sequel?"

Cool Sci Fi shows and cancellations

[Ohmster]

Serenity definitely looks cool. With a broadband internet, we may be entering a time when cool, emerging shows dont get cancelled because they cannot find a big enough audience on TV or cable. Remember Star Trek was cancelled in the sixties for that reason and brought back via movies because of a core, but economically small audience. With the internet, audiences can be smaller and still allow the producers and distributors to make a profit. The day of broadband doing an end run around cable and TV are near. More here: http://mp.blogs.com/mp/2005/07/on_broadband_co.htm l [blogs.com]

Huh?

[healy]

Maybe it's time to turn in my Geek card, but I fail to see the appeal of this. I'm a sci-fi nut & tried to watch the show when it was on but I thought it was some of the lamest acting and plot I'd ever seen. It was like a really bad western in space. I can't see why people are drooling over this movie coming out. I liked Buffy as much as the next person, but this seemed really weak to me.

People on slashdot have an orgasm every time this movie is mentioned...I just don't get it.

Re:This show was CANCELLED?!?!

[jacen_sunstrider]

I rather preferred..."Define interesting." "Oh god, oh god, we're all going to die?"

As for sci-fi picking it up...from what I read, which is based entirely off comments I've read in other threads, Fox has some kind of insane contract which makes picking ip Firefly impossible; it stipulates there being no new episodes. However, it didn't say anything about a movie, so, here's a movie!

Someone more informed should correct me about the contract if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's not that far off the mark.

You're not alone

[Anonymous Coward]

Whedon's hard-core fans make excuses for out-of-order episodes, etc, which certainly didn't help the show but bottom line was that for me it was poorly written. I didn't like, understand, or feel involved in the characters, they seemed "cooler" versions of the villains rather than actual heroes you'd care about.

Part of Whedon's appeal to the Slashdot crowd is the nineties attitude, ceaseless cynicism and anti-middle class posturing with nothing underneath but the desperate desire to be "special." It's incredibly dated, in the post-9/11 world, as bad as the sexism in old movies. But for many here on Slashdot the nineties attitude never went away.

The western-in-space thing was just stupid, cap and ball revolvers, horses in space? Dumb. Plus, you are right the cast outside of Adam Baldwin, can't act. Nothing was there writing-wise to make you care about the characters. They just seemed to drift, and the villains were ridiculous.