This should be fun, since we’ve not done a liveblog on the new site with the new comment system. If this is your first liveblog ever, welcome and sit down for a brief instruction on how these things go down.
1) This is where the liveblog will take place. You can bookmark this page.
2) The liveblog starts at 11am PST. That’s 2pm on the east coast and 7pm in London. Consult a world clock if you aren’t sure what time it starts!
3) At exactly 11am PST, press play on your copy of Serenity! Inevitably, you may be a few seconds ahead or behind other people, but that’s ok.
4) COMMENT. That’s it. We are all going to be sharing our thoughts, emotions, reactions, and CAPS LOCK GIF PARTIES throughout the duration of the film.
It is literally that simple!
I will post a recap tomorrow afternoon with my thoughts of the film and then ask for what you guys thought. And then everything will be sad because that’s it. 🙁
Well…actually, I’m going to get ahold of the graphic novels ASAP and I’ll post one-off reviews of those over on Mark Reads! And then it will all be over. Sad times.
Anyway, if you have any questions, let me know. See you tomorrow!
Don't turn around…don't turn around. Crap.
Oh, River.
WAIT DO ALL THE DEAD PEOPLE HAVE iPads???
Steve Jobs created the Pax.
…the ipax
The alliance is apple. reason for colonisation: free ipads
Starting to damage my calm!
Poor River 🙁 I seriously can't imagine what it would be like to be her. So much brain pain all the time.
"She is starting to damage my calm!
ILU Jayne
"Please God make me a stone…"
Heart: broken.
"please God, make me a stone." Poor River.
What horrible things you have trapped in your head River
"Please, God, make me a stone."
Vintage Jayne – 'She is starting to damage my calm.'
She is starting to damage my calm. lol
STARTING to damage your calm? You mean the ghost town didn't?
OH FUCK MY LIFE. I just just missed 10 of the best minutes of the movie because my parents called and would not shut up.
this is one of the creepiest things ever.
IT GETS WORSE IT ALWAYS DOES
"She is starting to damage my calm." my favorite Jayne line. Sums up the creepyness of it all.
OH FUCK GHOST TRANSMISSION OF DOOM.
Insane revelations!!!!
Shit's gon' get real. (I mean, shit's been real, but it's gonna get even realer. Yeah.)
Argh that poor woman ><
And HELLO EXPLANATIONS OF EVERYTHING.
Not everything. Not nearly everything.
It's the Alliance! THEY DID IT!
This is the worst thing ever.
She is such a good actress. This part gets to me every single time.
OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD
FUCKING CHILLS MAN. CHILLS. THE ALLIANCE CREATED REAVERS KDFSJGHSKDFGJHSDF.
The Pax is so creepy, because it's something I could really see a government experimenting with.
Shit doesn't get much more fucked up than this.
And now we know… the Alliance created the Reavers. I think it was Blue Sun that was supposed to have helped them with this?
Also, interesting to note: River and reaver sound really similar.
Shit, that poor lady… she didn't even get to kill herself beforehand…
I have a bit of a hearing problem so when I first watched the first episode they're mentioned in, I thought they kept calling them "ravers".
THAT IMAGE OF RAVERS CHANGES EVERYTHING.
"They just hang out in the outskirts of space, sending out RAVING PARTIES"
It changes the whole series quite a bit. Why do they all have such a problem with raves?! Lighten up Mal!
I love the blooper where Alan Tudyk says "Raver reading parties."
I wanna go to a raver reading party! That sounds totally awesome.
The alliance made the REAVERS!!!!!
THE ALLIANCE MADE REAVERS. OH MY FUCKING GOD.
WHAAAAAAAAAAAT
And knowing is half the battle… wait no, no it's not.
REVELATIONS
That's why we needed more Firefly 'cause like yeah this is amazing.
And that news report earlier where they were saying the Alliance had never confirmed the existence of Reavers? Governments scare me.
I KNOW RIGHT? FUCKING INSANE. And every time the Reavers have shown up in Firefly WE'VE KNOWN WHAT THEY WERE AND COULDN'T TELL YOU.
YOU WERE NOT PREPARED. NOBODY WAS.
OH SHIT!
So they died due to government behaviour control? I may have nightmares about this…
Please turn off that video
I don't think I could rationally make a recording when Reavers were about to kill me.
the truth shall make you free
It's always 10% of the population that is adverse to some type of conditioning/ disease/ etc.
It was actually "a tenth of a percent of the population".
This is why you should run lots of trials…unless Miranda WAS the trial…
Based on the way the Alliance treats their citizenry, I'd say your latter thought is correct.
I think the lesson is more why you shouldn't try to drug your population in to subservience.
God it must feel so good to finally be cleansed of that terrible secret.
I am seriously going wild in my brain. this is nuts.
oh my god get out of there ;;
Tears, oh god, so many tears.
I like how it's Jayne that asks to get the vid off. And now you finally have one of the big answers!
I know- finally, he shows some empathy. Love it.
Mal I love this speech. It is tremendous
"I aim to misbehave"
fuck yeah you do!
Why the Reavers are one of the most genius inventions on television.
What's that I hear? Is that Mal being a BIG DAMN HERO?
and AIMING TO MISBEHAVE?
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I aim to misbehave!
🙁
Jayne mentioning book. HE LIVES ON IN THE MEMORIES OF THOSE WHO KNEW HIM. (even if he did die before we learned his mysterious past.)
Mal aims to misbehave.
MISBEHAVE, MAL. MISBEHAVE FOR ALL OF US.;
I aim to misbehave.
"I aim to misbehave"
Hells yes.
"If you can't do something smart, do something right."
"If you can't do something smart, do something right." So perfect
"Can't do something smart. Do something right."
One of my favorite quotes.
And with a push of a bottle, Jayne makes up with Simon and River
Let the baddassery begin!
You can see why Mal was such a good sergeant in this speech.
"If you can't do something smart, do something right."
I aim to misbehave.
PREACH IT, MAL
Joss was going to have everybody say there in but decided all he really needed was for Jayne to be in. The others were a given.
I wish Joss could have gotten Sarah Michelle Geller to play the Love Bot. It would have been hilarious.
Holy crap, that would have been awesome.
YES! "It's Mal, and he's wearing a browncoat."
I never even thought of that but YES, that would've been amazing.
LOL
Kind of a crazy thought, but hilarious XD I don't know if this was being filmed when SMG was still getting projects or not, though <<
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA YES.
Oh my God, that's so brilliant xD
I love the shot of his "wife" after the Operative gets him. Poignant.
/cry for Mr. Universe.
Mr. Universe, noooo! D:
SHIT IS GETTING REALER THAN REAL LIIIFE
Reavers get all my nerves on edge
Now Mal pisses off the Reavers!
OMG OMG OMG INCOMING.
Mal your plans are INSANE. Legit, never coulda been thunk up INSANE.
I am leaf on the wind, watch how is soar
The fellow that plays Mr Universe also played Bernard in the Santa Clause
OMG THIS IS THE BEST PLAN EVER.
FUCK YEAH! IT'S ON!
The shot where the Operative sees the Reavers following Serenity – epic. Incredibly creepy, but so very awesome at the same time.
THEY ARE COMING.
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and Wash still has his dinosaurs <3
HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO BADASS.
MAL YOU ARE A FUCKING GENIUS!!
YYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
And the Alliance gets a SURPRISE! I am reminded of some of the space battles of the Babylon 5 series.
OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT
YES THIS IS STILL THE MOST BADASS MOMENT IN THE HISTORY OF BADASSERY. I think I screamed in the theater when this happened. Then again, I think everyone did.
Best moment ever. Reavers for backup. SOMEBODY FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
And what you fail to realize is that my ship is DRAGGING REAVERS!
HAHAHAHAYESSSSS
Wasn't there a Stephen King short story where a well meaning genius put something in the water to control the violent impulses of a city? He based it upon finding some substance in the water in a really quiet town, and it was only after he'd dosed the city that he finds that the stuff destroys people's brains after a while… Damn I'm going to have to look that up now.
Yep, it's called "The end of the whole mess" and it's in Nightmares and Dreamscapes. So good.
mal please be all of our captains
He's a leaf in the wind…
Somebody fire!
Oh, Operative, you cocky son of a bitch. I hope you get what's coming to you.
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Oooohh Wash. <3 <3 <3
the BEST QUOTE. EVER.
ALSO THE VERY SADDEST. 🙁
And the Operative's clam is now damaged.
And we're coming up on the part of the movie that even after half a dozen viewings *still* almost puts me into cardiac arrest because IT JUST DOESN'T STOP!
One thing I love about this show/movie is that when you're in outer space, there is no sound b/c there's no air for the sound waves to bounce off of and I love that this show knows that. There's sound now b/c they're in an atmosphere. /space nerd
IT'S OK. I'm a leaf on the wind!!!
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!
OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD. THIS SCENE MAKES MY HEART POUND WAY TO FAST. TOO REAL.
YOU ARE NOT ALONE! *hyperventilates*
I'm a leaf on the wind!
OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD. I'M A LEAF ON THE WIND.
IT'S OKAY! I'm a leaf on the wind!
"I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
I love you Wash. Forever.