02-18-2016, 12:04 PM
I'm a fan of Fillion and Baccarin, so it's been on my Netflix queue forever, and KB's post, along with some post-Deadpool discussions about Morena, got me to watch this finally.
I never got into Firefly. I don't know why. It was recommended to me by many, but the space cowboy motif just never engaged me enough. It's sort of like Dr. Who to me - I've seen a few key episodes and respect it but it just wasn't my cup o tea. So Serenity didn't make a whole heckuvalot of sense on some levels to me, but I watch a lot of Asian films without subtitles, so I'm used to that. I was amused by odd moments of Chinese dialog. It was simple stuff they were saying so I could understand some of it - it's just that their Chinese was so bad - no tones - that it was incomprehensible to me. That seemed Bladerunner derivative.
But speaking of derivative, I was really struck by how much Star Wars: Rebels is derived from this. Both focus on a small mercenary band, bouncing from job to job in a ragtag ship (echoes of the Millennium Falcon) with a rogue Captain (Mal & Ezra - echoes of Han Solo), under an oppressive regime (Alliance vs. Empire). Both have a parallel crew: a woman of color pilot (Zoe vs. Hera), a heavy-handed gun man (Jayne vs. Zeb), a spunky tech gal (Kaylee vs. Sabine). And of course, using swords when everyone else was using firearms. Wash, Ezra and Chopper (the droid) don't quite fit but the crew dynamic is startlingly derivative.
It was a funny role for Chitwetel.
I never got into Firefly. I don't know why. It was recommended to me by many, but the space cowboy motif just never engaged me enough. It's sort of like Dr. Who to me - I've seen a few key episodes and respect it but it just wasn't my cup o tea. So Serenity didn't make a whole heckuvalot of sense on some levels to me, but I watch a lot of Asian films without subtitles, so I'm used to that. I was amused by odd moments of Chinese dialog. It was simple stuff they were saying so I could understand some of it - it's just that their Chinese was so bad - no tones - that it was incomprehensible to me. That seemed Bladerunner derivative.
But speaking of derivative, I was really struck by how much Star Wars: Rebels is derived from this. Both focus on a small mercenary band, bouncing from job to job in a ragtag ship (echoes of the Millennium Falcon) with a rogue Captain (Mal & Ezra - echoes of Han Solo), under an oppressive regime (Alliance vs. Empire). Both have a parallel crew: a woman of color pilot (Zoe vs. Hera), a heavy-handed gun man (Jayne vs. Zeb), a spunky tech gal (Kaylee vs. Sabine). And of course, using swords when everyone else was using firearms. Wash, Ezra and Chopper (the droid) don't quite fit but the crew dynamic is startlingly derivative.
It was a funny role for Chitwetel.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse