Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Still, that's one of the most exciting and scariest elements of the movie to me. You've spent so long with them just trying to get by, just surviving, and then suddenly, you see them thrust into matters of importance that they really have no business getting into with greater risk than anything in the series, but they don't really have a choice. And I really enjoyed seeing everything go to hell. It was almost Empirestrikesbackian!

Yeah, it was a real tearjerker when good old favorites from the series like "the twins" and "Mr. Universe" died.

I hate raised stakes. It's so predictable. My favorite TV-series-to-movie transition was with the Cowboy Bebop movie. It made no connections to any big story arcs and I liked it that way. It was fantastic.

Don't get me wrong, I liked how the world got a lot more desperate over the course of Serenity. However, I couldn't appreciate that drama because nothing had been established enough for me to truly care about it. There was nothing emotional to latch onto. Everything involving the conspiracy and "the operative" was overly glitzy and cold. If I had not seen the TV series first, I probably wouldn't have cared much about anything that happened.

I see no reason to worry about whether or not the show was going to continue or not. In an ultimate sense you can't let what-ifs guide art. It may have been the last chance to wrap everything up for the firefly universe, but why was there even a need to worry about something like that? Do things right. Show us more, not less. Lower the stakes if you need to.