Vaderisnothayden said:TheBoost said:Vaderisnothayden said:Serenity was an insult to Firefly, all around low in quality and shallow. Plus they killed off the best character after giving him hardly any screen time. And Mal Reynolds was at his most annoying. Plus they focused on River, a totally unbearable character.
I'm curious. If you don't care for Whedon, and hate two of the main characters in Firefly, and seem to really like the background comic releif character who never did much of importance, how can the movie be an insult to a show you clearly didn't like?
How are my feelings about Firefly relevant to the question of whether Serenity was an insult to Firefly? It either is or isn't an insult to it. My feelings are beside the point. As it is, it was most definitely an insult. It dropped and minimized what little good the show had and maximized its bad stuff.
Btw, you're getting into the habit of needling me with questions that seem designed to imply my thinking makes no sense. Sometimes I ignore it. But it's getting annoying. The above question was entirely unnecessary.
and seem to really like the background comic releif character who never did much of importance
How the fuck was Book a comic relief character?
I seriously doubt whether an entertainment property can actually be an 'insult' to another entertainment property, but if it is possible, I doubt even more strongly whether than insult is an objective fact. I found the film to be of extremly high quality and containing much more depth than the show.
I beg your pardon a thousandfold. I assumed you meant the funny pilot. I'll continue the statement though that Shephard Book never did much that was important either. Whatever he brought to the plot was in a supporting role, his mysterious background was never addressed and served mainly as the real main characters moral compass. He served the same role in the film.
And if I have some sinister pattern, it's asking questions when someone else makes a point I'd like clarification on. I think the question was as necessary as any other question talking about movies, because I'm still confused how you can be insulted by changes in a show you never liked in the first place.
"I hated Terminator, and I can't beleive they spit on it with the shameful T2! Blasphemy!"
EDIT: C3PX beat me to a lot of this.