Vaderisnothayden said:I doubt even more strongly whether than insult is an objective fact.
Then you probably belong to the "everything about art is subjective" school of thought. I don't.
I found the film to be of extremly high quality and containing much more depth than the show.
Well god only knows how you came to that conclusion.
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.
Ron Glass was by far the best actor on the show. The intelligent thing to do would be to use that, rather than to focus on a lot of inferior acting from Nathan Fillion and Summer Glau.
And it was totally unecessary to ask the question you asked. All that needed to be understood was that I thought Serenity did not live up to the standard of Firefly, and that stuff was obvious from my original post. It was not necessary to understand anything else. Picking on the issue and questioning me about it was pestering me about something that did not need explaining. And if you did find my thinking (that Serenity was an insult to Firefly) hard to understand (and I don't see why it should be) then so what, it was not important. So what if I chose to see something as insult to Firefly while disliking Firefly. How in god's name was it important how I managed to do that? Picking unnecessarily at my psychology like that certainly looks a little like it's intended to imply that my thinking is bullshit -and perhaps my whole mentality too. Which is generally what it seems to me that some people here think of me generally.
It's interesting that you seem to be of the opinion that all art is objective, and your opinion is the objective truth.
We could each write lengthy essays on the strengths and weaknesses of "Firefly" and "Serenity." I thought both were great, with "Serenity" being the better product. That is my opinion I'm willing to defend, but it is apparently wrong, because your completely objective view is that they both are bad but Serenity is insultingly worse.
If Glass was the best actor on the show (debatable), he was still a minor, supporting character. Christopher Lee can act the pants off anyone else in the PT, but Dooku isnt the focus of the show.