Once more with Serenity

[chani]

I'm still not feeling well but I've planned to watch the film again on Monday with a friend, hopefully I'll be better then.

Here's stuff I forgot to say in my previous entry or that came to me while discussing Serenity on the C&S.

Nathan Fillion isn't simply a good actor, he has a lot of charm, a fine jaw,  fabulous nostrils and a gorgeous ass...the latter having been used by Joss Whedon (ok that sounds slashy but I didn't mean to suggest anything like that) on the series and being used again on the film: the scene in which Mal was sleeping on his belly and got up with pants very low on his hips!

Nathan could be in the Rugby calendar!

More seriously now.....About Wash's death that shocked or saddened many fans. I don't understand why fans were so angry and all blaming Joss' cruelty. I support his choice. It might be the only time in the movie when Joss actually didn't follow conventions (like everybody that counts is safe and sound in the end no matter how illogical it is! I'm thinking the soooooo lame ending of "War Of The World" here.).

I see Wash's death like Anya's in "Buffy"....a wanton death, occuring when you aren't supposed to expect it but making sense given to the context (this is a very dangerous battle damnit!)and thus completely believable and realistic. That wasn't gratuitous cruelty, that death was necessary and gave the film a sudden air of flesh and life (I know it's paradoxical!). That was a good death unlike the boring, gaspy Book's death that was a pure cliché.

Besides at the end both Mal and River ended up at the same place, or rather side by side in the cockpit. Wash's death allowed it, making a room for River.

It reminded me of "Firefly" 's last episode, Objects in Space when River somehow became the ship.

In the same way, River is part fo the crew at the end of the film, and she's no longer a wild, frightened, crazy child.  She found the serenity she needed, so naturally she can pilot the ship.