vaznetti | firefly and fannishness (Reply)

My parents loved Firefly, but were very unhappy that it ended so soon, and I was tempted to bring up the subject of the movie -- I'd mentioned it when they were a few episodes in, but at that point they were full of love for Wash and Zoe, and found Book one of the most interesting characters, so I kind of suggested that the movie might not be to their tastes, and we agreed never to speak of it again.

Does this seem strange to anyone else? Because I do consider Serenity part of the canon of that universe, but at the same time in retrospect the movie had a very different feel from the TV show, somehow. Colder and of course more violent, which is a problem for my mother.

I was tempted in part because my mother turned out to be a Mal/Inara shipper, although she agreed with me that the relationship would never work, or pretended to. And there's some nice stuff with Mal and Inara in the film, although of course

musesfool has managed to persuade me that Mal will end up with River. Or with Serenity, if River ends up with Dean.

It was weird, actually, talking about a TV show with people who aren't fans -- we did talk about what might happen next, but not in quite the way people do when they're plotting a story, because one fannish story is just as likely to be true as any other, whereas "what happens next" ought to have a single answer, if you're not a fan, because the show has been a single story up to that point.

I feel like I ought to have more to say about this, but my brains's still a little sluggish. Thinky thoughts are quite beyond me.