So last night we finally finished watching (
orcjohn's)
Firefly on DVD. Excellent series, and it was a damn shame to have seen the film of
Serenity first. Would have made MUCH more sense the other way around, but we weren't even really watching the shows we already watched on television at the time, much less add something new and likely to be cancelled.
Then we watched some of the Special Features. The gag reel was predictably worthwhile, for a show which includes all of the "Han Solo" moments that got omitted from the Star Wars prequel trilogy. Chracterization and witty banter was the show's strong suit, and the sets were very impressive. Some of the plots were good, others were pretty awful. See icon for a moment from one of the better ones.
Then there was a sort of "Making Of" video, in which Joss Whedon (whose other shows I regularly can't stand) and other creators were talking about it. And he's going on in one bit about how they "intentionally kept the slightly off-center camera angles, the lens flares, the manual zoom", for that rough-and-ready look. To which
featherynscale had to ask - "So which part of all that did you forget by the time the movie came around?" Or was it just the shiny new budget that made him drop the winning style?
We thought the movie was bad before seeing the series. Now, it's somehow worse.