"Take my love, take my land..."
"Take me where I cannot stand. Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me."
So starts the theme song from the canceled TV show Firefly. The best way to describe this show is a Sci-Fi Western. Canceled before all of the filmed episodes could be shown, all because the show appealed to too many demographics. In other words, Fox suits wanted this to appeal to one group of people, and everybody liked it. The suits didn't know what ads (to target that wonderful single demographic, such as women 25-40) to run on the show, so they reflexively canceled it.
Well, one week from today the movie Serenity opens. Based on the TV show, this is a big budget extension of the series.
I have been invited to a pre-screening of the movie, and on Wednesday I will give you a review of it. I bought the DVD set of the series and got it just yesterday. I am working my way through the series, working myself up for the movie.
There is one small difference between the show and the movie, but I'm keeping an open mind as to how it will work out.
The good news is all of the players have been signed to do at least two more sequels. If this one takes off then the producers could have a shot at bringing this back to TV.