{"id":987,"date":"2005-09-30T19:29:41","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T19:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=987"},"modified":"2005-09-30T19:29:41","modified_gmt":"2005-09-30T19:29:41","slug":"serenity_now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=987","title":{"rendered":"Serenity Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joss Whedon’s new film, Serenity<\/a>, is out today and much of the geek crowd is standing in an anticipatory puddle of drool. Based on his now-canceled Firefly series, the film is actually getting some good reviews<\/a>. I have the Firefly series on DVD, but I haven’t gotten around to watching the whole series yet. Whedon did say that it wasn’t necessary to have watched the series to enjoy the film, but I tend to be a completist about these things. If a movie based on a book is forthcoming, I usually try to read the book first. The little bit I have seen of the series has me intrigued. Gene Roddenberry liked to characterize Star Trek as Wagon Train in space, but Firefly is much more explicit in its references to Westerns. And the trailer for the movie includes some scenes of a really cute girl kicking all kinds of ass, which for me is a sure sign of cinematic excellence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joss Whedon’s new film, Serenity, is out today and much of the geek crowd is standing in an anticipatory puddle of drool. Based on his now-canceled Firefly series, the film is actually getting some good reviews. I have the Firefly series on DVD, but I haven’t gotten around to watching the whole series yet. Whedon […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-fV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}