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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xath" data-source="post: 2619903" data-attributes="member: 17040">The movie was specatacularly done, and one of the best I've seen all year.  However, I'm not sure I liked it.Most time in movies, when a character dies, I tear up, and then I'm done with it.  There might be some regret at the end of the movie.In Serenity, I didn't tear up at all.  To the point where I had to stop and ask myself "Why am I not tearing up?  I love Book and Wash."  And I found that it was because I had some hidden hope that Joss would turn the movie around in some unexpected way, and that everyone would be ok.  Like the whole thing would have been one of River's nightmares.  (yes, I realize that would have cheapened it.)And at the end of the movie, I sat in shock; hoping there would be some extra scene at the end of the credits explaining why my two favorite characters had dissapeared.  But it didn't happen.And then when I got out of the theatre and into the car, I confess, I bawled like a baby.  Joss Whedon has this horrible/wonderful effect on me where he makes me feel as though his characters are real people.  And after watching the series and the movie, I felt as though I knew them.  Yes, it's a bit silly, but whatever.  And even though the movie was a magnificent work, I'm not sure that I like that a piece of media was able to evoke that kind of emotion from me.  I'm not that kind of willy-nilly cries alot kind of girl.  It's that kind of revalation that makes me realize that Joss Whedon has a skill with writing that I have not seen paralleled.  I wasn't the only one in the theatre to sit there in that stunned silence.</blockquote>

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