It was a pretty good weekend. Didn’t get much work done, which was great. Here at Tech it was our ‘Fall Break’ (we got Monday/Columbus Day off) so a lot of people went home and it was pretty laid back here. And by pretty laid back I mean I didn’t do any work and it was pretty boring here. Ron and I went and saw the movie Serenity today. It was better than I expected it to be. I enjoyed the TV series when it was out (and recently re-watched it before I saw the movie) and it kinda sucks that it got cancelled. Some guy, below, made a video to sum up some of the firefly series up in 30 minutes. So go watch it and then watch the movie. Had some good fight scenes and the story is interesting. Ron hadn’t seen the tv series and he liked it too.

One thing that was interesting about the tv series is that whenever they swear, they don’t swear in english. They curse in chinese. Really it’s just to get around the censorship of being on tv, but the story reason is that the last two super-powers of ‘ancient earth’ were the USA and China, so the other languages kinda just drifted off and they were only left with english and chinese. I’m going to stop cursing in english and start cursing in chinese. Granted, I don’t curse all that often, but still.

I’m sure most who have seen both Serenity and Firefly will agree the movie has more impact in the context of the series — unfortunately a lot of people interested (or potentially interested) in Serenity will never see it. For the sake of promoting the movie, This guy has compiled some key moments from the series into a video. Spread the word Browncoats!

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‘Fall Break’