Are you ready for "Serenity"?

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Will someone who's never seen the show be able to follow the events of the movie well?  Or will they be left in the dark with some characters, backround, and events?
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This has been one of the primary concerns for Joss. He knows the tenacity of his fanbase. They will go see and love his movie no matter what. It's everyone else he has to please; and he's worked *very* hard on making sure that he's walking that fine line between too much and too little exposition.

A comparison, if you will:

Take Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children, a newly released movie based on the popular roleplaying game FFVII. I loved the movie with every fibre of my being but I can say with complete and utter honesty, that if you haven't played the game, you won't get much out of this movie, despite it being pretty damn good! The movie was made especially *for* the fans of the game, and it shows. There are *tons* innuendos and allusions to the game that non-gamers will not even realise are there.

If you see the interview I posted in my first post here, Joss says explicitly that he had to make this movie attractive to the non-firefly fans (and rather hopefully turn them into ones.) He's done it before, and I know he can do it again.

Let me explain what I meant with that last sentence. Joss wrote the "pilot" (1st episode) of the Firefly-series. It was named "Serenity" (don't confuse this with the movie.) The network felt that the pilot was too complex, it contained too much exposition and not enough purty action-sequences. While we may roll our eyes at this, it forced Joss Whedon and Tim Minear to write A COMPLETE NEW PILOT for the show during the course of 1 week-end. So how do you write a new pilot on a show that already has a pilot? Think of all the exposition you'll get twice from each episode. Think of all the stuff that's being introduced twice.

Who knows how they did it, but they managed to create a believable (more action-packed) pilot with enough exposition to serve as an introduction to the series, but not too much so that when you watch "Serenity" (the pilot) and the second episode after one another, it doesn't seem trite.

Remember the "second" episode was the first aired on TV. Think of the movie Serenity as the "second" episode. It maintains the fact that no one has seen the first. Because of Fox' insulting view of fans of tv-series, Joss learned something valuable, that I'm sure will inevitably make for a damn good movie.

I don't know if you all understood that, but it made perfect sense to me :)