{"id":1063,"date":"2005-10-08T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-08T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/08\/serenity\/"},"modified":"2005-10-08T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-08T11:35:00","slug":"serenity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/08\/serenity\/","title":{"rendered":"Serenity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just returned home from watching &#8220;Serenity&#8221; at the Ozone Multiplex as Grim wasn&#8217;t available to see it on Thursday evening. All I can say is, &#8220;Oh, my God!&#8221; If you&#8217;ve not seen it already then do so.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s definitely a good film even if you generally don&#8217;t like SciFi, &#8216;cos this is definitely not your normal stuff. It&#8217;s hard edged, funny, harrowing and character driven with some action and space ships thrown in. What it isn&#8217;t is sugary Star Trek or hammy Star Wars or even &#8220;Sleeping in the Light&#8221; Babylon 5.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s not a lot I can say without giving spoilers, so I&#8217;ll wrap up by saying that it&#8217;s not only the character Mal who can be brutal and callous when he has to be, Joss Wheedon can be too. And no-one (except perhaps to a degree Kaylee) gets to live happily every after.<\/p>\n<p><b>[Update]<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I think that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hatrack.com\/osc\/reviews\/everything\/2005-09-30-extra.shtml\">this review<\/a> does a very good summary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just returned home from watching &#8220;Serenity&#8221; at the Ozone Multiplex as Grim wasn&#8217;t available to see it on Thursday evening. All I can say is, &#8220;Oh, my God!&#8221; If you&#8217;ve not seen it already then do so. It&#8217;s definitely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/08\/serenity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1Kvvs-serenity","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}