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Anyway, the thing that made Firefly great was the character interaction, and we got so little of that as to be nonexistant.
Unfortunately, I think that's the nature of the beast. The character interaction that made Firefly great worked because those interactions had time to develop- that kind of time simply isn't available in a movie. I remember reading and interview with JW where he stated that he made the concious decision to focus on only a few characters in order to make it work as a movie.

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On the other hand, I liked the plot.
Me too- I hadn't really thought that the Reavers were anything more than space boogey-men. That their existence was important suprised me- in a good way. It seems a lot of the reviews are assulting the plot of the movie as being done-before sci-fi. It didn't really strike me that way, but I'm not very sophisticated when it comes to that kind of thing. It seemed like a good plot that fit these characters and it was fun to watch.

And I thought the bad guy was very well done. He definitely was more than just a flat-out villan. It was nice that they chose something other than an evil archtype.

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I think that the way they wrapped up the River storyline with it was a little abrupt.
I agree it would have been better the way it was origionally intended, developed over time. But once again I blame Fox for this. It's nice to have some kind of resolution.

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Why did the revelation affect her in that way, for instance?
I think the idea was that what she knew was tormenting her because in one way she was "owned" by the government and yet she was trying to be her own free agent. Once she was able to expose the truth to the others, there was no longer a conflict because she was no longer holding the truth inside. Or at least something like that- I think it's supposed to be a little ambigugous, but definitely there was the concept of inner conflict being resolved.
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