CulturePulp 028: 'Serenity' Now!


Words & pix by M.E. Russell; shades by Chad Essley.

High-rez PDF: CulturePulp28a.pdf




Endnotes and Digressions:

1. I'm a pretty serious "Firefly" geek myself, so I'm hardly impartial -- but I thought "Serenity" was nearly as funny and moving as the show. Like "Firefly," its best bits are smallish character bits, so I don't want to oversell it -- but most fans will adore the film (and the final-act mayhem may leave them quaking).

2. Want to explore the fan community? The official site is SerenityMovie.com, home to the excellent Browncoats Forum. I also recommend FireflyFans.net, the Whedonesque "Serenity" blog, the original (and still very active) "Firefly" Prospero forums, and some amazing guerilla-marketing posters for the film, designed by "11th Hour."

You can learn more about Portland-area "Firefly" fans (and find links to still more sites) at TheHallway.net/PDXbrowncoats. (UPDATE: I'm told the PDX Browncoats now gather online at their new Yahoo! group, and that the site I listed is kind of defunct.)

3. Many Browncoats wore fan-made T-shirts (purchased from BlueSunShirts.com) and played with pricey PDAs while chatting in line. They were also surprisingly mellow -- even when the first 30 seconds of Whedon's taped message ran without sound and the movie stopped for 20 minutes after a couple of reels were accidentally flipped.

4. Oregonian reader contest! During the screening, Universal reps handed out mini-posters and keychains. I'm giving mine away -- along with that button the Eugene Browncoats handed me -- as a single "Serenity" prize package to one of my Oregonian readers.




Here's how you win: I'm asking a slightly more complicated trivia question than the one posed by the fetching Eugene Browncoats:

Name three secondary characters who appeared in more than one episode of “Firefly” -- and name all the episodes in which each of these three secondary characters appeared.

The first reader to answer this correctly in the comments section for this post wins the poster, keychain and button. (Because I teased this contest in The Oregonian's print edition, it's only open to readers living in the Oregonian's coverage area.)

UPDATE: The contest now has a winner. Congratulations to hard-core PDX Browncoat Elizabeth!

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Posted: Fri - May 20, 2005 at 12:00 AM        

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