Just got back from SERENITY

It was a great time. I'd seen it during the second round of preview screenings, but it was amazing to see it again with another audience for whom it was all new. Don't let people spoiler it; those people eat babies.

Leaving the theater, there was a swirl of good feeling among the crowd. People had seen the culmination of something they loved. I too am a fan of the too-short series. But the the thing I noticed most clearly was this: As people streamed out of the theater toward the theater exit and then the building exit, all the talk was of how great things were, small things they liked, big things they liked even better. The only people not walking were little cliques of snipers, already working up their arguments as to why this is a worse movie than Movie X. They stood in little clusters in the hallway, and the people talking of their love for FIREFLY and now SERENITY flowed easily around them; soon the naysayers could not be heard, and their complaints? Can't recall now.

I am a leaf on the wind.