{"id":2555,"date":"2005-10-12T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/10\/mark-steyn-on-serenity\/"},"modified":"2005-10-12T22:03:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-12T22:03:00","slug":"mark-steyn-on-serenity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/10\/mark-steyn-on-serenity.html","title":{"rendered":"Mark Steyn on Serenity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

First Scotty<\/a>, now this! That makes two<\/i> Mark Steyn commentaries on sci-fi TV shows that became movies in one day!<\/span><\/p>\n

Be warned, if you haven\u2019t seen Serenity<\/a><\/i> yet, there may be one or two soft spoilers here<\/a>. But I think I can quote this bit:<\/p>\n

By now you\u2019re probably wondering, yeah, so you liked the rough\u2019n\u2019ready sets and TV dialogue and reaction shots, but is it about anything? Well, it claims to be. The tag line on the posters in the US was \u2018Because the future is worth fighting for.\u2019 And, if it doesn\u2019t quite live up to that billing, it\u2019s got more going on than the Star Wars<\/i> Zen-by-numbers colouring book. Having won the war, the Alliance begins mind-washing its citizens to make them more content and placid. Unfortunately, as a side-effect, folks also lose the desire to go to work, to breed, and ultimately to live \u2014 except for a very small minority whom the mind-washing backfires on and turns into feral predators who destroy everything they come near. Hmm. Aside from anything else, Serenity<\/i> is also an excellent allegory for the next ten years of the European Union.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s certainly one of the more daring interpretations I\u2019ve seen!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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