{"id":39316,"date":"2013-10-22T23:35:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T05:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/22\/serenity-and-the-avengers.html"},"modified":"2014-01-08T12:56:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T19:56:58","slug":"serenity-and-the-avengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/22\/serenity-and-the-avengers.html","title":{"rendered":""Serenity" and "The Avengers""},"content":{"rendered":"
An interesting comparison between Serenity<\/i> and The Avengers.<\/i> \u00a0I'll be honest in saying that the former struck me more as a "I'm going to tell this story come hell or high water" and was a movie that was, perforce, less than the sum of its glorious parts (speaking as a "Firefly" fan). \u00a0<\/p>\n

But I'll agree that some of the narrative techniques that Joss used in the earlier film were re-used in the latter, to better effect.<\/p><\/div>\n

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SERENITY: Joss Whedon\u2019s Dry Run at THE AVENGERS<\/a>
\n Evan takes a look at two of Joss Whedon’s biggest films and finds some surprising similarities.\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting comparison between Serenity and The Avengers. \u00a0I'll be honest in saying that the former struck me more as a "I'm going to tell this story come hell or high water" and was a movie that was, perforce, less than the sum of its glorious parts (speaking as a "Firefly" fan). \u00a0 But I'll … Continue reading “"Serenity" and "The Avengers"”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106,361,525,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-tv-fireflyserenity","category-marvel-cinematic-universe","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31813,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/18\/avengersfirefly-mashup.html","url_meta":{"origin":39316,"position":0},"title":"Avengers\/Firefly Mashup","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Dec-12 4:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, it's come to this -- my daughter is suggesting things fro me to blog about. \u00a0(Complete with a \"Well, you know, if I had my own blog ..\" -- which, of course, she's welcome to have as soon as we get a few minutes to do it. 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