{"id":8154,"date":"2005-05-06T08:04:55","date_gmt":"2005-05-06T15:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/05\/06\/differently-serene.html"},"modified":"2013-06-03T15:44:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T21:44:04","slug":"differently_ser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/06\/differently_ser.html","title":{"rendered":"Differently-Serene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/serenity_logo.jpg\" style=\"width: 223px; height: 156px; border: 0\" alt=\"\" class=\"left\" title=\"The US version\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/serenity_logo_uk.jpg\" width=258 height=154 target=\"_blank\" class=\"right\" title=\"The UK version\">I may be oblivious to plot points that are staring me in the face, but this is the sort of trivia I notice:  the difference between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.serenitymovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the US version of the Serenity logo<\/a> (left), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uip.co.uk\/serenity\/\" target=\"_blank\">the UK version<\/a> (right). <\/p>\n<p>I like the US one better, but &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The logo shows up in the movie, by the way, as the painted insignia on the side of the ship.  Which was odd, because (a) I think it&#8217;s the only Roman lettering we see (everything else was either Chinese or something Futuristic), and (b) it was a bold and vivid stroke of color on the otherwise worn and beat-up ship.  Now one could argue that Mal would want that logo to be as bold and vivid as possible, but it still looked a scosh out of place, as if it should have been more weathered.<\/p>\n<p>I <em>think <\/em>it was the US version &#8212; but I might have to go back and watch the movie several more times, just to be sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may be oblivious to plot points that are staring me in the face, but this is the sort of trivia I notice: the difference between the US version of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[361,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-tv-fireflyserenity","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3663,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/11\/better_late_tha-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":8154,"position":0},"title":"Better late than &#8230; oh, never mind","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 11-Oct-02 9:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"Watched last week's Firefly at long last (thanks for the tape, Doyce). 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