I was going to watch American Idol on Thursday but bailed because I couldn't wait to watch Serenity, so I missed  Kellie's swan song.

I'm surprised that she got the least amount of votes, and a little bit heartened.  After all, she stunk.  I will be completely stunned if she isn't heard from again.  America loves that little southern Minx!  Give her a sitcom!

Enough of that. 

SERENITY.

I guess the up side of a great tv show getting axed in it's youth is that no one involved is tired of it by the time they have to wrap it up.  (I'm talkin to you, Chris Carter.) The movie, Serenity, did a marvelous job of answering the big questions in the tv show.  The answers are: yes; yes and Wow!; you wouldn't believe me if I told you; maybe; sadly, no; I guess not; yes and we'll never know.

If you haven't seen the tv show, the movie is still a good, fun, exciting and sometimes scary, sci fi flick.  On the other hand if you haven't seen the tv show, shame on you! You don't know what you're missing! 

If you have seen the show, the movie gets into stuff the show only hinted at but never got a chance to delve into.  I'm talking stuff that is really huge and cool and scary. 

It's about unintended consequences and the road to Hell.  And if you have a kid on ritalin, get him off, right now!  The road to Hell, I'm tellin ya.

Coincidentally, so is the next movie I watched.  Zack and I saw The Island last night.  I loved it!  Another fun, futuristic sci fi frolic with chase scenes and explosions and a very subversive moral.  In the first part of the movie, the main characters are all docile prisoners inside a safe zone, afraid to venture out into the world beyond because of a "contamination".  One character refuses to buy into the conventional wisdom, based on his own experience and common sense.  The "contamination" turns out to be nothing more than fear mongering used to control the population.  Can you say "global warming", anyone?  The second half of the movie is where it gets very subversive and pro life.  Saying a person isn't a person doesn't render them less than human.  It does, however, do that to the person saying so.

"You must die so that I might live."  When a vampire says that, everyone knows that he's the bad guy.  So why is it morally acceptable when Michael J. Fox says it?

Oops.  I've gone off on a tangent.
Again.

Michael J. Fox is not in The Island.  Ewan MacGregor is.
Why is Ewan MacG so hot?  I'd watch him in anything and I don't know why.  He isn't good looking, he's got a wart right in the middle of his forehead, yet I'm in love with him by the end of anything he's in.  Why?  I don't know.  I only know that my dream movie stars him and Johhny Depp and I don't even care what it's about.

Ewan is definitely invited to my dinner party.
So is Nathan Fillion.  Who is he and where has he been all my life?