{"id":3690,"date":"2011-02-24T22:03:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T04:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/serenity-4-stars\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T22:03:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T04:03:49","slug":"serenity-4-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/serenity-4-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Serenity (4 stars)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0379786\/\">Serenity<\/a> in the theater when it first came out (2005) and again just now on Roku. Like everyone who saw the TV series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0303461\/\">Firefly<\/a>, I loved Joss Whedon\u2019s creation, a unique vision of the final frontier. Everyone, that is, but the astonishing idiots in charge of Fox programming. A pox on their houses. I highly recommend Firefly. Serenity, on the other hand, is for true fans: A reunion with old friends. Of course, the movie does add to the myth and provides one of the great anti-heroes in The Operative, played brilliantly by Chiwetel Ejiofor (be sure to see him in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0434124\/\">Kinky Boots<\/a> \u2013 talk about versatile). Ultimately, Serenity is too violent for my tastes, but love of the franchise boosts my rating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Serenity in the theater when it first came out (2005) and again just now on Roku. Like everyone who saw the TV series Firefly, I loved Joss Whedon\u2019s creation, a unique vision of the final frontier. Everyone, that is, but the astonishing idiots in charge of Fox programming. A pox on their houses. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/serenity-4-stars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Serenity (4 stars)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viddy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}