Who else thought of the seinfeld reference "serenity now"? Serenity now. Yeah, good job, hiding your emotions buddy. you killed a bunch of people.

SERENITY NOW!

>> ^Stormsinger:
I wouldn't call it genius (perhaps because I was expecting a science fiction show, not a transplanted western). But it definitely had a good-to-large number of great lines and scenes. Well worth watching, in either case.

I had the same experience. I only started enjoying it once I stopped expecting it to do SciFi.

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I liked the movie a lot. I never read any of the comics, if I had I'd like the movie anyways, because it's pretty good and it doesn't ruin the comics I've already read. Kinda like how I wouldn't stop watching Firefly if Serenity ended up being crap.

1. Documentary Channel - 4718 votes received (documentaries talk)
2. Science - 4411 votes received (science talk)
3. Spanning Time - 2041 votes received (history talk)
4. The Serenity of Nature video collection - 1959 votes received (nature talk)
5. Talks - debates, lectures and more - 1416 votes received (talks talk)
6. Arts - 1269 votes received (art talk)
7. Philosophical Society - 1136 votes received (philosophy talk)
8. British Invasion - 822 votes received (british talk)
9. Comedy - 807 votes received (comedy talk)
10. Animation - 782 votes received (animation talk)

My girlfriend used to work for the Loss Prevention department for a large high-end boutique, and she says that in most situations like this, employees are told to do whatever the gun-wielding robber wants, and to not risk injury or getting someone else injured.

There's that line during the opening sequence (payroll robbery, oddly enough) in Serenity - paraphrased, "A hero is someone who gets other people killed." He could have unwittingly hit a co-worker, or instigated the robber to fire back, hitting him or a co-worker, and either ending would give this video a very different tone, as would our comments.

Had he actually killed the robber, this would be considered a "legal, justified" shooting (a category that also includes law enforcement-related deaths where the officers involved were cleared of any wrongdoing), which make up less than 2% of all firearm-related deaths (according to a study of DC's death statistics before their handgun ban went into effect, I can't find the story now, but it's in the Washington Post's archives).

And Rougy raises a lot of great points. I'm also white, from a lower-middle-class family. Life is far from easy, however, I would be a fool to think that someone just as smart but with any other skin color had been afforded the same opportunities as I have.

Wait, so Serenity came in 2nd but they still named it Tranquility?

... WHAT WAS THE FREAKING POINT OF HAVING A NAMING CONTEST IF YOU TOTALLY IGNORE THE RESULTS!?!??

So they didn't want to name it after a comedian... I get that. Even though I disagree with that decision, it is at least understandable.

... but they threw out Serenity too? It came in second and was one of the "official" suggestions.

Honestly, what was the point of even having a vote if they never cared about the outcome in the first place? The only reason I can think of is that a majority of the votes for the top two were duplicates (same person voting multiple times), but I haven't seen NASA mention their reasoning at all.

Hilarious article concerning the BSG finale from the Onion:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/obama_depressed_distant_since?utm_source=a-section

"I'm a little concerned," first lady Michelle Obama was overheard saying at a fundraising event Tuesday. "When Firefly was canceled, he walked around like a zombie for a week, and Serenity was the only thing that snapped him out of it. Last night he said he felt like he had just discovered David Axelrod was one of the Final Five, whatever that means."

"When we spoke last month, he said season three was his least favorite because some of the episodes with Helo and the Sagittarons—and pretty much anything that involved Cally—were boring and didn't advance the plot," Afghan president Hamid Karzai said. "But I told him that when you watch it all on DVD, and you don't have to wait a whole week for a new show, those peripheral episodes actually add new color to the already established world."

Serenity Now !!!!

Bah. Name it Serenity.

The 'Serenity' option was only so popular because it is the name of the ship in the Firefly series. Every one of those bothersome Brown Coats with their sense of unconsolable victimisation would be voting on that one.

They. must. not. win!

He did win.

"NASA's online contest to name a new room at the international space station went awry. Comedian Stephen Colbert won.

The name "Colbert" beat out NASA's four suggested options in the space agency's effort to have the public help name the addition. The new room will be launched later this year.

NASA's mistake was allowing write-ins. Colbert urged viewers of his Comedy Central show, "The Colbert Report" to write in his name. And they complied, with 230,539 votes. That clobbered Serenity, one of the NASA choices, by more than 40,000 votes. Nearly 1.2 million votes were cast by the time the contest ended Friday.

NASA reserves the right to choose an appropriate name. Agency spokesman John Yembrick said NASA will decide in April, but will give top vote-getters the most consideration."

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