http://alex.golub.name/log/2009/05/03/alpha/ An Anthropology Blog Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:35:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://alex.golub.name/log/2009/05/03/alpha/comment-page-1/#comment-202051 Tommy McCullough Mon, 04 May 2009 23:29:19 +0000 http://alex.golub.name/log/?p=912#comment-202051 I believe you are mistaken and that "Serenity" was intentionally terminal. It possesses that definitive element of narrative, closure. (NOT how the word is most commonly used) It is the one and only thing of Whedon's that has any balls, as it is not assuming that essential purpose of commercial television productions, the marketing of the next episode, to not please and to not satisfy. Nothing else of his even comes near it. Full disclosure: my experience does not include "Dollhouse." I believe you are mistaken and that “Serenity” was intentionally terminal. It possesses that definitive element of narrative, closure. (NOT how the word is most commonly used) It is the one and only thing of Whedon’s that has any balls, as it is not assuming that essential purpose of commercial television productions, the marketing of the next episode, to not please and to not satisfy. Nothing else of his even comes near it.
Full disclosure: my experience does not include “Dollhouse.”

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