Question for people who saw the Serenity pre-screenings

[brak666]

Now that I've seen the movie, I'm curious about how it compares to the version that they showed in the pre-screens. As I understand it, the music and some of the sound effects hadn't been added yet. But were there any other changes? Were scenes cut or trimmed? Were things added? I'm very curious.

Comments

[arallara.livejournal.com]

I saw one of the first round of advance screenings, and the one thing I felt frustrated with was Wash's death. Not in and of itself, but because I didn't feel like he had been present enough in the movie overall for his death to have the emotional impact Joss was clearly looking for. It's like he hadn't earned that moment of shock, you know? For people who have never seen Firefly, especially, I think they wouldn't have been invested enough in the character to be affected by his death. Joss must have heard that from a lot of fans because Wash was *definitely* more emotionally present throughout the final cut than he was in the first one. I can't remember the version I saw well enough to know if he added entire new scenes with Wash, but he was certainly more *there*, adding emotional texture to a lot of scenes with his little jokes and commentary and questions, and I think it made his death *much* more narratively successful.

(Also, I haven't read your first post on Serenity yet--just not ready to read other people's responses--but I've bookmarked it for later!)