Serenity on DVD

[Winter Nights]

Bought Serenity on DVD. That made me happy, though I was a little disappointed by the lack of decent Behind-The-Scenes features. I found it odd, considering the great featurettes on Firefly DVD set. Also, I'm told that there's a bonus disk that comes with Battlestar Galactica Season 1 that has better Serenity featurettes. That kinda annoys me, mostly because Serenity isn't really anything like other sci-fi shows, especially Battlestar Galactica. The outtakes were funny, though. Also, every deleted scene was something that I loved from the book (Yes, I read the boof and it was awesome too. ). Not important to the story, but they are great character moments. Really wished they could have kept them in, regardless that it woulda pushed the movie far over the 2 hour mark.

One deleted scene that was missing from the bunch was a my favorite scene, a moment between Mal and Inara after they discover the secret of Miranda. It was really sweet in the book and above all scenes wished it was there. I'd say it was scrapped before shooting, but a portion of the scene is in the outakes. Nathan Fillion starts the monologue from the book, forgets his line, then does a little jig. He then takes Morena Bacharin in his arms and they dance around the set. It was amusing, but it made the lack of a deleted scene for it more unnerving for me.

The commentary was good and Joss Whedon mentions other deleted scenes that I remembered from the book, that were very much missing from the DVD. But overall, the movie is great enough that I can forgive the missing items and the lack of real featurettes.

Anyoe else checked out this treasure yet?