And SerenityStuff will give away a special edition of the new Special Edition Serenity DVD coming out next week to someone they randomly draw who blogs about it...

I bring you...

Twenty-Five Reasons You Should Buy the Serenity Collector's Edition DVD:

Well, wait. I'm not going to C&P all 25 reasons here. There's a link, you can click it. But I'll post highlights.

• More stuff you don’t need an all-regions DVD player to see. With this 2-disc set you’ll finally get the features that Europe and Australia got already (You don’t get the long Q&A Joss did in Australia, but you can catch that on Youtube). First up: The Extended Scenes (6 min. 45 sec.). Longer versions of some of the scenes in the movie, including more Mal and Inara.
  
• Better cover art. Way, way better cover art. It’s not 11th Hour quality, but few things in this world are and this is much classier. Not a llama in sight.
  
• The Session 416 videos! River’s scary-cool progression through the Academy. I loved seeing ‘em online but I can’t wait to see ‘em on a bigger screen.
  
• Brand. New. Cast. Commentary. Joss, Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin, Summer Glau, and Ron Glass talking about our favorite movie. Face it, this is a good enough reason all by itself.

And here's a list of what's new and what's not on the Collector's Edition, in case you're still waffling.

So, there. Go forth and buy this on the 21st.

In other Whedon-type news, the third issue of Spike: Shadow Puppets is coming out tomorrow...and Dark Horse issued a three-piece PVC set of Mal, Jayne, and River as well. Ouch, my wallet.

OMH, you have to see this.

"Serenity" spoilers ahoy. But it's hilarious.

And "Lost" tonight? PWNS, baby. This ep is TOTALLY rocking my socks...

Seems to be a cross-cultural phenomenon. Check out all these positive reviews from Christian reviewers. Considering some of the gratutious sexual references and all the violence in it, it's heartening to see that people are looking beyond that surface-type stuff and getting into the meat and message of the story.

This can only help get butts in seats this weekend. I'm planning on going at least twice more. It's playing with "The Forty-Year-Old Virgin" at the drive-in (which, barf, but we can leave after "Serenity"--or, oooh! Sit through that and then watch "Serenity" yet again, because they play the first movie twice! Oooohhhhh...), and there's some Browncoats getting together for the 5pm show tomorrow at one of the local theaters.

Butts in seats, people. Butts in seats. This weekend will make or break us.

Is my zealous evangelism for this movie getting annoying yet?

And I thought I should too. Reason Magazine's take on "Serenity". Spread it around, because this is one awesome article.

( Spoilery babbles behind the cut! )

So, yes. Go see it. It really is that good.

I got to talk to Michael Medved about "Serenity" today. *flails*

Okay. *deep breath* First off, he loved the movie, so YAY!!! But he "laughed" when River was kicking ass, because she's so tiny...but I got to point out that she is a trained ballerina, and has muscles in places we can't even name, plus she's psychic and therefore knows what her opponent is going to do before they do it. Which, you know...confers a slight advantage. *cough*

People into martial arts don't generally laugh when tiny people kick ass, because they know it's all about leverage.

But, both the call screener and Michael loved the film. *flails some more*

New viral marketing clip up here. (requires Quicktime)

ZOMGWHOA.

Masterlist is here.

Wow. Just, wow. That is one shiny, shiny set of clips, that is.

It's me! And Da Boy. Heh. Quicktime required...

ZOMG so sad... *sobs*

Windows Media required; I couldn't get any of the Quicktime sites to work.

Another piece of viral marketing. Not as freaky as the first one.