[Stef the Pef]

I never got a chance to see the TV show, but I must say, the movie was AMAZING.

First off, was anyone else impressed by the fact that none of the actors are very well-known? Our whole little group who went to see it was like, "OMG, it's a producer's wet dream!" The only one we recognized was one of the girls who was also on Space Cases (the rainbow-haired screamy chick?), but that's just because we're both old Nickelodeon geeks and pretty unashamed of the fact that we watched entirely too much of that channel as a kid...

Anyway, OMG. OMG, OMG, OMG. I'm not a huge sci-fi fan, but Joss Whedon could write a movie about absolutely nothing and it would be worth it just for the dialogue. There was a lot of classic Whedon-esque snappy dialogue and witty remarks that made it all worthwhile. And the fight scenes? Definitely worthy of a stare and drool. OMG.

And as far as killing off the characters goes, isn't that just what Whedon does? Even with Buffy/Angel's numerous resurrected characters, the finales of both had a pretty high major character body count.