"Engineer as Hero" for the holidays!
You, too, can enjoy fine examples of "Engineer as Hero" fare at home this holiday season. Serenity, featuring Jewel Staite (pictured) as engineer Kaylee Frye, will be available on DVD starting 12.20. Just in time! Serenity is the movie version of the cancelled Fox Network sci-fi western Firefly, and is directed by Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Joss Whedon. You don't have to have enjoyed Firefly to understand Serenity, but it helps. (If there is any weakness to this movie, that's it.) Staite's Kaylee is a different kind of space flight engineer than, say, Star Trek's James Doohan. You don't hear any "she canna take any more!" though you do hear quite a bit about Kaylee's sidetracked love life. What makes Serenity work is the combination of fast-moving sci-fi action, including a space battle as good as any in Star Wars, along with a steady stream of one-liners from the veteran ensemble cast. Consider:Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Jayne, how many weapons you plan on bringing? You only got the two arms.I wish I could offer news as good about Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit, which appears to be unable to make the shelves in time for the holidays. This movie will please the whole family, as Peter Sallis voices Wallace, the inventor with a Rube Goldberg style. There are so many inventions in Were-Rabbit that you can't count 'em all! If you can't wait, there are, of course, several Wallace and Gromit shorts out there, each very good.
Jayne Cobb: I just get excitable as to choice- like to have my options open.
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: I don't plan on any shooting taking place during this job.
Jayne Cobb: Well, what you plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar.
The old standbys are all to be had as well. If you need an engineer fix and don't have one on your shelf, there is always October Sky or Apollo 13.
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