Serenity wins 2006 Hugo award

[Brys]

The title says it all and I'm very pleased about that. It beat Star Wars episode III, which didn't even get nominated, and it managed to come ahead of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Wallace and Gromit, and Harry Potter 4 - which were all quite popular.

You can't stop the signal. Hopefully this will get a few more people to see the film -> more DVD sales -> another film.

[Brown Rat]

There is justice, afterall!

[Brys]

Well, some. It seems to have won quite a few awards - strangely enough it won the Prometheus award for Libertarian science fiction as well, which I wouldn't even have considered it a contender for. Now, we just have to hope that the networks see sense and allow us another season of Firefly, or perhaps it's proving successful enough to allow for those sequels Joss wanted to do.

[Eoghann]

Originally Posted by Brys

Well, some. It seems to have won quite a few awards - strangely enough it won the Prometheus award for Libertarian science fiction as well, which I wouldn't even have considered it a contender for. Now, we just have to hope that the networks see sense and allow us another season of Firefly, or perhaps it's proving successful enough to allow for those sequels Joss wanted to do.

Well it's not how I view, it but Serenity (and Firefly) definitely have several core elements that could be described as Libertarian.

I don't see any chance of another season or even a second movie coming from this though. It would have been different if it had gotten an Emmy or Oscar nomination, but the Hugo is a ghetoized award. It's very important to those of us into science fiction and completely unheard of to the rest of the population, including most people who watch sci-fi movies.

Ironically Serenity may just have been too good a science fiction film to garner a mass audience.

[Brown Rat]

It was only in my local theater for one week. I went three times during that week--and then the movie was gone. It didn't really have a chance to build momentum or word of mouth here.

[PTeppic]

Congrats to cast and crew on the award. I think the movie would have been two or three weeks, if not even four, at the multiplex I go to.

I actually went to see it without having see any of Firefly. I know, sacrilege, I hadn't been converted at that point. But I do have the advantage of seeing it with totally fresh eyes and as far as I can recall it all made decent sense. Of course, my education has been completed correctly since then and I'm a total fan of both series and movie... (now the same guy who switched me is trying to persuade me about Arrested Development...)

[Trey Greyjoy]

wow, that feels really good. Somehow, something makes sense in this world at last....

[Brys]

Originally Posted by Eoghann

Well it's not how I view, it but Serenity (and Firefly) definitely have several core elements that could be described as Libertarian.

I don't see any chance of another season or even a second movie coming from this though. It would have been different if it had gotten an Emmy or Oscar nomination, but the Hugo is a ghetoized award. It's very important to those of us into science fiction and completely unheard of to the rest of the population, including most people who watch sci-fi movies.

Ironically Serenity may just have been too good a science fiction film to garner a mass audience.

True it has elements in it, but the Prometheus award is almost exclusively for literary works as well - Serenity managed to garner a special award. What's really surprising is that Ken MacLeod's Learning the World got a Prometheus award (and he's very much a socialist) - maybe it makes a correct use of the term libertarian rather than the ultra-capitalist position it's often used to mean.

[Eoghann]

Originally Posted by PTeppic

(now the same guy who switched me is trying to persuade me about Arrested Development...)

Listen to him. Arrested Development was brilliant.

[Eoghann]

Originally Posted by Brys

What's really surprising is that Ken MacLeod's Learning the World got a Prometheus award (and he's very much a socialist) - maybe it makes a correct use of the term libertarian rather than the ultra-capitalist position it's often used to mean.

Hmm, I'm several books behind on MacLeod right now. Shame on me for not keeping up with the output of a fellow Scot. However, didn't he always like to explore political extremes?

I seem to recall at least one book which centered on an anarchist society, and another where we got he explored an environmentalist society. What's the premise of Learning the World?

[Brys]

I haven't read Learning the World yet, but it's possible it explores a very libertarian society. Or it might just be the Prometheus award being given for the novel being good literature, rather than for its political viewpoint (which seems strange for a specifically political award).

[valeriefrankel]

Everyone in the room for the Hugo Awards cheered very, very loudly. It was definitely the favorite.