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I really should get on with talking about Supreme Court nominees and the Constitution and reporters being held as political prisoners in America fer chrissakes ... but I've spotted one interesting phenomenon connected with (I'm sorry) the movie "Serenity." So I'm going to make this one last observation and try to move on. Oops, one caveat: There are themes in "Serenity" that are intertwined with the themes of this blog, so let there be no doubt, the movie will be referenced again. But this is my last golly-gee-whiz fanboy-type comment.

While I was disappointed that the film grossed "only" $10 million its first weekend, I noticed this: A few weeks ago I checked the Amazon.com top seller's list and was pleased to see the "Firefly" box set was No. 7 on Amazon's science fiction DVD top seller list. The amazing news is that as of this morning, "Firefly" is No. 2 on the OVERALL DVD list. Not just in the science fiction genre, but overall. Only Disney's "Cinderella Special Platinum Edition" is selling more DVDs for Amazon.

What does this mean? My guess is that people who saw "Serenity" over the weekend loved it enough to shell out 35 bucks and learn more about this 'verse and these characters. And that, to me, bodes very well for the future of this vision of the future.

I will continue to monitor the box office and the sales charts, just because I'm a fanboy and want to see what happens next to the crew of Serenity. It'll be interesting to see if word of mouth keeps bringing people into the theater. Looks like a cultural phenomenon - or at least a cult phenomenon - in the making.