Serenity Chronicles III: Revelations

It is so tough to review something that has no real flaws! Yes, there is a drop in video quality where deleted scenes are reinserted, but other than that, it is a great edit of a great movie, capping off a great trilogy of Firefly/Serenity fanedits. My biggest complaint is the same complaint I had about the series: I want there to be more of it! But this is as much more as there is ever going to be (unless Joss Whedon gets the gang back together, which is doubtful).
Of the three edits, I suppose the 2nd one has the most consistent picture and audio quality since there were no deleted scenes inserted, but all three are excellent. I hate to leave a short review when I know the editor worked for a long time to create this, but there just isn't much to say when there isn't anything to complain about. It was a great ending to a great tv series and series of fanedits. These will definitely be saved and never deleted from my hard drive. A very easy recommendation to any and everyone. Anyone who has never seen the original series, these 3 movies are a great introduction--and if you are like me and want more (because these are so goram good), you can always go back and watch the full series. While parts 1 and 2 do not replace the full run of the show, part 3 probably does replace the movie Serenity because this is more complete. Fantastic work!

I'm going to use the same review for all three parts of the Serenity Chronicles, because in my opinion, they need to be viewed as a complete package for maximum effect.

MusicEd921 does an outstanding job of tying together the entire series, plus the feature film Serenity, and condensing the essence of the show into 3 feature length DVDs. When I originally contacted MusicEd921 regarding these edits, I mentioned that I was planning a weekend binge-watch of the entire series plus Serenity, something that I do every year or so...

From now on, I'll be binging on these DVDs instead--they're THAT good.

I give a 9 rating on A/V quality solely because of the quality of some of the deleted scenes that were incorporated into the edits. As mentioned previously in other reviews, the quality of these scenes was lower simply because they were not remastered for the DVD release. Not MusicEd921's fault at all.

If you are a Firefly fan, you need to see these edits. :)

The quality of included scenes is not very good. Nevertheless overall amazing movie with new subtle details!

This works as both a great Extended Edition of the movie Serenity, as well as a great finale to part 3 of MusicEd921's "Serenity Chronicles". It is overwhelmingly a good edit, though I haven't decided yet if it replaces the original film for me, for a couple of reasons.

Firstly, a few others have noted the difference in quality of the added scenes, and the editor himself does put a warning of this at the start of the film. Personally, it did bother me the most in Part 3 though. The first 2 parts were sourced from TV, and the resolution of the normal footage was average anyway. However, the footage here from the theatrical film looks great!....and consequently the contrast with the added scenes is that much more noticeable. Also, unlike with the previous 2 parts, several scenes here are "extended", and it actually seemed to me that specific shots of a few seconds each were spliced in with the extant footage. So you're watching high quality video, than suddenly the scene switches to be much rougher looking, then back to high quality, then maybe back again to rougher footage ten seconds later. I found this much more distracting than in parts 1 and 2 when there were simply some rough quality scenes added in whole.

I will say that while all of the "deleted" and "extended" footage is great on its own, there were a few bits that I could see why they were deleted. Sometimes they were just better left out for tonal reasons. While I was very grateful for scenes of Inara's world or other longer ones that were probably cut for time, the bits that were cut for tone should probably have stayed out. The most notable one for me was a big fight between Mal and The Operative which suddenly stops for 10 seconds to trade quips. I mean, they're funny, but it just ruins the momentum of the scene. The result of all this is that this Extended Edition is basically just the maximum length the film can be, without much editing for quality.

Fifteen years has given time to see this film for what it is, a fantastic Star Wars substitute that had a lot of potential. It's given time to let all the superlatives die down and realize that it does have continuity issues (Simon starts off as a super-confident secret agent mastermind?!) and it does fail to pay off many points from the series. It would've been a great start for a film trilogy, but here it's the finale of a TV trilogy. It's a bittersweet experience watching this, because it's so good but also leaves so much undone. It actually doesn't stand on its own very well or wrap things up either. I'd still recommend any sci-fi nerd go out and watch the series, though. If you like it, The Serenity Chronicles are a great way to rewatch and get even more added bits.

This is oddly a different sort of edit to the other two. it is much more just the movie that we know. the deleted scenes are welcomed. the deleted scene of the operative at the end kinda weirded me out. i missed the piece falling off. i think the "what was that?" was the thing that annoyed me. ah well. i was glad to see it and to have the set along with the other two. Really glad that MusicEd made these.