Much cleverer than anticipated. That said, it discounts movies where the protagonists would much rather not be in space, such as the entire Alien franchise.
- movies where the protagonists would much rather not be in space
There's a joke in here somewhere about art imitating life.
Okay well if we're ONLY doing Serenity, I am going to say it's a Western in space. The place doesn't really matter.
But background and context matters right?:
If we are going by Firefly, I'm going to say it's part of the "Space Genre" because there are reasons that they need to be in space, space plays a big role in some of the drama in the show and the distances the crew are from home.
Good answer. The episodes "Out of Gas" and "Objects in Space" are, I think, clearly space, um, movie-like things. Most of the other episodes are space Westerns.