Actually what I was saying is you just apply that stanza to every movie and if there's any sort of correlation then it's a space movie.
There's a joke in here somewhere about art imitating life.movies where the protagonists would much rather not be in space
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.