About those unaired episodes...
POSTED BY: Kurukami
UPDATED: Friday, January 3, 2003 23:17
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I've just been wondering something.
First, some background. I didn't come into Firefly from the beginning -- I got hooked about six weeks after the show first got on the air. Naturally, I was curious about "the pilot" -- both "The Train Job" and "Serenity". Also naturally, I didn't have any chance to see the -true- pilot since it was never aired. Nonetheless, I managed to track down some form of it via peer-to-peer file-sharing programs, because some soul out there was kind enough to track down the original rough-cut pilot and digitize it.
One must wonder, then, what will be the final fate of those completed-yet-unaired-as-yet eps...?
History doesn't always repeat itself. Sometimes it merely shouts "Weren't you listening the first time?!?" and lets fly with a club.
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The way I see it, it'll:
1. Never air (been known to happen).
2. FOX will air them before Summer.
3. UPN picks them up along with Firefly.
4. We'll see them on DVD.
5. Someone leaks them onto the net.
Hopefully, it'll be #3.
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They'll probably never air.
#2 is a moot point now - FOX doesn't seem interested in airing anything Firefly anymore now that they've publicly cancelled it. They'll show you reruns of the movie Happy Gilmore like they always do when they can't fill a programming slot for 2 hours or a rerun of COPS.
#3 is a longshot. Would be nice. But UPN already has a Sci-Fi space show with a following that grew up on Star Fleet and The Federation and Phasers over the last 30 odd years.
#4 we'll see them on DVD - good possibility, did it for FarScape.
#5 someone leaks them onto the net - has been known to happen too. But probably won't.
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The funny thing is, Fox hasn't officially canceled Firefly. According to them, the show is still on hiatus. Fox hasn't ordered any new scripts or episodes though which is why Joss and Tim are shopping Firefly around to other networks.
I predict we'll see the three unaired Firefly eps during the down time between Fox's bad taste reality shows in March (after sweeps).
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It'll air in June, hidden form the public, right before the summer series launch and after May Sweeps. Remember FreakyLinks?
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If UPN or anyone else buys the series, they'll presumably make a deal for those episodes as well. Otherwise, Fox will likley show them during the summer.
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Originally posted by AllianceSoldier:
They'll probably never air.
#2 is a moot point now - FOX doesn't seem interested in airing anything Firefly anymore now that they've publicly cancelled it. They'll show you reruns of the movie Happy Gilmore like they always do when they can't fill a programming slot for 2 hours or a rerun of COPS.
you got that right
#3 is a longshot. Would be nice. But UPN already has a Sci-Fi space show with a following that grew up on Star Fleet and The Federation and Phasers over the last 30 odd years.
I don't see how Star Trek is our ennemy in this,yes it's another space show but who cares? UPN know how space show can become popular so it'll only help Firefly cause
#4 we'll see them on DVD - good possibility, did it for FarScape.
Tim Minear(or was it Joss?) told us that a DVD WILL come out
#5 someone leaks them onto the net - has been known to happen too. But probably won't.
I think I've heard that Heath of Gold is already out but I didn't look
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I think they probably WILL air on Fox. Remember the Lone Gunmen? The show ended with episode 12. The network announced this as the series finale, yet weeks later, a previously unaired episode (Cap'n Toby) aired with no promotion whatsoever. As a result, I, like many others, missed it and it was never aired again. Thankfully I did eventually track it down.
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FREAKYLINKS! Just like it, they four eps left in the can, and viewer demand had the show ocme back in June.
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