Firefly's gone, lets try MIRACLES!

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SERGEANTX

Friday, January 24, 2003 10:20 AM

Sorry, 'Miracles' may be fine show, but if Firefly doesn't make it, I'm really not interested in supporting another show from the beginning. I think I speak for quite a few people here, in saying that I've never been interesting in 'supporting' television at all. If fact, I didn't show up here to 'support' Firefly - I just thought I saw something really special in it and wanted some community in that experience. Good luck with your site though.

SergeantX

"..and here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest." -- Nanci Griffith

BROWNCOAT1

Friday, January 24, 2003 9:28 PM

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Sorry, 'Miracles' may be fine show, but if Firefly doesn't make it, I'm really not interested in supporting another show from the beginning. I think I speak for quite a few people here, in saying that I've never been interesting in 'supporting' television at all.

I agree. I may take a look at Miracles but I am not sure I am ready to get too involved w/ another show. I am not ready to give up on Firefly yet.

ZERO

Friday, January 24, 2003 9:53 PM

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Originally posted by SergeantX:
Sorry, 'Miracles' may be fine show, but if Firefly doesn't make it, I'm really not interested in supporting another show from the beginning. I think I speak for quite a few people here, in saying that I've never been interesting in 'supporting' television at all. If fact, I didn't show up here to 'support' Firefly - I just thought I saw something really special in it and wanted some community in that experience. Good luck with your site though.

SergeantX

"..and here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest." -- Nanci Griffith

Ditto. This a Firefly forum and fansite, leave the other shows out.

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ZATHRAS10

Friday, January 24, 2003 9:56 PM

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That being said, ain't no way a show called "Miracles" can best my Firefly. Sounds a little too much like "Seventh Heaven" or "Touched by an Angel" for my tastes.

Actually, from what I've heard about it so far, sounds much more like "Nothing Sacred" meets "The X-Files." Of course, nobody's even heard of "Nothing Sacred," but it was one of the best and most challenging things to appear on TV, ever. Its cancellation was the last time I was nearly as angry about a cancellation as I am about Firefly's.

And besides, I really enjoyed Skeet Ulrich in both "Touch" and "Ride With the Devil," so I'm looking forward to it for that reason, too.

Won't replace Firefly in my heart--nothing ever will--but I'm hopeful that at least intelligence won't have disappeared entirely from the airwaves.

Chris

HAKEN

Saturday, January 25, 2003 1:49 AM

Here's a bit from Matt over at TV GUIDE:

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LEAP OF FAITH

Can Miracles Break Curse on Cult TV?

By Matt Roush

Just how serious is ABC about Miracles, the new year's riskiest drama?

We ask this only because the network is asking us to believe that it will actually stand by a series that is darkly challenging and almost as certain to spark controversy as it is to dwell in the ratings cellar. Miracles (Mondays, 10 pm/ET), best described as a spiritual X-Files, has "cult show" written all over it and will need a proverbial miracle to survive, especially against CBS's CSI: Miami.

By asking us to willingly venture into this often spellbinding world of mysticism and apocalyptic portent, ABC must hope we've all had amnesia about the fate of so many of its short-lived mold breakers, from Twin Peaks to, most tellingly, 1997's edgy Nothing Sacred, about a volatile priest.

Now, to be fair, cult dramas are struggling everywhere, with Fox's Firefly, UPN's Haunted, WB's Birds of Prey and Sci Fi Channel's Farscape all axed recently.

Miracles at least can bank on the brooding star presence of Skeet Ulrich. He brings a dazed queasiness to the role of Paul Callan, a soul-weary orphan whose own religious nurturing led to his calling as a church-sanctioned investigator and debunker of miraculous phenomena. Feeling like "a doctor who never cures anyone," Paul wonders if "maybe we're on our own down here."

His crisis of faith is intensified by horrific dream visions and, in the first episode, an encounter with a dying boy who has the power to heal others. Further shaken and alienated from his church superiors, Paul joins a mysterious brotherhood of truth seekers in anticipation of some cataclysmic "large event."

Miracles recalls The X-Files's moody tone and ability to sustain wonder amid the trappings of a suspense thriller. But before we get too excited, consider that if The X-Files had aired on ABC, it probably wouldn't have had a prayer.

http://www.tvguide.com/tv/roush/rreview/

FURYFIRE

Sunday, January 26, 2003 12:13 AM

Ok, yor're judging Mirales without ever seeing it. Thats wat a dumbass does, dont do it. Watch it, give it a chance. You don't have to give up on Firefly, I'm not, and the rest o ya are more focused on Saving Farscape rather than Firefly anyway. Alias is NOT a genre show, why does no one understand that?

Watch Miracles, give it a chance, Firefly burned out, Miracles is the best we have. As Cordy said to Angel last week, "Get over it."

If you know anyone that can help my screenwriting career, please help! And yes, I am self-advertising here. Hehehe, me such a little devil.

BRTICK

Sunday, January 26, 2003 1:10 AM

if we don't do what we can to support quality shows now'll all be doomed to a future of nothing but reality show knock offs and fastlame rip offs. let's try not to let that happen shall we?

Keep Flying!

ESME

Sunday, January 26, 2003 3:54 AM

I'll watch it. Might be worth it, now that some shows are gone, and others may be leaving.

KOBAYASHI

Sunday, January 26, 2003 11:04 PM

FYI - Miracles got completely panned in the Sunday Paper this morning. From the sounds of it, I wouldn't expect it to last until May...

ROBERTSPARLING

Monday, January 27, 2003 1:14 AM

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Originally posted by FURYFIRE:
Ok, yor're judging Mirales without ever seeing it. Thats wat a dumbass does, dont do it. Watch it, give it a chance. You don't have to give up on Firefly, I'm not, and the rest o ya are more focused on Saving Farscape rather than Firefly anyway. Alias is NOT a genre show, why does no one understand that?

Weren't you judging 'Miracles' before you saw it?
You were singing its praises to the roof before it even premiered. You think it will be great and you want to watch it. Great for you. Others of us do not think it will be great and have no reason to wate our time for an hour watching a TV show we don't care about. Don't allude that people who choose not to invest their time in 'Miracles' are dumbasses.

And point of fact: you have given up on Firefly. The title of your post is "Firefly's gone, Let's try Miracles." Start a Miracles board and post there if you're so hot on the show, and leave those holding out for something better to their own devices.

Alias is a genre show. The genre is SPY. The reason no one understands you when you say it ISN'T a genre show is because you are wrong. Sorry, but you are.

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