A small conspiracy theory
POSTED BY: Sickdude
UPDATED: Thursday, April 21, 2005 05:02
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As a registered Conspiracy Theorist I feel that while your reasoning may be somewhat in question, I'll have to agree with your pointing out that there is a conspiracy here.
We need to dig into this a little more.
The government may be involved.
Like Mel from the movie Chrisisall
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I think you give them far too much credit. Of course, it would explain much, hmmmmmm...
Just re-watched a few episodes of Wonderfalls on the DVD. Damn, I love that show.
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Originally posted by Shiny:
Actually a pretty interesting theory...but I still stand by the old reliable "never attribute to malice that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity"
Can I use that?
Feel free; it's not mine:
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Jayne, your mouth is talkin. Might want to look into that.
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Originally posted by Sardonica:
But still, it wouldn't make sense for the networks to cancel them unless they honestly thught that they could make more from "back-end" (books, games, etc.) royalties, movies, syndication, etc...
But wouldn't they make more from "back-end" products with a long-running series? I mean, look at, say, X-Files - a FOX show that not only continued, but continued long past when it should have died - that surely made them a lot of money, right?
Maybe the moral of the story is that scifi shows should be filmed in Canada...
(XFiles, Stargate, uh - I'm sure there're more)
So now the Canadian government is involved in the conspiracy... this just keeps spiralling outward...
:)
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You know, if the DVD theory is correct, then most all of us had a hand in getting these other shows cancelled. By buying Firefly (And Greg the Bunny...I loved that show) we're helping the head honchos see that there might be more money in cutting your losses and sending it to DVD. We certainly proved them right on that account.
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Quote:Only other good Canadian property that I know of is The Collector. And Canada is responsible for Andromeda, Earth: Final Conflict, and (I think) Mutant X.
Originally posted by Astragynia:
Maybe the moral of the story is that scifi shows should be filmed in Canada...
(XFiles, Stargate, uh - I'm sure there're more)
I think our failures far outweigh our successes.
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And speaking of conspiracy, check out 'a Firefly in the Battlestar mini-series' thread in the Other science fiction series forum.
It's good, you'll see.
Freeze frame Chrisisall
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Originally posted by Sickdude:
So, here's my theory: What if Fox is buying them and then cancelling them just to keep other networks from getting them.
Maybe Fox is doing what you say, but it goes deeper then that. They are creating the shows (not just paying, but also the creative influence), buying them, and cancelling them.
A dark force behind both Fox and the creative talent in TV plays both sides against each other. As a result we give more and more power to movie studios and reality TV programmers, also all Fox. Finally when the time is right Fox takes over all of movies, music, TV, printing...an empire of entertainment if you will...and eliminates the Jedi...er...FCC?
Naw, nobody could come up with something like that. Not in the here and now. But someplace else...a long time ago? Could happen.
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I could see some truth to the theory that dvd sales help push shows to cancellation. The execs may have noticed that killing a show early leaves fans dying for more. So, they are more likely to gobble up the boxset. With shows like the Simpsons that have run forever this doesn't work the same. I haven't bought a single Simpsons boxset. Mainly because I can still get more Simpsons for free every week by turning on the tv. So, maybe we really are hurting ourselves by buying up boxsets of cancelled shows.
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Originally posted by Zeek:
So, maybe we really are hurting ourselves by buying up boxsets of cancelled shows.
If that's the case, then we really can't win. If we hadn't bought all of those DVDs, then Universal wouldn't have greenlit the BDM, and we'd have nothing. Either way, we lose.
Grrr. Arrg!
How does Family Guy fit into this? Maybe they're just going to prematurely cancel it again, sell a crapload of DVDs again, and then renew it again? I think the public would catch on eventually.
Wait, I know - they figured we'd catch on to what they've been doing, and so they renewed Family Guy to make us think that if we buy enough DVDs of a canceled show, they might renew the show. Now, anytime they cancel a great show, we'll be sure to gobble up the DVD sets, and we'll say "look what happened to Family Guy! And, Firefly got turned into a movie! So let's go by as many copies as we can fit into our car, and perpetuate the cycle!" Devilishly Brilliant!
Curse you, AquaScum! I mean, Curse you, Fox! Why can't you use your powers for good?!
I mock you with my monkey pants.
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