Why Firefly failed to draw rating? suggestions

POSTED BY: Bebop
UPDATED: Friday, March 28, 2003 04:10
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AKFIREFLY

Wednesday, March 26, 2003 3:49 AM

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Originally posted by Qixotl:
...The campy robbery in "The Train Job" caused one friend of mine (who is more of a Whedon fan than I) to give up on the show after one episode...

OH HOW TRUE!!I also belong to a Enterprise forum and a lot of them said that they did NOT like Firefly after the frist episode. But what they failed in seeing is that Joss in his wonderful brain has combined what is good in all of our favorite TV shows. Humor

, suspence, a bit of a love story

, in space, with a bit of the shoot 'em up bang bang

for action. What Trekkies should be asking is where is this type of writing when it comes to Enterprise?? The thing that kept us (my friends and I)watching(Firefly) week in and out was in "The Train Job" episode. It suprised the heck out of us to see a "good guy" kick a guy into a running engine, and then to follow it up with a bit of humor. WOW!! Oh how I miss this show *sigh*...and with Buffy coming to an end this season...what ever shall we do for good entertainment. Unfortunatly, up here in Alaska we do not get the WB. Therefore we have just begun to watch Angel (on DVD). Anywho, one more thing is that I to was a DA fan, but was unhappy with the turn they took on the season 2. And I could never get past how in interviews Jessica Alba; showed her 19 year old side. It just threw me how very teenagerie (if that is a word) she was. I expected someone with less giggle, and more grown-up. But that is IMHO.

Thanks for letting me vent.

CHAOSIUM

Friday, March 28, 2003 4:10 AM

I believe some of the 'blame' for poor ratings belongs in the category of 'competition rather than cooperation.'

Television networks engage in a war of ratings.
'Who owns what night' etc. They regularly put shows designed to draw a specific demographic in direct competition with another network on the same night, at the same time.

Friday nights are/were owned by the Sci-Fi channel and their lineup of Stargate SG-1 and Farscape.
Who in their right mind would put a new/another Sci-Fi show up against direct competition?
Television Execs who want to split an audience, that's who.
Well, I doubt it will ever change either.
Would Firefly have done better on a different day? I don't know, but I believe it would have.
The demographic that Firefly was trying to reach aren't exactly the type of people who sit at home on Friday nights either.
We set the VCR and head out to meet our friends at the bar, club, whatever.
I can always watch the episode on Saturday. It's not like I have to see it that very moment.
I chose to record Firefly every Friday because I knew that I could always catch those other shows on the Sci-Fi Channel 1AM rerun.

Time for a paradigm shift? Could be!
Hey Joss! If you or your folks read this, I had one of my 'moments of inspiration.'
Take it directly to the consumer.
Chuck Barris took his Gong Show directly to the Syndication stations and shocked the major network execs a bit. Time to deliver a little shock of your own?
I for one, would pay $5.00 plus a buck or two S&H each week to have a DVD of my Firefly episode arrive in my mailbox. I'm gonna buy them if they ever come out on DVD anyway... why not have them right away?
As for funding? Coupons, baby, coupons.
As long as there will be television, there will be companies trying to get viewers to use their products. A coordinated effort at providing subscibers with coupons from major product manufacturers that were complementary, rather than in weekly competition would get subscribers to use coupons included with their DVDs.
(Hell, I'd buy DelMonte one week and Green Giant the next week.)

And I saw this land a battlefield,
with a hundred-thousand men,
fighting hand-to-hand.
And I head the sound of Victory.
And the rivers ran red with the blood of our enemies.
(Chris DeBurgh - The Leader)

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