Firefly Season 2 On DVD

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UPDATED: Monday, October 10, 2005 15:24
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HOWARD

Saturday, October 8, 2005 2:24 AM

No more than an average movie and besides the property is already a known franchise with a huge following and the highest selling TV related DVD on Amazon with the most customer reviews on Amazon of any TV show and as many as the biggest films in history. There is nothing about it that is an unknown entity. Movies get money up front all the time including independent movies.

ANANTI

Saturday, October 8, 2005 2:29 AM

I think the best way to do it is to convince HBO maybe they should fund it?

If you can convince them that having the show would lead to, I don't know 500,000 additional subscritions to their channel?

That's 500,000 X 8 month X $10 per month?

That's $40 million right there, and you haven't even talked about the DVD sales. Assuming 500,000 sold and they made $30 on each that's another 15 million.

HBO produced some very expensive shows like Deadwood, Carnivale, Rome, that had no built in fanbase.

MICHAELANGELO

Saturday, October 8, 2005 2:37 AM

Honestly, if i thought it'd help, i'd send Joss my $100, or even $10/week to see Firefly Season 2.

I get all teary-eyed every time i think about Firefly & how i'll most likely never see it again (with the obvious exception of my season 1 set).

I ordered my 2nd DVD set 'cause i loan mine out so much i never get a chance to watch it. Just trying to convert as many Browncoats as i can. Sure, there may be more movies but it ain't the same. I want Firefly back!

I'm a 30-something father & husband & all i can think about in my spare time is this TV show... how weird is that? I'm even toying with the idea of getting the Serenity Logo tattooed somewhere... Damn you Joss for making me love it so much :-P

~
"That's why i never kiss'em on the mouth."

HELL'S KITTEN

Saturday, October 8, 2005 2:37 AM

Hey, nice to read some of the more original crazy talk! No offense meant, but really, I just can't stop giggling.

First of all, as said above, the cost per episode is probably around $2-3M (the pilot allegedly costing upwards of $10M), you also have to take into account that the show would have to have "development time" (which could be years, with everything that would have to be done before actually hiring a staff and getting the actors back) and each episode is shot months before it's actually aired, so in order to get a season, you're gonna have to put up MILLIONS of dollars right off and then wait YEARS to actually get anything out of it. That sound like a sane plan to you? (For FANS, not for a production company.) Production isn't as instant as you turning on your DVD player.

Secondly, and far more importantly, at the present time, Joss has stated unequivocally that Firefly the series will not return and has even suggested that he doesn't want to do that. If that changes, I'll be doing that infamous "happy dance" myself.

And, here's a crazy thought, what if not all of the original crew want to do the series? You gonna replace one of the characters with a different actor, or a different character, and continue on your merry way? Firefly is a great thing as it is, and forcing another series if it isn't right would... tarnish it....

I'd put more hope into more movies or, as Adam Baldwin and Chris Buchanan stated, the possibility of a spin-off of the series.

Cheers.

无党派人士

ANANTI

Saturday, October 8, 2005 2:49 AM

无党派人士

Just out of curiosity, but who gave you that translation?

I ask because I have a feeling it means something other than what you think it means.

HELL'S KITTEN

Saturday, October 8, 2005 2:59 AM

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Originally posted by Ananti:
无党派人士

Just out of curiosity, but who gave you that translation?

I ask because I have a feeling it means something other than what you think it means.

Co-workers from Shanghai. They said it roughly translates as "non-partisan personage" or... independent... and it looks pretty.

Are they playing a joke on me?

无党派人士

JASONZZZ

Saturday, October 8, 2005 3:16 AM

Do you mean it to be "independent" as:

1. someone who is in *the* Independent party
2. someone who has no affiliation to any party
3. a state of without dependence on anyone or anything?

b/c that phrase is the most like #2.

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Originally posted by Ananti:
无党派人士

Just out of curiosity, but who gave you that translation?

I ask because I have a feeling it means something other than what you think it means.

Co-workers from Shanghai. They said it roughly translates as "non-partisan personage" or... independent... and it looks pretty. Are they playing a joke on me?

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ANANTI

Saturday, October 8, 2005 3:19 AM

No, just that it's a very bad translation of "Independents", which I guess is what you're going for.

It means "Non-Partisan" and "Neutral", which is not the same thing as "Independent". It would be the difference between some one like Jayne who sat out the war versus someone like Mal who took the side of the Independents.

Independent is better translated as "獨立",

so "獨立派人士" is the contextually correct translation.

JASONZZZ

Saturday, October 8, 2005 3:28 AM

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Originally posted by Howard:
No more than an average movie and besides the property is already a known franchise with a huge following and the highest selling TV related DVD on Amazon with the most customer reviews on Amazon of any TV show and as many as the biggest films in history. There is nothing about it that is an unknown entity. Movies get money up front all the time including independent movies.

People here know it to be a known franchise and a huge following. Outside of this circle, not so much. Let's be realistic and put some numbers on it. Can you quantify an estimate on how much or large (in terms of numbers of folks worldwide) of a following we are talking about...

I mean what you proposed sounded great, I am asking how much money can each of those folks in this huge following do we need have them pledge...
or are you saying that it should be relatively easy for someone at the studio to open their billfold and spring for it - just because of the huge following?

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HELL'S KITTEN

Saturday, October 8, 2005 3:34 AM

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Originally posted by Ananti:
No, just that it's a very bad translation of "Independents", which I guess is what you're going for.

It means "Non-Partisan" and "Neutral", which is not the same thing as "Independent". It would be the difference between some one like Jayne who sat out the war versus someone like Mal who took the side of the Independents.

Whelp, now that the thread has been hijacked for the moment - and that's totally Ananti's fault

- I've always been a Jayne Girl. I was aiming for the noun from a political standpoint, not the adjective (behavioral or characteristic). Politically non-partisan is "independent," though not necessarily affiliated with the Independents like Cap'n TightPants was.

(Here endeth my willing participation in thread hijackery. Thanks. And sorry.)

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