Hi Firefly. Hello pain.
POSTED BY: Cub
UPDATED: Saturday, October 22, 2005 06:26
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How right you are... I cherish my exposure to the Firefly verse more than a lot of things in my life, but I just can't believe it was scrapped while shows such as Law and Order and CSI and the rest of the primetime trash continues. Jesus, even Xena got more airtime than Firefly. I'm not a fan of any other sci-fi series (Star Trek, Stargate, Galactica, etc), well maybe a little of the original Star Trek, but I'll refrain from offending those who are. I just don't understand why FOX didn't see how good this series is. Buffy and Angel are quality television, shouldn't that alone be enough to give Joss a shot? He obviously got a big enough fanbase out of 14 episodes, would it really hurt to cancel some half-wit program (put it on at three in the morning for all I care, I would suck down a couple pots of coffee every night just to watch) to give the world what it wants?
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Oh dear.
You guys have just totally depressed me. I'm trying really hard to get Firefly out of my system...but it just won't go away. Like everyone else I want my Heroes back and even though I loved the film can't help feeling deflated now its all done.
I've got the pain too...
Its like when you get dumped...you need a replacement to truly get over it.
Any suggestions?
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I'd pay twenty bucks or more to get this show back on the air if someone started a "Save Firefly" campaign.
Besides, why would I want to leave Serenity?
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Seriously, has anyone ever tried organizing fans to directly pay to fund new episodes?
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Hi everyone!
I'm also new to the show. My brother has been in to it forever and has probably spent a good portion of each week pestering me to watch the episodes. I have resisted for a long long time. I had seen clips when I'd be visiting him but could not get into it at all.
I'm currently out of work and have exhausted my vast DVD collection and desperately wanted to see something new.
I succumbed to his persistence and so the joy and pain began.
I too have only been watching for 2 weeks. I have watched all the episodes twice as well as rewatching the ones with commentaries.
An aside...Wouldn't you love to hear the commentaries for ALL the episodes - possible special edition Mr Whedon???!!!
I have also seen the film, will be going again myself and will be going again with my brother. Hhhhmmm that caused me a lot more pain...
I've now got my own DVD set and have ordered the few books that there are out about Serenity.
One thing struck me and this goes back to what studio execs know or don't know...
Look at some of the programmes that are on tv that have been renewed each season and are utterly crap. 2 come to mind that I've seen on recently (in Ireland) - Andromeda (good God - the sfx budget of an 8yr olds pocket money allowance) and Jake 2.0.
Apologies to fans of these shows but really...Firefly got cancelled and these didn't??
Maybe we should be trying to get some of us into studio exec jobs and then we would control what we get to watch. Just imagine it - all the cast in their late 70's struggling up those steps throughout the ship, sleeping most of the day and peeing through most of the night - Firefly, The Later Years.....
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Originally posted by raeski:
Oh dear.
You guys have just totally depressed me. I'm trying really hard to get Firefly out of my system...but it just won't go away. Like everyone else I want my Heroes back and even though I loved the film can't help feeling deflated now its all done.
I've got the pain too...
Its like when you get dumped...you need a replacement to truly get over it.
Any suggestions?
OMG I totally understand you... I really LOVE firefly, I truly do...
I usually don't watch TV (especially Sci-Fi), and I've never got into any TV shows. Firefly was a gem, something that was really, really special.
All I can do now is to watch the same episodes over and over and over, and I still watch it more.
I can't get over the pain... I can't accept that no more episode is coming out.... I want to believe that Joss will make it happen...
Only replacement that can ease my pain is another firefly season.... (T-T)
Well, at least I'm glad I'm not the only one to feel this way.
If someone is starting Firefly donation, I'll put down some too...
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Oh MY LANDS...
I understand your pain. Andromeda stayed on the air?? I've never been able to figure that one out.
I haven't seen all of Firefly yet, actually. I'm monetarily impaired and my brother is the only one in the family with the set.
We're probably going to finish them over Thanksgiving. I'm dreading getting to that last episode.
Oh, the grief and trauma of it all!
It's so weird; I was never a Buffy fan, but this clicked right away. I think it's the whole family concept. I have the Serenity by Gaslight photo on my desktop. Sad looking, all empty like that. :-(
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The only other show that I've become so obsessed with is Andy Richter Controls the Universe. It’s even more painful being a fan of that show, there’s no movie, they haven’t even released the DVD.
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
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Only other show I ever felt so addicted to (in recent history) was reruns of Red Dwarf. I expect that to go the same route as this show is doomed to do.
I'm with you CUB. Feel yer pain (and all that crap ~ no slight against you, just being all dramatic and whatnot)
You're feelings are not unique to you. They are routine to be quite blunt. "why and how could something like firefly get cancelled?"...
The responses are equally (if not worse) routine. Lot's of empathic types and apologists of every kind to weigh in with what they are thinking. Just don't ask any of them to do anything to keep Firefly from fading.
Quote from someone...
"Don't just do something. Stand there."
~ our motto
They all feel yer pain. *cough*gag*. (Attention Deficit Disorder ADvertisement ~ insert here).
XG
No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.
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Originally posted by Giantevilhead:
The only other show that I've become so obsessed with is Andy Richter Controls the Universe. It’s even more painful being a fan of that show, there’s no movie, they haven’t even released the DVD.
Right there with ya. And I haven't even been able to find any "AndyRichterControlstheUniverseFans.net"s to commiserate on. Of course, that also keeps me from picking at the scab incessantly...
Ironic, isn't it, that we fans of Firefly experience so much pain...only serving to help us identify even more strongly with the plight of our characters, and thus, reinforcing our obsession.
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Once you've seen Serenity you never leave, you just learn to live there.
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