BRING BACK FIREFLY!
POSTED BY: humble
UPDATED: Thursday, March 15, 2007 16:43
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Damn shame this show got cancelled - just viewed the DVDs and am waiting to see the flick. I was blown away and have been scouring the net for facts regarding the story's future.
Any news of the sci-fi channel showing an interest in resurrecting the series?
Sci-fi has resuscitated both Babylon 5 and Battlestar Galactica. Seems logical to assume Firefly could find a home there; with a decent time-slot to expand viewer base.
I know the box office draw has been less than inspiring and well below goal, so hope for a sequel is floundering.
Any word?
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By the way, the rerun of the original show is now the highest rated program on the Sci-Fi Channel.
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Deffinitly one of the best sci-fi i've ever seen. If you havn't already, write a letter to Joss Whedon telling him to make a new season. It just MUST be done...
I like the movie, it was like another episode to me, though they killed Wash... why T.T ...
Yggdrasil
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Originally posted by Cub:
By the way, the rerun of the original show is now the highest rated program on the Sci-Fi Channel.
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"If wishes were horses, we'd all be eatin' steak."
That is excellent news and bodes very well for a possible continuation of the series! Perhaps an offer from sci-fi is forthcoming?
We shall see.
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Originally posted by InSearchOf:
HOw many firefly fans are there world wide? I think we could easily come together and bring back this wonderful show. I think a major flaw is the limited resource online for people. Heck, we could pull an enterprise and offer donations for the show! It would be sad to lose this 'verse...
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After seeing Serenity repeatedly, I am convinced the only way to truly keep the Firefly 'verse alive is as an episodic television show. The heart of Firefly was in its pace, its character development, its charm, if you will. The slow moments, the magic moments, the humorous moments gave the show balance and were what captivated and created its avid audience. Movies, issued every 2-3 years, determined to be "epic," forced to focus on the "high" points and on dramatic action, lose this heart, lose the spirit of Firefly.
Consider the legacy of Trek. While Firefly is in many ways a reaction to/against Trek, it also, as is always the case in art, stands on the shoulders of its predecessor. A new vision, ahead of its time, created by one determined person's vision, misunderstood, mishandled, and, thus, aborted. Only to be kept alive and reborn at the insistence of a passionate (read, obsessed) following. With what results? Five television series, totalling over twenty years of episodes. Ten films (by my count, off the top of my head - I'm sure hairs can be split, here, if you must). An entire subculture, with references that permeate the culture, writ large.
Can we not do this? Can we not use the incredible success and longevity of Trek as credentials of a sort?
(I am not seeking to start a discussion of Wwhat fans think of Trek. I am very excited about Firefly, obviously, as a refreshing alternative to the Trekian 'verse. I just wish to not forget the lessons of history. Our history.)
What are our numbers, exactly? I have purchased the DVD set, and three tickets, so far, to Serenity. I have not yet joined clubs or signed petitions - although I am obviously headed that way. Am I counted among the faithful, when people discuss our numbers? How many fans do we have, and how many were needed to resurrect Trek, in its day?
I cannot, will not believe that we do not constitute a base large enough to support a television show, on some network, somewhere.
What would it take for SF channel to commit? They are business people, no doubt. We gain nothing by slandering those in Hollywood who need to pay attention to the bottom line, or by yearning for a more utopian world. Firefly, after all, is about folks tryin' to get by in a distinctly dystopian world.
On the contrary, what we need to do is to come together and convince the bottom-lined, hard-headed business folk of television that Firefly is just that - good business. As our Mal-content said, "I'm here for business."
I don't know about the rest of y'all, but I care more about this show than everything else on TV combined. For the most part, I literally do not have the time for television, nowadays. For Firefly, I make time.
Folks talk about one million copies of Serenity to be sold, theoretically, or similar numbers of Firefly DVDs, in the past . . . (I dunno - I am not an authority, here. The numbers, I'm sure, are on the CoreTex.)
If each of one million fans committed, in some online fashion, to contributing a whopping $1 per episode, we would be able to defray the cost of one hour of expensive, special effects laden TV by $1,000,000.00. If only 100,000 fans were serious enough, but were willing to pay $5 per episode, that would be $500,000.00.
Maybe they could receive special River Tam Decoder Rings, as a token of being among the True Believers? Whatever. Just give me my gorram show back.
I would consider it a better investment in art and entertainment than a cable subscription, for sure. Or 90% of the theater fare, these days.
I don't know how this would work. But I am willing to believe, as the good Shepherd would have us all do,NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Shoot. I've already bought the first season 3 times & I'll keep seeing the BDM until it's gone from my state. We don't have cable, and I'd sure as heck put the money we don't spend on thousands of hours of crap (and the few good hours we miss, too) into pre-paying for another season of Firefly.
We talk about how the www brings fans together & has already completely changed, for instance, the way the music industry does things... why not change the TV industry (without having to upset them or pirate anything to do it)? Why not get our show made by paying for it ourselves?
I know. I know. I read a lot of talk like this when Firefly was first cancelled, and everybody said it couldn't be done for one reason or another, but I'd swear there were enough people out there who'd paypal the $$$ straight to Joss to convince him we meant it. A season straight to DVD? A show released for download one ep at a time, for as long as the fans continued to pony up? I'd be one of the prepaid season subscribers. PROMISE.
OH, I want my SHOW BACK. 
Mayn't I pretty please have it?
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the better the show is the faster it gets yanked off the the air(excluding stargate). needless to say firefly is the best show possibly in the history of coolor T.V., ..., ..., ..., nevermind,...In ,Well, EVER!!!!!!
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I'd love to combine efforts with other Browncoats, but all the established groups are fortressed in my area. They are "full" and not joinable. This seems very Alliance, but oh, well.
And, what is going on with Blockbuster? They will not carry Firefly. They refuse to carry the series.
Not only do they NOT have it, as the store manager told me, "We aren't getting it" (this is sent down from corporate). She also added, "Everybody's been asking, though,"
"Well, if everybody's been asking-"
"I have no control over it," she said.
"So-who do I talk to?"
"You can e-mail Blockbuster at the website,"
"OK," I said.
"Please," she said with a smile, "Get them to let me carry it, would you?"
What the heck is up with that? I'd love to meet these other people who asked, and join with them to make Blockbuster give us an answer.
Guess I'll have to start my own Browncoats group.
Thanks for reading-
Harpy101
"Every decision you make as an artist is important to you at the time and has meaning even if it doesn't add up to a famous black and white movie about a bald guy,"
Joss Wheadon
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I'd love to combine efforts with other Browncoats, but all the established groups are fortressed in my area. They are "full" and not joinable. This seems very Alliance, but oh, well.
And, what is going on with Blockbuster? They will not carry Firefly. They refuse to carry the series.
Not only do they NOT have it, as the store manager told me, "We aren't getting it" (this is sent down from corporate). She also added, "Everybody's been asking, though,"
"Well, if everybody's been asking-"
"I have no control over it," she said.
"So-who do I talk to?"
"You can e-mail Blockbuster at the website,"
"OK," I said.
"Please," she said with a smile, "Get them to let me carry it, would you?"
What the heck is up with that? I'd love to meet these other people who asked, and join with them to make Blockbuster give us an answer.
Guess I'll have to start my own Browncoats group.
Thanks for reading-
Harpy101
"Every decision you make as an artist is important to you at the time and has meaning even if it doesn't add up to a famous black and white movie about a bald guy,"
Joss Wheadon
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If you're checking out this site, look also at the new thread under General Discussions: Let's Take It Into Our Own Hands . . .
All this stuff seems like an incredible tool to this newbie, but it also seems the big challenge is to coordinate it all!
Kudos, by the way, to the BDH's that make this whole site work! It offers a dizzying complexity of stuff . . .
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