Question about fox screwing up episode ordering
POSTED BY: spacediver
UPDATED: Sunday, November 6, 2005 00:47
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Ok, I'm curious, has fox ever explained why they screwed up the ordering of the episodes?
Did they ever make an official statement?
Did they air the episodes out of order on purpose?
If so, why?
If not, how did they explain the mistake?
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Yo, sparky.
As interesting as the question is, you might want to use spoiler tags. People are still "going to" go see Serenity y'know.
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i think i my have the answer of why fox did the episodes in the wrong order. fox started the series with the "train job" because they felt that the piolt of the origninal first ep called "serenity" did not have enough action in it. the source for this is on the firefly dvd special features. i think joss said something about this.
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Originally posted by browncoatfan1:
i think i my have the answer of why fox did the episodes in the wrong order. fox started the series with the "train job" because they felt that the piolt of the origninal first ep called "serenity" did not have enough action in it. the source for this is on the firefly dvd special features. i think joss said something about this.
Yes, but that wasn't all they screened out of order... I'm off to look for details.
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thx for the info - sorry bout the spoiler shoulda thought about that. Have edited post.
What a terrible decision to make. Sometimes I wonder at the cognitive processes that go on in these people's minds. I'd really like to sit one down and just have a good grill session.
I feel the same way about the people who write the script for movies like the last few bond movies - what in the name of holy iguana were they thinking...
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Ok, I'm curious, has fox ever explained why they screwed up the ordering of the episodes?
I doubt they even have an explanation.
"Grab an episode at random and air it" seems to go on at most networks on the planet, with childrens TV and so called "minority interest" programs being the worst effected.
If its a prestige program or sport then it will be treated with respect, anything else is fair game to be
`ed on.This is why DVD`s and downloading will eventually kill off broadcast television.
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None of you watched Futurama on Fox, I take it? They screwed up the ordering of that show even more, eventually making a fake "fifth" airing season out of all the episodes they'd failed to air from the 4 actual production seasons.
Fox have no concept of shows with story arcs.
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None of you watched Futurama on Fox, I take it? They screwed up the ordering of that show even more, eventually making a fake "fifth" airing season out of all the episodes they'd failed to air from the 4 actual production seasons.
Four seasons, five McSeasons, I believe is the term. Anyways, down here in the land of Oz both series' were featured on Channel 7, who put it on at an ungodly hour, so I wouldn't know what order they aired them in.
At least they weren't on Channel Nine, who wouldn't have put them on anyway. Which reminds me, has Voyager finished airing yet?
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Fox have no concept of shows with story arcs.
Yeah they do. "Must use brain? Bad, bad!" and "If our viewers start thinking, they'll start watching other networks!" seem to be the popular schools of thought.
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Originally posted by Kazzahdrane:
Four seasons, five McSeasons, I believe is the term. Anyways, down here in the land of Oz both series' were featured on Channel 7, who put it on at an ungodly hour, so I wouldn't know what order they aired them in.
At least they weren't on Channel Nine, who wouldn't have put them on anyway. Which reminds me, has Voyager finished airing yet?
I know EXACTLY what you mean! In South Australia here, and I've nicknamed Channel Nine Channel NEIN for its policy of buying ALL Sci-Fi (barring Futurama and Firefly - Seven jumped in, thank GOD) and never airing it, or the ones they did, completely arse about!
And they wonder why a lot of us DivX/XviD and Bittorrent shows. PAH!
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