What in the Verse is Happening!?!?!

POSTED BY: fireflyfan278
UPDATED: Saturday, November 12, 2005 16:18
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BELACGOD

Thursday, November 10, 2005 3:25 PM

It's just like the real Browncoats. Making the second movie/getting it back on the air is like re-fighting the War of Unification. Fox canceling the show is like Serenity Valley. And the movie is like the Miranda Signal.

Just have to wait for the Alliance to weaken some--won't get pushed over just yet.

DAISYCUTTER

Thursday, November 10, 2005 4:34 PM

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Originally posted by Belacgod:
It's just like the real Browncoats. Making the second movie/getting it back on the air is like re-fighting the War of Unification. Fox canceling the show is like Serenity Valley. And the movie is like the Miranda Signal.

Just have to wait for the Alliance to weaken some--won't get pushed over just yet.

And I'm guessing the Reavers are the Fox Executives or something?

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XEROGRAVITY

Thursday, November 10, 2005 4:46 PM

Family Guy wasn't the first time. Firefly won't be the last.

For those who truly care, you should go check out http://www.jumptheshark.com ...ask yourself how many of those prematurely cancelled shows you loved, and then follow up and find out how many of the times it was FOX who had their finger on the red NUKE button.

You'll prolly find a few other networks to equally hate, like "all of them", "all of them", AND (who could ever forget the most notorious of the bunch...) "all of them".

I'll have my people get in touch with your people and we can do lunch. Wardrobe, wardrobe!! Crease in my left sleeve and bad lightning from my upper right. Someone is gonna get fired.

XG

it's not easy being this beautiful. you like me, you really really like me. *blows kisses*

No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.

LYNNEC

Thursday, November 10, 2005 5:06 PM

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Originally posted by fireflyfan278:
The idea that the same fans are just buying DVD's over and over again is illogical. Like many other fans, I might buy a couple of extra copies and give them to fans if I could afford it, but I can't.

[SNIP]

For a 3 year old cancelled TV series to continue posting the kind of sales that are going on right now is beyond the scope of reason. Someone should pay attention.

I really believe that the DVD sales are going to catch the attention of a lot of people.

The thing is that many of us have bought multiple copies (I think I'm up to 4 over the last 6 months) in an effort to sway people towards seeking out the BDM.

However, from the day that the film opened, when most of us then turned that same discretionary income towards seeing Serenity over and over and over, the sales of the the Firefly set went WAY up and stayed that way.

I can only interpret that as people who HADN'T seen the series seeing the film and then being ravenous to get their hands on the pre-cursor material. The film opening effectively took the hardcore browncoat/multiple DVD purchase issue out of the equation. And then the sales went up.

Now, we're, I suspect, most of us doing the same thing with the Serenity DVD -- I pre-ordered 5 copies. I've spent more money on stupider things. And I'll keep a personal copy and a loaner, and then give away the other 3, either to people I know wouldn't go buy/rent it themselves, or to my local library. But I expect that the sales will be sustained by people renting the movie, falling in love, and then turning around and buying both it AND the series on DVD!

Because that's what the story does to people. Those characters reach out and grab you. I direct your collective attention to the article by Slate film critic David Edelstein (who sees a lot of films, and doesn't react like this to most of them): http://www.slate.com/id/2127100/

Hang in their folks. The story of this film's success hasn't been written yet ~ just the introduction and a chapter or two!

:-)

~ Lynne C. ~
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BELACGOD

Thursday, November 10, 2005 5:22 PM

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Originally posted by DaisyCutter:

And I'm guessing the Reavers are the Fox Executives or something?

Fox is Parliament/the Alliance.

I guess the Reavers are your average American "Paris and Nicole Show"--watchers, created by the lousy programming put out by the networks (which, much like the Pax, renders the majority of viewers quiescent).

XEROGRAVITY

Saturday, November 12, 2005 4:18 PM

Scary part is FOX (contractual master of Firefly and ultravillian), and Universal/MGM (the guys who produced Serenity and own SciFi chan) are really good buddies, golfing partners even.

Ya they made Joss watch the home video of that fat Israeli kid singing. I'm sorry I take that back. Not fat... gravity enhanced. Emulate this Joss. Use it as a template for a viral marketing campaign.

Betcha the same studio exec who told him that handed him a photograph of his erect left nipple and demanded it be subliminally implanted in the movie no less than 7 times before he would greenlight it's production budget.

XG

I'm hearing otherworldly harp music.

No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.

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