ITS TIME! Post How much you would personally give to Joss Whedon & Co. to get our Ship in the air AGAIN!
POSTED BY: TheAntiReaver
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 15:19
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I pledge 100 dollars.
Well... I have 12 wives and 42 children to support, but if I go viagra I can triplicate those numbers. Feeding them will cost me a pretty penny, not to mention I have to pay for college.
There is also that whole medical insurance thing, the lawyer's fees, the various donations to this and that cause, the lawyer's fees, the mortgage premiums I owe to the gas station syndicate (and the lawyer's fees), and all the other etceteras (even etceteras have lawyers, who have an entirely seperate subset of sublawyers fees).
I have split personality so I'm technically paying for college for 3 different personalities, and they have formed a bizarre love triangle. As father to this madness I'm responsible for them. They've begun to breed and now I have to pay for their children too. Freaky-ass looking interbreeding kids, hell I might have an egpytian fresco carved of them. Leonard the seven headed canadian, and his 1/2-breed wife, the mexi-hungarian siliconicarbonius fresco (his wife only lives in the past by a tragic miscalculation of timetravelling aliens, but we know and love her still thru the magic of archaeology). Beats the hell out of kodak. This feels like SG1.
I pledge 100 dollars. Vive la SciFi chan. Long live MacGyver.
/signal ...gurp... kurblurble... /signal out
No such thing as gravity. In fact, at this point, all the known laws of physics need not apply. Not unless they have all kinds of letters behind their names.
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Very well, I'm very poor right now (recent college grad) but I'll squeeze $100.00 from my very shallow pocket this year in the hope I'll be able to contribute more later.
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Ohhhh XeroGravity
How everyday I so look forward to giggling at your embittered posts. After a long day of attending a school to get into a school that gives me the same odds of graduating a neurosurgeon that your daddy's Y had in meeting mommie's X, I have a ready source of bemusement, makes me feel a little like I have a walking roll in my own devine comedy.
But in all good heart, while on your own rollercoaster you didn't have what I have, A team of friends in lawschool with older siblings in practice, and a good passle of trained activists from all backgrounds that specialize in lost causes of all varieties as a think tank, a few good stoner friends that make their dope money betatesting games like WOW and designing websites that blow your ordinary fansite clean out of the water.
I sure as hell can't bring back firefly alone. The fans sure as hell can't bring it back alone, as you have moaned time and time again.
And seeing a second series on a major network probably will not happen anytime within the next 5 years. I am ok with that.
All I want is a series, availible to the people that make it matter. If We can get the fans on board, we can get the ad placement angels, and then the sponsors, and who gives a flying fuck if we have to download it only, or it goes straight to DVD. If Joss wants to make this independant we can collaborate and make it happen. A few mill from us, a lite ton of cash from *them* and Joss has a budget.
the effort alone to raise the cash and align the stars in the proper order will take at least a year or two, by that time Whedon will be done with his current slew of projects and perhaps looking at another serenity movie. In the mean time, we all do what we can.
Best of luck to you with those wives and kids and lawyers;
-TheAntiReaver
todays total $45 095
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$50.
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Let me see - I paid £17 ($25?) per 4 episode DVD for Atlantis, 5 or 6 DVDs in total. So that means I'd happily pay $150 for Firefly.
I know nothing about law but wouldn't it be an idea to just create a company and sell shares in it to raise the money ? We'd all own a bit of Firefly then.
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Ahh Antireaver time to take you to task. Don't worry... it would seem this thread is likely to soon die, and I imagine dozens of other threads like it will be restarted. I won't bother to respond to any of them because it will just be a repeat of the same.
Firefly as a series isn't coming back. I wish it were, hell I'd kick in cash towards that end. But it just isn't.
For the fan donation thing to work it would require approval from the studio. Not gonna happen. In their infinite wisdom, some studio hotshot decided it wasn't worth reviving. I'm not even buying this contractual dispute nonsense involving the network that aired it (FOX). If anyone tries to raise funds without studio approval, studio attorneys will stop them.
How do I know? Because I've already seen it done more than once. When the kingmakers, and moversNshakers in hollywood want a show to die, it dies. They have absolute power, and 60 years of historical hatred for science fiction. 2 facts that seem to never change.
You've heard it mentioned about Enterprise. You should also look into Farscape if anyone even cares to investigate. Loved that show. Studio killed it (even though it was their #1 producer of ratings). Just didn't fit Universal's idea of the kind of thing they wanted to produce. Money had nothing to do with it. Barry Diller and crew bought out SciFi chan to round out their studio portfolio, and wantonly smashed the crown jewel of the channel.
Hail to the allpowerful. We who are about to switch channels salute you.
XG
No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.
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oh and P.S.
Farscape wasn't the only thing they killed off that I loved. Lexx too...
XG ~ "Barry Diller, I worship his shadow."
D'vee Yohh-ay-Ohh -- aumm va A'raiii -- eeyah brum'Brunnen-G!
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For a full season of Firefly I'd cancel all my Showtime channels and put the price of those channels for a year into it. That is of course only if it were to cost that much.
If I didn't have the channels to cancel (which, of course I do) I'm sure I could find $50 to $100 to spend on a season.
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I concur, Lexx rocks.
But I am gonna say, I still think we can squeeze the individuals involved into putting out a few scripts for us...scripts that if enough people like we can produce independantly.....
You keep going back to the networks and their thumb down to justify your argument when the premise of mine is, why bother with the networks at all?....
If the talent is willing, we could just finance them and provide a medium for share/download.
As for the thread dying, it will have it's roller coaster waves in the next few months before I get the website up. I am not worried, this is just a piece of the puzzle.
In fact, I rather enjoy the idea of the two of us slugging it out for a month unoticed. your kinda like a project in and of yourself.
-k
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And surely Fox don't own any rights to a show called Serenity ? Just a show called Firefly. Totally different name - the main character's names are all written in a different font so you can hardly say they're the same either. Probably.
Maybe a network in a whole different country could produce the show.
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