So What's next? Has anybody heard from Joss?
POSTED BY: Hops
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 3, 2006 02:22
VIEWED: 20885
PAGE 5 of 7
Quote:
Originally posted by Gelassenheit:
Can you imagine how many times this has happened in the history of hollywood or TV? Can someone do some serious research on this? Because I think they are going to find that NO ONE SHOW has been able to pull off this kind of love and devotion. No, not even Star Trek (and I consider myself a fan of that franchise as well)
It has happened once before. The Naked Gun was based on Police Squad, which was canceled after only 6 episodes.
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Fellow Browncoats:
As an 'original fan' of the TV series, watching it loyally -- nay, hungrily -- since episode 1 aired on F*x, I'd just like to say that I almost envy those who can even think about giving up on the Firefly 'verse.
Firefly haunts so many of my waking and dreaming moments. I hear the ballad in my head. Scenes and lines of dialogue pop into my mind unbidden at all times of the day and night, like those brief, time-shattered memories of a long-lost love. You know: like that girl you (biblically) knew for a week or two of unbridled passion... Ships passing in the night, before drifting away on separate courses through Life... Have you ever forgotten her?
Firefly is like that for me. When the show got cancelled back in '02, I felt like a loved one had been taken from me in a cosmically cruel, fatal car accident. I can never forget this beautiful show; it possesses my heart and refuses to let me find another love.
So, for me, it's not a matter of "holding the line", or sitting in a trench until an angel comes. As Mal said in Serenity, that may well be a long wait for a train that never comes. I just can't stop loving her, never will stop pining for more Firefly.
To reiterate, I envy those who can simply turn away from her. For me, "There's no place I can be, since I've found Serenity." I'll be here, waiting for whatever comes next (even if it never comes); not because of loyalty or stubborness, but because I have no choice in the matter...
Forlornly,
zoid
_________________________________________________
"Love. You can know all the math in the 'Verse, but take a boat in the air you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells ya she's hurtin' 'fore she keens. Makes her home." -Capt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity, a.k.a. 'the BDBOF'
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I have not yet watched Serenity and only recently found the series on DVD. The show is/was great and I hate that it was so short lived. My biggest problem is no the ending of a series, but an ending that does not resolve plot elements. If Serenity resolves all viable plot lines then I am fine with the ending. Sad....but fine. If there are plot lines left hanging then I think Joss owes the fans some sort of closure regardless of artistic medium. This is frankly the biggest problem I have with the TV series of our day. Too often story lines are developed that are never closed. This may be why fans are soo hard to find for a TV show today.
Maybe this means that FireFly no longer exists, but spin off series such as Shepard's Book of Life, or even a set of books.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
buy the films that increases the chance off more fierfly
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by harshcritic:
Both Doom and Stealth had much bigger budgets than Serenity. Stealth cost $100 mil to make and Doom $80, so you are really comparing apples to oranges in your intellectual pursuits.
Ok apples to apples
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy $104 mil $50 on production. This movie was not good at all.
ELEKTRA $56 mil $43 on production. Obvious Flop.
Same Genres, generally the same budgets... are those the same kind of fruit? One may be a sweet delicious and the other a macintosh but they are close enough.
Don't get me wrong, I love this 'verse, but if you want to make a valid arguement on why the series will continue one needs to begin with a valid premise.
DVD sales are obviously the biggest hope... /\
Only the half mad are wholly alive!
E.A.
NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I learned of the verse only 3 weeks ago and see the future I can. (gah! wrong movie)
The future is gorram SHINY!
Serenity was an unmitigated success.
Serenity and its understandably smashing reviews are finally giving Joss' work the exposure it never had. Nobody saw Firefly due to Fox's incompetence or perhaps political leanings. Nobody went to the theater initially to see a movie they know nothing about called 'Serenity' because our sound-bite culture is unfamiliar with multiple-entendre irony.
By the time I (and many many more) read the reviews and made for the theater, the movie was gone. The review mentioned the Firefly connection so me and mine bought the Firefly DVD in lieu of going to the theater. We have been Reaver Brown Coats ever since.
Serenity is the catalyst that finally got the word out. Now the cauldron is abubblin' and you can watch the DVD sales make hot cakes look like yesterday's go se. Thanks, Serenity, (and you the fans), we finally heard and we are coming in droves.
Dear Buddha, please bring me a pony, and a plastic rocket...
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by Chindi:
It is sooo true that saying something with a smile in your voice.. so it is not taken as SERIOUS is hard to do in writing...
I'm really sorry. My answer was thoughtless rubbish anyway ;-) *lines up in addition to Chindi and the others on the glas half full side*
NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
In my eyes, the movie was a success. Well then why?
Lets first face the truth. It was a flop at the big screen. And thats a fact. Of cource it can still redeem itself on dvd but that is still unknown.
So why was it a success? Think about it. What is it you "old fans" see here everyday now. What has become common? A new fan showing up after seeing/heard of the movie and seeing the series.
Everyday i see new fans popping out. And they starts spreading the word as well.
And when the dvd comes out even more people will want to see what lead up to the events in the movie and will buy the firefly set.
So all in all. "I call this a win"
Jayne: All those years of preacher training, getting knocked out by one bounty hunter
Book: Oh, dont get me wrong. I gave him a hell of a fight
Jayne: Epic i'm guessing
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I sound like an ass here, this is not my intention. Movie=Great, Box office take=Horrid, Boxoffice take + DVD sale = Sequel, series /\
this is what we all want.
I know I am to critical. I can list the rest of my faults if you like. (not being able to type being on of them. They need to make bigger keyboards for people with large hands).
Only the half mad are wholly alive!
E.A.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
CBY no offense taken and no apology needed.. I thought I had best explain myself.. 
that done.. (or undone) Buddha raises a VERY intesting point in my humble and ever present big mouthed opinion (insert sarcasm emoticon)
As Joss raises in the ranks of Hollywood.. he will have more clout to bring personal projects out.. I had not conjured that but it may well be true.. so as his star rises, and if his other films do well, when he says to Universal (or HBO) "Hey.. I would like to do 10 more Firefly episodes on TV with Movie budgets..." he might just get a big GREEN LIGHT!
Great thought there Buddha...
Chindi
NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME