'Serenity and Firefly hold the Amazon Chart'
POSTED BY: DefineInteresting
UPDATED: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 20:10
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Take Enterprise Season 4 for example: You could actually see how the effects became worse compared to the previous seasons. They often didn't show torpedos, phaser beams and explosions anymore. Archer just said "Fire!" then someone replied "Direct hit Captain! They are destroyed!" - and that was the whole battle scene.
My point is: The show itself still worked thanks to the writing of Manny Coto. Money and fx is not everything as long as the current George Lucas isn't involved 
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Originally posted by jason2025:
But you know what? Firefly/Serenity has always been about the characters, not necessarily the setting or the effects.
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I couldn't agree more! The movie was so very pretty and for the money spent the effects were fantastic.
But the real reason I fell in love with Firefly was the exceptional dialog and each and every character. I've never been a fan of a TV show before. Firefly was love at first sight and years later I still can't get enough.
Even on a TV budget, Firefly would still be far superiour to 95% of the stuff out there.
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Does anyone know how the amazon rankings register in units sold? Or how much Serenity DVD has made. Either way it's good news.
Bo Dean
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Don't forget about the fans willing to help for a lot less than usual. Take Doctor Who, for example. When the BBC released the new series of Doctor Who last year, one of the ways they were able to do many of the special effects was with the help of DH fans who were willing to work on the show and help do things for a lot less than it would cost normally. If Joss REALLY wanted to do some effects for a movie or TV, and didn't have enough money, he could always put a call out for help, and I'm sure he could find some fans somewhere willing to help for a lot less money. That's just my 2 cents worth.
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Kudos to Amazon...not sure if this is just on my webpage since I bought Firefly and Serenity at Christmastime, but whenever I go to Amazon and click on "top selling," right by the "DVD's" section the picture is always of Serenity. It has been for the past two weeks, I think. They have a choice of one DVD to highlight, and it's us. Also, they are offering the suggestion to buy Firefly with Serenity as a combo for less. I don't think they were doing that before when I bought them both. I can understand Serenity having been in the top 5 on Amazon for almost three weeks, but it still amazes me that it brought the four-year-old series with it (Firefly has been in the top five more or less since Christmas also).
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Well, I know one thing that might be on our favour. There are a lot of people out there who buy whatevers at the top of the book lists. It must be the same with DVD's, which means there are probebly some people out there who are buying just because everyone else is, and hopfully becoming fans.
If you play Nationstates.net check out the region Firefly.
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German Amazon says, it´s not even in the Top 100. *sigh*
Think I´ll have to buy some more ;)
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The Firefly DVDs are 24 in the top 100 though... It may take a little more time 
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