Was it the mixed marriage they didn't like?

POSTED BY: Nellie
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 05:10
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SHUTTLE2

Sunday, January 15, 2006 6:07 AM

I seriously doubt that's what it was. I mean wouldn't that be discrimination of some kind?? THey wouldn't be able to do that....

....mind you people do stupid things all the time.

NELLIE

Sunday, January 15, 2006 1:13 PM

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Originally posted by Shuttle2:
....mind you people do stupid things all the time.

Yes, they do...

VIKING

Sunday, January 15, 2006 2:17 PM

ow ther is racism over her do not so muche that companys will not have blacks and whites come up on tv or psoters togther

and yes the oter part o your argument migth be rigth to i am maybe a bit younge

The wages of sin are death, but the hours are good and the perks are fantastic.

SHEPARD

Sunday, January 15, 2006 4:04 PM

First off, Viking, I'd like to apologize for all the abuse you've received in this thread. It is ironic that in a thread discussing intolerance you have been repeatedly demeaned. As a fellow fan, I think you're entitled to respect for your opinions, & I wish we could all live in a world where racism was more theoretical than real.

Second, I work with an interracial lesbian couple & I asked them once which bothered people more, whether they were gay or salt & pepper. They just laughed & said that if someone objected to one, they usually objected to the other, and so as a couple they never bothered to differentiate.

Married couples are boring for dramas unless they cat around a lot; that's why you usually see them in sitcoms.

Hell. It's Special.

EARLYWARNING

Sunday, January 15, 2006 5:24 PM

I believe in the commentary to the pilot "Serenity",
Joss states that Fox objected to a happily married couple.
Happy equals boring.
Viewers like to talk about couples relationships.
I.E. gossip
Mal and Inara " oh why don't they..." and "Did you.."
Same thing with Simon and Kaylee.
A happy Wash and Zoe gets a "oh there so cute. Did you see Jaynes new gun?"
Angst, guilt and trust, are what keep viewers hooked, not happy. Thats why you rarely see happy on tv, It's boring.

URSULA

Sunday, January 15, 2006 11:43 PM

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Originally posted by auntychris:
PS One of the first interracial couples on TV, by the way, were one "The Jeffersons". Don't remember their names, but their daughter married George and "Weezy's" son, so that's actually "two for the price of one". How do you like that score, Racists?

The couple was Tom and Helen Willis, and their daughter Jenny married Lionel Jefferson, George and Louise's son. Tom was white, Helen was black. Jenny looked black. Their son (whose name I cannot remember right now) showed up in a later season and looked white.

NELLIE

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 5:41 AM

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Originally posted by Earlywarning:
I believe in the commentary to the pilot "Serenity",
Joss states that Fox objected to a happily married couple.
Happy equals boring.

If a happy marriage is so boring, why did Reese Witherspoon just win a Golden Globe Award for portraying a happily married woman?

No, Earlywarning, I can't let you get away with that. If a happy marriage is so boring, why is it the dream of most people on the planet?

RITAK7

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 5:58 AM

Has anyone seen I believe it is an ad for internet provider or a computer but it features a black mom a white dad and 3 kids with fabulous hair. There is also a show on UPN which my friends and i call BET-called half and half about half sisters. The elder sister Mona gets kicked to the curb by q guy cause she's not ethnic enough so she tells this to her mother. mom's response "What you are balck and Jewish theonly way you could be more ethnic is if you wnt and played the bagpipes."
on the same network is a show called Girlfriends a couple that was married for like a year and decided to divorceon the day their child was born (um...hello how wacked is that?) the wife was a black Christian and the husband a white Jew

CHOPPYBADGER

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 6:29 AM

Well, anyway, I remember hearing in a commentary on the Series DVD, I think "Train Job" that Fox didn't like the theory of it being Sci-Fi-Western and didn't like that people were riding horses. That is why they did not air 'Serenity'. And also the fact that 'Serenity' was too good for them and they probably could not understand it with their simple minds.

Heresy grows from Grottiness...

RUSSELL

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 6:56 AM

hi, i think what did the show in was lack of publicity. i never even heard of it until the sci-fi channel started promoting it and the movie. but its one of the very few shows that ive actually been compelled to search for info online about.

i watched the movie for the first time tonight (finally). and i sat there with my mouth hanging open in shock when wash died. i kept waiting for the doctor to arrive and fix him up. when the movie ended and he was still dead i just couldnt believe it. how could they kill him off in the movie but he was alive and well in the weekly show.

so i had to start searching online to find out what the heck was going on. i cant even tell you how bummed out i am tonight. i think someone made a big mistake cancelling this show.

i think the cast and writing was excellent. the episodes were funny and entertaining, the writers did a great job. i really cant even express how disappointed i am. such a good and entertaining show that never had a chance. and all the loose ends left like inara and mal, zoe dealing with wash's death, everything :( how depressing.

its like reading a good book and getting half way through it, then seeing that the remaining pages are all blank.

oh well... life goes on. just very disappointed tonight

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