Serenity may fly again?

POSTED BY: DIzz
UPDATED: Saturday, February 4, 2006 11:59
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SHEPARD

Thursday, January 19, 2006 1:33 AM

Yes, we are continuing to fight years later, but with well justified hope. "Family Guy", cancelled by Fox, is again going to grace the small screen with new episodes. "Futurama", ditto. Both were brought back because the fans continued to rabidly devour the shows on the Cartoon Network. The continued strength in the ratings demonstrated that there was money to be made by reviving the francise. We can do the same by watching the reruns on the SciFi channel, and encouraging everyone we meet in elevators to do the same.

We'll get a BDS. Look at the other dross that gets redone.

Remember to branch out on your purchases. The Serenity Role Playing Game is a good way to demonstrate continued support for the series (by buying the suppliments & such) and shows the depth and continuity of the fan base. If series related books come out, try those too, & look on Amazon for Firefly related materials. My wife owns a cool "Shiny!" t-shirt, & I saw a lighter & ornament on FFF website somewhere. If anyone doubts this format will work, I'd just like them to look at the Star Trek monolith, which was built based on the book & convention base after the cartoon series left the air.

What was the Firefly reference on "Bones"? I don't watch Fox but I am curious.

Shiny on Space: A & B! Now I have two great scifi shows to watch!

Hell. It's Special.

CRITEN

Thursday, January 19, 2006 3:33 AM

I'm new here, and haven't felt the need to do this before, (even when my one sci-fi star Farscape plummeted in the night). Like many of you I have had to watch as the shows I love are trashed for more reality TV garbage. It sickens me really.
I too am guilty of never seeing the show when it was on the air originally. At the time Buffy was nearing it's end, and being an avid fan, it was one of the few shows I tuned in for during the week.
Wrongly I assumed that the show, being done by Whedon, would last long enough to catch up on after Buffy, and eventually Angel, had run their course. Sadly Buffy ended, and then Angel, unexpectedly shortly thereafter. I was saddened by both of their losses, and more or less forgot about Firefly.
My wife and I have collected all of the Buffy and Angel seasons and had moved on to other things when I heard about Firefly coming to DVD. I had not, (and have still have not seen Serentiy) because I was afraid without previous knowledge of the show I would be lost in the theater. Being a big fan of Whedon's work, we thought it might be worth checking into.
Upon seeing the release of Serenity on DVD, we made the decision to pick both up after Christmas to see what all the hype was all about.
Honestly I expected to be sorely disappointed, but went about shopping for it anyway.
First and foremost I had a hell of a time finding either the movie or the show after Christmas. I went over to Best Buy here in town and luckily they had a copy of Firefly stuffed in behind some other shows.
Let me tell you it has been one of the best DVD purchases I have made in sometime.
I never tought I would say this, but it's one of the best sci-fi shows on (or sadly now off) the air in who knows when. I have been watching and savoring every episode since I began watching a few short weeks ago. I only allow myself one or two episodes aweek in order to make it last, but it takes a lot of self control. I'll end it all with the movie, with the hopes that there will be more to come.
With shows like Family Guy and Farscape ( the latter if only shortly) pulled from mothballs, perhaps my hopes may not be in vain.
Just wanted to throw my hat in with everyone else here and declare myself (if not a little late) a faithful BrownCoat.
Keeping my fingers crossed,
Criten

SYNCHRO

Friday, January 20, 2006 10:35 AM

Why wait for Joss? Can't someone else Joss trusts direct the next incarnation of the show/film and Joss' name will appear as executive producer while he doing Wonder Woman.

RACOONBOY

Friday, January 20, 2006 11:43 AM

I'm getting it the day it comes out here (Australia), I got it pre-ordered, and can't WAIT to get it, I'm gonna get home from school and watch it straight away.

FWBBROWNCOAT

Friday, January 20, 2006 11:54 PM

Shiny...sounds like our dream will be realized. I will be picking up the UMD as soon as I get my tax refund

"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all." - Malcolm Reynolds

SNAP

Saturday, January 21, 2006 4:45 AM

Ok, so Fox owns the TV rights, Universal the Movie rights, but what about a direct to DVD series?

AUNTYCHRIS

Saturday, January 21, 2006 5:41 AM

I cannot agree more. Reality shows SUCK. Firfly is so far-and-away superior it is unbelievable. Anyone with an ounce of decerning taste pefers Firefly to any other form of entertainment. Am I right of wrong?????

AUNTYCHRIS

Saturday, January 21, 2006 5:50 AM

Oh me too!! I've watched all the Star Trek incarnations, and enjoyed them fairly well, but none of them can "hold a candle to" Firefly. The whole Firefly package is simply far superior, in my opinion. The stories, character development, and 'verse is just more interesting. 'nuf said!

MICO

Saturday, January 21, 2006 5:21 PM

ImperialKnight, your idea (set up a corporation to buy the rights to Firefly) is exactly what I was thinking about. Browncoats say they're ready to put their money down to keep the signal going. So, it seems that some one of them could create a corporation (i.e., a "real" corporation with a real board and real business plan), sell shares to Browncoats to capitalize, and make its first order of business to buy the rights to Firefly from Fox. If Fox's ownership of those rights is the big blockage, then the logical thing to do is create a company with the legal and financial ability to buy them. At that point, more options open up because Joss can actually have meaningful negotiations with other networks. I have no idea how much money it would take, but I'd buy shares . . .

FIREFLYNUTTER

Sunday, January 22, 2006 6:00 AM

I'm thinkin tho Fox may take offense at a group of fans trying to procure a shows rights. Its hard enough for a different Network to get them let alone a group of fans... They may just see it in a way that if they were to sell it to fans it would set them in a bad stead with other networks, or something like that. Its a good idea and all, but the likelihood of it actually working is very minimal. I sugest we let the big guns sort it out for themselves. If they don't well, we can always just enjoy what we have now like we already do.

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