The WORST trailer for the GREATEST series ever! - Thank you fox.

POSTED BY: Stillshiny
UPDATED: Friday, July 21, 2006 02:35
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ONEMANSHORT

Thursday, July 20, 2006 12:01 AM

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Originally posted by dopeyname101:

Technically speaking, to get the footage from the dvd to your hard drive to edit, you're gonna need 3 things:

the Quicktime MPEG2 player (20 bucks at Apple's online store)
MPEG Streamclip
and
MacTheRipper.

If/when you need more help, lemme know

Looks like I have a few things I need to put on my shopping list. Everyone is really great abotu helping out here, which I really love about these boards. Thanks! If I have any questions I'll be sure to send you a message. (It will take me a while to get everything, and then learn how to use it, also because I'm going on a trip for almost half of august, but eventually it will be done)Thanks again!

COPILOT

Thursday, July 20, 2006 12:36 AM

What the hell was that? Honestly did anyone in marketing even watch the pilot? Sadly if I'd ever seen that trailer I'd have tuned in at least once. Just for the cheese factor! I would have made every person I knew watch it too!
~Arrrrgggg damn you fox!!!!!!!!!!!!!

An I carried such a torch

BELOWZERO

Thursday, July 20, 2006 1:54 AM

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Originally posted by msg:
ummm well that explains everything. This is why we couldn't get a large enough viewing audience. Was that trailer made by over caffinated 13 year olds ( no offense 13) WTF

I choose to rise instead of fall- U2

Nah, 3 year olds playing with sophisticated video equipment, obviously. Did that ad have ANYTHING to do with what the show was about?

This is why I didn't tune in. I thought, "Echk." And sadly didn't get hooked til the DVD of Serenity because of it!

Is Fox run by George W Bush????!!!???

"Do not go gentle into that good night....
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. . ."
--Dylan Thomas

Though my soul may set in darkness
It will rise in perfect light.
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night.

THEKNIGHT

Thursday, July 20, 2006 2:36 AM

I don't think anyone has brought this little fun fact up yet, but they even got there own fictional facts wrong. 400 years in the future, year 2456 A.D.
Oh well just another instance of the suits not giving half a good gorram.

CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

Thursday, July 20, 2006 3:54 AM

From my own experiences with marketing departments (not within the TV/movie biz though), my guess would be that they skimmed a half-page synopsis of the show, read brief descriptions of each of the main characters (probably going "who the puts this many main characters in a, a, ...what sort of show is this again?!" the whole time), and then fast forwarded through the pilot until they found the brief clips they could use for the trailer.

The "Out there? Oh, it's out there!" line just *screams* a marketing meeting where everyone was confused from the get go. They didn't understand the show, they didn't understand how you could have cowboys in space, they didn't understand if it was suppose to be comedy, or drama, or action, or what. ('Course, actually watching the pilot might have given them a clue on that front.) So they figured, well, the best we can do is market it on its weirdness. It'll be cancelled by Christmas anyway -- after all, who would watch something like this?! -- so lets not spend any more time on it than we already have.

I have yet to meet someone in entertainment marketing who knew what the hell they were doing. I believe that good, talented, intelligent marketing people, who are devoted to understanding the product they are marketing, actually do exist. I've just yet to find a single one. Every single one I've ever met, without exception, has had a poorly disguised contempt for the product. It's difficult to market a product to the people who would like the product, if you yourself hate both the product and anyone who would like said product.

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

ONEMANSHORT

Thursday, July 20, 2006 4:25 AM

I don't know much about the marketing business myself, but my dad is a professor and every year his students participate in a marketing contest with other colleges. His school won for a few years straight, up until this other professor he worked with retired and the job was given to some newbie who didn't know how to advertise for Their school lost that year. My theory is that the Fox marketing commitee employees hired were relatively new to their job and had no clue in hell what they were doing. Either that or they were dropped on their heads as a child. Or they didn't even bother to watch the pilot. Or they didn't realize that Jayne is hot enough to attract as many women to the show as they could ever want...and if not him Mal...and if not him Simon...etc...(I don't know how significant this is but I thought I would share)

BELOWZERO

Friday, July 21, 2006 12:26 AM

werrrgh..."space cowboy"...my poor Mal.....and "space hooker", that got repeated in several interviews with the cast about the show and in one of the word-associations in an interview, Nathan himself said it all: "Poor Morena!"

ps FOX SUX

I totally refuse to move to the smallish community with afordable housing down the road a little ways because it is called "Fox" (tho I think for the critter, not the stupid network)

"Do not go gentle into that good night....
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. . ."
--Dylan Thomas

Though my soul may set in darkness
It will rise in perfect light.
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night.

CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

Friday, July 21, 2006 12:36 AM

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I totally refuse to move to the smallish community with afordable housing down the road a little ways because it is called "Fox"

LOL! I quite nearly moved into a community named "Mandyville" but barely managed to avoid it. Anyone who's a fan of The West Wing will know that I narrowly escaped never being heard from again!

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

ROCKETJOCK

Friday, July 21, 2006 2:35 AM

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Originally posted by monksdad:
WTF, now I see why I only saw one episode when it was on originally. By the way I see SciFi channel has another new series thats not firefly. Am I the only one that gets angry everytime Scifi channel puts money into other shows and stupid movies and wrestling (BTW i am a wrestling fan and i am still pissed at that one) instead of firefly.

I agree about the wrestling, but if the new series is Eureka I must humbly disagree. The pilot movie was well-acted, well-directed, cleverly written, and entertaining on every level.

I don't begrudge Sci-Fi making good shows; it isn't as if they own the rights to Firefly/Serenity. They'd have to negotiate for that, and pay F-X royalties for the use; can't blame them for putting that funding into projects they own free and clear.

Still--I could think of worse homes for the 'Verse.

"She's tore up plenty. But she'll fly true." -- Zoë Washburn

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