The Actual Chance of a BDS
POSTED BY: ubergeek
UPDATED: Friday, August 25, 2006 04:12
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Originally posted by Hera:
This makes them curious, they watch the trailers, think they're interesting, rent the DVDs, fall in love, buy the DVDs, find out about the movie, buy that DVD. Another Browncoat is made. Another fan. More DVD sales. More eyeballs for the sequel.
It's crazy, but it just might work.
-Hera
"Wanna?" – Mal to Kaylee, Out of Gas
This makes me grin. From ear to ear.
This is gonna be so shiny!!
"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal
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Every time I see some No-nothing show on TV, I find myself thinking "That's money that could have been spent making another episode of "Firefly".
If a Cable channel is so desperate they show giant spiders and metal machines (that are OBVIOUSLY the worst special effects of the 21st century), then SURELY they could throw a little money Firefly's way...
The Stargate channel... uhhh, Sorry, the Sci-Fi channel... could do away with MUCH of the other "crap" they host and pick up the rights to Firefly... Of course, even BattleStar says their paper is "Cube shaped" as a protest to all the "Corners they had to cut" with their original budget, and even THEIR first season was "Iffy".. then it started winning awards and now appears to be safe... When something has an OBVIOUS following (And more every day), you give it a little more than was given to Firefly to make it work...
Look at the awards Firefly has racked up... And it's STILL making money! and I'd MUCH rather watch Firefly than "Wrasslin" (What's Wrasslin got to do with the Sci-fi channel? I dunno, but they're showing it..)
Sorry, Whew, went off on a bit of a rant there.. but, well, you know how it is. Almost no one even knew what Firefly was until Serenity came out.. THEN everyone was saying, "They should make that into a series!".. I want to scream every time I hear that.. I bet I've sold more Copies of the Boxed set series FOR Fox than their own commercials have sold.
We can't give up hope.. took, what, 25 years for BattleStar to come back? But it happened (Dunno if I could wait 25 years for more Firefly, and hopefully we won't have to).
I know Joss is tired of Fighting for Firefly, but when you can't run any longer, you crawl, and when you can't do that.. well, you know the rest. WE aren't giving up.. I gots LOTS of fight left in ME! If Joss can't crawl any more, *We'll* carry him.
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Originally posted by bad2verse:
I know Joss is tired of Fighting for Firefly, but when you can't run any longer, you crawl, and when you can't do that.. well, you know the rest. WE aren't giving up.. I gots LOTS of fight left in ME! If Joss can't crawl any more, *We'll* carry him.
That's one of the most beautiful gorram things I've read on this board.
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Being still new here, it shows there's a lot I've got to learn about the Browncoat movement.
Just had to post and say how beautiful your posters are 11th Hour. To my shame (blame it on being new, lol), I didn't even realise these existed.
They truly are excellent, and I hope anyone else new to the FF scene checks them out as well.
Totally off topic, but guess I'll be ordering from Cafe Press as well - great way to promote FF/Serenity as well as looking good.
Sorry folks, just had to post after seeing some great art.
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We can't give up hope.. took, what, 25 years for BattleStar to come back? But it happened (Dunno if I could wait 25 years for more Firefly, and hopefully we won't have to).
Firefly 2030? Following Richard Hatch, Nathan will have a reoccuring role as...Niska! Sean Maher will get to play one of the Blue Hands. And Suri Cruise-Holmes will be cast in the role of River...
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Originally posted by 11thHour:Quote:
Originally posted by bad2verse:
I know Joss is tired of Fighting for Firefly, but when you can't run any longer, you crawl, and when you can't do that.. well, you know the rest. WE aren't giving up.. I gots LOTS of fight left in ME! If Joss can't crawl any more, *We'll* carry him.
That's one of the most beautiful gorram things I've read on this board.
11th Hour
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I know how it is to do "Big Things", you get tired, you lose your momentum when things aren't going smoothly, even when you have a lot of people behind you... I'd rather they get up here Beside me and give me a little help... I expect Joss thinks that from time to time, I know *I* do.
I know we ALL want to do all we can to bring the series back in one form or another, So we need to find out what we can DO to help Joss make that happen..
Letter writing campaigns are great and all.. but when a sudden flood of letters comes into a network, they look through a few, yawn, and think, "Another Website doing a letter writing campaign.. coupla hundred people, no big deal", and they file it in the circular file (Trash can) and go back to sleep...
Support has to be long lasting, and unique in some way...
We're adults, Many of us have college degrees (I can just tell ;) and we know how to network... ALL of us know someone, and that someone knows someone else that could help make things happen with the series.. a Friend of mine has a Sister in the movie business in Hollywood.. I've gotten him hooked on the Series and movie... and told him to hook his sister up with a copy..
Now THERE is someone the networks may listen to.. and if not her, then maybe a friend of one of YOUR friends... when people in the network business start hearing something a time or two from people they know, they tend to look at it a bit more closely... So we find out who they listen to and we get in THEIR ear(s). These are just people, no different from you and me, and they have friends they listen to.
Of course it'd help if we had one Mal's brilliant and genius plans, or at least if Joss had one that we could take up... The numbers are obvious, the people that would Actually do Something are obviously here.. we just need a direction, and some way to smooth the road out in FRONT of Joss.
For that, we need to know what the stumbling blocks are... we tackle those one at a time until they are gone (or manageable), and then we see what happens.
It'd help if Joss would tell us what the stumbling blocks are, but there's obviously plenty of smart people here that have an idea or two about what they are, and WE could work on removing those.
The road's smoother when your friends know you're coming by and they fill in the potholes on their little stretch of the road before you get there....
Sorry, Went off on Another Rant/tangent... I'm bad for that ;)
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Originally posted by bad2verse:
Every time I see some No-nothing show on TV, I find myself thinking "That's money that could have been spent making another episode of "Firefly".
I couldn't help but think that when I saw the trailer for "Snakes On A Plane." I thought we were past the horror-movie-on-an-airplane stage...
"We may experience some slight turbulence, and then... explode."
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Originally posted by micjwelch:Quote:
Originally posted by bad2verse:
Every time I see some No-nothing show on TV, I find myself thinking "That's money that could have been spent making another episode of "Firefly".
I couldn't help but think that when I saw the trailer for "Snakes On A Plane." I thought we were past the horror-movie-on-an-airplane stage...
I thought so also, I guess we aren't though ;)
While we're in "Thinking mode", We also need to think about friends that know people who own larger businesses that advertise nationally (or globally), my brother is on the team that makes decisions about "Commercial times" for a large international business... He's a firefly fan also.. and I've asked him if he would/could be willing to at least ASK some networks (Unnamed) about the possibility of a new Firefly season, just to see what response he gets... I figure if advertisers (That WANT to KNOW the Program schedule line-up, of course) start asking about a second season, it may carry more weight than individuals simply writing to ask about it.
Again "Networking"... we all know "Someone", and those "Someones" know someone, and "the advertisers asking about the show" angle may be one of the better ways to get execs thinking "There's marketing support for it".
SURELY they aren't afraid of making money...
Of course, Execs in ANY company are busy, and they get their info from sound bytes and snippets.. even my Brother said "I thought the creator was tired of the show"(?) I replied that it was a magazine article that took some of Joss' comments out of context, and that I'd heard he WAS interested in the show, but was working on another show right now.
Joss' comments are witty and sometimes a bit sarcastic, and many people (especially people that are rushing a deadline to fill space) don't get him... Joss seems to give these interviewers credit for more brains (and thinking time) than they may actually have... so it might help if he was a bit plainer with them.
I've had (An Un-named men's fitness magazine) Butcher some of my Comments also.. you have to say EXACTLY what you want them to pass on, and repeat the main points several times, PLAINLY... they usually aren't as interested in the "story" as they are in finishing the story to meet a deadline.
It'd also help if we knew exactly what the obstacles were that could be expected when Joss has time to think about Firefly seriously again, so we could work on removing them while Joss is busy with his current project.
None of this can happen overnight anyway, so we have time to work on it before Joss looks at it again seriously.. and when he DOES look at it again, I'd like him to see a smooth(er) road laid out in front of him.
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Sorry, but I'm new and some of the acronyms you guys use I can't figure out. What's "BDS" stand for?
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Hi, ElDusto, welcome to the site!
BDS stands for Big Damn Series.
It's a play on the line "Big Damn Heroes." from the ep "Safe".
Since you're new, you need your browncoat. I'm sort of the unofficial greeter around here. 
*hands ElDusto a browncoat*
There you are. Make yourself to home and talk often, as you can see on this thread alone, we love to talk.
"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal
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