Joss Discussed Sequel and Other Things
POSTED BY: MGorman
UPDATED: Friday, December 8, 2006 22:08
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Hi all, new member here!
Never was a big fan of Firefly when it was aired here in Sweden. Always have problems following series, usually I miss some episodes and the context is lost. So more or less Im not a TV-series person :) However as a SciFi fan I try to watch movies and series when I can.
So this week I got hold of the series and marathonwatched all episodes incl pilot. Three evenings staring at the BDH´s. Was really hooked but at the same time I was sad as I come to understand that there probably wouldnt be any more Firefly episodes. Its BDS (Big Damn Shame) as this is one of the best series I have seen.
So here it is... Pipewrench Dale joining the ranks.
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Welcome to all the shiny new browncoats. Just remember, there's no complaining until you've been holding as long as I have.
And that ain't happening unless I quit an go home. That hasn't happened yet, ain't likely to happen.
We hold.
The more I get to know people the more I like my dogs.
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Welcome Pipewrenchdale, glad to have you on the boat. Yes I don't know of any show that could have aired the way FF was and would have not been canciled. What was F_X thinking? Anyway enjoy yourself. Grab some mudders milk out of the galley and mingle.
See ya,Z
"RobinHood why do you steal from the rich?"
"Because the poor have no money!" Time Bandits
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I'm sad.
I've always been severely frenetic in my obsessive support of Firefly. Even when I thought I was the only one. Even way back when before I saw the websites and the communities. Even before I knew there were other Browncoats. Before I heard about the BDM.
When it showed on SABC3 (South African Broadcast Commission Channel 3) in 2003, and suddenly stopped, I waited patiently for the second series. Only later did I learn that the show was cancelled. That's when I saw the support. The fans rallied and Hope surfaced. We got our movie. The itch was scratched.
I never, for one second thought we wouldn't get a second one.
But now we're talking about the possibility of failure. Not enough profits. Joss is tired, and probably a litte fed up with our nagging. And I ache with sadness. Because if I love this verse so much, while only being a visitor, how much more must this hurt it's creator? Why didn't more fans watch the movie? It wasn't shown here, but what went wrong everywhere else? If we are so many, why couldn't we make Serenity a blockbuster? Did we fail our crew?
Is this our Serenity Valley?
....And why can't I just give up and forget about it? I'm holding...holding till they come back. But they could hurry a little.
Burn the land and boil the sea...
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The reason wasn't the fans who went to see it, it was the crappy comercials for it that didn't draw new fans. The comercial made it look like every other two bit action film out there, at least the one in America did, the one they showed in Briton I saw, and was a lot better. I don't blame the comercial maker though, cause its like Princess Bride. When somethings just so great with so many different things you could say it is, and its a new theme and everything how do you say that?
I think what we need to do is keep up the faith. Joss didn't give up on us the first time, he kept us going and worked and worked and now its our turn. I believe that if we keep the faith we will get our sequal, cause we won't go away. Eventualy someone will notice that and want more of the money firefly brings in, and then we'll finally get what we want.
Fox said they'd kill our show and we chocked em' with those words, lets do it again to anyone who thinks they can take the sky from us. :)
Jayne: "Testing, testing. Captain, can you hear me?"
Mal: "I'm standing right here."
Jayne: "You're coming through good and loud."
Mal: " 'Cause I'm standing right here."
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I'm over the worst of the despair...it comes and goes. Feeling better now.
I just saw a site where someone worked out a whole history of how the Unification War started and ended. With different battles and everything.
I suppose as long as we have Browncoats like that, we'll never waver.
You know the old saying......
If you can't run, you crawl...and if you can't crawl...you find someone to carry you.
B
urn the land and boil the sea...
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Sean's September 2007 reference may coincides with a Marina quote recently to the effect that the three-movie contract deal with the actors is soon set to expire. So she didn't sound too optomistic about having a sequel lined up before then but she didn't mention a specific date (this was at one of the recent cons-i forget which).
Mark Gorman
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I meant Moreno...geez sorry bout that
Mark
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But, but ... don't you mean Morena?
Ah, well. It's amazing how many new B-coats this thread has flushed out of the brambles. There's got to be a way to make this work.
I feel like my Grandma could have done a better job marketing the series and the movie - and she's been dead for years.
In response to earlier posts, let's not get hung up on rich v. poor. It's a far more complex system than that, with profits being the primary driver, but egos certainly playing a role, and let's not forget the nearly unstoppable combination of slack-jawed, mindless incompetence and blind, drooling, stupidity and (gimme some adjectives here) vaporous, stupefying ignorance.
The irritating thing is not knowing what exactly it is.
"When I write my memoirs, that sh!t'll be in there, guaranteed."
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