Fox Cancelled The OC...They should bring back Firefly

POSTED BY: MattFromGeekStuff
UPDATED: Saturday, January 6, 2007 19:54
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MATTFROMGEEKSTUFF

Thursday, January 4, 2007 7:30 PM

Nuff said. A man can dream can't he?

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WHOISRIVER

Thursday, January 4, 2007 8:12 PM

Well, at least they cancelled The OC finally!

MSG

Thursday, January 4, 2007 8:16 PM

Preachin to the choir darlin....still say stormin the Fox studios and taking hostages might do it:)

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DESKTOPHIPPIE

Thursday, January 4, 2007 8:26 PM

Was it really bad? I saw bits and pieces of the first season and remember thinking it wasn't bad at all for a "teen drama". Although that was mostly down to a dark haired guy playing a comic book geek who seemed genuinely amusing.

I know it was appallingly soap operaish, but that's pretty much what the genre calls for.

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WHOISRIVER

Thursday, January 4, 2007 8:34 PM

If you're into that kind of thing, it wasn't actually bad. Got about 10 million viewers on average at first, which is 4 times Firefly's average.

However, as each season went on, they kept repeating the same storylines but swapping the characters around. The audience kept going down. With this season, Firefly actually had more viewing figures than The OC does now (and Firefly was a flop). So, cancelled. Surprised FOX supported it this long, though.

REGINAROADIE

Thursday, January 4, 2007 11:43 PM

I was listening to the radio today, and on one of the rock stations, one of the DJ's was talking about the show and how the creator Josh Schwartz (?) was saying how they would give the series an appropriate ending. And the guy recommended that on the series finale, an earthquake should hit Orange County and all the characters be swallowed up into the sea.

Now THERE'S something I'd like to see on network TV. You know, if you're gonna go out, go with a bang.

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DEEPGIRL187

Thursday, January 4, 2007 11:59 PM

Thank heavens. I thought it would never end.

I actually read an article about the cancellation where they made a Joss reference. The reporter stated that the show might do a Buffy and switch networks. God, I hope not.

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PEULSAR5

Friday, January 5, 2007 1:27 AM

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Originally posted by DesktopHippie:
Was it really bad? I saw bits and pieces of the first season and remember thinking it wasn't bad at all for a "teen drama". Although that was mostly down to a dark haired guy playing a comic book geek who seemed genuinely amusing.

I know it was appallingly soap operaish, but that's pretty much what the genre calls for.

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I found it to be pretty much the same as all the other Dawson's Creek wannabees or as a friend of mine called it "Rich pretty teenagers with problems" shows. The world is probably better off without it.

GOMITHROUS

Friday, January 5, 2007 1:44 AM

Puhzaa to the death of the OC!!! We're coming for you next Laguna Beach

Ding, dong, the OC's gone

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CYBERSNARK

Friday, January 5, 2007 1:48 AM

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Originally posted by reginaroadie:
I was listening to the radio today, and on one of the rock stations, one of the DJ's was talking about the show and how the creator Josh Schwartz (?) was saying how they would give the series an appropriate ending. And the guy recommended that on the series finale, an earthquake should hit Orange County and all the characters be swallowed up into the sea.

Maybe they could open a Hellmouth and have the whole town pulled into the ginormous sinkhole.

That'd be pretty funny actually; instead of cancelling it, they fire the cast, change the sets, and completely reinvent it from the ground up. If the new show doesn't work, just repeat until you hit something good.

I'm just tickled by the "What If" of Buffy, Xander, Willow, and Giles rolling into town, and seeing the O.C.'s characters very slowly start losing screentime until they're relegated to background characters on (no longer) their own show.

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