Joss Interview in LA Times mentions *possible* Firefly return
POSTED BY: Micronaut
UPDATED: Wednesday, March 7, 2007 22:59
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I'll hold the line until there is no more line left to hold.
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Threads like this bring me hope and aggravate me at the same time. The catch phrase "We Hold" I assume has been spoken by each and everyone here at one time or another. So what do we do? Well I'll tell ya. WE HOLD!!! The whole idea is to never give up. We are constantly bombarded with negativity about this show. Well what has it been 5 years since the tv series and 2 since the BDM? Hell that's just a drop in the bucket. Going back to the final eps of FF, how many fans were there of the show at that time? Now look at the numbers .If the fans hadn't been hardcore browncoats then we would have never gotten Serenity and I wouldn't be here posting now. Dvd sales continue to go through the roof. There is coin to be made and tv exects know it.
I'll tell ya, the wife just bought the tv series "Grey's Anatomy" and we've already watched some of it. At the same time she also bought the second season of "GA" and I also got her the box set of "Six Feet Under". What does this tell anyone reading this post? It tells them that with the first season of FF doing so well in dvd sales that this show is something special. A second season of FF or a sequel to Serenity is like the snowball rolling downhill. It keeps getting bigger and bigger till at bottom who's going to be willing to stand there and get bowled over?!! Several seasons of FF would be bringing in loads of cash for any network airing this fine show and ppl that would come to the show late would be buying up the box sets like mad.
Joss is being very cautious. The scar runs deep with him. I respect that. But I don't give up either. When FF returns there will be changes. That can not be helped. But there will also be lessons learned. I hope the full cast will agree to come back. I think that most of them will. The way I see it, it was a team effort and the team won the Superbowl only the network that air the event played the commercials first, then the locker room comments after the game was played, then the half-Time festivities then the last 2 minutes of the game. What viewer wouldn't have been confused had the game been aired that way?
The actors have to make a living and are doing a few other things but I think that they would agree. FF/Serenity wasn’t about the individual. It was about the team, all of them, the family. Hell I can still see that now and I haven’t seen that kind of caring and companionship from tv in a long time.
Sorry for the rant, but I just can't see anyone giving up on this show when it's been proven by now that tons of money could be there for the taking.
Z
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Agreed. Joss is, yet again, not giving up. He just wants some kinda guarantee that he'll be able to tell his story, his way, without Fox shooting him again.
I doubt there's a one of us here who'd argue that (A) he's right, and (B) he deserves it.
TV is like the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel; Joss just wants to know the building won't be demolished before he's finished painting it.
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I agree with all of you. I am a Fan! I want to see more stories of our crew. But the light seems to be fading when he writes a 3 issue comic of Serenity(which i am so ready for) but makes "season 8" of Buffy instead, dont we have enough Buffy??
Why not a season 2 of Firefly comics? i mean come on, are there more Buffy fans than Firefly fans? is there more demand for Buffy? clearly he wants to do more Buffy than anything else? which makes me think he has put FF so far on the back burner that he doesnt want to make any stories for a while?
so where does that leave us and new BC's(we get)? we are left with a hunger we cant fix. I mean new stories not a re-telling of the same ones, which is what the books are about now. i love them dont misunderstand. i own them and love them to death. i am signed up to buy vol 2, the PVC minis, the reaver serenity, comics and special edition DVD. but none of this is NEW stories, which is my point from the start.
go to a bookstore and look at the star trek and star wars book section, tons of stories in paperback. now i dont want to cheapen our crew to that degree, but Joss i am sure can give writers guidelines to what can and cant happen, ya know. hell even give them non-canon status, that kinda cheapens them but i am desparate, hehe.
somewhere here is a un filmed script, how cool would that be to read in novel from? i dont know about you guys, but i would be all over that!
that is what i dont see Joss doing to keep the BC's hunger at bay and/or spread the word about Firefly!
hell star wars/star trek/SG1(any scifi) readers walking in the bookstore see this book called Firefly/Serenity and read it as there first intro the verse, and wow another BC buying DVDs, and hell more books (if there were some) and spreading the word. next thing ya know, SCIFI channel(or any station) gets a report and follows up on it and says hell there is a really big following(not that there isnt now, but let think bigger!) let see about an orginal show based on the movie cause FOX owns Firefly. uh , next thing ya know we got a season 8 of Serenity TV show, and even a trilogy, which now there is a huge line at the box office.
but if Joss is only going to do a 3 issue comic every 2-3 years, well then this dream is not going to happen?
that is my point.
Keep Flying!!
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no more thoughts?
Keep Flying!!
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Joss will return to the Firefly realm this Fall, with another comic book project from Dark Horse.
It will take place after the last ep. of Firefly, but before the Serenity movie.
I am actually sad to hear this news. It seems Joss is focusing solely on comicbooks now, and of all the mediums to tell a story I feel it's the weakest. I would much rather have a novel, or collection of Firefly season 2 in a script book form.
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