Afraid to love this show

POSTED BY: bugdog
UPDATED: Tuesday, October 8, 2002 16:25
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BUGDOG

Sunday, October 6, 2002 1:24 AM

Well, I'm back at work (after a long 4 days off, heh heh) and I'm probably going to see if I can find some of the other Firefly episodes to download.

My husband and I have a new ritual on Friday nights. Right after Firefly is over, we stand around in the kitchen and loudly discuss how much we hate the show and everyone on it, how much it sucks and how Fox had better cancel it, but how we can't help but watch it - like a train wreck, ya know?
With any luck, the kitchen demons will pass this along to the TV demons and this will insure a long life for Firefly. And Mal. Because I love a man in suspenders.

If bashing the show doesn't work, maybe I'll make note of the advertisers, buy their stuff, buy some postcards and glue, glue the UPC codes from the stuff onto the postcards and send the postcards to the advertisers saying "I bought this because you bought time on Firefly." (Yeah, I have way too much free time on my hands.)

Do trucks have UPC codes?

~bugdog (who has good reason to fear TPTB at Fox - they killed Greg the Bunny, Titus and Futurama!)

WILLIAM

Sunday, October 6, 2002 6:45 PM

I've not seen Firefly yet, since I live in Soctland, but from what I've seen and heard it looks far too good to miss.

Why is it that Firefly gets bad ratings, when it's following show John Doe is getting so much more ? I don't really understand.

Firefly is made by Joss Whedon, Do people know that ? Maybe all those Buffy and Angel fans out there should really check it out. It's made my Joss Whedon doesn't that mean something ?

POSSESSION

Sunday, October 6, 2002 6:53 PM

Just because the show is created by Joss, doesn't mean all Buffy and Angel fans will watch. Granted, yes, that's why I started watching, but I've really gotten to love (I mean hate too!) this show. It's unique and amazingly written, and I love the plot. Maybe a "western in space" just isn't what some fans are interested in, just like how I'm not interested in checking out John Doe.

WILLIAM

Sunday, October 6, 2002 6:57 PM

I guess you're right, but wouldn't it be great if Firefly gets a full first season.

Buffy and Angel fans should know that, Joss Whedon knows how to write for his characters. Isn't the Characters on the show more important, than the whole "It's a western set in space" thing ? I mean isn't the Characters on Buffy and Angel the reason why BTVS fans love the show so much ?

POSSESSION

Sunday, October 6, 2002 7:11 PM

I get what you mean, it should be about the characters and the way it's written and so on, but if I person just isn't into any science fiction show, they're not going to give it a chance... they might like it, you never know.

A perfect example is myself, actually. I'm a big fan of the WB's Gilmore Girls, but when it first premiere I thought it was some crappy, 7th Heaven type show. It's just not my genre, so I didn't give it a chance. I eventually did, I realized I was wrong, and I adore it.

ZICSOFT

Sunday, October 6, 2002 9:21 PM

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Originally posted by William:
I've not seen Firefly yet, since I live in Soctland, but from what I've seen and heard it looks far too good to miss.

Why is it that Firefly gets bad ratings, when it's following show John Doe is getting so much more ? I don't really understand.

Firefly is made by Joss Whedon, Do people know that ? Maybe all those Buffy and Angel fans out there should really check it out. It's made my Joss Whedon doesn't that mean something ?

Buffy and Angel have always had really weak ratings. But they're on networks with really weak market penetration (where I live you can't get WB or UPN unless you have cable; in some markets they're not available at all), so nobody expects them to do any better. Indeed, Buffy is often credited with saving WB from oblivion.

Despite its pseudo-quirky premise, John Doe is basically a kind of cop show. Those are always crowd pleasers. It's quite possible that Firefly will never have the kind of big ratings that mind candy shows generate. But Firefly doesn't need numbers to be successful -- it just needs an audience that advertisers want to buy access to. And Firefly has an edge there, because it's got to be popular among techno-geeks, and people like that have more than their share of disposable income.

JOSS, WHERE'S MY CHECK???!!!

QUILL

Tuesday, October 8, 2002 4:25 PM

I doubt this show will last more than a season. Sci-fi scares the networks, and the best sci-fi shows of the last ten years went down the tubes very quickly (exception made for B5, which was in something of its own category). The only superior one to last was Farscape, and look what happened to it... But I will keep hoping.

Inside every cynic there's an idealist desperately yearning to be let out, and when they are let out they're usually a real pain and cause all sorts of trouble. --Chris Boucher

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