Bringing Firefly Back
POSTED BY: deity
UPDATED: Thursday, June 21, 2007 01:34
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Well said. I have only a little bit to add. Back in the Day (yeah, I am that old) when Star Trek Fandom was crushed when the original series was cancelled, there was much effort even before the series went away to bring it back.
That series never did come back. There was a long gap where the only thing that kept it going was motivated fans. There was fan fiction, and then several books that ran from pretty good to terrible, and then Saturday Morning cartoons that were pretty bad. Through all this on college campuses, SF Conventions, etc.... the fan base grew. Being young and in an underground fan movement was WAY fun.
It brought on the movies and the new series. They, quite rightly, didn't try to recreate the old series, they used that as a base and wrote new fiction.
THe same thing can happen here. Joss and Gene Rodenberry have several parrallels. They both had several TV series under their belts, they both had a cause that they encorporated into their work and they both were charismatic men.
So IMHO, do this because the people you meet are good people, do this because there are good things like the charities, the fan fiction, comics and books coming out of it, do this because this strikes a chord in your heart.
I the old series is gone. May it rest in peace, but much new and good can come from it if we join in this and celebrate that community. Good things will happen, and they will be new good things.
Getting off my soap box now ;-)
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Well said. I have only a little bit to add. Back in the Day (yeah, I am that old) when Star Trek Fandom was crushed when the original series was cancelled, there was much effort even before the series went away to bring it back.
That series never did come back. There was a long gap where the only thing that kept it going was motivated fans. There was fan fiction, and then several books that ran from pretty good to terrible, and then Saturday Morning cartoons that were pretty bad. Through all this on college campuses, SF Conventions, etc.... the fan base grew. Being young and in an underground fan movement was WAY fun.
It brought on the movies and the new series. They, quite rightly, didn't try to recreate the old series, they used that as a base and wrote new fiction.
THe same thing can happen here. Joss and Gene Rodenberry have several parrallels. They both had several TV series under their belts, they both had a cause that they encorporated into their work and they both were charismatic men.
So IMHO, do this because the people you meet are good people, do this because there are good things like the charities, the fan fiction, comics and books coming out of it, do this because this strikes a chord in your heart.
I the old series is gone. May it rest in peace, but much new and good can come from it if we join in this and celebrate that community. Good things will happen, and they will be new good things.
Getting off my soap box now ;-)
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"We focus our efforts where they will do the most good and that is spreading the word, expanding the fanbase, pushing the dvds to boost profits, and the continued efforts with charities to bring some positive press to the community. "
If these goals interest you (or anyone!) at all, please go to the Guerilla Marketing Forum and check out "Operation Signal Boost". It's a Summer-long list of Activities to help folks do those very things Browncoat1 said 
We Hold... and we GROW as a Fandom. Those are our primary tasks to keep the Sereniverse Alive.
"Might have been the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one." -Mal
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I just hope nobody ever tries to make a spinoff of Firefly with new characters and a new ship. If it can't be Serenity and her crew, I'm going to feel very sad about it.
Excerpt from My Genre Geek Resume:
~huge Odyssey 5 fan (despite its cancellation)
~dangerously obsessed with BtVS and Angel
~former Andromeda fan
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