Why doesn't SCI-FI channel pick up Firefly??
POSTED BY: hunter301
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 04:44
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HEY!!!!
If HBO picked up Firefly. . .we could maybe see Inara's boobies???????
Gimme a break. I've been "in country" for months!
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Static wrote:
"...If HBO picked up Firefly. . .we could maybe see Inara's boobies???????..."
Sacrilege! Morena's so beautiful, I don't even want to spoil her mystique, as odd as that may sound.
Now, Christina Hendricks (Saffron), on the other hand...
Respectfully,
zoid
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Originally posted by zoid:
Now, Christina Hendricks (Saffron), on the other hand...
Yeah, but if we saw HER topless, I'd have to get a bigger TV.
YIKES!
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Static wrote:
"Yeah, but if we saw HER topless, I'd have to get a bigger TV."
Money well spent. The final confrontation between her and Mal in OMR, when he's got her pinned on her back beneath him (ulp!), and then she starts to undulate her hips while being all cleavage-like...
I about had an aneurysm.
As for the rest of the female cast, while I appreciate feminine pulchritude as much or more than the next guy, I just can't imagine ruining the images of Kaylee's innocent smile, Inara's porcelain-doll face, River's dancer's grace (her feet for God's sake!), or Zoe's voluptuous sensuality with anything so crass as disrobing them.
If they're filming and a robe or towel or something slips a little, I'd say leave it in. But full-on frontal? That'd be a sad day for me. Part of what Joss does so well is to have made all these women so real that I prefer the hope of seeing them bare, to the reality of seeing them bare.
Saffron is a different case altogether. In like manner to Jennifer Connelly of "Inventing the Abbotts", "The Hot Spot", et al, I think the world would be a better place if we could just get Ms. Hendricks as naked as possible, as often as possible...
Yikes, indeed.
Respectfully, (if reprehensibly)
zoid
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Zoid, I gotta throw this in, but that is an awesome tagline, dude!
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a word about the SciFi channel
Many of it's "orginal" movie are actually series pilots that may or may not be picked up. how pilots work for most networks is that once a pilot is commissioned and finnished, it is shown to a test audience. based on the test audience's responses and/or the execs feelings the series gets made or is shelfed. the money poured into the pilot is consider lost if the series is shelfed and the network moves on. the SciFi channel shows it's unused pilots as "movies" to recup some of the costs that went into making them.
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Sci-Fi channel has 'broadened out'...pffft.
They've gone the way that the AMC channel did. AMC used to show decent old movies, and now? Conan the Destroyer was on the other night, and with commercials for god's sake.
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I would not be surprised to see Sci Fi run Firefly prior to the movie coming out.
Think about it. Universal owns Sci Fi Channel. Universal wanted Joss to write the script in such a manner as to act as a "springboard" for a series. A series of course is reliant on a successful movie showing. So, Universal airs Firefly, say starting a month, before the movie premieres. This fires up the already existing fanbase, gets the uninitiated interested, and expands the fanbase, plus they could run movie trailers during commercial breaks in the show.
If I was a exec at Universal, this is how I would play it. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
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Realities.
All TV is going to tend towards 'cheap' shows like 1/2 hour sitcoms, animated shows and reality tv. You can see it on Scifi.
The only way to get back quality drama/scifi is to cut the costs *way* down. That involves actors taking pay cuts, reduced special effect budgets, etc ...
For Firefly to get picked up ... anywhere ... after the movie, it will need to cut costs dramatically. On top of that, it will have to be a mediocre success. If it is too successfuly, they'll hold onto it to make more movies. If it is not successful enough, it won't have enough support to consider a series. Our only hope for a return as a series is for it to do medium well, find ways to cut costs and then find a network that has just had a bunch of shows crash (ie; the WB after next season when a lot of its long time dramas (Charmed, etc ...) will be leaving the air).
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This is kinda off topic, but people we REALLY don't want Firefly on Showtime. They are worse than Fox about abandoning genre programming. That is unless they finished up Jeremiah and Odyssey 5 while I wasnt paying attention. And didn't Stargate SG-1 come from there as well? But it's all good, Soul Food had 5 seasons after all. 
But seriously, USA or Sci-fi is really our only hope. If Serenity scores big at the box office 'Versal will come up with the cash for the show to air, even on Sci-Fi.
Right now our effeorts shouldn't even be on the TV revival at this time. First, lets worry about making The Big Damn Movie the hit it deserves to be! If it does well, the TV revival will work its self out.
How can Tru Calling still be going when Wonderfalls is gone? There is no justice in the world! 
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