Joss' New Series
POSTED BY: FollowMal
UPDATED: Tuesday, November 6, 2007 07:51
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I posted on the other thread that I give it 1 and a half aired episodes before F*x cancels it.
I'm not even sure I'm going to bother watching yet another show that will surely get canceled in two seconds.
Me? Bitter? Nah...
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MAL: Everybody's makin' a fuss.
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"They just float out there, sending out raver breeding parties..."
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Quote:Now now, Mr. Jong, young minds; fresh ideas- we must be tolerant.
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
Screw Fox & the horse they rode in on.
Kirkisall
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This is the fox statement:
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Echo (Eliza Dushku) [is] a young woman who is literally everybody's fantasy. She is one of a group of men and women who can be imprinted with personality packages, including memories, skills, language—even muscle memory—for different assignments. The assignments can be romantic, adventurous, outlandish, uplifting, sexual and/or very illegal. When not imprinted with a personality package, Echo and the others are basically mind-wiped, living like children in a futuristic dorm/lab dubbed the Dollhouse, with no memory of their assignments—or of much else. The show revolves around the childlike Echo's burgeoning self-awareness, and her desire to know who she was before, a desire that begins to seep into her various imprinted personalities and puts her in danger both in the field and in the closely monitored confines of the Dollhouse.
aint it eeeeerily close to Executive Early in Finding Serenity...???
- snorts! -
a young woman who is literally everybody's fantasy...
The assignments can be romantic, adventurous, outlandish, uplifting, sexual etc
still glad it's happening though...
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Bleargh. So conflicted. I think anything Joss writes will be entertaining, but meh on Eliza, and the great ensemble and larger themes of independence and hardscrabble morality of Firefly/Serenity was a magic that the Buffy/Angel/Faith stuff could never capture appropriately. And FOX? Seriously?!?
I'm still hoping our BDH's continue to do well in t.v., so they can make the next Serenity movie on their hiatus. Dare to dream.
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Why does Joss stick with Fox?
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sometimes y'gots to deal with badger - sometimes Patience on whitefall - sometimes fanty and mingo - and hell, sometimes you find yourself working for niska...
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YATTA!!!
You make me glad.
More Joss-i-ness ahoy!
Oh, and Fox? Prolly because some sort of contract or other- cuz, ya know it's full of lawyers and the like.
-Danny
and every time I play with passion I start breaking strings,
and my voice cracks when I sing from my heart
guess that's the price I've got to pay to know that I'm alive
this melody is tearing me apart
THRICE RULES!!!!!!!!!
http://www.myspace.com/otherrandomdude
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Quote:
Originally posted by rallem:
Why does Joss stick with Fox?
The current song-and-dance is that "All the old faces are gone."
Ermmm... Those weren't the "old" faces that axed Babylon 5 years before F*X screwed us outta Firefly... Doesn't take the same cast of characters, only the same /lack/ of character:
http://dragoncontv.com/videos/67
(Hit "Play now" button)
-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
The enjoyment of any good thing is only enhanced by sharing it with others.
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=30176
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Quote:
Originally posted by monksdad:
Good for Joss, Probably bad for Browncoats,,,, but I wish him well.
"And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic lowlife community."
oh no, no...
it is NEVER bad for Browncoats for Joss to be seen as successful and making money for other people...
Universal will get jealous:
"why is he making money for Fox, can't we think of another project he could do for us??
Oh, right..."
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jeez I get the feeling that some of you would rather see Joss unemployed forever rather than gamble on Fox...
and let's face it: Fox are the only ones signing our people, and gambling their money.
I agree they have canceled things too quickly, which I'm sure is why Joss required a commitment of a minimum of 7 shows: so he could at least get a story arc told.
But if you can't get it on the air in the first place then you can't tell any stories at all!
Personally I loved reading how it all came about.... First of all that is quite a vote of confidence from Fox that Eliza Dushku was being offered the chance to be co-Producer (personally I think she wanted to avoid being stuck in something boring and repetitive like Tru Calling, where her character had no growth...and just did the same exact thing in every show...)
then getting this chance to come up with her own 'idea' she asks Joss to lunch so she can be sure to get good ideas (hey, that is what I would do if I could!) as well as names of people who would be capable of writing and running the show so the good ideas would work....
And Joss being so creative and wacky not only comes up with something that allows her to be a completely different person in every episode, but ALSO has this over riding story arc about her slowly discovering her own true self over time (and personally I think that that is genius: kind of about how most women spend their lives fulfilling other people's expectations, but hopefully do learn who they are and start fulfilling their own dreams)....
I see this idea of an object of fantasy becoming self aware as being chock full of metaphorical goodness, and just the kind of thing Joss & Tim will LOVE doing!
Anyway Joss also agrees to be exec producer IF IF IF Fox agrees to guarantee a minimum of 7 episodes so that he'll have time to get a story out before it is canceled....
and then he gets Tim Minear to sign on so that he, Joss, will still have the time and energy to do ' Goners' if it ever gets off the ground.
genius.
And it looks like Eliza is one smart cookie! I have to admire her for putting together a show that will show-case her talents... and let her work w/amazing people like Joss & Tim!
She was really smart to hit on Joss after his multi-scripts written for Wonder Woman had fallen on deaf ears, making it seem to him that movie making was actually more frustrating than television....
Why should be hesitate to be excited about this?!
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