When Did You Know . . .
POSTED BY: Delia
UPDATED: Sunday, May 2, 2004 01:27
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. . . that Firefly was doomed?
Was there a moment during its brief but glorious run when you knew the show wasn't going to make it? I'm curious to know what the warning signs for other people were.
For me, it came at about Week 5, when I was looking for a name to use on a you-must-have-a-unique-log-in type site, with 1000's of users. After trying all my usuals with no luck (and some of these are names I made up), I typed in "Inara" in desperation. And no one had claimed it yet. And that's when I knew Firefly was in trouble.
Although, on the shiny side, I did get a very cool name for that site.
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The first ep of course.
Terrible time slot.
No marketing of note.
No previews for critics.
Network interferance.
Sabotaged premier.
It's obvious there are people out at FOX (and maybe elswhere) who have a real hate on for Joss and crew. Or at least, from where I sit - someone hated Firefly enough to cancel it before it even was on the frickin' TV.
Why? Don' ask me. 
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Not sure I'm all clear on your user name reference, but I honestly didn't think Firefly was 'done' till after they kept it off the air. A friend , who is vastly more up on the Entertainment news, made some comment that it was cancelled. I scoffed, internally, thinking that she had no clue of what she spoke. She didn't even WATCH it , so what did she know?
However, when I heard that they were showing the 'pilot' of the show which had already been on the air..I did become a bit suspicious. 
Fox TV pin head execs!
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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I first started to worry about Firefly's fate when it kept getting preempted, which any show in that time slot would have. The telling part was that Fox made no effort that I ever saw to let us know when it would be shown.
At the time it was on I was working late Friday nights, as was my brother, he's a fan too. So I was taping Firefly and John Doe for us to watch later. It was frustrating beyond belief to get home from work and find you had taped two hours of 
.
Even more frustrating to scan through said and find no hint of when the program you wanted was going to be shown.
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I maintain that it's still not doomed. We've got the BDM coming, right? As far as its life on Fox goes, I didn't really believe it until...I don't remember the moment, but it was weeks after the official cancellation, if not months.
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Not sure I'm all clear on your user name reference, but I honestly didn't think Firefly was 'done' till after they kept it off the air. A friend , who is vastly more up on the Entertainment news, made some comment that it was cancelled. I scoffed, internally, thinking that she had no clue of what she spoke. She didn't even WATCH it , so what did she know?
However, when I heard that they were showing the 'pilot' of the show which had already been on the air..I did become a bit suspicious.
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I'll try again. I figured that once the show had been on for over a month, the characters' names should all have been snapped up as user names, but a major one wasn't, and that made me wonder just how many people were watching, since quality doesn't matter a bit, just numbers (insert the crappy yet popular reality show of your choice as an example here).
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I knew when my friend's uncle (in the "biz") told me that it had been cancelled--right around Thanksgiving Weekend, in fact--and they were gonna show the pilot last. Even he was scratching his head ("Bring a show on Fridays, skip the pilot, cancel it, THEN show the pilot after the fact? Muct be sone pretty good crack at FOX..."
--The Hat/Jefé
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"I like smackin 'em"--Jayne
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The show was doomed from the moment I decided that I liked it. Any show I genuinely enjoy inevitably dies on the vine if I'm there watching it during its first season -- I'm like some sort of Unholy Nielsen Family of Doom.
Off the top of my head, I killed "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr."... I killed "Brimstone"... I killed "Max Headroom"... Jah forgive me, but I killed "My So-Called Life," "Freaks and Geeks," and most recently, "Wonderfalls."
Please accept my sincere apologies for what happened to "Firefly"... Mea saurus, mea saurus, mea maxima saurus.
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I think I knew it's chances were pretty slim when I realized I had only caught the pilot by accident, and that I wasn't seeing any commercials whatsoever for it at other times during the week.
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