Ran into a guy from Fox at the airport

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JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:54 AM

LMAO because it was like Mal going into a bar on that auspicious day, celebrating the defeat of the scumbag independents

Anyhow back on topic
Nobody is going to put in a good word for us at Fox, and even if they do it won't matter squat because the management at the top of Fox hasn't changed over these past years. Fox is about profit not customer service, if you want more Firefly you'll have to go for movies or ask Universal to wrestle more rights from Fox.
Look at a company like Paramount, now the Trek franchise was beaten out for a long time. Ok maybe the original Trek got a hard deal back in the 60s but since then did Paramount at any time pull the rug from under them. No, they brought many movies, spin-off allowed the series to run for hundreds and hundreds of episodes

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Originally posted by BookReader:

Joss has gotten over it, isn't about time we did the same?

I think Joss can be a genius and Firefly is the best show ever on tv but I don't go around Fox bashing every week. It wouldn't prevent me from watching Dollhouse or Terminator Sarah Connor....but I think Joss sometimes needs to wake up and smell the coffee. Fox is a profit based company and not one that gives a damn about PR or customer satisfaction, once his ratings slump his honeymoon will be over and we'll be hearing the same sobbing once more. Just because we're fans of Firefly or Buffy or whatever he shouldn't expect us to follow him off that cliff.
Joss might be silly enough to return to the same company and have the same old wounds opened up but the rest of us have seen how this dance goes.

AGATSU

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:34 AM

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Originally posted by JaynezTown:

Nobody is going to put in a good word for us at Fox, and even if they do it won't matter squat because the management at the top of Fox hasn't changed over these past years.

...except maybe for the CEO in charge of programming who's been replaced last July.

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JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 11:19 AM

ok maybe I'm being a bit narrow minded

but here's why I think Fox's PR attitude still sucks after the cancellation of Firefly

The Inside axed after a few epsiodes
Family Guy cancelled despite being a massive hit on DVD
Vanished Fox didn't like its ratings
Drive Nathan Fillion series was pulled after four episodes
Stackedlasted a few episodes
The Rich List canceled after ONE EPISODE !!
Killer Instinct binned by Fox

BOOKREADER

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 11:19 AM

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Fox is a profit based company...

The nerve of them! Those ev0l bastages! Good thing Universal, Paramount, Time-Warner, Coca-Cola, Wal-Mart, Apple, and every other corporation on the face of the planet care nothing about profits.

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Nobody is going to put in a good word for us at Fox...

Mary Parent was the only one putting in a good word for us at Universal. Now she's gone and with her went our chances at ever getting another movie. What slim hope we have at getting more of the 'Verse resides at Fox, and in the world of comic books. We need someone at Fox who will put in a good word for us. Not someone who sees Browncoats as obnoxious little trolls.

PENTHOS

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:17 PM

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Originally posted by BookReader:
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Fox is a profit based company...

The nerve of them! Those ev0l bastages! Good thing Universal, Paramount, Time-Warner, Coca-Cola, Wal-Mart, Apple, and every other corporation on the face of the planet care nothing about profits.

I don't think the poster was being critical, I believe he was being realistic... What is not being realistic is the mindset that FOX's decision to pick up a TV show is based on the positive or negative attitude of its fans.

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Originally posted by BookReader:
We need someone at Fox who will put in a good word for us. Not someone who sees Browncoats as obnoxious little trolls.

Sure, again, nice gesture, but expecting this to have an effect is not realistic... I'll reiterate what what's been said, FOX is a profit based company, meaning, the question to FOX execs IS NOT "are the little trolls are obnoxious or not". The question to FOX execs is "How MANY little trolls are there?"... They couldn't care less what our attitude is as long as there are enough of us to make them money.

Unless BiggestDamnedHero is some kind of smooth-talkin, silver-tounged charmer, he's not gonna turn a FOX exec into a Browncoat over a beer in some airport bar.. So maybe we should give him a break. He made that FOX exec aware of the Firefly fan base and the show's mishandling by FOX; isn't THAT's what really matters?

P.S.
-If we really want EXECs inside FOX to push for Firefly, we should come at them sideways... I'd suggest bribery and\or blackmail...

AGATSU

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4:21 PM

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Originally posted by Penthos:
I'd suggest bribery and\or blackmail...

"If you want to see your wife again, accept $100000 in small unmarked bills, or else. No feds."

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PENTHOS

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4:38 PM

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Originally posted by Agatsu:
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Originally posted by Penthos:
I'd suggest bribery and\or blackmail...

"If you want to see your wife again, accept $100000 in small unmarked bills, or else. No feds."

LOL, I didn't mean bribe and blackmail the same person...

See, we hire a private investigator to find the FOX execs who are using drugs and cheating on their spouses. Then we blackmail them by saying:
"Do everything in your power to bring back Firefly or else your wife, and the public, are going to find out about your cocaine and hooker habits..."

The other 5% of FOX execs we just need to bribe.

AGATSU

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:39 PM

You're a genuine evil genius, Sir, I salute you!

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ECGORDON

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 11:41 PM

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Originally posted by Penthos:
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"Do everything in your power to bring back Firefly or else your wife, and the public, are going to find out about your cocaine and hooker habits..."

This is Hollywood we are talking about. I'm sure all the execs have a cocaine and hooker habit, and what's worse everyone already knows about it.

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