Fox almost chased away another Firefly Fan
POSTED BY: Succatash
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 5, 2004 21:08
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FOX likes to promote shows with SEX that's why FOX loves The OC so much. They can take any random snipit from the show and find some kissing, or screwing, or having a cat-fight in a pool... oh wait was that The OC or Dynasty?
Oh yeah, the pool cat-fight has been seen in Dynasty, Melrose Place, and now The OC... so sad when original scripted shows get cancelled and the unoriginal ones get tons of publicity and high ratings.
By the way, I really didn't know if I wanted to check out "Firefly" when it original ran... the previews made it look like, well 90210 in space, but because it was Joss I checked it out... at least they put "From The Creater of Buffy" in the promos...
I don't know if anyone else experienced it but all of the hard-core Star Wars and Trek fans that I know said that they hated "Firefly" (after night 1 premiered). I knew that it was a "hit" then because it pissed off the Trekkies.
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I do kind of remember thinking along those lines until I found out it was Joss Whedon. Even then, it took "Our Mrs. Reynolds" to make a fan out of me. This would mark the one and only time I gave a new series more than two episodes to impress me, and look where it got me.
good on you Tash 
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Originally posted by JuTin77:
I don't know if anyone else experienced it but all of the hard-core Star Wars and Trek fans that I know said that they hated "Firefly" (after night 1 premiered). I knew that it was a "hit" then because it pissed off the Trekkies.
Pissin' off Trekkies is too easy, though. Just point out a problem with their beloved show and sit back an' watch them splutter out an excuse...
But Star Wars? That ain't exactly much different from Firefly, now, is it? It's got much the same kinda 'get on with the story and to hell with the details' feel to it, by comparison to Trek anyways. Well... the original trilogy does, at least.
Oh... and I am real sorry I missed the fun with these ads. They sound like a hoot.
Mal: "We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so... very... pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die."
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To coin a phrase...
Star Wars / Star Trek = Old and busted.
Firefly = New hottie.
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We didn't get the Fox adverts here but my daughter saw the advert on Sci Fi Channel here that mentioned Buffy, Angel, Joss Whedon and new series - apparently Buffy is like a magic word to kids that age - and made me watch. Thankfully I did and the rest is history. I'm in the process of trying to get a co worker to watch FF - I think the mention of Adam Baldwin caught her attention. A big Angel fan....
Oh and I am a Star Trek/Wars fan but never could quite figure out why I wasn't supposed to like other Sci Fi shows.
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