Get off FOX!!
POSTED BY: whozit
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 22:48
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All capitals vs. all lowercase works as a distinction, though, so I suppose I could live with that. It still p*sses me off that F*X took that name, because they don't deserve to be associated with foxes.
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Hello FollowMal:
I did not hear that FOX canceled "New Amsterdam". Why I am surprised? Shows how much attention I pay to commercial TV. I just thought "New Amsterdam" was suffering from the writers strike. That strike really through off my TV viewing, as far the few network shows I watch.
I was happy to see "Medium" return and finish their season. It looks like they are going to continue into another season. YAY!
Is "Chuck" returning? I have not seen anything from that direction. I thought they had a good audience share. I loved the episode where they blew up Adam's car.
The list of programs I watch on network TV get smaller every season.
Before I leave I would like to say that I have been part of this forum for more than a year and I know we have stomped on FOX here. I've said my share against them, but this has been a small fraction of the threads I have shared here.
Most threads are about the Firefly itself or our good natured threads like "Improbables".
The FOX bashing threads are a very small minority. I do not see us focusing on it like maniacs.
It usually happens in the spring when FOX introduces us to a new show like "Drive" and then cancels it after three episodes. So when they do this I think we are justified in grumbling about it. FOX just keeps doing again and again. But for the rest of the year we return to positive things like, "What does a space monkey look like?" 
As always;
traveler
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Originally posted by traveler:
The FOX bashing threads are a very small minority. I do not see us focusing on it like maniacs.
It usually happens in the spring when FOX introduces us to a new show like "Drive" and then cancels it after three episodes. So when they do this I think we are justified in grumbling about it. FOX just keeps doing again and again. But for the rest of the year we return to positive things like, "What does a space monkey look like?"
This might be a " terrifyin' space-monkey ". The stick up the pi-gu may be a sign that these critters are in control of programming at that infamous , network-that-stole-the-cute-animal's-name...This one's mutated...Only 3 fingers on the right hand...No core containment , ya know ?
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Good Evenin', all...
I've got one more year then I've decided not to subscribe to cable anymore.
Sooo many shows cancelled, so many chapters left unfinished. The journey is not worth the heartbreak.
Every network is culpable.
Call me pretentious but I actually liked Judging Amy and Crossing Jordan and what they have done to so many like those is attrocious. Seems lately, even the writers are jaded. Why pour your soul into a story the number men won't let you finish?
Only staying another year for ER and I don't really even like the soap opera that has become, just sticking around for the last season 'cause I started watchin' when it began, 14 season's ago is a long time....
Who knows, maybe I'll even go out and get a life!
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Originally posted by SigmaNunki:Quote:
Originally posted by whozit:
I know you dont forgive FOX for canceling Firefly, I understand. But I think it's time to stop using FOX as a swear word, T:TSCC is on FOX, so is BONES and the upcoming Dollhouse. Everytime FOX cancels a show you like, GET THE FUCK OVER IT!!!!!!! ABC, NBC and CBS does'nt get this kind of grief!
Perhaps some people here are like that. But, there are some of us that don't like F*X for other reasons. Like, perhaps, they are serial cancellers. So much so, that every time they come out with a new show, and it's good, I think, "So, when is this going to get cancelled?" Typically, very soon. So, I pretty much ignore them and don't really get invested in anything that they produce any more.
Too many times.
SigmaNunki is right; Fox is a network that is guilty of serial cancelling. Lots of great shows and damn near every sci fi show they ever aired all cancelled and relegated to the trash heap.
Get over it? Who are you to tell anyone else what to do? Live and let live. You want to watch Fox, feel free. If others here don't want to watch them, that's fine too. Free country last time I looked. Seems the only one here spoutin' off is you.
Me personally I dropped Fox after they cancelled Firefly. The only things on Fox I have watched since are shows that had our BDHs in them. The rest Fox can shove in their uncomfortable spot where the sun don't shine.
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Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
Me personally I dropped Fox after they cancelled Firefly. The only things on Fox I have watched since are shows that had our BDHs in them. The rest Fox can shove in their uncomfortable spot where the sun don't shine.
I'm pretty sure their heads are taking up too much space in there.
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Quote:You people are rite! How dare FOX dump great shows like "A minute with Stan Hooper" and keep garbage like 24 & HOUSE on the air. We should send FOX blistering E-mails!
Originally posted by BrownCoat1:Quote:
Originally posted by SigmaNunki:Quote:
Originally posted by whozit:
I know you dont forgive FOX for canceling Firefly, I understand. But I think it's time to stop using FOX as a swear word, T:TSCC is on FOX, so is BONES and the upcoming Dollhouse. Everytime FOX cancels a show you like, GET THE FUCK OVER IT!!!!!!! ABC, NBC and CBS does'nt get this kind of grief!
Perhaps some people here are like that. But, there are some of us that don't like F*X for other reasons. Like, perhaps, they are serial cancellers. So much so, that every time they come out with a new show, and it's good, I think, "So, when is this going to get cancelled?" Typically, very soon. So, I pretty much ignore them and don't really get invested in anything that they produce any more.
Too many times.
SigmaNunki is right; Fox is a network that is guilty of serial cancelling. Lots of great shows and damn near every sci fi show they ever aired all cancelled and relegated to the trash heap.
Get over it? Who are you to tell anyone else what to do? Live and let live. You want to watch Fox, feel free. If others here don't want to watch them, that's fine too. Free country last time I looked. Seems the only one here spoutin' off is you.
Me personally I dropped Fox after they cancelled Firefly. The only things on Fox I have watched since are shows that had our BDHs in them. The rest Fox can shove in their uncomfortable spot where the sun don't shine.
__________________________________________
Holding the line since December '02!
Richmond, VA & surrounding area Firefly Fans:
http://www.richmondbrowncoats.org
Color Officer / X.O. Echo Company
http://76thbattalion.homestead.com/index.html
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Originally posted by whozit:Quote:
You people are rite [sic]! How dare FOX dump great shows like "A minute with Stan Hooper" and keep garbage like 24 & HOUSE on the air. We should send FOX blistering E-mails!
For every "Stan Hooper" that deserved cancellation (not actually sure it did since I never saw it) there are many more that deserved a better fate. Not only Firefly, but also Wonderfalls, Futurama, The Lone Gunmen, Brimstone, Space Above and Beyond, The Adventures of Brisco County Jr., Sliders, The Tick, VR.5, etc, etc, etc. While FOX is not alone in this practice, they certainly have done more than their fair share considering the age of the network compared to the Big Three.
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Originally posted by zerokiryu:
I've been a member here for a little over a year and your posts are the some of the most rudest things I've read here. (I don't go into RWED) And ribbing someone and downright insulting them are two different things, and what you said was not ribbing.
The poster voiced his/her opinion, you voiced yours and then felt the need to insult his/her mother anong various insults to his/her intelligence.
And then you go on to say that if we don't like it we shouldn't hang around here? I don't even know what to say about this comment except this makes you look even more trollish.
He probably came here, thinking his excessive name-calling would grant him instant super-hero status among the avid Firefly folks. The irony of it is, though, that peeps like FollowMal and I tend to call this place "home" because it's a kind of a boat, in its own right, not unlike Serenity itself, on which the Firefly love becomes manifest, as it were, in the way we choose to treat each other: as if the other were crew, so to speak. You won't find this in the forum guidelines: it's an unwritten rule -- but one that's being adhered to quite faithfully by those with enough respect to the series and what we've built here.
So, his ridiculous lambasting of this guy/girl could not have been more out of place, here. And a true 'coat knows this. Really, sometimes 'brown-ish' is not enough.
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You know, in my other life I'm running for President and I was practising my Hillary flip-flop (Oh no he didn't). Besides Mr. Whozit started it, so there! He laid down the guantlet and someone had to respond in kind.
Seriously folks relax, return your snack trays to the back of the chair in front of you and adjust your seats to the upright position - it was a joke. I was attempting to bring some levity to a rather touchy subject - Fox TV or as we in Trollandia like to call them ^$#@&$^+^*% Fox.
What I would like to know is how Zerokiryu knew I was from Trollandia? Are you in congress? What gave it away?
Oh yeeaaaah, it was my trollish behavior. I hate when that happens.
OK, the thing is my love for our BDH far exceeds my dislike for some of the most peculiar decisions in television today. The fact that its Fox on the other end of those deisicions has nothing to do with it. FF is one of the top 5 best written shows EVER. Fox has placed it on Hulu.tv as a Classic TV series (Hello, do you see that). Peculiar indeed. They are making a mint from the DVD sales fueled by US - the Browncoats of America and beyond, yes even in Trollandia we love us some Serenity.
Sorry for the rant. Did you know that on some planets they juggle geese?
Hey guys, stay frosty.
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Originally posted by zerokiryu:Quote:
Originally posted by Shinygoodguy:
Fox, ABC, NBC and CBS only care about making money. They couldn't care less about quality programs.
You started out good, but then...Quote:
You are right "vulgar breath" we should stop complaining that such a good show was cancelled before its time.
Actually, I take that back. We don't want your kind around here, because we have every right to despise a tv station that eliminates good shows. You should take a Jubal Early walk through space.
Let's not resort to trollish behavior, okay?
Everybody's making a fuss!
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