Firefly renewal a no hoper?

POSTED BY: IrishBrowncoat
UPDATED: Monday, July 20, 2009 18:59
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GRIPPER

Saturday, July 18, 2009 8:19 PM

I,for one;would LOVE to see a Riddick/Serenity crossover.
Can you picture Riddick and an Operative hunting each other?
Or for that matter, an encounter(coruteous or otheriwse) between Riddick and Jayne??
They should toss that into the creative mix,just to see where the chips fall....

OUT2THEBLACK

Saturday, July 18, 2009 9:07 PM

Hang In There , Irish !

We're all in this together , and as long as one Browncoat remains alive , there's always hope...

I got a lot of inspiration from this article , and there's more to it than the blurbs that appear here , so go to the site , and have a good read :

Rebel Alliance
http://www.fastcompany.com/node/798975/print

"...Long before running some of the hottest shows on television, these guys and their peers were just wee-geeks growing up obsessed with archetypal battles of good versus evil and mind-bending special effects. Star Wars epitomized how mainstream such fantasy could be. Star Trek, considerably more low-budget and hammy, with its campy Klingon villains and furry Tribbles, was for the die-hard sci-fi crowd. But both franchises deeply vested legions of powerless kids in their mythological worlds...."

"...And there is one member of the Geek Elite -- their Jedi master -- whom they all point to as their inspiration. "That's the genius of Joss Whedon,..."

'Whedon works in a residential neighborhood, in a Spanish-style bungalow neatly decorated with gothic figurines and framed anime art. "I'm a huge fan of the Final Fantasy film," he says as he heats up a pot of breakfast tea after his run. As his peers attest, Whedon defined a new generation of nerd worship with his iconic late-1990s series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a cheeky pop-culture powerhouse about a blond teenage demon killer. Then he continued his reign with a Buffy spin-off, Angel, and later Firefly. Today, he's working on his next series, Dollhouse, which follows a young woman who can be imprinted with different identities to accomplish a variety of missions.

While not always runaway hits on the air, Whedon's shows are renowned by his peers for spawning some of the most thriving aftermarket around. Whedon sheepishly admits his shows "do crazy" on DVD, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. Whedon's achievement, say his fellow geeks, is not just creating an isolated TV show but also building a universe that has earned its own nickname, the Whedonverse. As Lindelof puts it, "The Whedonverse was, like, if you have a core fandom, how do you get that core fandom to buy a lot of shit?" And perhaps more important, how do you sell them all that stuff with integrity, so you don't end up burning your biggest fans?

For Whedon, it all comes back to his own years growing up as a fanboy in Manhattan. "I don't understand creators who aren't fans," he says. "My experience as a fan was, things that I loved, I loved very hard -- Marvel Comics, science fiction, Dickens, Shakespeare, Sondheim. The things I was a geek about, I was a serious geek about."

When Buffy started to take off, in 1997, Whedon went to where the nerds were: the Internet. Trekkies and other hard-core sci-fi and fantasy fans were among the earliest settlers on the Net, in newsgroup discussions, early bulletin-board systems, and online games. Whedon's tales of mythological empowerment tapped a new wave of Webby misfits. "They were starting to build clubs, and I was able to get feedback," says Whedon, who maintains an active presence on fan sites devoted to him, such as Whedonesque.com. "I could do a show and go online and see what people thought of it right away," he says. "That's a crazy feeling."

"Joss would email fans of the show, have a Web site where they'd gather, have parties where he'd meet with them," says Alexander. And the more involved the fans got, the more they fed the aftermarket. "I've always believed that the only thing that's important is back end," Whedon says. "I don't care what they pay me as long as there's back-end money, because back-end money is success. Back-end money means people liked it. If someone pays you a huge amount up front, all you get is pressure." But he is quick to add a caveat: "If I don't have a purpose for repurposing -- if there's not a reason to tell a story that way -- then I avoid it."

Whedon is now experimenting with properties that orig

LEXAN

Sunday, July 19, 2009 10:06 AM

I think it's highly unlikely that Firefly will come back, especially in TV series form, but if it does it'll be HUGE! The fandom of Firely is really something. If it comes back, we'll know that something special has happened.

LOWDOWNDIRTYDECEIVER

Sunday, July 19, 2009 10:08 PM

Having only just discovered the magnificence that is firefly, I dream of stunning comeback.

The fans are so passionate about the show, and its got to have many more millions of fans now then when it aired.

Surely some sort of return is a no brainer for any tv network. It's already got a fan-base, it's guaranteed to make a ton of money in DVD sales and merchandise.

That said, if something makes sense, it usually isn't done.

JAMERON4EVA

Monday, July 20, 2009 6:56 PM

Hey, there is always a possablilty, now that FOX ( die, die, die) has cancelled TSCC, and Summer is free again, which i read on a TSCC fan site that she was getting ready for another, undisclosed, project there may be hope. But this is all just speculation, she could be doing another totaly diff. show, or a TSCC movie, or something, just throwing that idea out.

JAMERON4EVA

Monday, July 20, 2009 6:59 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Lexan:
I think it's highly unlikely that Firefly will come back, especially in TV series form, but if it does it'll be HUGE! The fandom of Firely is really something. If it comes back, we'll know that something special has happened.

I would not only say that it would be huge, it'd be freaking sweet. But if someone starts it up again, and Dark Angel, and TSCC, that would be the perfect trifecta. And i am calling on all my fellow Browncoats, Don't just support Firefly, also support Dark Angel, and TSCC, and try to get them back, AND NOT ON FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!

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