Retooling Firefly

POSTED BY: Hobbes
UPDATED: Monday, November 18, 2002 09:30
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HOBBES

Friday, November 15, 2002 3:13 AM

From Dark Horizons news for 14 Thursday (today :)

On the one hand, some are saying FOX will announce the Joss Whedon show's cancellation this week - on the other rumours have begun that Fox will keep it running but retool it with a more sci-fi bend and pull back on the 'western' aspects.

For now you can see it at http://www.darkhorizons.com/news-n.htm

It should be archived here:
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/021114.htm
if my stab at their archiving system is correct.

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MALAKILI

Friday, November 15, 2002 4:07 AM

Nothing good can come of those FOX pricks retooling anything.

I just had a mental image of a FOX exec clubbing Joss over the head with a big wrench.

MILLERNATE

Friday, November 15, 2002 4:31 AM

Quote:

I just had a mental image of a FOX exec clubbing Joss over the head with a big wrench.

Ah yes, The TNT "Crusade" treatment. I haven't seen it since Tribune screwed over Robert Hewitt Wolfe

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Seriouly though, this may well be a case of going on that road to heck either way.

Nathan
"It looks like a great adventure...That's what it is; that's what it feels like. When I saw the pilot, it was really engaging. It was exciting. It was unusual. It threw me off every now and then. I think people will be grabbed by it." - Ron Glass, on the pilot, during an interview with the Indianapolis Star

FRANKIGAL

Friday, November 15, 2002 4:53 AM

oh no not retooling, I hate te idea of them messing with Joss's vision for the show

PERSEPHONE

Friday, November 15, 2002 6:14 AM

Can't Joss take the show to another channel? I love the western aspects. Basically, it's saying that Fox will either cancel the show or ruin it.

Warrick: You didn't have to wound that man.
Mal: Yeah, I know. It was just funny.

KAYLEE

Friday, November 15, 2002 5:51 PM

Don't know how i feel. On the one hand, it's better to go out on a high than have your vision and shows integrity ruined, on the other, I love this show and it's characters, I want it to live, and lets face it, the Western aspect is begining to get annoying.

Plus i don't think there's anything Fox can throw at Joss and he won't be able to turn into a good thing, and would it really be so bad for the show to incorporate more science fiction-esque story's.

My God. Joss and Science Fiction? He'll never pull it off.

P.S. Science Fiction is Ok. Don't make it Star Trek.

ALTERNITY

Friday, November 15, 2002 6:10 PM

They should either leave it alone or cancel it. They should not "retool" it. Corporate suits should never get involved in the creative process. Corporate execs getting involved in the creative part just makes all TV look the same. If they don't like it just can it and replace it with some more mediocre mindless pap for the masses.

roj

THEGN

Friday, November 15, 2002 6:40 PM

I don't see anything that "Western" about Firefly. I never have. So if Fox wants to remove what isn't there to make people with over-active imaginations happy then I'm okay with that. I’d sooner then do that then cancel it.

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HJERMSTED

Friday, November 15, 2002 7:10 PM

There's nothing wrong with the western motif. I actually enjoy the way the show can be sci fi one week and western the next. Gien proper time to draw an audience, the sci-fi/western thing would become less relevant as the story arcs and characterizations take over anyway. I mean, does anyone refer to Buffy or Angel as "horror shows" anymore?

Firefly is a Whedon show. Like it or lump it on that level if you gotta.

What the show does need is a new timeslot. I'm hoping this is the extent of Fox's "re-tooling" of the show... it's timeslot, not it's content.

mattro

BOBKNAPTOR

Friday, November 15, 2002 7:46 PM

I'm with you mattro. I can't imagine that those loser execs would be able to make the show "better" by trying to edit it's content. I know that Whedon has toned things down before to keep the network happy (Willow and Tara were together almost a year before they had their first on-screen kiss, Joss couldn't explore darker storylines until leaving the WB, etc...). And so far, because he's Whedon, he made it work. But saying that they want to tone down the "Western" aspects of Firefly is like saying they'd like to tone down the "magical/witchy" aspects of Buffy. No, it's not a show that completely depends on Willow being a witch and having magical powers, but would it be a very different show if Joss hadn't been allowed to go down that path?

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