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No more Firefly, at all?

POSTED BY: Gards
UPDATED: Friday, February 26, 2010 21:57
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GARDS

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 9:27 PM

Greetings from the UK everyone, as you can see i'm a noob.

I first saw Serenity a few years ago and thought it was a cool film. It was only last week when I started watching the series and sure enough after the pilot I was hooked. I had to discipline myself to not watch each episode one after the other as I knew there were only 14 episodes, I watched them all in 4 days and i'm devastated it's over :(

How! Did this show get cancelled!?! poor ratings I guess. I have also seen "Done the impossible" and was impressed by the fanbase which will no doubt grow stronger year on year.

Please! At least give us another film Joss, is that even possible guys?

All the best

Gards

ECGORDON

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 9:49 PM

That is the question we've all been asking for more than seven years (if we watched Firefly from the start), or more than four years if Serenity in the theater was your first immersion into the 'Verse.

I know that most fans think they are being realistic in accepting the fact that there will probably never be any more (outside of comics possibly). I just don't happen to be that realistic. It's going to take several more years before I'm ready to give up the hope for more impossible happenings.

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

KWICKO

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 9:59 PM

All you have to do is remember how long it was between Star Trek being cancelled and the first Star Trek feature film.

As Mick says, "Time is on my side, yes it is."

Mike

Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde

OPPYH

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 3:17 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Gards:

How! Did this show get cancelled!?! poor ratings I guess.

No, decent ratings(5.4 Nielson on average, great ratings for a smaller network). It didn't fit Fox's image. The network didn't want it.

OLDGUY

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 3:45 AM

hey Gards..a belated welcome to the verse !
and believe me, we all feel your pain.

I'm the old guy of this bunch of young rebels...at age 53 I've grown up in a world of Star Trek, etc and enjoyed many a TV series..some forgotten..some shoulda been, and then there is the rare series like Firefly that was cut off at the knees and worse..they had them writing on the fly each week..not allowing the progression that should have occured, rather having to find ways to restate the sacrifice that the young doctor made to save his sister...yadayada...

if I had money...I'd be funding whatever Joss would want to do with that show and replacing TV execs along the way til we had a working team that had a freakin clue what needed to happen to allow a series like Firefly to flourish.
instead, I find my wife gets steadily more worried about the fact that my travel bag for my laptop (I fly weekly) remains populated with my firefly series which I continue to rewatch time and again to the point of abnormaility

CHRISISALL

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 3:54 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Oldguy:

I'm the old guy of this bunch of young rebels

Uhh, not exactly, there's peeps older'n you here, and you only beat ME by 3 years.
Maybe you should change your handle to "Semi-Oldguy"....

The laughing Chrisisall

MOOSE

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 4:02 AM

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
All you have to do is remember how long it was between Star Trek being cancelled and the first Star Trek feature film.

Yeah, but we've had our chance at a feature film....over 4yrs ago...

Plus ST had 3 seasons in syndication to maintain the fanbase.

What do we have now? A collection of short stories? Maybe another comic miniseries?

There ain't gonna be no more...

I do hope and pray that I get proven wrong though...

And welcome to the 'Verse, Gards!

ECGORDON

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 4:20 AM

Move over, OldGuy. I'm pushing 60.

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

GWEK

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 2:42 PM

Welcome to the Browncoats, Gards.

I think part of the problem with FIREFLY was the timing. To paraprhase Joss, FOX came to him in the aftermath of 9/11 and said "Do you have something uplifting and patriotic?" Joss said "I have this idea for a show about nine people living in poverty in the darkness and loneliness of space..." And FOX said "Sounds good! We'll take it!"

The timing for such a dark show could not have been worse, and the network clearly didn't understand what it was or how to market it.

Such is life.

If you're hungry for more FIREFLY, there is, of course, the movie (which you've already seen) as well as two comic book mini-series (THOSE LEFT BEHIND and BETTER DAYS), which are basically the equivalent of two "lost episodes." THOSE LEFT BEHIND serves as a bridge between the series and the movie, and works just fine as a "season finale." There's also an online "short from Dark Horse Comics, which I believe is called THE OTHER HALF.

There are also short stories coming soon from some of the writers, but I'm not sure that a date has been announced. A third comic series, THE SHEPHARD'S TALE, has also been announced but not firmed up.

If you're willing to broaden your horizons, there's quite a bit of quality fanfic out there. If I can direct you to my signature, www.stillflying.net houses what I believe is the most ambitious FIREFLY "virtual series", with 29 hour-long episode scripts (finishing out the first season, and writing the second season as Joss might have done it had he done SERENITY for TV rather than as a movie). We've been pretty well-received, and if you're looking to scratch your Firefly itch, it might do the trick.

Welcome aboard!

www.stillflying.net: "Here's how it might have been..."

GARDS

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 8:33 PM

Hi guys and thank you for all your responses.

Well I must say, i'm sad that there is no apparent word of Joss trying to bring the show back (i've done a bit of research) and the feeling on here seems to be one of hope more than anything else.

This would be the first show I even considered attending a convention of lol