Firefly - Any Hope for Season 2?
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UPDATED: Monday, May 20, 2013 23:39
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I know this question has been asked thousands of times already, but I've been out of the loop for quite some tome. Is there even a glimmer of hope? Rumors? Anything?
I just got done rewatching season 1 for the ~10th time, and every time, as I'm nearing the end, I feel an overwhelming sense of bitterness, which is then followed by sadness once it is completed.
This TV show is probably my favorite of all time, and I can't bare to see it fall into the history books, not when there is so much untapped potential.
Thanks.
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Always. Just a matter of whether it can be wrangled.
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Much will depend on what happens with The Avengers. With Joss directing such an insanely high-profile project, he stands to command a great deal more juice in the industry...unless it sucks, which --really-- ain't gonna happen.
More knowledgeable folk than myself can speak to the contractual twists and cul-de-sacs ('culs-de-sac?'), but it seems to me that, at the very least, a web-centric season could be conjured, if Avengers turns enough heads (and opens enough wallets).
One way or 'tother, seems to me we will rise again...
Department of Redundancy Department
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Short answer, no.
Long answer: It doesn't matter how popular a certain director is. it doesn't matter at all. All that matters is if the project will get back what was put into it, plus (at least) an additional 10% (read: profit). By the way, that has to be pretty much guaranteed on the risk assessment.
Firefly didn't get enough profit and Serenity (the movie) didn't either. So, even though people here would like to think that there is hope, there really isn't unless Fox decides to sell the rights. And they aren't exactly known for there kindness. Especially, with them sueing fans and sending cease and desist letters to fan groups.
Sorry.
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I think conclusions about the future can be drawn from history. Always there are strong differences of opinion about what those conclusions are.
There is recent history:
The History: Help Nathan Buy Firefly http://unstoppablesignals.com/hnbf/
There is ancient history:
December 12, 2002 - Twentieth Century Fox (the production company) tells Joss he can shop the show around.
December 14, 2002 - Fans organize massive write in campaign to get UPN to pick up Firefly.
January 12, 2003 - UPN turns down Firefly.
January 15, 2003 - ABC, CBS, NBC and SCI FI channel all turn down Firefly. Syndication unlikely due to cost.
January 22, 2003 - Fans visit with Mutant Enemy and Fox about saving the TV show by releasing it direct-to-DVD. Mutant Enemy likes the idea, but say's it's hands are tied. Fox simply states they want to wash their hands of the show. Fox says there probably isn't a big enough market to even justify releasing the DVDs, but they are thinking about it.
February 13, 2003 - Firefly set is torn down permanently.
April 15, 2003 - Joss starts to spread rumors of a possible shift of focus to getting a Firefly movie made. Announces Fox will be making a DVD boxset to be released in December 2003.
The Firefly Time Line is at www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=17&t=48603
The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two
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More likely a reboot.
The original cast is off doing other things, but any show has enduring fandom will eventually get a reboot. Could be a while.
That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.
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February 13, 2003 - Firefly set is torn down permanently.
April 15, 2003 - Joss starts to spread rumors of a possible shift of focus to getting a Firefly movie made. Announces Fox will be making a DVD boxset to be released in December 2003.
I remember the period of time between those two dates as really, really sucking.
Can you imagine if there wasn't an official DVD release?
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Remember that 10 years and 189 days had passed between the last televised Star Trek episode and the premiere of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
As of today it has been 8 years, 175 days since the broadcast of "Objects in Space," and only 5 years, 255 days since the premiere of Serenity. We have just a little less than 11 months to go for the premiere of The Avengers, that is if they don't change the date already announced.
Granted, Star Trek had many more episodes that were repeated almost perpetually in syndication during that time, but it was before the DVD era. Can you tell me another series as short-lived as Firefly that has sold as many DVDs, Blu-Rays, comics and other merchandise, and that still has such an active fan base, and that continually gets positive mention on numerous websites? Just yesterday, Serenity was featured as an example of "classic" science fiction cinema on the main page of msn.com.
Also, don't forget the example of Police Squad, a series that only had six episodes produced, yet it spawned a trilogy of popular movies that started more than six years after the series was cancelled. In Hollywood, where reboots and remakes seem to be the thing you can count on the most these days, there is no reason to assume that we will not get some form of the show or movie in the next few years.
Personally, I don't care whether it is on broadcast TV or cable, direct-to-DVD or via the 'net. I'll be there to watch it happens.
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A 'Season 2'?
That time is gone.
A 'continuation' like STTMP?
A definite possibility IMO.
And unlike the Trek cast, our BDH's wear real clothes, so a little extra weight on anyone'd just seem natural. 
The laughing Chrisisall
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You guys are forgetting Star Trek, the animated series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Animated_Series
That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.
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