What is wrong with FOX?
POSTED BY: SimonSays
UPDATED: Friday, July 1, 2005 17:40
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TJACK:
Please excuse me if I was rude! I just hate FOX!
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Originally posted by GWEK:
I like The Inside, but still have mixed feelings on it. Lot of potential, good cast, etc, but it hasn't quite come together for me yet.
That has been my feeling on it as well. I think they need to focus on the team aspect. That to me means making Adam's character more 3-D. I feel nothing for any of the characters and that is not something that lends me to watching for long.
TANSTAAFL
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Let's see, there's our beloved Firefly, then there's of course Family Guy, and Futurama, and Dark Angel, and what else? Arrested Development is hanging by its fingernails. I know there's more...
Try Sliders, The Adventures of Brisco County Jr, and Kindred: the Embraced.
It's become very hard for me to get into shows these days, because the ones I get into almost always end up getting cancelled.
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Newbie here so please be gentle.
Just wanted to respond to "What is wrong with Fox".
The problem is with broadcast tv. In any company, their product is what they produces and their customers are the ones who pay for it. So how does that work for tv? Who are Fox's customers and what is their product? The correct answer is not viewers and shows, the bills are paid by the SPONSERS. They are Fox's customers. What Fox supplies to them (their product) are us - the viewers. Fox and all the broadcast networks are just trying to supply the most product at the least cost.
Now before I get jumped for seeming to take Fox's side, let me say that I'm two years older than 'Forbidden Planet' and Firefly is the best I've seen on TV! Who know, maybe one of the subscription channels (HBO, Showtime, etc - where we are the customers) will see the dvd sales and the tremendous box office of the movie and get interested...
fivver
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Let's not forget TRU Calling (I loveEliza!)
FOX has killedmore good shows than any three other networks combined! I wish they would get a clue!
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Originally posted by fivver:
Newbie here so please be gentle.
Just wanted to respond to "What is wrong with Fox".
The problem is with broadcast tv. In any company, their product is what they produces and their customers are the ones who pay for it. So how does that work for tv? Who are Fox's customers and what is their product? The correct answer is not viewers and shows, the bills are paid by the SPONSERS. They are Fox's customers. What Fox supplies to them (their product) are us - the viewers. Fox and all the broadcast networks are just trying to supply the most product at the least cost.
Now before I get jumped for seeming to take Fox's side, let me say that I'm two years older than 'Forbidden Planet' and Firefly is the best I've seen on TV! Who know, maybe one of the subscription channels (HBO, Showtime, etc - where we are the customers) will see the dvd sales and the tremendous box office of the movie and get interested...
fivver
DUDE,
If you are 2 years older that means that you were born in 1954! YIKES!
Just pulling your leg! I am glad to see that those students of the "Old School"
love Firefly! 
WELCOME ABOARD FIVVER!
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How could we forget WONDERFALLS???
Fox has killed more things that I love than, well anything. Fox murders the shows I love. I'm still shocked Arrested Development hasn't been moved to the Friday night death slot.
Dark Angel, Wonderfalls, Firefly, Tru Calling, all these deaths turned me off from Fox. I am awaiting The Inside's innevitable death (and although the show is okay, they really need to come up with more plots than Rebecca gets abducted, Rebecca knows everything about evil, Ryan wants to save her from Webb, and Adam Baldwin and Katie Finneran are around only to look good in photos and to say the occasional funny or serious thing). Although I am thinking that much like the WB regrets having killed Angel, I am pretty sure that Fox has started to learn its lesson after the huge upsets they caused when cancelling Firefly, Wonderfalls and most recently Tru Calling. You can't constantly trash your viewing audience by sucking them in and throwing them out and expect them to keep coming back for more.
Some of the best 'classic' TV wouldn't last 5 minutes on TV with the way ratings are done now (which is wholly innacurate and from which they must find a new way to do it. With all the digital cable out there now don't tell me they can't track what people are watching. The Neilson standard is badly flawed and under represents the viewing audience of today), X-Files, Buffy, Angel, Dark Angel, Roswell none of these shows would have gotten through their first season today, and that's just sad. Thank god for Lost cos it brought networks to realize you can make is supernatural and people will still flock to it like no ones business. Thanks ABC for taking a chance!
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Inara: "Do aliens live among us?"
Kaylee: "Yes. One of them's a doctor."
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Originally posted by BlackEyedGirl:
How could we forget WONDERFALLS???
Fox has killed more things that I love than, well anything. Fox murders the shows I love. I'm still shocked Arrested Development hasn't been moved to the Friday night death slot.
Dark Angel, Wonderfalls, Firefly, Tru Calling, all these deaths turned me off from Fox. I am awaiting The Inside's innevitable death (and although the show is okay, they really need to come up with more plots than Rebecca gets abducted, Rebecca knows everything about evil, Ryan wants to save her from Webb, and Adam Baldwin and Katie Finneran are around only to look good in photos and to say the occasional funny or serious thing). Although I am thinking that much like the WB regrets having killed Angel, I am pretty sure that Fox has started to learn its lesson after the huge upsets they caused when cancelling Firefly, Wonderfalls and most recently Tru Calling. You can't constantly trash your viewing audience by sucking them in and throwing them out and expect them to keep coming back for more.
Some of the best 'classic' TV wouldn't last 5 minutes on TV with the way ratings are done now (which is wholly innacurate and from which they must find a new way to do it. With all the digital cable out there now don't tell me they can't track what people are watching. The Neilson standard is badly flawed and under represents the viewing audience of today), X-Files, Buffy, Angel, Dark Angel, Roswell none of these shows would have gotten through their first season today, and that's just sad. Thank god for Lost cos it brought networks to realize you can make is supernatural and people will still flock to it like no ones business. Thanks ABC for taking a chance!
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Inara: "Do aliens live among us?"
Kaylee: "Yes. One of them's a doctor."
OMG Wonderfalls was GREAT! It was very original and funny! Why do the good die so young on FOX?
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No. The real problem with Fox (not the TV network) is what they've done to X3. Whoever wrote that script needs to die painfully... [not really but you get the point].
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What's wrong with Fox? Demon possession.
NY/NJ Browncoats: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firefly_nyc
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