Give Up Now (And Avoid The Rush).

POSTED BY: RocketJock
UPDATED: Thursday, October 13, 2005 16:49
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DREAMTROVE

Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:14 AM

CLJ - no reason to be ashamed of star wars production, it's an awesome production. The only person who should be a little ashamed is lucas for his arrogance that he can write better than his writers, and the star wars heads who go and blast everyone else into oblivion for liking something else. I didn't see the holiday special.

Anwyay

The number one goal has to be to win new converts. True addicts. People who want to have sex with River. Um no, sorry, that just slipped out. People who can't live without their Joss. People like me who have everything he ever does on DVD, which probably includes all of your.

It will spread like a disease until every intelligent mind is infected. It's happened with buffy. More that 1/2 the buffy fans I know never saw a single ep until after it was cancelled. And I know a lot of fans.

I got another one of my friends to watch it today, lent him my DVDs and then pinged his computer endlessly until he got off and started watching. I think he's hooked.

It doesn't matter, the hair will still be there.

CLJOHNSTON108

Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:35 AM

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
CLJ - no reason to be ashamed of star wars production, it's an awesome production. The only person who should be a little ashamed is lucas for his arrogance that he can write better than his writers, and the star wars heads who go and blast everyone else into oblivion for liking something else. I didn't see the holiday special.

http://www.starwarsholidayspecial.com/
http://www.stomptokyo.com/movies/star-wars-holiday-special.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0193524/
http://www.ohthehumanity.com/review.php3?ID=411
http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/tv/feature/2000/12/05/star_wars_tv/?sid
=1000756
http://www.lucasfan.com/swtv/index2.html

Rita Scott and Ken & Mitzie Welch were my Dad's pals (and my Dad had done a LOT of work for Smith/Hemion Productions).

LADYBLUE

Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:41 AM

Sorry Dude - there are 14 Firefly eps.

1) Serenity - Parts 1&2
2) The Train Job
3) Bushwacked
4) Shindig
5) Safe
6) Our Mrs. Reynolds
7) Jaynestown
8) Out of Gas
9) Ariel
10) War Stories
11) Trash
12) The Message
13) Heart of Gold
14) Objects in Space

MOOSE

Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:50 AM

You listed "Out of Gas" twice.

Just kidding...Yep, 14 eps total.

11 aired on FOX, 3 more released on the DVD set.

As for giving up....NO!

ROCKETJOCK

Thursday, October 13, 2005 1:14 AM

Oops.

Umm; don't suppose I could pass this off as being a deliberate mistake in the spirit of the rest of my original post...

Nah, didn't think so.

"One, two, five..." -- Arthur, Rex

CALLIOPE79

Thursday, October 13, 2005 2:21 AM

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Originally posted by RocketJock:
Ah. And, ah, is it a runaway hit?

No? AHA! That's it! If it isn't a runaway Star Wars style overhyped blockbuster hit right out of the gate, then it's all done, poof, Game Over Man! Absolute proof that we need to surrender now, Now, NOW!...

Y'know, I'm beginning to think that none of you are listening...

Damn straight we aren't listening!!

I've loved shows before, but Firefly is 'the One'. I've never cared more about the characters, the universe they live in, or been as vocal a fan as I am now... to the point that I've been called a geek fairly often in the recent past (which I don't take offense to at all)! I didn't give up on Firefly before and I'm certainly not giving up on Serenity now. Browncoats don't lay down without a good, honest fight... and even then, they never let go

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Thursday, October 13, 2005 2:31 AM

Speaking as a relatively new browncoat, and all around SciFi fan... I think there might be a chance for Firefly. SciFi picked up the show on it's Friday Night Prime run (thats how I first saw Firefly, fell in love within watching Serenity part 1&2). Scifi channel has been known for reviving and running many series that probably wouldn't have lasted as long anywhere else (al la Farscape anyone?).

But as it has been repeated on this thread, it's getting numbers to start going for the series. I ended up helping bring in two more people into the series, one through the 11 hour scifi marathon (my box set wasn't in yet, thank you SciFi) and one through the movie. And every day I'm telling more people about watching the movie while it's out, and four of us are talking to groups of people to try to have a massive firefly marathon. If nothing else, it gives a bunch of us college students to do one weekend, and possibly make the fanbase grow.

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Ah. And, ah, is it a runaway hit?

No? AHA! That's it! If it isn't a runaway Star Wars style overhyped blockbuster hit right out of the gate, then it's all done, poof, Game Over Man! Absolute proof that we need to surrender now, Now, NOW!...

Plus, as someone I was telling about the movie to mentioned, Serenity/Firefly sounded like Star Wars when it FIRST came out... it began a small fan base, that grew to epic proportions. So really, when Star Wars first came out, it didn't hit right out of the gates, just a group of people hung onto three movies with a passion that led to becoming one of the biggest fanbases around.

So the lesson here, if we try to keep it afloat instead of allowing the boat to sink, there might be a chance that this could be the little Firefly that could.

DREAMTROVE

Thursday, October 13, 2005 2:41 AM

CLJ:

Good God. This isn't a hoax, is it? Does MST3K know about this? Where can I get a copy? I see amazon has space for a listing but there are none for sale. I'm not a huge fan, a passive observer of the once great, well okay. I wasn't called when the remaster baited out all the star wars junkies. But I'm game for the old rotten tomato fest. It's always fun to pop in a Troma Team movie or Full Moon, and comment all the way through. I used to throw Mst4k parties where we would Mst3k stuff. Anyway, this looks perfect for it.

Anyway, I'm sure productionwise it will be fine. I can imagine though, CBS holiday specials crossed with lucas dialog? It's got to be like Roger Corman doing Mr. Rogers.

I'll put on the Star Wars Holiday Special. That oughtta distract 'em.

SIGGGY

Thursday, October 13, 2005 2:47 AM

I think they release DVDs quickly to hit whilst the cinema marketing is still in people's minds and they don't need to re-advertise as much to re bulid awareness. The release date near Christmas is the best time as then many get sent out or bought as presents, before everyone hurting from emptying their pockets and credit stops bying post Cristms. I can't wait for the DVD but nothing beats seeing this type of movie on the big screen. Love Star Wars too if thats relevant.

GGIII

Thursday, October 13, 2005 2:51 AM

Hopefully Scifi will pick Firefly up. As was posted earlier, they're going to need a new staple show since SG1 is breathing it's last (I'll be sad to see you go, SG1, but it's time to say goodbye.) and SG:A is... dissapointing.

Only time will tell. I just hope the Fox execs are meeting an Operative or two as we speak.

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