ITS TIME! Post How much you would personally give to Joss Whedon & Co. to get our Ship in the air AGAIN!
POSTED BY: TheAntiReaver
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 15:19
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Ya know gang. This has been attempted more than once in the past. Always with the underrepresented SciFi community. The most recent attempt to pool together money to revive a show was for Star Trek Enterprise. The show was doomed because Berman and Braga had kill orders (plus they hated the genre and the fanbase).
It was a noble effort, and managed to scrape together 3 million dollars and some change. And those were REAL committed donations. Not just posted commitments from anonymous people. Nowhere near the 40 million dollars per year production budget for Enterprise.
I have no clue how it's possible to piss away 40 mil in a year making 20+ eps of a show with a handful of main cast and a ton of extras. The sets were built, CGI is becoming less expensive to make, Somehow they manage to do it.
Suffice it to say, the studios saw the fans were rising up to bring back a show most of them regarded as mediocre and misguided for the first 3 of it's 4 years on TV, and they brought in attorneys and squashed it.
End of story.
Even if you were serious about mounting an effort to raise funds for the show, the war is lost before the battle has even begun. Firefly had kill orders from the word "go". Spend your pledge money on TV Ep DVDs and the movie DVDs. Those numbers will count 100X more.
XG
No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.
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Don’t be a spoil sport I say we keep this going and see how much money we can get together. I don’t think making a pledge will stop people from buying the DVDs. At the very least where making a statement. Though is still say we should be getting money together to make a bid of the TV rights. Since none of us care about profit we could sell them to HBO or Sci-Fi at a loss and then let them worry about the production cost.
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Who do you suppose is in there?
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Even if it doesn't work how we want it to, at the very least it give a little more clout to Anitreaver's efforts to make our voices heard. If all that comes of it is that it catches TPTB's attention, then its something. Ain't nothin' gonna come of us keepin' quiet!
And, as Tesco say, every little helps.
As far as the current DVDs go, we're all gonna buy them anyway, this is just a little extra :)
My mama made it!
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That's real shiny. I'd cough up $100 just for a new pilot episode. $500 for an entire season. I am just so sick of formulaic TV shows and FireFly was definitely not one of them. If I could do my part to just give this show another chance I would do it. But if it was on Fox half what I put up there because some of the Best shows I have ever seen were canceled from the death night time slots, friday any time and thursday 9pm. Wonderfalls(My favorite show ever!!), John Doe, Dark Angel, Point Pleasant(Produced by Marti Noxon a friend of Joss I believe),Brisco County Jr., and many others. I hope this helps.
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I would give $100 per season--more if I could manage it. Won't stop me buying DVDs, tickets, CDs, comic books, novelizations and whatever else I can get my hands on (legally!). Unrealistic? Probably. But I ain't a big fan of reality to begin with. Intentions, gestures, community, solidarity...yeah, they still count for something.
JingTsai
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Personally? I would front $200 for the first season, $100 for each additional season (and I'd buy the DVDs). This goes for TV movie too. I am a very very poor state employee, but I spend a lot of quality time with my TV so it's worth every cent to me.
Also I could easily get another $300-500 from friends and family I have hooked.
In total: Put me and mine down for $600 for the first season. (and we will all buy the DVDs)
To all you trolls who are all 'I've already spent plenty on Joss' I have this to say: Bite me. I've spent thousands of dollars on Joss related projects and I will continue to because I love the work, I love the 'verses he creates and I respect him as an artist. I've also spent hundreds of dollars on shows related to his series (Tim Minear's constantly cancelled series, David Fury's Lost, even stupid Marti Noxon's Point Pleasant).
Love May Keep Her in the Air, But Money Get's Her Fueled!
Yeah $600 from us, we can totally do this!!
EDIT: BTW: Totally put up a post on the TV.com Firefly forums! http://www.tv.com/firefly/show/7097/forums.html
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You're not going to buy rights from anyone with any amount of money you raise. Period.
The fix is in, and this is just a repeat of what has already been done for "the original" Star Trek (TOS ~ it actually succeeded the first time), Battlestar Galactica (sorry "Mormons in Space" got the kill order, but we'll bring back a very PC version of it later, scifi people need a sleeping pill), Stargate (movie was nice, TV show was great till MacGyver got tired), etcetera.
The fate of scifi is prewritten by the great god of hollywood, Monopolis. Hear our prayers Monopolis. Take our humble tithes, and let our devotions be struck down and rejected by your attorneys. Just make sure it gets great press. Let the delphian oracle at "Entertainment Tonight" spread the word. We rose, you responded. We submitted (wtg Pavlov).
XG ~ "did he live with passion?"
-AynchuntGreex
No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.
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Well if it were a full say 20 episode season, i'd say maybe £50.
I love to help make this a reality but somethnig like £100 for 1 season is too high. Compare it to other DVD box set prices, like 24, was selling for £45-£50. Think stargate SG1 series sell for about £35-£50.
I'd prefer to pay something like £35 quid but if it was a difference between not getting it and getting it i'd be more than willing to pay £50.
BRING BACK FIREFLY!
"if the stone hits the glass or the glass hits the stone, it ain't the stone thats gona get hurt!"
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I'm a new fan since the movie, I didn't have the chance to see the series on TV until recently. But I love the show and movie and I am willing to pledge $250 for start up costs and $250 per season.
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Put me down for $500 a season. More if I could figure out how to make it a tax write off 
Ellen
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