Good news for B5 fans...and potential good news for future Firefly episodes???

POSTED BY: HanoverFist
UPDATED: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 21:20
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CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 6:00 PM

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Seems like you just took the sky from yourself.

Nah, I just don't see the point in getting excited every time some other show gets something cool. Like I said, even if this *rumor* (I'll get to that in a sec) is true, it means absolutely nothing in regards to Firefly. It's not like direct-to-DVD is some new idea that no one ever heard of before JMS (supposedly) decided to try it out. I have a hard time believing that the idea has never crossed Joss's mind. But for whatever reason, Joss is working on other things right now. What happens with B5 or Stargate or any other show, and what happened with Star Trek has no bearing on what will happen with Firefly. I know people don't like to hear that, but it's the truth.

Look, you can't expect this to work logically. TV execs do not think logically, and they don't count to ten the same way the rest of the world does. Just because the WB greenlights a B5 direct-to-DVD series doesn't mean that Fox is suddenly going to come around. The situations are each unique, and each totally and completely unrelated to the other.

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Second this is from JMS himself, so I am sure it is more than mere rumor.

No, the *rumor* is that JMS said it. There's been nothing to back that up. If he *had* said it, wouldn't there be tons of fan postings about it all over the internet? He supposedly said it at a panel at Comic Con, right? There was more than one other person in the room when he said it, yes? When something is reported in one or two places but not mentioned anywhere else, that's a big reason to be suspicious of it. I mean, if Joss said that Firefly was going to be continued in a direct-to-DVD format, while sitting on a panel at Comic Con last week, don't you think that news would be everywhere by now? And yet JMS supposedly says something this big to a room full of fans, and no one is posting about it?

Now I haven't done a lot of looking around on my own, so maybe this story is being talked about on B5 boards now, even though it hadn't been when the AICN article was posted yesterday. I fully admit that this rumor might be true, and if it is, great. I honestly don't really care either way, not being that big of a fan of B5. And since what happens with B5 has no effect on what happens with Firefly, the truth behind this story really means nothing to me.

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Third, one can always hope, right.

I'm not saying not to hope. I'm just saying that jumping up and down and proclaiming good things for Firefly every time some other scifi show gets something is perhaps not the best use of one's energy.

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Many thought there would never be a movie. Then Serenity happened. Star Trek was off the air for a long time before the first movie was even made.

The latter has no bearing on the former.

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Now it seems that the idea championed by many for Firefly (episodic content direct to DVD) will be happening for B5. I do not think it is out of bounds of reality to hope that this will happen for Firefly in the next 5 years or so (especially as digital content distribtion ramps up and distribution costs go down).

Well I guess that's where we differ. I wouldn't say that it's out of the bounds of reality for Firefly to come back in a direct-to-DVD format, but I do think it's highly unlikely. Joss has several other projects lined up, and he doesn't seem quite as obsessed with Firefly as all of us here are. Why would he take himself out of the Hollywood mainstream to do direct-to-DVD development for a small audience? Why would he do that, when he's got projects like Wonder Woman and Goners on the horizon?

It's not that I don't think that there's a future for Firefly. Like every other Browncoat, I want more of the 'Verse. But I think there are things that are more likely to happen, and things that are very unlikely. Why expend energy getting excited about what happens with other shows, when that has no effect on what happens with Firefly, *and* has very little chance of happe

PAGANPAUL

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 9:20 PM

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Originally posted by ThePistonEngine:
I could deal with the bad acting, since it was obviously a low-budget film (Andreas Katsulas was awesome, as usual). I could even deal with the rediculous concept of the Rangers being forbidded to retreat, even though (originally) they were a intelligence and reconassaince group, not a engagement force. I could even stomach the "diplomats" started bitching after they got saved, which was way over the top. But who the hell, I mean, what pimply-faced snot-nosed hasn't-showered-since-kindergarten testicle-shrunken retard came up with the combat system.

Please, don't hold back. Tell us what you really think...

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