Maybe it's Good that Firefly Ended...

POSTED BY: Lance
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 11:32
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KAYNA

Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:29 PM

I don't agree at all. I've been a browncoat going on three years now and I'm still upset by the way it just stopped. I liked the movie but it just didn't have the impact on me that the show did. I agree that often long running shows go down the crapper but I would have liked a run of about two or three years with a nice series finaly. Most of my favorite shows lasted only four at the most. Most of the other shows that I called favorites at one time lost that status when they started to suck around the third or fourth season.

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Op: You're fighting a war you've already lost.
Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.

JMBROCK

Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:34 PM

While I am glad to have what little exposure to the 'Verse that I have had, I fervently wish for more. It's like a book that stops right when things start to pick up. Joss has stories to tell (he's said so himself) and there's so much room before the BDM (which I agree has a certain sense of acceptable finality to it). There has to be SOMETHING. Star Trek waited a decade for more, and TNG is fervently argued back and forth in regards to its status above or below the original series (it was just that good, apparently). It's been five years for us.

They just don't make movies out of failed series. There has to be something else. It's just too good to die.

KAYLEEGIRL

Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:35 PM

To be truthsome, I think that we wouldn't truly be Browncoats if the series was still on the air. It's hard to accept that the original series is over, that it ended in such a way, such a betrayal -- which puts us squarely where Mal and Zoe were after the war and makes us mighty. (Showing the premiere episode as the last aired episode! What network in their right mind does something like...oh, right.) The world we loved was lost but we keep going out here in the black. We don't give up, take what's worthy and keep it alive in whatever way we can.

That said, if it had been on for two or three or five years, I believe the twists and turns would have amazed us. Think of all the new directions that Buffy and Angel took through their runs. We writers of fanfic can come up with some good plots based on Firefly that was, we can think of surprising and shocking twists but it still ain't what Whendon would have done! What a loss!

I, for one, am not ready to give up hope on seeing another series set in the Firefly verse. (Maybe something based on River? Ubergirl-killing machines and their noble adventures and failed love affairs. That's something a network might buy because it's tried and true Whedon territory. But would he do it...) I wish there was going to be more than just graphic novels in the meanwhile though. (Those just aren't doing it for me. Pretty weak compared to the series. Sorry, JW!)

If I'm gonna dream, I'm gonna dream big.

JMBROCK

Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:41 PM

Also, Orson Scott Card, undisputed Master of Modern Popular Science Fiction, called it (through his interview of "Done the Impossible", "some of the best, most intelligent, and most emotionally compelling storytelling there is."

OSC Himself. The guy who wrote Ender's Game. One of the most amazing modern SciFi authors I have ever read, likes it. There's too much going for it, I think, for it to die.

JEANDASK

Tuesday, April 10, 2007 11:13 PM

Indeed just to see were Joss would go with it would be exciting! we know the charactors well but he is the charactors, How does he want them to b revealed!?

Never thought of our battle being the same as zoe and Mals, Iknow we are brown coats and all that but it just hit me, I was watchin the most amazing siries ever, Mal was listenin to the sound of (what he thought to be angels) rescue ships, My dad comes home and explains to me there is no more...ever, Zoe says " they're not comin,say it's to hot, We're to lay down arms" and He stands up to see The alience desroy the vally... We are the same, Huh well then we better fight as hard as they do, may just find myself an alience friendly bar on U day

How come things never go smooth

TWEAKERLIME

Tuesday, April 10, 2007 11:19 PM

Yeah, it would be interesting to see more, but then again that could pose another issue. If we were to see more we would most likely have such high expectations that it would be under heavy criticism if the later episodes were different from the originals

JMBROCK

Wednesday, April 11, 2007 1:23 AM

I don't think so. Sure, some of us might, but I for one will just be so happy that there's actually MORE that I'd be grateful for anything Joss churns out...even though it's more or less guaranteed to be entertaining at the very least.

KAIN

Wednesday, April 11, 2007 3:39 AM

Battlestar Galactica, now entering it's 4th season, is still good. But I think the fact that we fought for Serenity and GOT IT is a tie that binds. This community of fans is different from any I've heard of or encountered. The small battles like Flan 2, which I am a veteran of, make me love the Browncoats even more. ALL BROWNCOATS, the ones on-screen as well as off. Best cast, best fans. Anyone I've told about Firefly and my experiences with cast and fans come to believe it too (Jedi mind trick!) just kiddin', no tricks needed to see the greatness that is the 'verse!

Kain

JPSTARGAZER

Wednesday, April 11, 2007 4:21 AM

Well, I for one regrettably didn't see Serenity or Firefly until the BDM came out on DVD. So, despite never fighting for the movie to be made, I still feel a bond with everyone here. So I don't think it was just the fight, there's something more that brings us together. I think it's just the fact that the show is SO great all-around that I'm compelled not only to talk to others who have seen it but to those that haven't about it. I think I'd still be doing that if I was in the middle of watching Firefly Season 3.

I understand that the premature "end" of the series was a factor in Browncoat history, but I wouldn't say the strength of Browncoats today and the continuation of the show are mutually exclusive. I don't think I'd be risking where we're at now by saying I wished there was more of the show.

"All I got is a red guitar, three chords, and the truth...the rest is up to you"
--Bono

BLINDOUTLAW

Wednesday, April 11, 2007 6:12 AM

I've got some fixed feelings bout it.

On the one hand in pissed cause such a good show was taken off so early, before it could really get itself going.

However if it did keep going i'll miss this, the guerilla marketing, the fan loyalty. How we don't get Firefly/Serenity spoon fed to us, we have to earn it. Plus if Firefly kept going we wouldn't have our BDM and that has converted many new Browncoats by introducing them to the 'verse.

We got something special and i wouldn't trade this in.

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Currently wondering what the future holds for this Aussie lad. Waiting for the wind to blow me in the direction I need to be.

In the mean time, lets be bad guys

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