Unshot Episodes

POSTED BY: MalsNara
UPDATED: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 18:35
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MALSNARA

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 5:49 PM

I agree with Grizwald. Yeah it was kinda like The Message but we did learn a lot of new stuff and it was much darker than The Message really as Tracy hadn't really changed that much fromt he guy Mal knew in the war. Plus the Simon thing made it much better!

So back to the dragging Firefly out of the vault - does anybody know what the likelihood of that happening is? Especially if we asked them all polite like? :)

KWICKO

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 6:35 PM

At a guess, I'd say no one is in a hurry to pull Firefly out of the vault just now. Hurts me to say it, but I can't see it any other way.

Networks are running out of shows, that's true. BUT - there are still shows out there that are (a) more recent, and (b) more easily continued if the audience were found. F'r instance, NBC has this little show called "The Black Donnellys" that aired to much critical acclaim, and an entire 13-ep season was filmed and in the can. However, ratings for the show sucked, and it was pulled out of NBC's schedule after only six episodes aired. If NBC were desperate enough, they could pull it back out and air it, complete and in order, and it might pull SOME ratings.

Ditto a little show they had called "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip", except that they actually finished airing the entire season before they pulled the plug and put it under wraps. Both shows were killed in the last 12 to 18 months, though, so they could theoretically be brought back to life without too much trouble.

Realistically, I'm afraid that Firefly might be TOO good for the networks to take a chance on now. Picture it: Fox re-airs Firefly, to monster ratings; it's a smash hit, only it's too late - Nathan, Jewel, Summer, and Adam all have moved on to full-time gigs on other shows. What now? How to continue if ratings DEMANDED a new season and a resurrection of the 'Verse?

Crazy as it sounds, that's probably a network exec's version of the "worst-case scenario" - not that the show bombs its second time around (which would vindicate the original idiots who cancelled it), but that it becomes the breakout hit that they can't continue!

Just thinkin' out loud...

Mike

Sweeping generalizations are always wrong!

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