Afraid to love this show

POSTED BY: bugdog
UPDATED: Tuesday, October 8, 2002 16:25
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BUGDOG

Tuesday, October 1, 2002 2:00 AM

Fox kills shows I really love. Can't live without Greg the Bunny, yet it's gone all the same.

So, I've decided to watch every episode of Firefly so I can hate it properly. Maybe if I hate it enough it won't get cancelled!

So that said, I love (er, I mean HATE) this show. I got the pilot off of IMesh this morning and I'm sitting here at work watching it.

I wish it were better quality, but hey, the sound is good and that's half the battle.

~bugdog

LIVINGIMPAIRED

Tuesday, October 1, 2002 3:13 PM

What work do you do that you can sit around and watch scifi all day? 'Cause I want your job.

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"You still don't get it. It's not about right, not about wrong... It's about Power." —Morph-O-Monster, "Lessons"

BUGDOG

Tuesday, October 1, 2002 11:41 PM

Basically I man the phones between 7pm and 7am Friday thru Monday night for a really big computer company. The help desk is technically closed after midnight, so I get to decide how business critical a help desk call is and if I'm going to fix the problem or it will wait until 7am. In addition to that, I make sure major issues get fixed within their SLA (service level agreement) time. I get to wake up all sorts of people who make more money than I do and put them to work.
Of course, the really cool part is that I get maybe two calls a night. I'm there as insurance against the next Code Red or when mail servers die. Yeah, the NOC might be there too, but the help desk almost always gets the first calls denoting big trouble.

I installed a DVD player and a good video card in my second PC at work and spend most of my nights watching movies and things I've downloaded online. It's a great job... but I'm a contractor and my lease (so to speak) is up soon. This is the second time they've called me back (you can only work for a year at this place then they force you to take off 100 days before re-hiring you - stupid, stupid policy)

~bugdog (who really enjoyed the pilot)

ZICSOFT

Wednesday, October 2, 2002 5:15 PM

If they really need you on a permanent basis, they should offer you a proper job. Reliance on contractors for this kind of job is a sign of inept managers who don't know how to make a business case for permanent staffing. The 100-day thing is obviously meant to prevent this -- and just as obviously doesn't work.

I contracted in one place that had a rule against used contractors for more than six months. But of course, exceptions to this rule were the rule. So the only effect was that I had to get a new badge photo every six months. Stupid.

About goofing off at work. I do my share -- games, online movies, etc. And of course, online scmoozing! My boss knows I do this. But she also knows I pull long hours and work hard. And she's smart enough to know that she can get more out of me if she forces me to set goals and stick to them, than if she babysits me all the time. Were that all bosses that smart!

JOSS, WHERE'S MY CHECK???!!!

WILLIAM

Friday, October 4, 2002 3:31 PM

Fox will cancel it soon...Not !

Fox will cancel it after the second season... Yes !

Fox has a thing about cancelling shows when the show is at it's peak. They'll make some excuse like the ratings although maintaining aren't increasing, then they'll bring in a new show and like before put it at the Dead Slot Friday and expect it to do really well.

One thing is confirmed... FOX don't really know how to schedule shows, promote shows and have faith in shows.

Dark Angel is a great example.

ZICSOFT

Friday, October 4, 2002 6:04 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by William:

One thing is confirmed... FOX don't really know how to schedule shows, promote shows and have faith in shows.

Which makes them exactly like all the other TV networks. The people who run them would rather walk to work naked than take any real risks with programming. The only mystery is that interesting, original programming gets any air time at all.

JOSS, WHERE'S MY CHECK???!!!

KAYLEE

Friday, October 4, 2002 8:26 PM

I less than 30 minutes ago just watched 'The Train Job' being in the UK. I am in LOVE with this show. I alway's thought it would be a show i watched, just because it's from Joss Whedon (my idol). But, this show is great. I luv it, and i've only seen one episode. I haven't felt this way about a pilot since, this little show, you guy's probably haven't heard of, apparently some girl slays Vampires *wacky*.

I remember watching the little clips on yahoo and thinking, this handheld camera thing is going to piss me off through the whole episode. It didn't. Infact, it only improved the episode. Mal's great, hate Jayne! Hate him. Book could be interesting and Kaylee is just so damn cute.

Can't wait to download 'Bushwacked'.

ZICSOFT

Friday, October 4, 2002 11:06 PM

Don't you just love the internet? If it went away, I'd just have to kill myself!

If you liked "The Train Job" you'll like the eps you haven't seen yet even better. TTJ is a good ep, but it's a long way from the best of the eps of seen.

Note that TTJ is not the pilot, it's just the first ep broadcast. The pilot episode, "Serenity" has never been broadcast, though a bad-quality bootleg is making the rounds of the net. It's very, very good, and I'm hoping that when they finish retooling it to satisfy the network, it'll still be good enough to blow your socks off. Supposedly it will air in a couple of months.

JOSS, WHERE'S MY CHECK???!!!

KAYLEE

Saturday, October 5, 2002 10:57 AM

We'll it technically is the pilot. But i know of 'Serenity' and all that. I'm already a complete Firefly geek, (not that I'm a geek

I just think the Train job was amazing and i pray that today's ratings are an improvement

ZICSOFT

Saturday, October 5, 2002 7:07 PM

Excuse my nitpicking. It's just that a pilot is a sort of test episode. It's not necessarily the first ep shown. Star Trek TOS had two pilots. One was never shown at all. The other (Where No Man Has Gone Before) was shown as the fourth episode.

JOSS, WHERE'S MY CHECK???!!!

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