Possible Airing of Firefly Prior to Movie by Sci Fi Channel?
POSTED BY: mo1962
UPDATED: Monday, December 13, 2004 20:39
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And of course they won't be silly and show them out of order like they did in Australia, right?
Of course not! We'll show Fox!
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Originally posted by Malicious:
PMR,
Well, I'm doing all that as well (actually, MY slippers are sapphire), but I didn't want anyone to think I was WEIRD or something.
Mal-licious
Co-Holder of the Red Bell from Hell
Congratulations, Mal!! You've hijacked another thread!!!
What's your streak for consecutive threads hijacked up to now?
--Jefé The Hat
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--Don't bother trying to predict, figure out, second guess, criticize, or suggest anything that comes from the mind of Joss Whedon, for you shall usually be wrong, and shall find out the Truth and Purpose in due time.
(This is the Truth of Whedoning)
"I like smackin 'em"--Jayne
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And of course they won't be silly and show them out of order like they did in Australia, right?
Of course not! We'll show Fox!
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Seriously though, Sarge:
Can you imagine how glorious it would feel -- if only for a 12-week period -- to have Firefly back on TV? Even episodes we know by heart, interrupted by those damned, inane, beautiful commercials every five minutes?
For an hour a week, we could pretend that there was justice in the world, that beauty and good (as embodied by Mal-Licious) actually prevail, instead of sloth and ignorance and Mammon. For an hour a week, it would be as though Firefly never left us...
I, for one, would be in Heaven, simply from the feeling of wellness I'd get. Just try wiping the puerile grin from my face.
...Oh, and it'd make good business sense, too. Tie-ins, ya-da, advertising, ya-da, ya-da, New Entertainment Model... Mustn't let the bean-counters get the idea that this isn't about money; and only about Art and what's right.
That'd never do.
Realistically (...okay, 'Cynically'),
zoid
P.S.
In the meantime, let's get somebody on the case, finding out how to become a Nielsen household. Then we can all try to meet the requirements. I figure if we can get 10 of us signed up, that should equate to a couple of hundred thousand 'households'. Then when we all watch "Firefly On SciFi" (TM) this summer, we can blow away every other show in its time slot. That should turn some heads. ...Then, if we could just get the "space monkeys" of Project Mayhem some janitorial and night-watchmen's jobs at F*x...
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Narrator: Clean food, please.
Waiter: In that case, sir, may I advise against the lady eating clam chowder?
Narrator: No clam chowder, thank you.
-- Or, for the Firefly stickler --
Narrator: When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks. (...The BlueSun Alliance)
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Oh Malicious, I don't want to give you the false impression that I may have been chortling at YOU! Heavens no! It's just that I had heard something funny..totally unrelated..yeah, that's it...that made me laugh as I was posting. Honest, that's it. Really. Forgot what it was right now, might have been something related to Monastic humor, but I'm not sure anymore.
::::looks up over sunglasses at Malicious, w/ sincere, John Belushi from Blues Brothers look on face ::::::
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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Ah, but which voiceover will they use? I mean, just think - we get to record the VOICEOVER again! Things we miss with the DVD's...will they use Book first, and switch to Mal, like with Fox?
Better yet: how much would it cost them to do a NEW voiceover...no video...just a voice for a little while...and get this - they could literally advertise Serenity somewhere in there (you'd get it on tape!), and they could even weave in a scene or two in the opening credits if they really wanted to...and they could air the unaired episodes!
*Forrestwolf tries very hard to stop salivating at this, given the poor odds...*
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Forrestwolf:
Keep salivating, brother. I get a very good feeling about this one. I think it's gonna happen.
I don't know about Firefly returning to TV with new episodes -- that's a different deal with the F*xheads. But we should be able to get everything that's on the DVD, including the special features, as well as new material from the BDM: trailers, behind-the-scenes looks, and cast and crew interviews, when "Firefly On SciFI" (TM) kicks off around July timeframe.
Don't anybody wet themselves. This ain't even rumor-quality speculation. But if I were in VU's war council, this is exactly how I'd do it: I'd probably show the 2-hour pilot on NBC on a Monday at 8PM EDT. I'd have some 10-second spots throughout promoting the rest of the series on Tuesdays at 9PM EDT on SciFi; that way viewers know they can get their next 'fix' the following night on basic(?) cable. Each Tuesday, you could do an episode of the show, and follow up with taped interviews, 'making of' the series and movie, et cetera. I get the distinct impression that you could just interview Joss for 6 hours (12 30-min chats over footage) about his various works and people would tune in for that alone.
If the movie's as good as I think it's gonna be -- and JW assures us it is -- I could have the whole nation losing its friggin' mind by the time the BDM comes out. If the movie somehow sucks, on the other hand, I'd be swimming for Bora Bora before the mob got their hands on me. Ever seen "The Day of the Locust"? I don't want anyone pulling a Homer Simpson (played by Donald Sutherland, I kid you not) on my a$$...
Promotionally,
zoid
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Originally posted by BadgersHat:
Congratulations, Mal!! You've hijacked another thread!!!What's your streak for consecutive threads hijacked up to now?
Jefe,
If you read more carefully, you will first notice that my original post was ON TOPIC. Secondly, you will find that it was PUMAMANREDUX who actually CHANGED THE TOPIC and that I was just GOING ALONG FOR HIS SAKE. And then AURaptor joined in and the game was afoot.
So there. (
)Mal-licious
Co-Holder of the Red Bell from Hell
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
::::looks up over sunglasses at Malicious, w/ sincere, John Belushi from Blues Brothers look on face ::::::
Awwww! You are totally forgiven! Ummmm, unless it's that "How much for yor wimmin?" look. If so, then "bite me."
Mal-licious
Co-Holder of the Red Bell from Hell
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Ok, fine. Be that way. Use logic to prove my opinions ridiculous. You're just like the rest of them!
Your logic does not resemble our Earth logic.
Anyway, if it means anything, Sci Fi Channel in the UK currently shows Firefly (interestingly the version you had in America, complete with voiceover and different credits).
I'm not too sure about showing Firefly on TV. Certainly you don't want to do it too close because otherwise the audience, fresh from having 12 hours of quality sci-fi for nothing would then be asked to fork over $10 to see more. A repeat early in the summer maybe (especially as the summer is something of a low season for TV).
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