FireFly deserved to be cancelled

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UPDATED: Thursday, February 3, 2005 20:26
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OLDFAN45

Sunday, January 23, 2005 6:42 PM

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Originally posted by Caite:

I do agree that Fox makes some horrible decisions. Like, there can be multiple seasons of The Swan, and we can have Who's My Daddy, but Firefly, heck no!

"Reality" TV cheap, ergo good; scripted TV costly, so bad. And what happens when the Nielsen people get hold of the data they collect...well, it's an open secret that the data lies; but everyone uses it, so it's the Gold Standard.

And for the record, I can't stand King of the Hill and miss Futurama like fire. No one mentions some of my fave-rave dearly departeds, like Profit and VR5 from the 90s or John Doe and Wonderfalls here lately. I truly do not get the mentality that greenlights Oliver Beene and the aforementioned American Idol-style crap...which is why I don't have a six-figure programming czar's job at a major network. Think UPN's hiring? Anyone here support me for that job if I promise to bring back Firefly after Serenity hits it big?

KAYLEE4SIMON

Sunday, January 23, 2005 6:55 PM

Fox cancelled a lot more shows then just those. I'm still mad at them for cancelling Dark Angel.

Two by two, hands of blue

REEQUEEN

Sunday, January 23, 2005 7:08 PM

Still big fans of King of the Hill and the Simpsons here, which excuses my watching Fox; besides which, they're still showing reruns of Seinfeld (as is TBS, natch), Dharma and Greg, as well as (when the time rolls around) Third Rock From the Sun.

The affiliate here isn't as bad as the network.

In addition, sometimes I'm just too danged lazy to pop in a DVD, on those long, lonely, days when nothing is on the History Channel but their quarter-yearly reshowings of everything to do with WWII (all of which I've already seen at least twice and can take up to two weeks of prime daytime viewing). FX has two two-hour blocks of Buffy. Anyway, the movie channels rarely have anything I'm interested in watching. Although, sometimes I'll get lucky with the Psycho Beach Party Week.

"He has a gorm horizon. All gorm that falls past it is lost forever." UserFriendly http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20050114

CAITE

Sunday, January 23, 2005 7:08 PM

Oh I remember VR5! That show was amazing! They also cancelled Millenium, a show by Chris Carter (the creator of XFiles) right BEFORE the actual millenium! How ridiculous is that?

OLDFAN45

Sunday, January 23, 2005 7:18 PM

Yeah, I loved VR5 the minute it came out. Lori What's-it who starred in it was OOOSOOOOO hot, and for the ladies, my best friend Bets told me Michael Easton, who was the boyfriend, could get sand in her swimsuit any day. She lives in Florida, so that's not just idle ignorance talking!

Milennium was a great idea...but Lance Henriksen droned and mumbled and honked his way through the lines, and I got reeeeeal tired of that. The moppet, Miss Brittany Tiplady, was a good little actress! Enjoyed the shows, and yeah...what the hell's up with canceling the gorram thing BEFORE the milennium???? And I, for one, like The Lone Gunmen but realized it needed some major script help.

OLDFAN45

Sunday, January 23, 2005 7:22 PM

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Originally posted by ReeQueen:
In addition, sometimes I'm just too danged lazy to pop in a DVD, on those long, lonely, days when nothing is on the History Channel but their quarter-yearly reshowings of everything to do with WWII (all of which I've already seen at least twice and can take up to two weeks of prime daytime viewing). FX has two two-hour blocks of Buffy. Anyway, the movie channels rarely have anything I'm interested in watching. Although, sometimes I'll get lucky with the Psycho Beach Party Week.

I'm jealous. I don't have cable (actually, I won't pay the robbers at TimeWarner their $70 a month for them to bring ads into my house!) so I don't even have THOSE options. It is, though, a great motivator to get up off my fat spreadin' ass and plug in Disk Three from The Sacred Series time after time after time.

REEQUEEN

Sunday, January 23, 2005 8:55 PM

I don't think we pay that much for cable, here. We have the combo broadband/digital cable package, which hasn't been bad. (Can't do dial-up anymore, no, no, no....)

I've actually been saving the Firefly the past couple of weeks, since I'm going to be bored out of my mind in the next week or so, and expect to be watching it, and Angel, repeatedly.

Surgery (nothing serious) and a few day hospital stay. Oldest Son will be lending me his laptop so I can entertain myself while we wait to see if I get an infection (reason for the stay). Only problem is, I know I will get used to watching like that, and will miss the bed tray thingy and laptop when I'm home.

A couch and television, even with remote, just isn't the same.

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OLDFAN45

Sunday, January 23, 2005 9:11 PM

Glad it's not serious, but surgery is always a little nerve-wracking. I just had a dose this past December before my @^&@&% boss fired me.

And I take you to task, ma'am, over not writing fanfic. What better way to hone your craft than to give the assembled masses of fellow fans something to read? I'm working on original fiction, too, and still noodle-doodling away on a fanfic.

Everyone who likes ReeQueen's style, help me out here!

REEQUEEN

Sunday, January 23, 2005 10:05 PM

I don't know....I just get so anxious if my fiction crosses streams with my screeding and fan-type obsessions. Especially if it's going to involve characters I didn't make up myself. Would have a hard time with keeping the voices as meant originally.

And I know I'd introduce another escapee from the Alliance Brain-Fiddling Organization, who would, incidentally, be hiding in a ship full of dead Reavers that she'd killed with her brain.

Of course, this ship would be found floating by the crew of Serenity, and there would be a similar "girl in a box" thing, and....she'd be wearing black leather for some reason, with short, spiky, blonde hair. And communicate telepathically with River.

Oh, yes, I've thought about it a lot!

Which idea, I'm sure, has been thought of before and that kind of makes me feel like my own imagination is a little limited.

While I have every confidence in the world about writing my own opinions, doing some research, and telling myself stories at night so I can (hopefully) fall asleep, my confidence in my fiction is a little underwhelming. I'm just not ready to expose my imagination in quite the fanfic way, right now.

Although if someone wants me to design costumes, I'm on top of it like that *snap!*

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OLDFAN45

Sunday, January 23, 2005 10:19 PM

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Originally posted by ReeQueen:

Which idea, I'm sure, has been thought of before and that kind of makes me feel like my own imagination is a little limited.

While I have every confidence in the world about writing my own opinions, doing some research, and telling myself stories at night so I can (hopefully) fall asleep, my confidence in my fiction is a little underwhelming. I'm just not ready to expose my imagination in quite the fanfic way, right now.

Okay. Now. Here's the thing. No idea anywhere ever is wholly original.

The idea you outlined above is a lovely addition to the 'verse, and no one who can write the way you do in your opinion posts is gonna have any trouble getting the voices down. Even the episodes have some clankers in 'em, and these are well-paid pros in the field!

Need a beta? I'm just gonna keep messaging you until you say yes, so save us both the time.

Arrogantly, Oldfan45

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