Firefly.. Serenity.

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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Bump for the hell of it.. I just started watching the first and unfortunately only season for the fourth time through..
  • MookieBlaylock5v1
    MookieBlaylock5v1 Posts: 353
    yeah! bump for Firefly love!!!!!! I think it's time to start watching a few episodes again.
  • Travelar
    Travelar Posts: 3,444
    MookieBlaylock5v1 wrote:
    Fox dropped the ball on this series on too many levels. First, they placed the show on Friday nights, not the greatest TV night there is to begin with. Second, their marketing campaign was piss-poor and ill-sighted. They tried to advertise the series as being about "a hooker in space" or "a girl in a box". Third, Fox expected the series to achieve instant cult status, whereas shows like Buffy and Angel needed at least a couple seasons to develop properly. And most importantly, they showed the episodes out of order! The first episode to be broadcast was "The Train Job". Fox didn't air the introductory two-part "Serenity" pilot until the end. Needless to say, the combination of all these factors through viewers for a loop and the show never had a chance to succeed.

    Yep. I'd have to agree with this. As Fox has done so many times, they screwed the pooch.
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Watching the Josh Whedon commentary on Serenity right now and found it amusing that Mal (Serenity's version of Han Solo) shot 3 unarmed people in the movie, which happened to be a partial reaction to the dissatisfaction with Lucus changing the Han/Greedo shoot first scene in Star Wars.. good stuff! :D
  • uninnocent
    uninnocent Posts: 1,565
    admittedly i've never seen firefly... in fact i never even heard of it til it was off the air. i will say this, though: i will watch it one day, because joss whedon is an AMAZING writer.
  • MattCameronKicksButt
    MattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    Myuhuh I was one of the people to vote online for them never to make another episode.
  • lgt
    lgt Posts: 720
    MattCameronKicksButt wrote:
    Myuhuh I was one of the people to vote online for them never to make another episode.

    Why bother to vote to have it cancelled/finished and thus deprive other people of something they enjoy???

    If you don't like it, don't watch it, but why deny other people their enjoyment?

    Btw, I've never watched an episode of Firefly, but still.
  • MattCameronKicksButt
    MattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    lgt wrote:
    Why bother to vote to have it cancelled/finished and thus deprive other people of something they enjoy???

    If you don't like it, don't watch it, but why deny other people their enjoyment?

    Btw, I've never watched an episode of Firefly, but still.

    Because it's funny. Besides, I didn't take the vote seriously. I didn't/don't think it made the slightest difference. I got fed up of it being on TV ALL the time. My boyfriend was obsessed. Even he laughed though when I said I voted against it.
  • lgt
    lgt Posts: 720
    MattCameronKicksButt wrote:
    Because it's funny. Besides, I didn't take the vote seriously. I didn't/don't think it made the slightest difference. I got fed up of it being on TV ALL the time. My boyfriend was obsessed. Even he laughed though when I said I voted against it.

    I agree your vote didn't cause the cancellation!

    I just found it odd you took the time to vote in the first place to have it cancelled if you've never even watched it.

    Now it makes more sense given the context.
  • MookieBlaylock5v1
    MookieBlaylock5v1 Posts: 353
    it's quotin' time. shiny.

    Inara: What did I say to you about barging into my shuttle?
    Mal: That it was manly and impulsive?
    Inara: Yes, precisely. Only the exact phrase I used was "don't".


    Alliance Commander: You fought with Captain Reynolds in the war?
    Zoe: Fought with a lot of people in the war.
    Alliance Commander: And your husband?
    Zoe: Fight with him sometimes, too.


    Mal: Sure. It would be humiliating. Having to lie there while the better man refuses to spill your blood. Mercy is the mark of a great man. (lightly stabs man with the sword) Guess I'm just a good man. (stabs him again) Well, I'm all right.


    Jayne: (mock reading Simon's journal) Dear Diary...today I was pompous and my sister was crazy. (flips page) Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.


    Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. Whaddya suppose that makes us?
    Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir.
    Mal: Ain't we just!


    Book: What are we up to, sweetheart?
    River: Fixing your Bible.
    Book: I, um...(alarmed)...what???
    River: Bible's broken. Contradictions, false logistics - doesn't make sense.(she's marked up the bible, crossed out passages)
    Book: No, no. You - you can't...
    River: So we'll integrate non-progressional evolution theory with God's creation of Eden. Eleven inherent metaphoric parallels already there. Eleven. Important number. Prime number. One goes into the house of eleven eleven times, but always comes out one. Noah's ark is a problem.
    Book: Really?
    River: We'll have to call it early quantum state phenomenon. Only way to fit 5000 species of mammal on the same boat. (rips out page)


    Zoe: Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing?
    Book: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.


    Wash: Little River just gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next?
    Zoe: Either blow us all up or rub soup in her hair. It's a toss-up.
    Wash: I hope she does the soup thing. It's always a hoot, and we don't all die from it.
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    MattCameronKicksButt wrote:
    Because it's funny. Besides, I didn't take the vote seriously. I didn't/don't think it made the slightest difference. I got fed up of it being on TV ALL the time. My boyfriend was obsessed. Even he laughed though when I said I voted against it.
    You should have watched it. I had no interest in the show until my mom made me watch it on DVD years after it was cancelled.. and my mom doesn't even like Sci-Fi. The show really isn't Sci-Fi at all, it just takes place in a Sci-Fi setting.
  • MattCameronKicksButt
    MattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    You should have watched it. I had no interest in the show until my mom made me watch it on DVD years after it was cancelled.. and my mom doesn't even like Sci-Fi. The show really isn't Sci-Fi at all, it just takes place in a Sci-Fi setting.

    Who's saying I didn't watch it? You're the second person who's said that now. I haven't seen the movie though but it's upstairs. :rolleyes :
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Coolness!

    http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=1198

    :cool:
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Bump for the love of god!!!
  • Yefa
    Yefa Posts: 1,134
    Planning is underway for many screenings of Serenity to raise money for Equality Now, which is Joss Whedon's favorite charity. Check the link below to see if there's a screening planned in your area.

    http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com
    You see me empty, Sir, do not pause and inquire, simply assume and refill.
    - Al Swearengen

    http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com

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