That reminds me: I have to post part 2 of my "re-watching TOS BSG: Lost Planet of the Gods, Part 2"
Hey! You wanna talk derivative! And crazy fans! I have no room to talk when it comes to Firefly. At all. But in my defense, I was 8. *grins*
But seriously, I get why people love Firefly. I really do. But I also think that it's got that "died too soon" glow around it (i.e., before JW got bored with it and rode the series into the crapper like he did Buffy and Angel) which — IMHO, and in IMHO only — has convinced some critics and fans that the show was a lot better than it really was.
Frankly, I think part of the blame for Firefly's cancellation lies with JW here. He should've sucked up and gone to a small U.S. cable network with Firefly rather than going to one of the "big 6" networks that existed in the U.S. at that time (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, UPN, WB). Hell, even back when Firefly was airing, the U.S.'s SciFi Channel was already producing its own series and just about every U.S. cable channel was airing some kind of scifi/fantasy genre show.
Granted, the U.S. cable channels would've paid him less (a lot less in the case of SciFi Channel), but he probably would've earned the numbers to stay on the air for at least a full 22-episode season — and a very good chance that he would've scored at least one more full season thereafter. If I remember right, Firefly's ratings sucked for a broadcast network. If it was on, say, the SciFi Channel, they would've crowned JW king and carried him around the world on the network's collective shoulders (witness, for example, how Battlestar Galactica is treated on SciFi these days).
Why he went for a broadcast network — especially FOX which has a habit of putting bullets in the brains of shows that aren't insta-hits? (A reputation that FOX had for years prior to killing Firefly) It's mystery for the ages. Seriously.
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Date: 2007-Jul-30, Monday 20:00 (UTC)Hey! You wanna talk derivative! And crazy fans! I have no room to talk when it comes to Firefly. At all. But in my defense, I was 8. *grins*
But seriously, I get why people love Firefly. I really do. But I also think that it's got that "died too soon" glow around it (i.e., before JW got bored with it and rode the series into the crapper like he did Buffy and Angel) which — IMHO, and in IMHO only — has convinced some critics and fans that the show was a lot better than it really was.
Frankly, I think part of the blame for Firefly's cancellation lies with JW here. He should've sucked up and gone to a small U.S. cable network with Firefly rather than going to one of the "big 6" networks that existed in the U.S. at that time (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, UPN, WB). Hell, even back when Firefly was airing, the U.S.'s SciFi Channel was already producing its own series and just about every U.S. cable channel was airing some kind of scifi/fantasy genre show.
Granted, the U.S. cable channels would've paid him less (a lot less in the case of SciFi Channel), but he probably would've earned the numbers to stay on the air for at least a full 22-episode season — and a very good chance that he would've scored at least one more full season thereafter. If I remember right, Firefly's ratings sucked for a broadcast network. If it was on, say, the SciFi Channel, they would've crowned JW king and carried him around the world on the network's collective shoulders (witness, for example, how Battlestar Galactica is treated on SciFi these days).
Why he went for a broadcast network — especially FOX which has a habit of putting bullets in the brains of shows that aren't insta-hits? (A reputation that FOX had for years prior to killing Firefly) It's mystery for the ages. Seriously.