Firefly - Possible Season 2?

i feel like firefly and serenity hasnt got the treatment i deserved... when i convinced my non sci-fi friends to watch the film or catch a few episodes they loved it..but were put off because sci-fi isnt always their thing and the series got next to no advertisement, and even the film got bar bones publicity on channels/in places where it was likely only to pick up 'the already initiated'.. however anymore of the serenity/firefly stroy i can glue my hungry lil eyes onto would make me a very happy young lady.
 
CarlottaVonUberwald said:
the series got next to no advertisement, and even the film got bar bones publicity on channels/in places where it was likely only to pick up 'the already initiated
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Yeh, and the publicity the series and film got confused people or turned them off. When people hear that Firefly is a western crossed with science fiction, they think that it will be stupid or a ripoff of Star Trek (which was pitched as Wagon Train to the Stars).

For example, my brother, who enjoys science fiction, never watched the series on TV. The western-SF concept didn't appeal to him--and it still doesn't. But he just finished watching my loaner copies of the series and fillm on DVD, and he emailed me to say:

"They were shiny, a crappy concept saved by good actors and decent writing. Much better than most of the [Chinese characters deleted] that passes for science fiction in this sorry verse."

A convert!
 
Haha - I got my friends hooked too - sci-fi vererans and newbies alike. Now, if a show is that good.... I wonder if fans will ever try thier hands at making new shows (kind of like what has been done in the past with Star Wars and Star Trek).
 
My roommate got me into it.. it's good, but there just isn't enogh of it.
 
Wait a sec, you guys want a Firefly-subforum, while there isn't even a Stargate-fubforum?
 
Sure, why not?:D

Anyway... I absolutely love Firefly, but I personally don't want to see another series. I'd watch it if it gets made, but its one of those things thats better in small doses - one of the reasons that, for example, Fawlty Towers was so good was that there were only 12 episodes...

Besdies, the film was nowhere as good as the series, so I'm tempted to thing Whedon is losing his touch:(
 
hey, I loooooooooooove Firefly, and it deserves a subforum, but then you must admit Stargate is also good enough to deserve one :D
 
Hi Guys and Gals,

For anybody reading this in the UK who HASN'T got the DVDs yet of Firefly - I notioce that you can get the series now on Play and Choices UK for around 12 quid. This IS the deal of the century :)

Also noticed, that you can get the mini-movie new BSG for about 6 quid now as well from Play.

Go forth and watch Firefly...it's gooood!

Later
Steve
 
I am a massive fan of Buffy and Angel so it took me quite a while to actually get into Firefly because it is really quite different to Joss' previous work.

I saw Serenity before I watched any of Firefly and loved the movie. I then brought the season on DVD mainly because one of my mates kept rabbiting on about how great it was - although I only started watching them like last month even though I brought the DVD before Christmas. I am now like totally addicted to the series. :D :D :D I love all the characters but especially Mal ... who I have a massive jones for now ... Kaylee (the Willow of Firefly - you just cant help but love her) and River, as she is just pure genius. I managed to finish the season in about 2 days ... during which I should really have been revising :eek: And since then have watched it again about twice and got myself a copy of the soundtrack aswell. Joss always has really good main themes for his series - I love all of them, the Buffy one, the Angel one and especially the Firefly one.

I am however now left wanting more of the crew of Serenity and so really annoyed that there are no plans for a second season. While there may be another movie I would prefer to see the cast back on the small screen. Just think it is more intimate than watching them on the big screen for only a couple of hours. But that's just my opinion :p

Anyway I'm now off to watch Firefly once again ...
 
Mal is my favorite character, too, Lizzybob. He's such a tortured, disillusioned, I'm-not-a-hero hero, who has stared darkness in the face and then come (all battered and bruised but so d--n pretty) back to the light, somehow managing by sheer will to create safe haven for the family of strangers that gather 'round him.

Joss does that kind of character well.
 
Yeah, who do we have to kill/sleep with/bribe to get Firefly back on the screen? :)

SteveR
 
I was only recently introduced to Firefly; suggestions: more petitions, inundate the studios with mail, ad campaigns..... Or we could do what the Marx Bros. did (at least, supposedly), and barricade the door so that the head of the studio can't leave until he/she agrees to our demands....:D

(Please tell me that no one takes that last seriously.)
 
Money talks, or so they say. So one way to encourage the money managers to fund more Firefly is to buy extra copies of the DVDs to loan to friends, converting said friends so that they buy their own copies to keep and extra copies to convert their friends, and so on. Or give Firefly to everybody on your gift list. :)
 
lizzybob said:
I love all the characters but especially Mal ... who I have a massive jones for now ...
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you and me both, girl!
 
yep the bottom line to the money men is how mutch will it bring in and the tv bosses and add men need good veiwing figers to make there sales go up to a sad but greedy world we love to live in they need to see numbers big numbers!
 
Isn't there already something going around where fans are quoting how much they are willing to pool to help fund firefly? Think of how much money they could get if everyone gave $20? Many people would give more :)
 
That's an interesting idea. I'd pay more than $20 . . . but I wonder if it would be enough. Don't shows and films cost millions to make?

Somewhere I heard speculation about producing new episodes to distribute via iTunes and the like. Viewers would pay ahead per episode or per season to finance production.
 
Just as a comparison, I had understood that, toward the end, Buffy was costing something in the neighborhood of $1.6 million dollars per episode and up. There are usually 22 episodes to a season these days, so figure it from there.:(
 
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