Well, I left my Firefly DVD's with a friend who loved Buffy and Angel and I told him to watch them all so he'd be up to speed when the movie comes out. I hope he does watch and gets hooked.
Xander: We just saw the zebras mating! Thank you, very exciting... Willow: It was like the Heimlich, with stripes!
'Him'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
quester - Oct 30, 2004 8:39:08 pm PDT #2779 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
libkitty - Oct 30, 2004 8:48:52 pm PDT #2780 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Well, Buffy and Angel love would seem to be an added bonus. Not necessary, but helpful.
Sean K - Oct 31, 2004 7:55:27 am PST #2781 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I seriously have yet to find anyone who doesn't at least like the show a lot, once they see it.
::points to a couple of Buffistas or three::
I suspect the best it could have achieved was to be perennially on "the bubble," facing potential cancellation every year (as Buffy and Angel were almost every season).
Unfortunately, it was a favorite show of someone at Fox who'd already been let go by the time it started airing, and replacements never want their predecessor's shows to succeed, so that is the main reason it was shuffled off to the Friday Night Fox Death Slot, where it unsurprisingly died.
Lost was also the favorite of a no-longer-there exec, but it's numbers are putting ABC in a position it hasn't been in for a very long time, so it gets to stay.
Still, it remains that Seinfeld and Friends struggled in the ratings at first, until they found their numbers, even if they were much bigger numbers tha Firefly could have hoped for.
erikaj - Oct 31, 2004 8:38:49 am PST #2782 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I hated it on first viewing. Deeply, in fact. I enjoyed it much more in bigger blocks, and I'm still not very excited about "The Train Job".(Well, Westerns and Sci-Fi are neither one my favorite genres, so...) But by the end of the DVDs I got to like it. I would still rather watch Buffy or Angel but I did change my mind about it. I bet if it had gotten another season, I might have become a fan.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 31, 2004 8:43:50 am PST #2783 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Honestly, though I grew to love it, if it hadn't been Joss and Tim's baby I would have stopped watching halfway through ""The Train Job," and never given them the chance to snag me with the engine scene.
Jars - Oct 31, 2004 8:52:02 am PST #2784 of 10001
Firefly had me at Wash and his dinosaurs, and completely in love when Mal shot Patience's horse. Serenity just did for me.
It's my bestest favouritist show in the world ever.
Polter-Cow - Oct 31, 2004 8:54:24 am PST #2785 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ah but see, Jars, you got to see the actual pilot. The actual pilot, I think, would have hooked me more than "The Train Job." There were more space hijinks, plus the River mystery was more at the forefront.
DCJensen - Oct 31, 2004 9:03:49 am PST #2786 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
If they would have promoted Serenity as a two-hour "event" launch of the series, and all the usual trappings, I daresay we would have gotten at least a whole season, if not starting to complain about the upcoming holiday mini rerun hell for Season 3 in December.
So, if we want to, we can think of the Serenity movie as the Season 3 finale...
Jars - Oct 31, 2004 9:06:05 am PST #2787 of 10001
Loathe as I am to say anything positive about the decision making process at Fox, I've found that people who've never watched Buffy or Angel respond far better to The Train Job than to Serenity. People who have heard of Joss and Tim and enjoyed their other stuff are far more willing to go with the pace of Serenity.
erikaj - Oct 31, 2004 9:23:11 am PST #2788 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Really? Cause that was the most "Episode one bored." I've ever been, ever. With all due respect to Minear, of course. Cause he does it for real and I'm just some bitch talking to her TV about how she can do better than that while watching L&O 7 million.