'The Girl in Question'
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
My favourite ever sci-fi series was 'Firefly' but they only did one series and it got cancelled. It's brilliant; that new film 'Serenity' comes from it.
It just occurred to me that Firefly in England would have had about a normal one season run in terms of the number of episodes. Funny how you get used to 22 episode seasons.
Granted it didn't have such a definitive conclusion as, say, Wonderfalls, but "Objects in Space" wasn't a terrible last episode for the series.
If anyone needs an extra (loaner) copy of the DVDs, it's 50% off at Amazon right now....
I've stopped loaning my extra set--to friends who have Comcast, that is. I give them Orville Redenbacher's and soda if they promise to order Firefly On Demand, or Serenity on PPV.
Just watched Out of Gas. Man, I miss this show.
Firefly would tend to be much longer than an English series.. We're normally about 6 episodes a series. If we're lucky we get two series of something in total, so 12 episodes.
At least the new Dr Who incarnations are 13 ep series/season.
Totally. Technically "Hex" also runs at around 13 episodes a season, too: but it's shit ("The British Buffy"). Two Pints of Lager - which I once wrote a script for: laugh now - also runs about 10 episodes a season, and is going on 6 seasons now. In fact, arguably Two Pints is the UK's longest running series of recent years, and BBC Three's highest rated. Which, I think, tells us something about the UK...
Didn't the thirteen episodes of Who tucker Eccleston right out? High price to pay.
Well, the BBC had something like £1.6m for the 13 episode series of Doc Who, about half of which went on VFX. They had two main leads, so I'd imagine Eccleston probably got virtually nothing for it.
I don't know diddly about pay rates--I was just remembering the reports that he found it too exhausting so he didn't want another series.
I thought it plausible, considering it was an action series running a longer number of eps.
Didn't even think about money.