Ailleann, I used to like you.
Kevin, I love the Heroes promos. I don't know how they make mundane phrases like "Save the cheerleader, save the world" and "Are you on the list?" (yes, they've already made a shirt!) sound so damn cool!
Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.
Jayne ,'The Message'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[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, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Polter-Cow - Dec 31, 2006 8:00:06 am PST #2592 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Kevin - Dec 31, 2006 8:28:15 am PST #2593 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Save the cheerleader, save the world is probably one of the worst phrases I could imagine, on paper. But, uhm, it works. Somehow.
Kristen - Dec 31, 2006 8:30:13 am PST #2594 of 10001
Show not in real time. 13 hours would kinda take the "cross" out of "cross-country."
Also, I think the show will be marketed quite well.
Kevin - Dec 31, 2006 8:38:35 am PST #2595 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Okay, how intelligent am I. (I left off the question mark).
Kristen, somebody should convince the net to put the first 7 minutes on Youtube (after it's finalised, obviously), and the FOX MySpace page. In my opinion, anyway. Youtube clips reach millions of people in many cases, particularly things like this which is fresh content. That's a lot of free advertising.
I do agree they have a lot of material to work with on this one, in terms of trailers, demographics etc.
tiggy - Dec 31, 2006 9:03:38 am PST #2596 of 10001
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
FOX Firefly promo: [link] (you have to watch it imagining you don't know the characters).
wow. i don't think i ever saw that. that's...bad. worse than bad.
Kevin - Dec 31, 2006 9:10:12 am PST #2597 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
tiggy, oh, there's far worse out there. The ones with the line "Out there? It's out THERE!" are best. They actually advertised it quite a lot with those promos; during Baseball. Because all the sci-fi viewers I know watch baseball.
Kevin - Dec 31, 2006 9:14:58 am PST #2598 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Here's my favourite FOX advert for Firefly: [link]
It's like a very bad fan video where EVERY CLIP EVER has been thrown in (with most of the clips from the unaired pilot), and captions. I won't spoil them. It's proof you can spend a year on a show and then have a net destroy it.
Polter-Cow - Dec 31, 2006 9:31:02 am PST #2599 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It's hard to judge these things now, to be honest. I wasn't actually going to check out Firefly until I found out Jewel Staite was in it. And I didn't love it for a while. But now that I do love it, it's like all the things that I think put viewers off at first (the twangy soundtrack, the random Chinese, the unexplained references to aspects of the world) I now find very endearing. So just seeing clips of the show is good enough for me. I mean, there are spaceships and action and random sex! What's not to love?
Kevin - Dec 31, 2006 9:35:56 am PST #2600 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
P-C, Space Cases fan?
Polter-Cow - Dec 31, 2006 9:36:14 am PST #2601 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Flash Forward.