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[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. Oh, and help us get Terriers dvds!
I thought that Firefly was aired out of order, which they *weren't* happy about.
IIRC, postponing "Serenity" was the only episode-airing decision made by FOX. Tim pushed back the airings of "Shindig" and "Safe," feeling that the audience really needed to understand the characters for those episodes, and Joss swapped "Objects in Space" in place of "Heart of Gold," because he really wanted OiS to air on TV.
IIRC, postponing "Serenity" was the only episode-airing decision made by FOX. Tim pushed back the airings of "Shindig" and "Safe," feeling that the audience really needed to understand the characters for those episodes,
Yep. And "Train Job" was written because of the need for a first new episode with "more action," and "Out of Gas" to fill in backstory.
The one decision caused a domino effect.
I wish I were better at Nilly-ing. I know we've had the "fans made Serenity happen" conversation at least once before.
Joss kind of glosses over the other reasons why the movie got made. "Fans" were only a very small part of it. But it does make a better story the way he tells it.
"Fans" were only a very small part of it.So wait: It wasn't all for me?
Did you even watch Firefly, woman?
Um. There was that one episode. Heck if I remember what it was about.
But come on! I uh ... huh. OK. Maybe it wasn't all for me.
You talked me down from the ledge that one time with the apples, so that was good.
See. There you go. I was on the front lines, people!
You talked me down from the ledge that one time with the apples, so that was good.
this was in the past then?
The fans-made-the-movie-happen thing was a marketing pitch. Universal actually came up with it - it started in the press material given out for the movie, several press people mentioned it, the ball rolled. There's no harm in it, but it's just not based on fact. I'm honestly not sure where the DVD thing came from, but Joss has said in interviews since DVD didn't make the movie happen. Although people have just ignored it and still say the DVD made it happen.
Fans certainly made bits of the marketing happen for the movie. I can say that as a fact, as I was the person behind the SerenityMovie.com Browncoat community for Universal.
There's an interview with Joss in this mpnth's Maxim about Dollhouse where he says "it was my idea to reshoot the pilot and reorder things", so at least that's on record.