Comments on: Best Fanservice Ever as Firefly Convention is Cancelled

By: frankwolftown

frankwolftown — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:12:27 +0000

If you love FIrefly you can’t catch a break! I hope whoever decided to cancel the con was fired and thrown out into the street naked!

By: darren j seeley

darren j seeley — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:38:46 +0000

Again, while I never got into the series…Jaysmack, the primary reason the series failed was network politics. Fox mishandled the show. Even I will concede that.

Hasn’t been the first time a network has treated a show like dirt, and it won’t be the last.

Serenity was good, but needed better marketing, if not a different release date.

By: JaySmack

JaySmack — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:18:44 +0000

Considering that Firefly barely made one season, clearly I wasn’t alone in panning it. And you can lose the superior tone with your jab about “attention-spans.” It says nothing about your appreciation of good media, rather it means you’re easily amused. Well I’m not. Firefly got canned not because people like me didn’t have the “attention-span” to watch it, rather because it was a lousy show. NOBODY was watching it! Or do you believe increasingly low ratings are a sign of success? The movie bombed because not even the so-called “fans” turned out to see it. Get mad at me if you want, but keep in mind I wasn’t the only one who didn’t waste my time on some galactic western. Like most viewers I’ve got plenty patience, but not with a show that isn’t going anywhere.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:06:17 +0000

I really love it when people make snap judgements of a series after only watching half of one episode. Like you know ANYTHING about the series that you didnt watch.

Ok, so the first episode didnt get your wee little attention span right from the get go. Really its your loss that you cant watch a show before passing judgement on it.

I didnt really get INTO Battlestar Galactica until I really WATCHED it for 2-3 episodes. Its being hailed as the best thing on TV .. ever.

By: JaySmack

JaySmack — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:39:23 +0000

I hated Serenity, sheer pointless tedium. I saw Firefly on DVD when I checked it out from the library. That’s a half-hour of my life I’ll never get back -I say half-hour because I stopped watching half-way through the first episode. “Never again.” At least I didn’t waste any money on it. I’d have gone postal.
Maybe Firefly “needs a Battlestar Galactica-type makeover.” After all, Trek was declared “dead” after forty years, five incarnations and 11 movies. Firefly went belly-up after barely one season, and the movie BOMBED. Kinda says something about a show when it has THAT kind of performance.

By: steven

steven — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:32:55 +0000

Rodney,

I didn’t mind the concept of the frontier, or that they would go to that mentally, what I was commenting on was the need to make a show about the future and blatantly rip off the wild west, with the slang, and some of the outfits. when does the future emulate the past like that? where does the slang and attitude, and costumes, and the quick draws, and horses come into play from a time where it was necessary to have people like that?

whatever time that series took place it wasn’t the 1800’s, but the show excelled at making you believe that that “concept” of the wild west would exist in a time period where it wasn’t necessary to have people who say ” i reckon” and ladies and men to have wild west clothing

it’s prolly thinking too much on a show, but it turned me off none the less.

By: Alfredo

Alfredo — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:24:32 +0000

Being a fan of Firefly is tough. I caught on to the show before it was cancelled. I saw the movie (I loved It) and found out that there wouldn’t be sequal. Now a conventions happens and it’s cancelled too. Sigh. At least they got to hang with the stars.

By: Joseph Ferrarelli

Joseph Ferrarelli — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:57:12 +0000

I am a huge Firefly fan and I think that the cast has always supported the show and it’s fans. It’s really a great community to be apart of.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:56:34 +0000

The whole point of the “Frontier show in the future” was that the human race had expanded into a NEW frontier. I think it was awesome that society stepped back to the same mentality as the frontier times. It makes total sense. The technology might have leapt forward, but the lawlessness of the new unpoliced frontier was very rough around the edges. In the civilized places we saw a more modern (futuristic) wear and behaviour

That and according to Firefly’s timeline EVERYTHING is in the past. Would you prefer that they wear silver bodysuits with pointy antenna hats?

By: Koko

Koko — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:53:06 +0000

Wow. Thats a huge surprise. Nice work though.