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samurai7 01:52 am UTC 01/26/07 |
| In reply to: | re: Good EFFIN Gawds!!! - Rabe 01:48 am UTC 01/26/07 |
| Did you see Serenity, the movie spin-off from Firefly? I'd never seen the series, as I'm not really that big a sci-fi fan, but I enjoyed serenity on DVD a little while back. Now my brother, on the other hand is a sci-fi NUT. I'm sure if he had his way he'd spend have his life at Trekkie conventions and Babylon 5 parties... I hadn't realised that Firefly was a Joss "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" Wheedon thingamybob until I picked up this movie. > > > > I mean to watch this show on DVD at some point, but... > > > > There wasn't enough audience to keep it on SCI-FI, for God > > sake, which doesn't exactly require the same numbers as > > NBC, or even CNBC, to sustain a show. Why would anyone > > want to gamble on that project as a MUSICAL, of all > > things? > > > Odd that statement - not enough ratings to keep it alive. > > It's amazing how Sci-Fi is still spinning that yarn. But, > it's true. In the last half of the fourth season the > ratings DID slip drastically. Kind of the way the ratings > slipped drastically for Firefly on Fox. > > When Sci-Fi pulled the same shit that FOX did with the > show. They pre-empted it, moved it around, put it on > 'hiatus' for a very long time, came back and replayed it > from the beginning every night on Sci-Fi so that there was > about a year or more between the first half of the season > and the last six episodes of season four. By the time > they had already played those episodes, Sci-Fi had very > publically sounded the death knell for the series. > > But the show HAD a fanbase and WAS Sci-Fi's most watched > most popular programming, surviving long past all the > other crap shows they produced right alongside of it. > What really happened is that Sci-Fi wanted to slash the > budget and the Henson Co said they couldn't produce the > same quality show with that much less. Sci-Fi then > promised it would die and die it did. They replaced it > with Stargate SG1 which had syndication and Showtime > backing it to build up the audience. If they were still > doing Farscape head to head with SG1 - there'd be half the > geek community going "Stargate what?" And Atlantis never > would have been made. > > Then they insulted all of us by dicking around with the > mini-series as well. > > Rabe... | |
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