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jamesthevampyr

Time to stop everything i'm currently doing at watch firefly! <3

TeatroGrottesco

To answer your question as to why it was canceled. Fox basically screwed it over from the beginning, The episodes were never aired in order, and that didn’t help the ratings. Then, they put it on a Friday night against and it was expensive to make. The pilot episode was never aired until after the show was canceled, and they made it like a “special event.” The first episode to air was the Train Job, which is kind of why it feels like they’re introducing the crew all over again after the pilot. It was felt that the pilot episode was too dark, so they had Whedon and Tim Minear go back and write a second episode, (Train Job) which they did over a weekend. It never set up the world the way the pilot did; you didn’t get all the background context, which didn't help the ratings because people were confused. Having watched the original run, all this really sucked… lol. But the fans did rally around it and it didn’t end up getting the film to tie everything together. It has a lot of similarities to the sci-fi anime Cowboy Bebop. It also ran one series a film.

Rayve

Looking forward to these today (firefly and X Files) 💕 thank you!

K, Zachary

Glad to see you back!

Taco Wolf

Yay! I totally needed something nice and light like this today AND have been looking forward to seeing you watch this one since it's a spooky episode :D

BrakYeller

Fox did a lot to shoot itself in the foot in that era, and Firefly was one of many casualties. As a TV network, they were only around 15 years old, and while they'd had enough successful shows to keep the network bankrolled, the few tentpole shows in their stable that had received critical success (like The X-Files) were either winding down or had already ended. Joss Wheden left Buffy and Angel to focus on developing Firefly after being promised the moon by Fox, and then Fox basically fought him about every last little detail. He wanted to shoot the show in widescreen, the network refused (this is when presentation in widescreen format meant you were a "prestige show"). Fox wanted the show to be more of an action comedy, Whedon did not. Fox acquired the rights to air the World Series from Major League Baseball that year, and Firefly got bumped from it's regular time slot for baseball games frequently during it's brief run, which contributed to episodes being shown out of order. This was also during a period where "reality TV" was starting to become ascendant in TV programming, and because it was cheaper to shoot and produce and usually got higher ratings than some guy's weird expensive space western, the bean counters at Fox basically nickel-and-dimed it to death. Firefly was among a whole crop of promising shows at Fox between 2000-2005 that were never really given the chance to breathe before they could be cancelled and replaced by cheap reality TV garbage, or with their next flailing attempt at a prestige high-drama series that nobody ended up watching. It was a weird time for broadcast TV, and Fox was basically walking through a field full of rakes it'd put out for itself.

BrakYeller

It was the fans that saved this show. Because of the fan outcry at the cancellation, the show was very quickly put out in a DVD set that had the entire series in the correct order. Also, in a time where DVD sets of TV shows could go for $75-$100, the entire run of Firefly usually retailed around $20-$30.... and if you knew who Joss Whedon was, you'd be willing to take a chance on it. The show got HUGE after being released to DVD, leading to Whedon and Universal bankrolling a movie to wrap up the series (and potentially set it up for sequels, which sadly never happened). In a lot of ways, Firefly remains a 'perfect show' because of how short it was, and how it had to fight to have an ending. It never had the chance to start falling apart because it had been around too long, and the intense popularity of the show during peak Internet 1.0 times gave it this gloss and panache, this feeling that "the fans fought hard for it and then the fans actually won!" which turned it into this strange little phenomenon that we'll likely never see the like of again.

Jason_H

Looking forward to seeing both Kat and our Dude in the Corner sporting browncoats for the Serenity reaction.

katwatcheshorrormovies

100% XFILES THIS WEEK!!! The storm has kept me away from my files, but there will be one 100%, I PROMISE!!

Michael clark

Thanks for replying to me personally. It’s like having a famous movie star respond to text or e-mail,,,,!

Rayve

Stay safe!! I’m in the southern US and the storm shifted just north of us, so nothing significant here though we planned, just in case.

CLFuqua87

“I’ll figure YOU out” -sultry Kat voice

Kniggit

The interrogation scene might be my favorite scene from the whole series. The brilliant distillation of characters down to their unique responses will never not have me smiling / laughing.