Firefly Likely to be Cancelled

rscrawford writes "Zap2It is reporting that Firefly, one of the best science fiction shows to make it on to network television in recent years, is going on hiatus: read, getting canceled. Well, it was an interesting, well-written, provocative and intelligent show on Fox; is anyone therefore surprised that they're doing away with it? It lasted a lot longer than I thought it would. At least they're going to show the original 2-hour pilot in December. (And yet, somehow, Just Shoot Me continues...)"

Comments

Can you guess why?

[I Am The Owl]

I am SHOCKED! It couldn't possibly be because it was just another shitty sci fi series, could it?

One of the best?

[mao che minh]

Come on now. You aren't that geeky are you? Geek. Who the hell even heard of this crap? IN SOVIET RUSSIA the Fire Fly cancels the likely!!!

Why the show failed (in my own case)

[tftp]

Sci-fi is an abbreviation of "science" and "fiction". Not much of that can be found in a souped-up version of a western. Myself, I am not interested in cattle, dances around fire, or various other intrigues of the sort.

The show failed because it never had an audience. Science aspects of the show (as much as I could suffer through) are abysmal; one can find more science in "The He-Man" :-) Fiction aspects (human relationships) are hardly appealing to technologically inclined. Style of a western best caters to my grand-grand-parents. So who is left there to watch?

For me, the show was not interesting. I watched only 1/2 of an episode; could not tolerate more. If there are good scenes elsewhere, I will never see them, because I am not willing to dig through a huge heap of junk for that. Yes, episodes are available on the Net. But they are not worth a blank CD.

However, Lexx is interesting, and Farscape, because these are shows which build their own Universe and play by the rules of that Universe. These show's writers have imagination. I like that.

Re:Of course it's being cancelled

[sweetooth]

I don't think that it's "universally agreed upon" as the parent didn't like the dialog nor did I. I stopped watching after the second episode as it made my head hurt to watch what looked to me to be forced.

I didn't find it to be Star Trek like which was nice, but other than that it bored me to death. Nothing compares to a good Sci Fi novel. Babylon 5 was good while it lasted, Andromeda is ok, Farscape is enjoyable, and well that's about it. I can tolerate Stargate SG1, but it's not something I set out to watch.

Hell, who am I kidding, the only thing I watch on tv is C.S.I. on thursday nights (not that crap thats on Monday) and various shows on the discovery channel. I used to enjoy the history channel etc, but they aren't available on any reasonably priced package from our cable company and I'm not willing to pay for 100 channels of crap for three channels I'd watch.

Well, here's my opinion...

[doorbot.com]

...just like in the real world, those scattered groups of "primitives" will have a few pieces of modern technology at hand, surrounded by whatever they could make themselves.

It's a much more plausible idea than you may realize.

So riddle me this:

How did these "primitives" get off of earth in the first place, if they don't have advanced technology? Did they just all wear helium balloon belts and jump at the same time?

Now, granted, there could be some interesting plot points... perhaps they were forcibly removed, and dumped on some backwater by "the man." But unless that's explained, I find it very difficult to suspend my disbelief.