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Serenity to Premiere at Edinburgh Film Fest
CABridges writes "Serenity, the science-fiction/western/comedy/drama based on Joss Whedon's TV show Firefly will receive its official Gala Premiere Screening at the 59th Edinburgh International Film Festival on Monday, August 22nd, with a 'Reel Life' interview with Whedon the next day.
Serenity will make its U.S. debut September 30th and will open in the UK & Ireland on October 7th.
More info available at the official movie website."
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I was thinking. If you really want to protest FOX's decision to cancel Firefly, then start a boycott. Not of the fox station, but of their advertisers.
If you can get enough people to stop drinking Pepsi's products to make it worth dropping advertisements from FOX, then that would be a major incentive to bring the show back. Some of these advertisers have to spend enough money, in total, to pay for one TV show.
Do you mean that the movie only wraps up one tangling story line, or that Firefly only left one story line hanging.
Because I've seen the series, and it DEFINITELY left a ton of story lines hanging... in fact, just about all of them were left hanging. You can definitely see that the cancellation came as a horrible and sudden event.
Serious, I gotta say this WHAT THE FUCK is up with FOX? Like, I buy all these 1 season series on DVD that aired on FOX, out of order, and they all kick butt!
I'm just reminded of the beginning of the newly-uncanceled Family Guy, and their first episode back. You know, where he lists of shows canceled by FOX for like 5 minutes. I've seen many of these series, and I know they're awesome.
Speaking of which, I'm still waiting for Space above and Beyond on DVD.
I am unamerican, and proud of it!
No, it only looks like Martial arts. She's an expert dancer (look close and see how her movement is more like a ballet than an attack) and a Genius (aka able to calculate angles/force/etc near instantly) refer to the episode she closes her eyes after calcing the angles and shoots three bad guys. Basicly when she is fighting in the trailer, think of it as accounting for all the variables and pre-planning the optimal strat.
They were pissed that it cost so much to make, while "reality" was dirt-cheap and selling like hotcakes
I'm interested - are studio bang-per-buck decisions like this really sensible in the long run, or only for the next quarterly statement? Firefly was certainly expensive to make compared to reality shite, but I can't see reality shite being good for reruns or overseas syndication or wildly successful DVD sales in the way that Firefly has proved to be.
From what I gathered from commentaries and the like on the DVD set, Fox wanted a show that would do for Fox what Buffy/Angel did for WB/UPN. When Joss came back with "space western," Fox balked at the idea, instead of just trusting him or giving the show a chance. Sounds like the Fox execs had decided the show's fate before a single episode had aired.
Considering that they didn't even bother the explanatory pilot episode until the end, that sounds about right.
Having finally caught the show within the last month or so on DVD, I can see that the show would have done well if it were treated correctly. Had they shown it in order in a steady timeslot, the amount of viewers would have grown as word of mouth spread. Alternatively, since TV executives can't seem to fathom "letting a show find an audience" despite it working in the past, and insist on a combination of heavy advertising and instant success, they could have hyped the hell out of the pilot episode as a "Two Hour Special Event" or something.
Oh well, Fox blew it. It's not the first time, and it surely won't be the last. They seem to be perfectly happy with more instances of She-Male Brides Attack Bachelorettes and American No-Talent Ass Clown. Why they even bother to develop new non-"reality" shows and then instantly cancel them, though, is beyond me. Sigh.
Fox, liu kou shui de biao zi he hou zi de ben er zi!
SIGFEH
Heres a little secret... Almost all sci-fi shows are really westerns.
Sleep is for the weak.
Didn't get past the first two episodes, did you? Try the third and fourth discs. Or even the third episode (on the discs, not by air date).
Oh, and you probably didn't notice that little motor or turbo spool up whine as they cock one of those "6 shooters". Not that it matters -- slug throwers can be manufactured and maintained with the low tech infrastructure you'll find on a frontier planet, and they'll kill you just as dead as the laser pistols more prevalent on the core planets. (Inara has one too, come to think of it.)
At least they don't have Wesley saving the day by reversing the graviton flux polarity on the plasma conduits every other episode.
-- Alastair
You're right. Firefly is not Sci-fi. It is SF. It's not space opera, either.
If you like skiffy and space opera, but not SF (eg, you don't read any of the magazines, or science fiction books that aren't TV/movie tie-ins), you probably won't like Firefly.
(There's a great scene in "Objects in Space" where they're discussing River's possible psychic abilities. Wash says something like "I don't believe that science fiction stuff". Zoe gives him a look and says "You're living on a space ship". Wash looks at her, "so?")
To me, the holodeck episodes in ST were lazy writers' mental masturbation, barely a step up from "and it was all a dream" story endings. And Data is a toaster.
-- Alastair