Nathan Fillion says 'Firefly' animated series is in development with costars to voice their original roles. Concept art revealed.
    • Klear@quokk.auEnglish
      7·
      4 个月前

      I mean, I was going to agree with you but on reflection I wouldn’t mind Lower Decks painted Firefly at all.

  • lori@lemmy.zipEnglish
    221·
    4 个月前

    Seems like they have a pilot script and no funding. This was way too much hype and preamble for an idea they’re still shopping around

      • lori@lemmy.zipEnglish
        91·
        4 个月前

        Most series don’t get funded by directly asking fans to beg studios on their behalf. I don’t expect this series to ever see the light of day.

        • noughtnaut@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          4 个月前

          Of all fandoms, Firefly fans were exactly the type to take out a full-page ad in a major newspaper (hmm, remember those?) in a bid to keep the show on the air.

          • lori@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            4 个月前

            I know, I was one back in the day and I remember the campaigns. Doesn’t really change my feelings about TV show advertising now. There’s a big difference between fans begging for a show to come back and fans being told to beg for a new show to be funded.

          • SailorFuzz@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            4 个月前

            probably not the best example. The writing turned to shit because it didn’t have a real fleshed out plan beyond edge and hype. The fanbase became toxic, divided and cringe. The show is not long for this world.

            • Rekorse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              3·
              4 个月前

              Being a fan of a person is cringe. Doubly so if you dont know that person. That whole hazbin thing spun into celebrity worship. Their Broadway style show looked like a bronycon gathering.

              • SailorFuzz@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                4 个月前

                although there is probably a sizable crossover, I unironically believe that Bronies are less cringe than Hazbin fans.

                Bronies are generally positive and cheeful.

                Hazbin fans are like max edgelords, lol-so-random-cheeze, im-14-and-this-is-deep, emo bullshit…

  • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    4 个月前

    Married writing-producing team Marc Guggenheim (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Arrow) and Tara Butters (Agent Carter, Reaper) are attached to serve as showrunners

    Doesn’t fill me with confidence, but we’ll see i guess.

  • fubarx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    4 个月前

    Been binge-watching Firefly (again) all week. Midway through Serenity (again).

    Was hoping their announcement would be for a full Season 2 of Firefly or a Serenity sequel.

    But will happily take an animated series. For a live-action one, they would have to explain the natural aging. Animated, they can keep doing it for a long time.

      • thisbenzingring@lemmy.todayEnglish
        261·
        4 个月前

        it was the victim of a change of guard in Fox. the internal politics , not wanting the other guy to have success was the death of the series. they put it on at a horrible time slot and didn’t show it in order.

        i was working an early Saturday shift at the time, so I was watching Friday night tv, and fell instantly in love with the show. even though it didn’t make a lot of sense because it wasn’t shown in order, made it mysterious and even more interesting. then they cancelled it before the whole series was presented.

        I for sure helped keep it alive at the time

        i was a popular person in a couple large internet circles at the time. I had been working a couple contracts at top tech jobs in Seattle. I had the ear of a couple very rich people. and my anger about it for sure helped bring attention to the injustice. I was able to invest in the DVD sale before it was announced to the public ❤️

        so it’s revival is so sweet right now

        • its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          8·
          4 个月前

          Well, too be fair to the network, coming back to the series without my rose tinted glasses I absolutely blame Joss for sticking to his guns and insisting the pilot had to be feature length. That pilot absolutely could have been cut down to less than an hour, and as you said the out of order opening left audiences confused. I’d say it’s like 70% the studios fault and 30% on Wheaton.

      • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        4 个月前

        Yeah, wasn’t this one of the many shows they Foxed up by trying to air it during primetime, creating an obvious audience mismatch, panicking when the ratings didn’t top the charts and then moving it around through various time slots until it was canceled?

        • rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          9·
          4 个月前

          Don’t forget how Fox wouldn’t even keep to a schedule. Shows would get bumped from their slots on an almost weekly basis to play baseball, “news flashes”, re-runs of movie franchises that had a new film coming out soon. It was like a 2/3 chance that the show you wanted to watch was even going to air in its usual time slot each week.

        • Odo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          4 个月前

          Not different timeslots, the same one with random preemptions for baseball games. There was one point where the show missed 2 weeks in a row. I was pissed.

      • lori@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        4 个月前

        Save Our Sailors didn’t spend all that time making websites to be forgotten like this

  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netEnglish
    1419·
    4 个月前

    How many firefly fans does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

    None - they just sit around and bitch about how it went out years ago