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I hope it still has the same vibes as Firefly and it’s not just Lower Decks with a Firefly coat of paint.
I mean, I was going to agree with you but on reflection I wouldn’t mind Lower Decks painted Firefly at all.
I like Lower Decks myself and I only consider myself a casual fan of Firefly. Firefly had its own tone and direction that set it apart from the other sci-fi shows during its run time. I would like to see it maintain that uniqueness on the new project. The animated series market is a bit saturated and network/streaming platform execs seem to be more concerned with reliable profits than bold new ideas. I imagine there is going to be some pressure to emulate the success of existing animated shows. I just would hate to see some producer turn something potentially fresh into something we’ve already seen 5 seasons of, just on a different spaceship. I’m actually hoping to eat my words on this, but we’ll just have to wait and see.
Huh, didnt see this coming. I’ll hold judgment, here’s hoping
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
The hype is the pitch. That’s how they get funded
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.
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.
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.
Worked for Hazbin.
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.
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.
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…
I can agree with that, at least MLP is wholesome for the most part.
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.
Agent carter and Reaper were both well received by fans, but didn’t gain the following needed to avoid cancellation.
Agent Carter is fantastically fun and pulpy!
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.
Cowboy Bebop?
Yes! Gimme back my sky!
You can’t take the sky from me.
The Star Trek vibes grow ever stronger with this one
The animated reboot…
No thanks.
For a show nobody watched, they sure have squeezed a lot of material out of it.
The first internet success case. Edit: you also can’t blame them, they aired on FOX. lol
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
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.
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?
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.
Ah, the Farscape treatment.
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.
Oh, wow. That’s even worse than I thought. Are Fox executives just pencil-whipping stuff between lines of coke?
Save Our Sailors didn’t spend all that time making websites to be forgotten like this
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yay! this is great news
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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
I mean, I’ll change it, where do we keep the spare Fireflies?
Good question. The real ones are going extinct.
But we’re talking about screwing in a new show, not the real bugs. You got any spare show laying around, or?..
