Firefly cancelled!

[Mistwell]

Check out www.fireflysupport.com for all your depressing Firefly news. For example, yesterday they posted that UPN has reportedly declined to pick up Firefly. As near as I can tell, that's the show's death knell.

And on another forum, I'm reading that UPN is losing something like $1 million per episode of Buffy, and that Angel isn't doing very well in the ratings either.

I really hope that Joss's star isn't falling; he's the only reason I have cable TV.

Daniel

Angel is doing worse than Buffy in the ratings. I don't see how either should could last through the next round of cancellations.

 

[Ranger REG]

Really? Didn't noticed. I still watched Angel even when they decided to bring back Cordy but as an amnesiac who then shagged Angel's grownup(?) son, Connor. I think a lot of people didn't like that and the fact that everyone is all split up, particularly Wesley going off on his own, and Fred & Gunn are on the verge of breaking up.

The good news(?) is that Joss is now available to help out his two creations.

 

[LrdApoc]

Even with some of the spoiler info I have regarding the rest of the season and the Big Bad, I can't bring myself to watch Angel anymore after the sleeping with Connor thing.. I still get sick just imagining that.


On the Firefly topic: I guess the next target is SciFi, who knows.. but I'd say it's time to hang up those spurs and let the show ride out into the sunset.

 

[Ranger REG]

Well, I can only say that as a thirtysomething, yeah it is way too much for me to see Connor and Cordy doing the cradle-robbing Mrs. Robinson routine.

Then again, any viewers with the same age as Connor might get a kick out of it. Hell, I didn't think Cheryl Ladd and Farrah Fawcett were too old back in the old days.

I still have high hope for Firefly. It's the very reason why I'm playing T20 right now. Then again, perhaps the mainstream are not yet ready for hard sci-fi.

 

[Mistwell]

I still have high hope for Firefly. It's the very reason why I'm playing T20 right now. Then again, perhaps the mainstream are not yet ready for hard sci-fi.

Ummmm...HARD sci-fi? Wasn't the whole theme of the show SOFT sci-fi?

 

[Ranger REG]

Looks like hard sci-fi without the technobabble to me, the way I envision what a Traveller universe would be like, with various tech level societies.

 

[Pielorinho]

Indeed, Sci-Fi channel is the next target. Find out more at www.fireflysupport.com -- although I've got very little hope at this point.

Daniel

 

[Mistwell]

Looks like hard sci-fi without the technobabble to me, the way I envision what a Traveller universe would be like, with various tech level societies.

"Hard sci-fi relies heavily on science fact... to the point of the story collapsing if the science is removed. Soft sci-fi, also known as Psychological sci-fi, deals more with social issues that may arrise in the advent of new technology. Either take can be character or plot driven."

In my opinion, science is not the focus of the show, but social issues are. I really think that was the whole point of the show, in fact (other than character and plot). Hence I think it is soft sci-fi.

 

[Ranger REG]

You could make the same argument for Star Trek when they started doing technobabble since TNG. But I still consider it soft sci-fi.

Let's agree that our opinions varies. You can still do hard sci-fi without having to explain the science in the story (aka technobabble).

 

[Staffan]

Well, I can only say that as a thirtysomething, yeah it is way too much for me to see Connor and Cordy doing the cradle-robbing Mrs. Robinson routine.

Cradle-robbing? Cordy's supposed to be 22 or so, and Connor's supposed to be what, 17-18? That hardly qualifies as cradle-robbing in my book.

Sure, Charisma Carpenter is 30 or so, but Cordy isn't.