Firefly Discussion (Merged)

[Villano]

Aaargh!

According to Scifi.com:

"The Matrix star Laurence Fishburne wed Firefly actress Gina Torres last weekend. The couple exchanged vows in New York City on Sept. 29."

No, not the woman I love!

Oh, well, at least she married someone cool.

Sigh. She still has the most perfect face I've ever seen.

 

[Villano]

Re: Crap!

On the east coast, did it air early (before the game)? I like the series and I'd hate to think I missed an episode (especially if the series is cancelled, since I doubt that they'd show them in reruns).

If it didn't air here, does anyone know if it's been rescheduled?

If you had a baseball game on Fox instead of the show Friday night, check Fox now; in my area Firefly is showing.

It's listed as being from 5pm to 6, but I turned it on right at 5:00 and it looks like it's been on for a while (it might have started at 4:30).

I wonder if this is a one-shot deal or if they'll be doing reruns on Sundays (I recall a few other shows doing that in the past).

 

[Villano]

Re: Re: Crap!

If you had a baseball game on Fox instead of the show Friday night, check Fox now; in my area Firefly is showing.

It's listed as being from 5pm to 6, but I turned it on right at 5:00 and it looks like it's been on for a while (it might have started at 4:30).

I wonder if this is a one-shot deal or if they'll be doing reruns on Sundays (I recall a few other shows doing that in the past).

Argh! It looks like it aired from 4:15 to 5:15. Good job getting that schedule right, Direct TV. You were only off by 45 minutes.

There was a commercial for the next Firefly "in two weeks", but I didn't catch if they were advertising it for a Friday night or Sunday afternoon.

 

[JacktheRabbit]

The only thing I can think of is the show is set in a stelar cluster of stars. That or they recycled the writers from Battlestar Galactica.

Here's something odd I just noticed: if you listen during the opening sequence of the show, it seems that the whole series is taking place in a single solar system with literally hundreds of planets. That's a rather interesting setup; no "warp drive" or "hyperspace engines" necessary for the spacecraft, and enough different planets available (I'm assuming the majority of them support life) to last the show for years. I don't think I've ever seen a show with a setup like this, although it seems to me I've read a novel by (memory failing me now...A. E. van Vogt?) with a hundred planets or so all in a single system.

I love the theme song, too. "You can't take the sky from me" - what a great line.

Johnathan

 

[Whodat]

Production numbers

Looking at the production numbers listed in the episode guide, it appears that FOX is showing the episodes out of sequence. Not yet having seen these episodes, I’m wondering why they are airing some before others. I’m also wondering if we’ll ever get to see the two-hour pilot.

In the U.S. a television show typically has between 22 and 24 episodes in a season. So far it seems that only the first seven episodes have even been filmed. (To ensure a spoiler-free post, I didn’t list the names of the episodes that have not yet aired.)

1. “The Train Job” (Series Premier) - Episode 1AGE01
2. “Bushwacked” - Episode 1AGE02
3. “Our Mrs. Reynolds” - Episode 1AGE05
4. 1AGE06
5. 1AGE07
6. 1AGE03
7. 1AGE04
8. (Untitled) 1AGE08
9. (Untitled) 1AGE09
10. (Untitled) 1AGE10
11. (Untitled) 1AGE11

An interesting footnote:
Episode #3 “Our Mrs. Reynolds”, which generally is considered the best episode so far, was written by Joss Whedon.

And just in case anybody is wondering, I have no idea why the production numbers for these episodes have the “1AGE” prefix. Perhaps 1 is the season number. That is speculation on my part, however.

 

[Whodat]

The Nielsen ratings for the week of September 30 – October 6 are in…

Firefly, this week:
Overall rating: 3.3
Rank: # 89

*sigh* I wish I had some good news to report. Believe it or not, I actually like this show. But I’m afraid that if its numbers keep slipping, it may not be too long before they pull the plug.

 

[Mistwell]

The Nielsen ratings for the week of September 30 – October 6 are in…

Firefly, this week:
Overall rating: 3.3
Rank: # 89

*sigh* I wish I had some good news to report. Believe it or not, I actually like this show. But I’m afraid that if its numbers keep slipping, it may not be too long before they pull the plug.

Is there some way to see the entire nielsen ratings each week? I'm curious what shows are on the air still that are doing worse than FireFly.

 

[Villano]

Is there some way to see the entire nielsen ratings each week? I'm curious what shows are on the air still that are doing worse than FireFly.

http://www.sfgate.com/tvradio/nielsens/

FireFly did better than Buffy and Angel. Unfortunately, it looks like it's still Fox's lowest rated show.

Push, Nevada and That Was Then have been put on hiatus, so it looks like the time when networks start axing shows has rolled around. I guess we'll be finding out FireFly's fate soon.

With FireFly, I'm reminded of both The Flash and Brisco County, Jr, two shows which got their legs cut off before being given a real chance.

Flash was put up against The Simpsons and The Cosby Show, then bounced around so much it rarely aired twice in the same time slot. On top of that, the Gulf War interrupted several episodes.

As a result, the ratings looked bad and it was canned.

If it was given a 2nd season and a regular time slot, I'm sure it would've succeeded and lasted a few more seasons.

And Brisco outdrew SeaQuest (at a time when Fox had much less stations than the other networks) and was cancelled while SeaQuest lumbered on for another season or two.

Brisco was replaced by M.A.N.T.I.S., the superhero show that Sam Raimi produced, which then went on to finish dead last in the ratings week after week.

M.A.N.T.I.S. also holds the record as having the stupidest finale ever. He battles an invisible dinosaur and blows himself up to kill it (taking his girlfriend with him...great superheroing there, chief ).

And, remember, kids, whenever you see a tv show in which the villain is invisible and it takes place in the woods, it means they ran out of money two episodes ago.

Fox probably wished that they gave Brisco a 2nd season since it literally couldn't have done worse than its replacement.

I hope they keep that in mind when reviewing FireFly.

 

[Whodat]

Is there some way to see the entire nielsen ratings each week? I'm curious what shows are on the air still that are doing worse than FireFly.

Or try this:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/tv/

Silly name, but it is a pretty good site.

Come to think of it... I should have been using it to track Farscape's ratings. D'oh!

 

[Heretic Apostate]

With FireFly, I'm reminded of both The Flash and Brisco County, Jr, two shows which got their legs cut off before being given a real chance.

Flash was put up against The Simpsons and The Cosby Show, then bounced around so much it rarely aired twice in the same time slot. On top of that, the Gulf War interrupted several episodes.

And Brisco outdrew SeaQuest (at a time when Fox had much less stations than the other networks) and was cancelled while SeaQuest lumbered on for another season or two.

Brisco was replaced by M.A.N.T.I.S., the superhero show that Sam Raimi produced, which then went on to finish dead last in the ratings week after week.

I don't remember the Flash. Was it THE Flash? As in, the fastest man alive? Or some other guy?

As for Brisco, I LOVED that show. Brisco and Lord Bowler, they were great! I seem to remember some woman, as well. But when it got all techno-temporal, it started going downhill.

I was enjoying the anachronistic western feel of it, but when you start in time travel and stuff, that's a bit too weird.

Are you sure it was only one season?