Author Topic: Saw Serenity last night. (Read 660 times)

Maniac · « **on:** August 04, 2006, 03:11:34 AM »

And now im gonna pretend that i didnt see the new Starwars movies, and pretend that Serenity was the follow up to the original Starwars movies.

Serenity pretty much OWNED the new Starwars movies.

rpm · « **Reply #1 on:** August 04, 2006, 03:22:08 AM »

The series was pretty freakin' good, too.

CyranoAH · « **Reply #2 on:** August 04, 2006, 04:52:00 AM »

They should give the series a second chance with all the BSG popularity. After all, the FX people are the same

Daniel

Reynolds · « **Reply #3 on:** August 04, 2006, 05:14:16 AM »

I Loved both the movie and the series. I have both on DVD. Whose your favortie charactor? (Oh, and guess what, my name is Reynolds as in Malcom Reynolds!!! Thats where i got the idea)

Nifty · « **Reply #4 on:** August 04, 2006, 09:49:11 AM »

Maniac, you should buy/rent/download the series if you enjoyed the movie.

I'm surprised that SciFi didn't get Whedon to continue the series on SciFi. Then again, maybe FOX is asking for an insane amount of money for the broadcasting rights.

lazs2 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 04, 2006, 10:00:50 AM »

best TV series ever... I didn't watch it on TV but I did buy the DVD of the series and of the movie.... great investment.

lazs

midnight Target · « **Reply #6 on:** August 04, 2006, 11:13:38 AM »

Yep.. way better than BSG...

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lukster · « **Reply #7 on:** August 04, 2006, 11:17:27 AM »

The series was great. I don't know why it failed other than just not enough people knew to watch it. Same for the movie. If it didn't do better on DVD than it did at the box office it's unlikely there will be a sequel.

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #8 on:** August 04, 2006, 11:40:36 AM »

The series failed because Fox screwed the pooch on delivering it and showed the episodes all out of order. I dont think they ever did air all of them. Sci-Fi picked it up but I believe there is some clause preventing anyone from making new episodes. Thats why they made the movie instead. I keep hoping for a sequel to the movie.

Sandman · « **Reply #9 on:** August 04, 2006, 11:59:17 AM »

I paid absolutely no attention to the series until after I saw the movie. I just wasn't interested in Josh Whedon. I expected some sort of sci-fi version of Buffy or Angel.

Firefly has its bright spots and I think it could have grown into a very good series, but all in all I like the movie more. The movie had almost none of the western feel that Whedon tried to inject into the series. Chiwetel Ejiofor would have been an excellent addition. He played one of the more interesting villians that I've seen in a movie in a long time.

lukster · « **Reply #10 on:** August 04, 2006, 12:16:01 PM »

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Originally posted by StarOfAfrica2
The series failed because Fox screwed the pooch on delivering it and showed the episodes all out of order. I dont think they ever did air all of them. Sci-Fi picked it up but I believe there is some clause preventing anyone from making new episodes. Thats why they made the movie instead. I keep hoping for a sequel to the movie.

It definitely appeared that Fox wanted to kill it but I don't think showing the episodes out of order is what did kill it. Do you know of anyone that stopped watching it because of that? I think the space western theme just didn't appeal to many and the lack of publicity/advertising did it in.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #11 on:** August 04, 2006, 12:30:44 PM »

FOX kept moving the time slot around (at least here they did). I had a really difficult time trying to find out when the show would be aired. I ended up missing many of the episodes and finally gave up.

When Sci-Fi picked it up, they locked it in on Friday at 6pm CST and ran them in order.

That was a great series. Pretty creative. The cast was a hoot as well.

Maniac, the series gives you a bit more depth of what, why, and how they ended up where they did. Definately something to watch.

Nilsen · « **Reply #12 on:** August 04, 2006, 12:36:08 PM »

sounds like something id like to see..

thx maniac, ill look it up when i get home

Sabre · « **Reply #13 on:** August 04, 2006, 01:21:07 PM »

Yep, loved the series and the movie. There's no doubt that Fox decided from the get-go that the series should die, IMHO. In fact, until I saw the first movie trailer, I'd never even heard of Firefly. It was like dicovering a band whose music movies you to tears, only to find out they broke up (or the lead singer died or something) before you'd heard of them.

Tarmac · « **Reply #14 on:** August 04, 2006, 01:27:56 PM »

Definately check out the show if you liked the movie. The show is a lot lighter and funnier. I thought the movie was a bit too dark, but they were trying to cram a lot into 2 hrs.