Fox greenlights ANOTHER Sci-Fi Western...so they can POOP ON IT!
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NaboCaneNew MemberOPAs announced earlier this week, the powers that be over at Fox have given the go-ahead to a sci-fi Western pilot. Seems a mite strange, given that Fox completely mishandled the last sci-fi Western they tried to air just a few years back. Not only did Fox cancel the short-lived Joss Whedon series Firefly, but they also aired episodes out of order and generally ignored the show's rabid fanbase. What's to say they won't pull the same antics with a new, similarly themed show?
So...
After totally screwing over the best series of its genre EVER, Fox now wants to...what? Wipe its corporate ass with yet another show?
They repeatedly consign their best and most original programming to their Friday night gulag; they interfere with creative staff, air episodes out of order - or not at all - and apparently now they will do it again.
Fox is the corporate equivalent of a remorseless bastard who adopts puppies from the Humane Society, only to feed them to his fighting dog.
I liked Firefly and Serenity, but Joss Whedon went out of his way to make it difficult for a casual viewer to get interested in the series.
- Ensemble cast
- mixed genres
- moral ambiguity
- an enigma (Summer Glau) diverting plotlines every which way
Compare that to the first series of Blakes 7, an earlier re-do of Jason and the Argonauts in space. Blakes 7 took 3 or 4 episodes to introduce and collect the crew together before sending them off on their adventures. Blakes 7 had its own problems to do with being put together on the cheap, but it was easy to slide into and got through four full seasons and completed its plot arc.
DrAstroZoomluxury_box"Pauly wrote:
I liked Firefly and Serenity, but Joss Whedon went out of his way to make it difficult for a casual viewer to get interested in the series.
- Ensemble cast
- mixed genres
- moral ambiguity
- an enigma (Summer Glau) diverting plotlines every which wayCompare that to the first series of Blakes 7, an earlier re-do of Jason and the Argonauts in space. Blakes 7 took 3 or 4 episodes to introduce and collect the crew together before sending them off on their adventures. Blakes 7 had its own problems to do with being put together on the cheap, but it was easy to slide into and got through four full seasons and completed its plot arc.
If Fox would have showed the episodes in order, the show would have been much easier for fans to grab. As to your other complaints, I thought they were four big strengths of the show.
This new show is just a joke. FU Fox.
Machforum_veteranThey repeatedly consign their best and most original programming to their Friday night gulag; they interfere with creative staff, air episodes out of order - or not at all - and apparently now they will do it again.
It's nice to see that since at least Sliders, Fox has always sucked with giving anything remotely worth it's weight a good chance. Some things never change.
I loved Firefly, it's just a shame it was never more than about 11 episodes long. Sci-Fi channel plays it sometimes. On weekend they played the whole series from beginning to end.
NaboCaneNew Member"finsincebirth wrote:
I loved Firefly, it's just a shame it was never more than about 11 episodes long. Sci-Fi channel plays it sometimes. On weekend they played the whole series from beginning to end.
Lightning in a bottle. You're right, it is a shame that it was on Fox and they mangled it the way they did.
If any of the great TV series from the past had been on this network, they might not have lasted a season either; imagine how they would have treated The Mary Tyler Moore Show, or All in the Family...!
"DrAstroZoom wrote:
If Fox would have showed the episodes in order, the show would have been much easier for fans to grab. As to your other complaints, I thought they were four big strengths of the show.
This new show is just a joke. FU Fox.
Not complaints. I loved the show, but when you pile complexity on complexity you make it very difficult to get people other than hard core fans into the show.
Also for the casual viewer, not geeks who sit at home watching TV every Friday night because they have no social life, putting the series on out of order makes no real difference because they're not watching every episode anyway.
Buffy's first two seasons were much more accessible to the casual viewer before it got impenetrable.
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