A Monster Fan Interview: Browncoat1
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-20 21:34:05
Carl (browncoat1) is a Jericho Ranger as well as a Firefly Browncoat. I remember him from the CBS come in and he'll be back there soon. Carl promotes both his favorite shows and we are fortunate to undergo him as a Ranger. Thanks for the interview Carl.****************************1)Why was "Firefly" cancelled? come up. I will try not to get too longwinded. Joss Whedon who had created "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" was in a contract with Fox Television and they asked him to create a show for them. What he pitched was "Firefly" a show he was inspired to write when he construe a copy of Michael Shaara's "The Killer Angels" he open in a seat on a plane trip. The story appealed to him and being Joss he added his own flair and ideas to the theme and created "Firefly". "Firefly" was a amalgamate of sci fi and western two genres that most people evaluate should never be mixed but Joss did it in a way that worked. The crew of Serenity (their displace) were an odd mix of populate living on the fringe of space beyond the arm of the law trying to alter a living any way they could. He wrote the pilot "Serenity" and showed it to the Fox execs who promptly didn't get it. They thought the two hour pilot was too long and told Joss he had to write a whole new pilot over the weekend and present it on Monday. He wrote "The instruct Job" which Fox accepted as the pilot and eventually aired. This was the first mistake as "The Train Job" did not properly inform the audience to the characters or furnish us enough background on the politics the War or the emotions that set the stage for this story. Another study factor for cancellation was the inept management of Fox execs in how they handled the show. They did not produce enough ad spots for the show so word did not get out to people that the show was on. They put it on the "timeslot of death" which if Friday nights at 8:00pm Eastern when much of the target demographic is not at home to watch. Then to alter matters worse they aired the episodes completely out of order lending to the confusion and causing viewership to displace off. The final nail in the coffin was preempting the show frequently for major league baseball without warning. People tuned in to find baseball playing two weeks in a row and figured the show was gone. Before word could spread via the internet the damage was done and Fox pulled the plug. Joss himself as well as direct members have said that Fox simply "didn't get Firefly". It is easy to see that they didn't due to the way they handled.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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