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"It was an incredibly difficult situation to walk into," Minear told Zap2it. "We weren't expecting to fill that position. Just a few months before that, I wasn't expecting to leave, and if [co-creator] David Greenwalt had left under any normal circumstances, I would have been there to shoulder it completely."

But Fox picked up Firefly and Greenwalt left the show to run ABC's Miracles. "We didn't have a wicked lot of time to get to know new people, either before we selected David [Simkins] or after he was on board," Minear said. "He was thrown into the deep end of the pool without any lifeguards, and so, because we didn't have the time to really get in there and break him in, just everybody decided that it wasn't going to work." Writer/producer Jeffrey Bell is picking up some of the slack, "admiraling the day-to-day concerns, but Joss and I are basically running it with everybody," Minear said. "We also have Kelly Manners, who's our on-set producer, who's there for the nuts-and-bolts stuff as well. It's a machine that's running and in place, but at the end of the day, the season arcs and the stories are going to have to be broken by Joss and me and the staff, just like they have been since the beginning of the year, so it's not all that different, in that sense. But I didn't envy David Simkins being put into the middle of that situation, because it's difficult."

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Originally posted by scorpius:
i'm glad simkins left

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