Corona review of Firefly by Novagrass

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Corona review of Firefly

POSTED BY: NOVAGRASS
UPDATED: Saturday, August 31, 2002 10:20
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Friday, August 30, 2002 11:55 AM

Corona Productions, one of my daily-visited web sites, has reviewed the Firefly pilot script (along with seven others). The review is the last one...

http://www.coronaproductions.com/films/loosethread/homepage.html

He likes the script but wonders how well it will do on Fox. While he did seem to like Dark Angel, which I will never understand, he's a very articulate and opinionated guy. It's a good review.

--Dylan Palmer, aka NoVaGrAsS--

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Friday, August 30, 2002 12:41 PM

ZICSOFT

Yeah, this guy is pretty smart. But what are all these shows he's talking about that I've never heard of?

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Friday, August 30, 2002 1:06 PM

NOVAGRASS

Quote:
Originally posted by Zicsoft:
Yeah, this guy is pretty smart. But what are all these shows he's talking about that I've never heard of?

They're most likely cable shows... I believe Kingpin will air on FX.

I'm disappointed that we'll probably never see "Paranormal Girl." It looks like a great show. Alas, we're forced to stomach "The Grubbs" instead.

--Dylan Palmer, aka NoVaGrAsS--

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Friday, August 30, 2002 8:54 PM

HAKEN

Likes to mess with stuffs.

The thing I have to wonder is how popular a Western--minus the Sci-Fi angle--will be to the average viewing audience? A purely Western series hasn't been on TV for a very long time for a good reason--the genre has even a smaller niche than Sci-Fi.

The last Western series I saw on TV, if memory serves me right, was Lonesome Dove: The Series staring Scott Bairstow. The series, although good in my book, was cancelled due to low ratings after a season.

Oh, and there's also The Adventures of Brisco County Jr., and we all know what happened to that series.

If the sci-fi half of Firefly doesn't deter viewership, one has to wonder whether the Western half can sustain the series for any length of time.

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Saturday, August 31, 2002 12:16 AM

CHARLIEBLUE

Quote:
Originally posted by Haken:
The thing I have to wonder is how popular a Western--minus the Sci-Fi angle--will be to the average viewing audience? A purely Western series hasn't been on TV for a very long time for a good reason--the genre has even a smaller niche than Sci-Fi.

The last Western series I saw on TV, if memory serves me right, was Lonesome Dove: The Series staring Scott Bairstow. The series, although good in my book, was cancelled due to low ratings after a season.

Oh, and there's also The Adventures of Brisco County Jr., and we all know what happened to that series.

Don't forget that five-episode UPN series with Q from Star Trek.

But seriously, I think that's why Fox started with that "New Blood" campaign. They knew that it was a risky show, but they also knew that's what got Joss Whedon famous in the first place. So they wanted to point out that here's a guy who can take a crazy idea and turn it into a masterpiece.

Personally, I think Firefly has a fair chance except for one thing--the budget. When a network pours this much into a show, you know they're going to be extra-skittish. I almost wish they'd started it on a shoestring budget like Buffy.

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Saturday, August 31, 2002 12:46 AM

CHARLIEBLUE

By the way, I feel like pointing out that if you're interested in Paranormal Girl seeing the light of day, you should write to ABC. It'll show them that there's some interest in the show, and I figure it can't hurt anything. I thought it sounded good, so I already have.

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Saturday, August 31, 2002 9:37 AM

MOJOECA

I think there was also a short-lived "Magnificent Seven" tv series. Or was that a tv movie? Can't remember.

--- Joe

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Saturday, August 31, 2002 10:10 AM

ZICSOFT

Quote:
Originally posted by CharlieBlue:
By the way, I feel like pointing out that if you're interested in Paranormal Girl seeing the light of day, you should write to ABC. It'll show them that there's some interest in the show, and I figure it can't hurt anything. I thought it sounded good, so I already have.

Reasonable idea. But note that email campaigns and internet petitions have become so common they're pretty ineffective. If you want to be noticed, send a physical letter.

ABC, Inc.
500 S. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521-4551

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Saturday, August 31, 2002 10:20 AM

ZICSOFT

Quote:
Originally posted by mojoeca:
I think there was also a short-lived "Magnificent Seven" tv series. Or was that a tv movie? Can't remember.

--- Joe

Syndicated series. Kind of a a corny bastardization of the movie, which was itself a carny bastardization of Kurozawa's The Seven Samurai. Which was itself a open imitation of American westerns!

I remember back in the mid-80s, when producers realized that satellite time had gotten so cheap that you no longer needed a network just to make your programming available to any TV station that wanted it. So all of a sudden weekend and late night TV was full of unusual stuff. Most of it crap, of course, but there was the odd show, like Monsters or Throb that was imaginative enough to kill a half-hour pleasantly, and no chance on a big network.

Then all the big studios started their own networks, and the market for syndicated shows dried up. Welcome to the "free" market!

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