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Originally posted by xardoz:
For me, the only indispensable cast member is Nathan. If Adam has given up hope and moved on to other things, I'm both sad and glad for him.

But until I hear Joss himself tell us to lay down arms, I will hold the line.

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Originally posted by Tinadoll:
Although i am going to guess it was a joke....

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Originally posted by Causal:

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Originally posted by Tinadoll:
Although i am going to guess it was a joke....

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Didn't sound like it to me. Wow...that didn't feel good. He just flat refused to answer Firefly questions.

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Originally posted by cljohnston108:
Gee, I always saw Adam as the most ardent Browncoat among the cast.
I wonder why he felt it necessary to make a Grand Exit from the OB (deleting his account, making a big announcement), rather than just posting less often.

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Originally posted by Causal:
I'd like to see the "big announcement" if anyone happened to grab it.

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From: Selcouth (thymewarp) Jun-10 12:57 pm
To: ALL (1 of 792)


All:

I did intend to leave a farewell post, but the account deleted faster than I expected (which is fine).

So, here goes:

I truly appreciate all of the interesting and thoughtful posts that folks have made over the years, it has been highly informative.

My leaving the O.B. is really is no more complicated than the fact that after five years, it is time.

FF discussions were pretty well done, as far as I could tell.

I'm not much for chit chat threads...

As to polis:

The President has prevailed in the political war against the radical left defeatists and their fellow travelers. The U.S. Military has prevailed in Iraq (the mop up continues).

And since the GOP defeated McCain/Kennedy's huge immigration bill, what's left? A potential SCOTUS replacement? The '08 election? An Air war against Iran. Meh... those things will work out as they work out, I'm not interested in arguing that stuff, cause (a) Mrs. Clinton/Obama won't win (Giuliani, Thompson, or Romney will); the SCOTUS thingy is too esoteric for broad indepth discussions to nowhere & Iran... well, isn't Iran Bush's exit strategy to be completed by his successor? [have fun with that hypothetical "if" (for children)]. ;- )

I've had a blast... and the board was really fun for a lot longer than I ever expected.

Now it's time for to have 'other' fun.

Serenity always,

A.B.
(out)

P.S. Please don't bug Thyme. :- )

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Eric Olsen: I wonder what the odds are that we'll ever get anymore Firefly in some form or another...
Orson Scott Card: Well, I was hoping that you'd be "in the know" on that one!
Eric Olsen: Hehe, unfortunately we have not heard a peep.
Orson Scott Card: Look, the truth is, if Serenity had been a huge runaway hit... Yeah, of course, we'd be seeing sequels out the wazoo. But these actors have to have a life, and they have to be able to go on and make their plans, make their changes. And so, right now, my guess is, that while everybody who was in the cast feels a great nostalgia for their wonderful time on the show, I think it would be very hard now to reassemble the cast. Plus, it's been enough years, some of them are starting to look a little older. So, to reassemble that team, I don't think its even really... unless it can be done immediately, I don't know that it would be worth trying. I think that what we have to say is, "We got those episodes, few as they are. We have this great landmark feature film. And that's enough." It really is enough. What we need now is not more episodes of Firefly, or more sequels to Serenity. We need more Science Fiction, set in different settings, that is just as good. In other words, it's the artistic standard we need to reach — the storytelling standard; the writing standard; the acting standard. Not this exact thing. Y'know, that's one of the things that's been wrong with the influence of film Science Fiction on the genre as a whole: The fans of Star Trek don't want Science Fiction — they just want more Star Trek. The fans of Star Wars don't want Science Fiction — they want more Star Wars. Well, Science Fiction has always thriven on the idea that, "I want something new. I want you to take me to a place I've never been before, and show me a world I've never seen before. Give me experiences that did not exist until you invented them." That's the opposite of what Star Trek fans and Star Wars fans keep demanding. So, there's now a huge section of the bookstore, or several shelves, that are devoted to repetitions of previous experiences. That's not Science Fiction anymore — that's just continuing your addiction to your particular soap opera that just happens to have a guy with pointy ears in it. So, in a way, it would be defeating what Firefly accomplished by continuing to yearn for Firefly, and exactly Firefly, with these actors playing these characters. Instead, what we should be looking for is, what's the next series that's going to be this good that's not going to be formulaic?

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