This show will kick all mighty ass. We will watch every episode like addicts. We will LOVE it. Then after ONE season it will be CANCLED. Why? Fox execs are ASSHOLES. They hate things that are not main stream because Fox is run by a bunch of conservative dillhole Republicans. Why do you think a show about rebellion like Fire Fly lasted one season but a show about a do gooder govenment guy like 24 lasts forever even though it is CRAP? FUKK YOU FOX. I hope Fox goes bankrupt.
Brown coats forever!!
I won't even acknowledge axia's absurd post with a response.
Except to say, that while Fox has a history of treating sci-fi shows badly, are they really any worse than NBC (The Event, Knight Rider, Bionic Woman, etc), ABC (FlashForward, Invasion, etc), or CBS (Threshold). I've never really understood why Fox should be singled out among the Big Four as the crappiest of the bunch.
The difference is that The Event, Knight Rider and Bionic Woman sucked and Firefly did not.
The problem with Fierfly is that it was ahead of it's time. It was so different from anything else that the TV execs didn't know what to do with it. They wanted Whedon to repeat his success with Buffy and Angel and the show they got was so unexpected that they were flumoxed by it.
Not that this is an excuse. But I think Fierfly is more of an acquired taste. They were expecting a Big Mac and got fillet with lobster butter and chopped wallnuts instead. They didn't think their fast food audience would want foodie fare. They could have had the next X-Files and wound up with a bad reputation instead.
axia, weren't you the one crying and threatening to leave because people were talking politics ? I guess your senseless diatribes are exempt
Fox actually has green lit some of the most daring "genre" shows for a while, if the ratings don't meet expectations then the axe will fall. It isn't wether they're good or not, it's wether or not people watch them. Terra Nova is a big gamble because of the cost to produce the show, so yeah if it isn't a decent hit I'd expect it to be canned.
Well, I hope the future of genre TV doesn't rest on Tera Nova. The premise doesn't really hook me that much, I'll give it a shot though.
All the networks seem to cancel shows I like, even the pay ones like HBO cut short Carnivale right after I discovered it and got into it. At least Fox has kept Fringe on even if they did move it to Friday.
First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.
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FIVE!
kara,
Well put. I actually gave Firefly a couple episodes when it premiered, but it just wasn't my cup of tea. Admittedly, I never was much of a Whedon fan either, but I went into it with an open mind. But it still failed to lure me in.
Also, I think it's worth noting that Fox nearly did cancel 24 halfway through the first season, but they chose to stick with the show. It didn't really catch ratings fire until about season 4, which if memory serves was similar to The X-Files when it moved to Sunday nights.
Oh yeah, hope Terra Nova does well, but it doesn't really seem like a show I would be that into. Maybe I'll check it out and give it a chance.
On a semi-related note, I have all of the Falling Skies episodes on my DVR. Is it worth watching or should I just delete them and move on? (I thought the first couple of episodes were only so-so).
Millean, watch Falling Skies. I agree that the first coupld of episodes weren't spactacurlar. But I found that it get better with each episode. They left it on such a cliffhanger that I can't wait till next summer to see what happens. And we don't have to worry about it coming back. It apparently had great ratings and is already renewed.
Jackwagon, I actually didn't much care for Firefly at first either. I wanted too. I loved Buffy and Angel. I watched several episodes but it didn't grab me. Only after watching the series rebroadcast on Syfy did I become a fan. Having seen all the spisodes now, the very first one I saw is my least favorite and not quite of the quality of the others IMHO. And the ones that Fox never got around to broadcasting were definitely the best of the bunch. C'est la vie.
Going to watch Terra Nova, hope it's good.
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I guess it is a Land of the Lost rip. I will watch anyway.