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Iron Crowned posted:I think the last time I saw someone in the wild who was openly still pining for Firefly to come back was 2013, which seems like a very long time to hang onto some false hope like that. Like I can understand like 2 or 3 years, but once you hit the decade mark, it's just plain sad. Imagine people today in the Year of our Lord 2021 clamoring for more Terra Nova, which was also a sci fi show on Fox with one season ten years ago, in such numbers that you could stumble into them in casual conversation.
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marshmallow creep posted:Imagine people today in the Year of our Lord 2021 clamoring for more Terra Nova, which was also a sci fi show on Fox with one season ten years ago, in such numbers that you could stumble into them in casual conversation. I think the key difference is that Terra Nova was basically an Avatar ripoff, so in a way we actually are getting more Terra Nova, unlike Firefly.
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It had a reputation for being a show that was unfairly treated by fox, so much so that it became a kind of shorthand for the phenomenon of shows being dumped into bad timeslots and left to die. I think more people took it up as a banner for the larger practice of networks killing shows through neglect than liked it just on the quality of the show itself. Of course, a lot of that has now fallen away because Firefly did get another chance as a movie (that failed) and fox made a very visible effort to support niche science fiction for a while, like with the multiseason guarantee they gave Fringe and arguably through the choice to give it a fourth season, along with giving a second season to the Sarah Connor Chronicles and probably some other shows. Ultimately, networks just stopped filling the Friday-night death slot with any kind of drama. And of course live first-run broadcast for network tv is kind of dead now anyway, or soon will be.
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Apr 28, 2021 18:14
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For a show about dinosaurs, Terra Nova was boring as hell
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marshmallow creep posted:Imagine people today in the Year of our Lord 2021 clamoring for more Terra Nova, which was also a sci fi show on Fox with one season ten years ago, in such numbers that you could stumble into them in casual conversation. I am still waiting for more Space: Above and Beyond.
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Apr 28, 2021 18:33
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Iron Crowned posted:For a show about dinosaurs, Terra Nova was boring as hell
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MH Knights posted:I am still waiting for more Space: Above and Beyond. I was going to post this before I saw your post so just pretend I empty quoted. That show ruled.
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i never watched it on syfy so im part of the problem but they did sliders dirty
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:It had a reputation for being a show that was unfairly treated by fox, so much so that it became a kind of shorthand for the phenomenon of shows being dumped into bad timeslots and left to die. I feel like Family Guy was that show, and its successful revival gave Firefly fans a model to go by and hope to keep clinging on so long. And Space Above and Beyond ruled.
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Apr 28, 2021 19:26
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The independent theatre in my hometown would show Firefly episodes. They’d also do a sing-a-long of that Buffy episode thats a musical I guess. That was several years ago though. I never went of course. I went and saw that Sherlock Christmas special in a theater for something to do. Which was about the time so started to realize how much I hated the show.
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Apr 28, 2021 19:52
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MH Knights posted:I am still waiting for more Space: Above and Beyond. I'm holding out for an Earth 3 myself.
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Casimir Radon posted:The independent theatre in my hometown would show Firefly episodes. They’d also do a sing-a-long of that Buffy episode thats a musical I guess. That was several years ago though. I never went of course. I feel like that was an astroturf attempt to recapture the lightening in a bottle that was the Rocky Horror Picture Show showings that were everywhere in the 80's and 90's. I seem to recall hearing that there were a few places that did that with that particular Buffy episode in I think the mid-00's Schwarzwald posted:I'm holding out for an Earth 3 myself. 
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Dinosaurs! posted:I feel like Family Guy was that show, and its successful revival gave Firefly fans a model to go by and hope to keep clinging on so long. If I could rewrite history I think I'd rather Firefly have been picked back up for a second chance over Family Guy, honestly.
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Apr 28, 2021 20:20
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Vandar posted:If I could rewrite history I think I'd rather Firefly have been picked back up for a second chance over Family Guy, honestly. But then we wouldn't have the Orville
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Firefly reboot but Seth MacFarlane makes it.
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Family Guy reboot, but Joss Whedon is eaten by lions.
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Vandar posted:If I could rewrite history I think I'd rather Firefly have been picked back up for a second chance over Family Guy, honestly. Madness. Firefly is remembered fondly mainly because it ended before it could overstay it's welcome
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marshmallow creep posted:Firefly reboot but Seth MacFarlane makes it. I feel like that's an unironic upgrade so why not.
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Apr 28, 2021 23:44
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The two one-season sci-fi shows I loved as a kid were Invasion and Surface. Really creepy, at least to kid me, and clearly setting up for longer stories, but both canceled.
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Cythereal posted:The two one-season sci-fi shows I loved as a kid were Invasion and Surface. Really creepy, at least to kid me, and clearly setting up for longer stories, but both canceled. I started The River but got distracted by life and then it got cancelled so I never bothered to finish it There was another that was about all of earth blacking out at the same time and WHAT HAPPENED?! Personally I still miss Reaper
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Apr 29, 2021 00:53
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Len posted:There was another that was about all of earth blacking out at the same time and WHAT HAPPENED?! Depending on how you interpret "all" in that sentence, you could be talking about either FlashForward or Revolution.
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Iron Crowned posted:For a show about dinosaurs, Terra Nova was boring as hell It had to juggle dinosaurs, family drama, sci-fi dystopia, and mysteries.
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MH Knights posted:I am still waiting for more Space: Above and Beyond.
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Doggles posted:Depending on how you interpret "all" in that sentence, you could be talking about either FlashForward or Revolution. Flashforward. I remember it had an asian lead that i thought was daniel dae kim but that was the andromeda strain miniseries
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I suddenly remember Helix and Prey, two shows about a newly-discovered human species. Did either finish properly?
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The MSJ posted:I suddenly remember Helix and Prey, two shows about a newly-discovered human species. Did either finish properly? Helix did not. It got SUPER weird in season 2 with secret cult island a split storyline taking place in the present and like 70 years into the future (which was fine because half the cast were immortal.)
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muscles like this! posted:Helix did not. It got SUPER weird in season 2 with secret cult island a split storyline taking place in the present and like 70 years into the future (which was fine because half the cast were immortal.) I remember Helix was heavily promoted as Ronald D. Moore's return to Syfy, but then he seemingly didn't have any actual involvement with the show.
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Cythereal posted:The two one-season sci-fi shows I loved as a kid were Invasion and Surface. Really creepy, at least to kid me, and clearly setting up for longer stories, but both canceled. The funniest cancellation was 'Residue,' a netflix series that had a three episode first season. The issue was that those three episodes had as much plot as a single pilot episode, so we finally finish the fairly intriguing and dramatic set up and the season ends before anything can happen. I wonder if it had some weird behind the scenes stuff, like it was originally just a pilot but it got stretched or something. Genuinely interesting set up and I do want to know what would have happened.
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A lot of TV shows are bad with presenting a famous director as being behind the show when they barely do anything, see also pretty much any TV series Spielberg has been involved with.
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From the mind of a guy who knew a guy who paid a bunch of money got the rights to say Quentin Tarantino!
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muscles like this! posted:A lot of TV shows are bad with presenting a famous director as being behind the show when they barely do anything, see also pretty much any TV series Spielberg has been involved with. 
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im surprised Ready Player One didn't declare it the greatest game of the 2000s
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:It had to juggle dinosaurs, family drama, sci-fi dystopia, and mysteries. I watched all the way through the first season of Terra Nova because I'm a completist idiot and it really felt like they started loving with the audience at the end because they knew they weren't going to be renewed . "Oh look here's a 18th century sailing ship back in dinosaur times, that's right we were going to do dinosaurs versus pirates but now you don't get to see it, gently caress you and goodbye"
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Alan Smithee posted:im surprised Ready Player One didn't declare it the greatest game of the 2000s Funny enough, at least in the book, one of the very very few post-1980s thing that gets referenced in Ready Player One is Firefly. The main character's ship he uses in the VR world is the Firefly ship. I also think it's funny that there's a point where they specify there are only six Star Wars movies, but a ton of Indiana Jones sequels.
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Chairman Capone posted:I remember Helix was heavily promoted as Ronald D. Moore's return to Syfy, but then he seemingly didn't have any actual involvement with the show. The secret to telling how much influence he had is whether or not it devolved into onanistic theological bollocks.
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Cael posted:From the mind of a guy who knew a guy who paid a bunch of money got the rights to say Quentin Tarantino! With an unknown director
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I watched all the way through the first season of Terra Nova because I'm a completist idiot and it really felt like they started loving with the audience at the end because they knew they weren't going to be renewed . "Oh look here's a 18th century sailing ship back in dinosaur times, that's right we were going to do dinosaurs versus pirates but now you don't get to see it, gently caress you and goodbye" Just play Smash Up.
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marshmallow creep posted:Imagine people today in the Year of our Lord 2021 clamoring for more Terra Nova, which was also a sci fi show on Fox with one season ten years ago, in such numbers that you could stumble into them in casual conversation. The 10 years anniversary of Terriers cancellation passed last year and meeting other people remembering Terriers (mainly people who read Sepinwall and av club back then, you know) is a joy fatherboxx fucked around with this message at 09:35 on Apr 29, 2021 |
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Boom Blox was pretty great though, and Spielberg usually gets involved with games he gets attached to. Too bad his alien action game got cancelled.
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Len posted:There was another that was about all of earth blacking out at the same time and WHAT HAPPENED?! It was because HE WAS LOADED! OKAY!?!?
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