EW 'Firefly' Fighter by karenkay99

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EW 'Firefly' Fighter

POSTED BY: KARENKAY99
UPDATED: Sunday, June 6, 2004 16:58
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Sunday, June 6, 2004 5:28 AM

in EW's mail page 10 of the June 11th issue ...

"Unlike many of my fellow Firefly fans, I'm delighted Fox and Joss Whedon have parted company ("The X Factor"). Firefly on Fox meant Firefly scattered over the TV schedule like a mosquito on a windshield, plus commercials. Thanks to fan demand, we have a shiny series of commercial-free DVD's and an upcoming feature film that will kick the goose out of Fox's attempts to kill this fine creation.
Janet ..." etc

goose!! well, we all know you meant go se.

Congratulations Janet!!

"They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger."

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Sunday, June 6, 2004 6:27 AM

ANNIK

Thank you, thank you, thank you very much.

Glad to be of service.

That's me ... aka Annik.

I'm disappointed to see that they interpreted 'go-se' as "goose" ... I mean, really? Although, I guess since Wash had a thing about geese, maybe it's all right after all.

BTW ... so far I've had one person email me directly from the letter ... I've referred her to join all of us here (if she hasn't already).

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

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Sunday, June 6, 2004 6:34 AM

CAPNRAHN

Heh, you prolly got hit by the damnable spell check! go'se = goose.

Happened on Trek - Andor became Andorria. Why? There is a tiny country/province called Andorria somewhere around Spain. A spellcheck 'understood' Andorria and corrected the percived mistake of 'Andor'.

Unbridled and 'unwatched' spellcheck is a BANE!

"Remember, there is only ONE absolute - There ARE NO absolutes!!!"

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Sunday, June 6, 2004 8:09 AM

PURPLEBELLY

Quote:
Originally posted by CapnRahn:
Unbridled and 'unwatched' spellcheck is a BANE!

Unbridled and unwatched: I wonder how Blue Sun's spell checker would resolve that?

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Sunday, June 6, 2004 10:36 AM

SIKKUKUT

So I guess by saying that you're delighted Fox and Joss parted company, you mean that the cancellation may actually have been the best thing? In light of Fox's obvious disregard for the series, I'll give that qualified agreement.

When the show was on, I loved it but missed almost all of the episodes in that piece of goose (ha!) time slot. We would have had to wait years before a DVD allowed us to scruitinize every episode... but then, there'd be reruns, and new episodes, and we'd know a LOT more about these characters and their world. Ugh, if I think about that too hard I'll have to go lie down.

Overall, though, I'd say that while the cancellation is probably the greatest television lineup tragedy in recent memory, it's good to have our wonderful show out of Fox's clutches and flying the 'Verse under its own power.

Thoughts?

Thanks for writing EW, by the way. I think we should put the pressure on them as the BDM approaches and see if we can get them to do a feature. That'd be shiny.

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"You're mean. Firefly's making me reconsider my lifelong devotion to Star Trek." --My mother

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Sunday, June 6, 2004 4:27 PM

ZOID

Sikkukut wrote:

Quote:
Overall, though, I'd say that while the cancellation is probably the greatest television lineup tragedy in recent memory, it's good to have our wonderful show out of Fox's clutches and flying the 'Verse under its own power.

Only problem is, F*x is the reason Firefly can't come back to TV as a series. They've still got the TV rights in their "clutches".

Respectfully,

zoid

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Sunday, June 6, 2004 4:58 PM

ANNIK

Quote:
Originally posted by Sikkukut:
So I guess by saying that you're delighted Fox and Joss parted company, you mean that the cancellation may actually have been the best thing? In light of Fox's obvious disregard for the series, I'll give that qualified agreement.
(snipped)

Thanks for writing EW, by the way. I think we should put the pressure on them as the BDM approaches and see if we can get them to do a feature. That'd be shiny.

I phrased my letter that way based on long experience of getting myself published in various letters to the editor sections ... being the 'dissenting opinion' can get you a long ways sometimes.

Also, note that I got a dig in on the 'sponsors' of the show: the advertisers. F*x had a show that was watched loyally despite their shennanigans, and besides the fans, the big sufferers are the people who pay the freight: the large advertising clients. Being all shiny happy about getting commercial-free DVDs is intended to be a bit of a kick in the pants to those F*x execs who cut out a potentially solid source of long-term revenue, which in the end is all they care about, I'm certain.

In a perfect world, I would've loved to see Firefly continue in TV-land for as long as it could ... regardless of the carrier/sponsor/network. It was damn fine television, as we well know. I mean, who would want to see it de-volve into something like Andromeda became, just to please the F*x suits? Better they just aren't working together, even if it poses enormous logistical hurdles for the rest of us fans.

I've never seen an issue of EW ... I don't even know if it is available in Canada. Do they do features on upcoming movies? If so, then I think you're making an excellent suggestion.

(I got the editorial contact info from another thread where several fans wrote most excellent letters to the editor on the same topic, albeit from a different angle than the one I took.)

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

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