Firefly was cancelled 10 years ago today...

[Night Fury]

Man, that show had so much potential :(
Lets make this a Firefly tribute thread, favourite quotes, moments, pictures and clips!

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[Chris]

"...I'm liable to sleep with him myself."

Was watching this as my friend walked in, and she thought Mal was gay. Mal, the manliest man of all men.

[Shorty]

"You are going to be cleaning out latrines with your face if you don't cut that out."

[Night Fury]

In fact, to mark this special occasion I am going to rep anyone who posts something Firefly related in this thread.

[Bunny]

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I want to make this but I don't have the patience nor the setup to do so.

In celebration of the semester ending and to mark this horrible, horrible day, I am tempted to rewatch the series in its entirety... but ain't nobody got time for that. Maybe I will watch it slowly.

[Night Fury]

"I can kill you with my brain...."

[Balzac]

Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don't push me, and I won't push you. Dong le ma?

[Slothy]

Zoe: Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killin'?
Book: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.

I love wikiquote sometimes.

[The Man]

<span style="color: #38e897;">Wash [as Stegosaurus]:</span> Yes... yes. This is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... This Land.
<span style="color: #38e897;">Wash [as Allosaurus]:</span> I think we should call it... your grave!
<span style="color: #38e897;">Wash [as Stegosaurus]:</span> Ah! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
<span style="color: #38e897;">Wash [as Allosaurus]:</span> Ha ha ha! Mine is an evil laugh! Now DIE!
<span style="color: #38e897;">Wash [as Stegosaurus]:</span> Oh no, God, oh dear God in heaven...

Also I have a clip somewhere with a Fox exec's name on it. (Not really)

[Jinx]

http://i767.photobucket.com/albums/xx313/CKToffy/Fireflies.jpg

give me my rep

[The Man]

<strong style="color: #38e897;">Sir Warrick:[/b] I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life.
<strong style="color: #38e897;">Mal:[/b] And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.

[Night Fury]

Denied TB.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FKFLJmOQ50

[The Man]

<strong style="color: #38e897;">Mal:[/b] They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself.

[Night Fury]

Jayne: "Not as deceiving as a low down dirty.... deceiver!"

[The Man]

<strong style="color: #38e897;">Mal:[/b] Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carryin' a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is, die of old age before it finds you.

[Night Fury]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmU-Bmk4Wrk - The Man :monster:

You know I think our very own Jiro is a bit like a Captain Mal.
And of course Shorty and Rantz are Zoe and Wash!

[The Man]

That's great :monster:

<strong style="color: #38e897;">Mal:[/b] Girl knows things. Things she shouldn't. Things she couldn't.
<strong style="color: #38e897;">Jayne:[/b] What, are you— are you sayin' she's a witch?
<strong style="color: #38e897;">Wash:[/b] [sarcastically] Yes, Jayne. She's a witch. She has had congress with the beast.
<strong style="color: #38e897;">Jayne:[/b] She's in Congress?
<strong style="color: #38e897;">Wash:[/b] How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious.

[Shorty]

http://i767.photobucket.com/albums/xx313/CKToffy/Fireflies.jpg

give me my rep

I swear by my pretty floral bonnet I will end you. :colbert:

[The Man]

tbh, Owl City doesn't belong on the same planet as Firefly :doublecolbert:

<strong style="color: #38e897;">Wash:[/b] Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
<strong style="color: #38e897;">Zoe:[/b] We live in a spaceship, dear.
<strong style="color: #38e897;">Wash:[/b] So?

[Slothy]

Early: You ever been shot?
Simon: No.
Early: You oughta be shot. Or stabbed. Lose a leg. To be a surgeon, you know? Know what kind of pain you're dealing with. They make psychiatrists get psychoanalyzed before they can get certified, but they don't make a surgeon get cut on. That seem right to you?

[Shorty]

Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned?
Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.

[The Man]

<strong style="color: #38e897;">Wash:[/b] Can I mop your brow? I am at the ready with the fearsome brow mop.

[Slothy]

Early: Where'd she go?
Simon: I can't keep track of her when she's not incorporeally possessing a spaceship; don't look at me.
. . .
Early: I only hurt people 'cause they keep gettin' in the way of me finding you. [points his gun at Simon] Tell her.
Simon: What am I, your advocate?
Early: You are, starting now.
Simon: [deadpan] He's really very… gentle, and fuzzy. We're becoming fast friends.
[River/Serenity giggles.]
Early: You folks are all insane.
Simon: Well… my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

[The Man]

<strong style="color: #38e897;">Mal:[/b] Nothing worse than a monster who thinks he's right with God.
. . .
<strong style="color: #38e897;">Nandi:[/b] Captain Reynolds, it took me years to cut this piece of territory out of other men's hands, to build this business up from nothing.
<strong style="color: #38e897;">Mal:[/b] Nandi...
<strong style="color: #38e897;">Nandi:[/b] It's who I am, and it's my home. I'm not going anywhere.
. . .
<strong style="color: #38e897;">Mal:[/b] Well, lady, I must say—you're my kinda stupid.

[Shorty]

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[Rantz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmU-Bmk4Wrk - The Man :monster:

Dammit I came here to post that!

Community loves Firefly - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ywXIhGo2Ns)

[The Man]

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[Araciel]

I started my marathon on the new projector in my basement. I'm hoping to get to Out Of Gas tonight.

[Shorty]

Jealous of your goddamn projector :(

[Night Fury]

Jealous of your goddamn projector :(

No you are not.

You are jealous of his gorram projector

[Quindiana Jones]

Mal: Do you wanna run this ship?!
Jayne: Yes!
Mal: ...well... you can't...

[The Man]

<strong style="color: #38e897;">Book:[/b] I've been out of the abbey two days. I've beaten a lawman senseless. I've fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect. And I'm not even sure if I think he was wrong. I believe... I just... I think I'm on the wrong ship.
<strong style="color: #38e897;">Inara:[/b] Maybe. Or maybe you're exactly where you ought to be.

[Quindiana Jones]

Zoe: Proximity alert. Must be coming up on something.
Wash: Oh, my God. What can it be? We're all doomed! Who's flyin' this thing?!
Zoe: :|
Wash: Oh right, that would be me.

[Tigmafuzz]

I have all the episodes on dvd :bigsmile:

Mal: Shouldn't you be off bringing religiosity to the fuzzy-wuzzies or some such?
Book: Oh, I've got heathens aplenty right here.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Mal: "Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find but it was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really, it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting."

They should have let Jayne be violent more.

[Quindiana Jones]

Jayne: Oh, I ain't goin' over there with them bodies. No rutting way. Not if reavers messed with 'em.
Zoe: Jayne - you'll scare the women. :|

[Del Murder]

Do you think there's any chance of this series getting some kind of reunion like Arrested Development did? At least AD got 3 seasons. Canceling Firefly before even a single season aired was one of the biggest mistakes ever made in television.

[The Captain]

Never heard of this show. May have to check it out.



Take care all.

[Bunny]

Nathan Fillion has joked that if he could afford it and had the opportunity, he'd buy the rights to Firefly and start making it in his basement or something. It's a nice sentiment, but it wouldn't work since most of the actors are busy with other shows and Whedon is more or less done with TV.

[Shorty]

I have to agree with Bunny. Maybe if it was sooner and not ten years ago. I just don't think it would be the same, like I don't think Arrested Development will be the same.

[Formalhaut]

So, why exactly was this show cancelled? For all intents and purposes it sounds amazing, yet it got cancelled. Why?

[Aulayna]

One word: FOX

Clarifying sentence: Are idiots.

[Bunny]

So, why exactly was this show cancelled? For all intents and purposes it sounds amazing, yet it got cancelled. Why?

The easy answer is that Fox did absolutely everything wrong.

The actual answer is more than that, though Fox screwed the pooch in a significant manner. They marketed it incorrectly, they aired the episodes out of order, and provided no real help for it in general. It wasn't a critical hit right away, which is something that big companies like Fox take note of, and it didn't catch a big enough audience for a show in the time slot that it was in. It could not compete with the rest of the shows airing at the time it aired, so it was canceled.

Another reason is, at least in my imagination, is that Fox thought they were getting another Buffy or Angel from Whedon. Instead they were handed this oddly themed show that was hard for audiences and critics to wrap their heads around from the get go, which is something you need to do with a show on a major network.

It does amuse me that the people responsible for canceling Firefly got fired though.

[Formalhaut]

So if it's so great, why can't another network take it up?

[Aulayna]

Because it got cancelled after only a handful of episodes so didn't look attractive to other networks. Also see the point about it not being as carbon copy of Buffy/Angel which confused critics thus making it less attractive to other networks.

[Shorty]

Also because it's ten years old :(

[Rostum]

I love Firefly. :(

[Formalhaut]

Given the huge cult following it seems to possess now, surely 10 years on networks will smell the coffee and take it up for a reboot?

[Shorty]

I think it's best to let sleeping dogs lie with this one.

[The Man]

I'd still like to see a reboot, but I dunno if it'll happen :(

<strong style="color: #38e897;">Zoe:[/b] I know something ain't right.
<strong style="color: #38e897;">Wash:[/b] Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

[Bunny]

So if it's so great, why can't another network take it up?

If I'm not mistaken, Fox owns the rights to the show and will not sell it to other companies for whatever reason. In addition, all of the actors, as well as Whedon, are busy doing their own things and so it would be difficult to get them all together again. I think the best thing people can hope for is continued cast reunions.

On a side note, Whedon filmed a version of Much Ado About Nothing which has almost everyone in Firefly in various parts. So there is that.

[Bubba]

"Sir, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing"

I only got into Firefly when I was in hospital earlier this year. It is staggering the lack of foresight Fox had with this show. It's a shame it didn't have a bit more luck.

I remember Red Dwarf had even worse viewing figures for it's first series than Firefly and was likely to be cancelled. It just got lucky. Some executive at the BBC was leaving and thought to himself "What's the biggest pile of crap I can sanction to make the next guy's job even worse?" He actually commisioned a second series of Red Dwarf before the first series had even aired.

If only they ran a similar ship over at FOX as they did at the BBC...

[Quindiana Jones]

Don't fret, Bubba. I'm sure there are plenty of paedophiles at Fox, as well.

[Bubba]

Now then, now then, now then, Quin...

[escobert]

Good show and movie. been too long since I've seen it know remember any quotes.

[The Man]

<strong style="color: #38e897;">Kaylee:[/b] ...goin' on a year now I ain't had nothin' 'twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries!
<strong style="color: #38e897;">Mal:[/b] [not a little shocked] Oh, God! I can't know that!
<strong style="color: #38e897;">Jayne:[/b] I could stand to hear a little more.

[Shlup]

The Firefly comics have been sitting in my nightstand drawer for years. I haven't read them because I know that, once I do, it's really over. :cry:

[Quindiana Jones]

I hate the film for that very reason, Shlup. :(

[Shlup]

WHY DOES SHEPARD BOOK HAVE HIGH LEVEL CLEARANCE TWO BY TWO HANDS OF BLUUUUEEEEEE

[Shorty]

I hate the movie because of a painful crime that was committed near the very end of the film :(

[The Man]

That's why I haven't read the comics too :<

<strong style="color: #38e897;">Simon:[/b] In all that time on the ship... I've always regretted... not being with you.
<strong style="color: #38e897;">Kaylee:[/b] With me? You mean to say... as in sex?
<strong style="color: #38e897;">Simon:[/b] I mean to say.
<strong style="color: #38e897;">Kaylee:[/b] To Hell with this. I'm gonna live!

[escobert]

I hate the movie because of a painful crime that was committed near the very end of the film :(
Yes I agree :(

[The Man]

I'm still pissed off that they killed Book and Wash. :< Then again, that's Whedon for you.

[Shorty]

The second one is the tragedy I'm referring to but yes, you are correct.

[Shlup]

That's why I haven't read the comics too :<

<strong style="color: #38e897;">Simon:</strong> In all that time on the ship... I've always regretted... not being with you.
<strong style="color: #38e897;">Kaylee:</strong> With me? You mean to say... as in sex?
<strong style="color: #38e897;">Simon:</strong> I mean to say.
<strong style="color: #38e897;">Kaylee:</strong> To Hell with this. I'm gonna live!

And that's why Kaylee is one of my favorite characters. One of my top eight favorites!

[Bunny]

I'm still pissed off that they killed Book and Wash. :< Then again, that's Whedon for you.

I was pissed off until I realized that it was a symbolic way for Whedon to say "Firefly is over. This is it."

[Quindiana Jones]

I was pissed off because I realised that.