Firefly was cancelled 10 years ago today...

[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

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.