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YeeeeeeeeeeeeHA!!!! FIREFLY Flies Again -- On DVD!!
“Firefly,” Joss Whedon’s widely adored but very cancelled Foxnet space Western, is coming to a DVD player near you -- and it’s coming in fabulous widescreen!
According to a never-steered-Herc-wrong-yet source close to the project:
No release date yet, but Fox Home Entertainment
will be releasing. It sports the entire season, including the unaired eps, in 16:9 glory and, most likely, in the "correct" order. With lots of goodies.
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I can hardly wait. I wish someone would bring it back.
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and first posters should get sucked into the jet engine!
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does it mean that just what was aired plus the three un-aired episodes will be on the DVD? Or will we get anymore? Such as something that kind of puts a conclusion to this wonderful masterpiece. Commentaries will be interesting indeed.
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that's all I have to say about that. Now just get me Buffy season 5 and Angel season 3 and I can lock myself in the basement for a few days with nothign but a tv and my dvd player. And lots of pretzels. And some raspberry lemonade.
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and still damn fox to the firey pits of hell!
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Apr 07, 2003 10:15:41 PM CDT
maybe NOW it will find it's audience.. and a second life. firef
by waynesworld
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Damn straight! Good Series. Good Effects. Great fun! I really enjoyed it and was looking forward to the Simon and River storyline... But too bad... BUT!!!! I WIll settle for a good DVD with extra goodies!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WooooHooo! Damn all you people that hated it... Have some fun and relax... Try to enjoy life a little bit! It WAS MUCH BETTER THAN 90% of the crap on TV right now!
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There is a God.
And his name is Joss.
And for those of you that hated the show, remember that there were just as many of us that hated Dark Angel. And that show got a much better shot at survival for only two reasons.
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It'll firefly its ass right into the bargain bin!
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finally, Fox makes a smart decision! now all we need is the live action Tick series on DVD and we'll be in good shape. Joss Whedon=genius. oh, by the way, has anyone heard about how there are serious production problems and budget overruns that are giving the final few eps of Buffy lots of trouble?
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NOW I've found Serenity.
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Especially with the unaired episodes. I wonder if the commentaries will be like those on Clerks:TAS where Kevin Smith kept lamenting the raw deal he got from ABC. Joss and Kevin should team up. Jay and Bob on Serenity. Yes! It'll make millions!
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I didn't like firefly. it wuz very stoopid. westernz sux! wheedon sux!!! i hate anyone who doesnot like whut i like cuz i am smart and they isn't. suck my ballz you geeks, becuz only i know what goood t.v. is suppozed 2 be lik. good tv iz people like doctors and lawyers standing around talkin about fuking there clients, "we have to do this or the patient will die" and stuff, or has lots of real people doing shit nobody every really duz in real life like on the reality shows. i hate sci-fi becuz it iz more dumber then anything on tv. farscape sux too, becuz it was gay. it was gay for gay faggots and fuk those faggots becuz they are so gay and like gay shows. --This parody was brought to you by the "We Know You Didn't Like It, So Shut Up Already Committee."
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If by "widely adored", you mean by the twelve people who watched it, then yes.
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Please oh please put the unfilmed scripts on this. Everyone hunt Joss down and make sure this happens...
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Hopefully when the sales on this baby go so high that Fox has to be all like: "Wow...this was a good show..." they'll bring it back! =)
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Apr 08, 2003 4:18:55 AM CDT
Firefly is the second most requested show at tvshowsondvd.com
by the outlander
Roswell 2071
Firefly 1579
La Femme Nikita 1322
JAG 1043
Seinfeld 1026
Forever Knight 988
Sentinel, The 923
Angel 793
Smallville 767
Gilmore Girls 753
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There are 15 very happy fans right now.
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nuff said
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Which, of course, points out that all of the folks slamming it never bothered to watch it. The first couple of eps I watched were okay, but didn't grab me. Then I caught a couple more and YOW! I wonder how many of the folks who gave up after the "first" episode would have continued to watch if they'd been run in the right order??
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And they didn't shove the western aspect down my fucking throat. I couldn't watch the show for more than 5 minutes without gagging on "style".
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you're an idiot
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I almost wish this would become the norm. a show would be aired for 4-6 weeks and then a DVD would be released with the rest of the shows. then popular shows could just have a DVD come out every 6 months. No commercials or rescheduling or repeats or cancellations...I know, I know, there are a hundred reasons why that will never happen.
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That's where my tastes are. And those who didn't like the show don't have to buy or rent the DVD's. It's a perfect world! It's funny how some people are annoyed that someone else has an opposite taste in TV programs. I never liked Family Guy. So I didn't watch it. I'm not watching the re-runs on Cartoon Network. I'm not buying or renting the DVD's. Truly, there is no accounting for taste!
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New rule: If the crux of your post in a TV Talk Back is along the lines of "That show sucks and anyone who likes it is a retard", then you also have to HONESTLY list the television shows you watch and record on a regular basis so we can assess your worthiness to even comment on the program in question. Otherwise, your post doesn't count. Anyway - on topic - I was one of those who was bored with the first couple of episodes, but stuck with it because of my trust in Joss Whedon. As any Firefly fan knows, the show just got better with each passing episode, and I'll admit I realy would like to see it in order. As long as they keep the price in the +/-$30 range at Best Buy, this one will be a nice set to own.
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Man I needed some good news today! This is completely awesome!THE best thing I have heard in soooooooo long! Thank you!
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I 've watched all of the Cowboy Bebop shows + the movie... enjoyed them greatly... however Firefly has the superior writing. The plots actually hold up! :) Firefly's use of the western/sci fi co-mingling was well down and made perfect sense in the context of the show. ************** Firefly was easily the best new show this season. Fox mishandled Firefly from the get go (not showing the pilot episode first, showing subsequent episodes out of order, bad timeslot, constant pre-emptions for sports... the list is legend). In spite of all this, the show still averaged around 4 million viewers an episode. Fox is smart and knows if 1/10 of these people end up buying the DVD set they'll have a successful release on their hands. Thanks to word of mouth and tape/vcd trading the fanbase for Firefly has actually been growing since it went off the air. I advise all the naysayers to give the show a REAL try. Borrow your friend's Firefly DVD set and enjoy the series. Going into a new show with a pre-established list of what to hate about it is pretty pathetic. The way to approach art (and YES, Firefly is art) is to start off your intake of a new work with a clean perceptual slate. In other words, clear your mind and let the artist(s) take you someplace new. --- mattro
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If you didn't understand what TV Casualty was talking about, Tick, you screwed up the entire thread with your idiotic string of exclamation points. Five gets the point across. Anymore just shows you to be a daft wanker. **** Voice O Reason, thank you for summing up my feelings on these idiots who jump on this thread just to pan the show. And whoever suggested that anyone who dumps on a show in a thread back it up with a list of what they watch is both overly wishful and masochistic. Getting them to do that is nigh impossible, especially since they are only trolling, and some may actually watch the show in question. And if they really dislike what we consider to be quality TV, do you really want to read them defending The Bachelor and Fastlane? AD out
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All the episodes are available on kazaa, ya.
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there must be enough fans willing to shell out the $$ for the DVD, otherwise no one would bother releasing it. (I guess this also means there weren't enough fans to keep the show from being cancelled in the first place). Thank you Joss, sorry the show didn't make it.
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Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather watch the shows in their original 16:9 ratio and get goodies (you know Joss will comment on at least the pilot) than squint at my computer screen at some bootleg newtork version with shitty FOX graphics littering the bottom of the screen... (not to mention some of us do live in the sticks and can't get broadband access yet)
Telly
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The ONE thing FOX has done right!
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I tried but I didnt like it just because Joss' name was on it.
If I want to watch a Western I'll watch Big Valley in reruns.
It just didnt do it for me.
I am looking forward to having Lost in Space on DVD in 2004. -
Yes, there is a Goddess! (and her name is Enarra...) and She can do great things. Keeping Firefly on the air was, alas, not one of them...
For those of you who hated Firefly on the basis of one episode, go back and take a good long look at the first ep of Farscape. It was (dare I say it here) BORING. It DRAGGED. Having watched TV scifi since the days of the first Outer Limits, I'm willing to give any true scifi (as opposed to horror masquerading as same) a chance. I turned Farscape off after the first 20 minutes.
Firefly had, for all its merits (and there were many) three big problems: Fox, besides not giving it a chance, gave it the suckiest time slot it is possible to give any show, much less one that has to attract young single males for the almighty demographics (9 PM Fri., gimme a break!); writing and plotting which required the viewer to pay attention, dammit: blink and you missed something important for two episodes later; and a hetaira (ancient Greek term; a cross between a high-class hooker and a political hostess, with the artistic training of a geisha) who was the most "respectable" member of the crew. I'm sure that gave the execs at Fox (whose idea of innovative programming is another dumb sitcom or Celebrity Boxing match) major willies, especially after it became clear that she did not restrict her business to the opposite sex. All this at the same time John Ashcroft was covering up bare-breasted Classical-style statues and holding in-house prayer breakfasts at DOJ. Fear and loathing won the day. Thank the gods for DVD! -
Apr 08, 2003 11:14:57 PM CDT
Whoops...FOX DVD mistakes America for people that gave a damn ab
by god_o_thunder
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And to think, when it first started I sooooo didn't want to get into another new show that I didn't even see the first few eps, then Our Mrs. Reynolds! And it was all over! Friday nights became all there was in the week! I can't wait for the DVD!
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I can't wait!
I am buying the set as soon as they come out.
I thought Firefly was one of the best TV shows to come out in a long time.
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This news has made the fuck out my day! I salivate when considering the extra feature possibilities. Perhaps the cast interviews done by the web team? The Gag Reel? Joss commentary on Serenity 1/2, Objects in Space and Our Mrs. Reynolds? Too much!-----------------------------As far as Firefly-bashers go, I cannot fathom what goes on in your heads. You gave up after the "first" episode ("The Train Job")? How could you not like Mal Reynolds, the coolest motherfucker in space, kicking that lackey into Serenity's turbines? Is it really true that no one has a fucking attention span of over an hour? What does it take to get you people to give something a chance? Firefly fucking deserved it. If I ever had reservations about hating people before, the fact that Firefly couldn't find an audience really seals the deal for me. This was the single most emotional, engaging and intelligent show, and cast, ever assembled. Fucking ever. The family (yes, I said family) of Serenity had me by the heartstrings from minute one. Accept no substitutes. Whedon, you've got my 40 bucks in the bag, dude. Fuck all y'all.
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This news has made the fuck out my day! I salivate when considering the extra feature possibilities. Perhaps the cast interviews done by the web team? The Gag Reel? Joss commentary on Serenity 1/2, Objects in Space and Our Mrs. Reynolds? Too much!-----------------------------As far as Firefly-bashers go, I cannot fathom what goes on in your heads. You gave up after the "first" episode ("The Train Job")? How could you not like Mal Reynolds, the coolest motherfucker in space, kicking that lackey into Serenity's turbines? Is it really true that no one has a fucking attention span of over an hour? What does it take to get you people to give something a chance? Firefly fucking deserved it. If I ever had reservations about hating people before, the fact that Firefly couldn't find an audience really seals the deal for me. This was the single most emotional, engaging and intelligent show, and cast, ever assembled. Fucking ever. The family (yes, I said family) of Serenity had me by the heartstrings from minute one. Accept no substitutes. Whedon, you've got my 40 bucks in the bag, dude. Fuck all y'all.
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Watched one episode. Didn't like it. Watched a second episode, still didn't like it. By the time I tried desperately to enjoy a third episode, I realized that the characters still all looked the same to me, the hand-held camera made me queasy, and the revolvers and winchester rifles were just ridiculous. Cool spaceship, I guess, but the characters were a bunch of dicks.
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After seeing Gina Torres on Angel last week I started thinking how I was never going to see the resolution to Firefly. And now this news! I can't wait for this, I'll be at the store with my cash in hand the day it comes out. Now if they would only put Freaks and Geeks and American Gothic out on dvd too I'd be a happy camper.
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Though it was only afforded nigh a single season, "Firefly" was the best TV show ever. Many episodes were better than most science fiction motion pictures. Might we get a series of books out of this? Joss? Listening?
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I'm hoping they'll be released soon. I really want to see those three unaired episodes.
Fox displayed amazing incompetence in the way they mishandled this show. Almost everything you could do to screw things up, they managed to do it.
I have to admit that I had mixed feelings about the first show. SciFi and Western mixes have a really bad track record. Doctor Who's The Gunfighters, Star Trek's dreadful Spectre of the Gun, The Prisoner's Living in Harmony... By episode two, I was feeling like it might be okay after all. By the end of the third one, I was hooked.
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I still maintain that "out of gas" was some of the best TV I had seen all year. And this show rocked pretty hard, whenever I could catch it because it was in a terrible TERRIBLE timeslot (truthfully I had to download most of the episodes). Oh and Giles buddy...chill man. deep cleansing breaths...
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Except Sarah Michelle Gellar and everyone who isn't watching any show of his that isn't Buffy. OOOOH! Say hi to Chris Carter when you meet up with him in one-hit-wonderland, Joss.
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Apr 14, 2003 5:46:05 AM CDT
I would prefer a season renewal, but you know what they say abou
by thwapwhacket
A little off topic...ok VERY off topic, is it just me or would Super Troopers make for a very funny TV series?
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Firefly bashers are drooling feebs. Fuck' em.
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