XPost: rec.arts.sf.tv, rec.arts.tv, alt.tv.firefly   
   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   In article <6itfr9lokikdf650gqkb51u1bgcmfqohkv@4ax.com>, me@privacy.net wrote:   
      
   >Buffy was on The Warner Brother's network when it started then moved to UPN   
   >late.   Firefly was on FOX.   In general, a much larger audience is required   
   >to keep a show on one of the large networks.   Buffy likely wouldn't have   
   >survived on FOX either if it had drawn the same audience numbers.   
      
   If memory serves, Buffy was part of their core programming.   
      
   >I watched Firefly when it aired and was a big fan but it took me and most   
   >people a few episodes to warm up to it because FOX aired the episodes out of   
   >the intended order.   They started with The Train Job instead of Serenity   
   >which did a much better job of introducing the characters.  Plus it was   
   >pre-empted a few times for the baseball playoffs that year if I recall   
   >correctly.  It was never given much of a chance.   
      
   I enjoyed Firefly but that was the extent of it for me.   
      
   >By the way, if you liked the first 5 episodes of Buffy, it gets even better.   
   >It was a great show till the end of season 3 when many thought it started   
   >going downhill.  Mostly because the show started out as a metaphor for High   
   >school.  Once they graduated they lost something.  Even the later seasons   
   >probably play much better when you can binge watch at your own pace and some   
   >of the best episodes of the whole series were after season 3.   
      
   I think the show-is-ametaphore-for-highschool theory is rather dubious, IMHO.   
   I am guessing these are the same people who swear there's some sort of lesbian   
   subcontext to Xena.   
      
   I thought the show peaked with the Dark Willow story and was defintiely running   
   on fumes the final season.   
      
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