XPost: rec.arts.sf.tv, rec.arts.tv, alt.tv.firefly   
   From: nanoflower@gNOTmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 05 Jul 2014 09:50:15 -0400, Ubiquitous    
   wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   I thought Firefly was great and might have drawn an audience if it had   
   been given another year to build that audience, but I can understand   
   why Fox didn't do that.   
      
   >>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.   
      
   I felt like it lost something as Joss moved on to working on Angel   
   most of the time and leaving Marti Noxon in charge. Marti loves her   
   dramas but she doesn't have the Joss touch.   
      
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