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   From: anim8rfsk@cox.net   
      
   In article <1g6gr9tm0pkgi6suvrbu6t0aa79j8edlu6@4ax.com>,   
    shawn  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Actually I think Joss was more distracted by trying to get Firefly going   
   than he was involved in Angel.   
      
   And, yeah, Noxon destroyed Buffy; the demarcation line is when she   
   ruined DRACULA, and things never recovered.   
      
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