How hard did the network insist? There were threats to not even pick the show up if Whedon continued with this plot. Obviously, Whedon stuck to his guns and Fox still picked up the show, but there was bad blood in the water before the first scene was ever shot. In hindsight, Firefly did a lot of impressive things.
It blended genres, gave us actual original sci-fi, and presented us with fantastic characters that we could still relate to. One of the most impressive things was the pilot episode, as it perfectly introduced us to these characters and their world. However, original fans of the show had to wait a long time to see it! In an extra-cruel twist, though, the real pilot was the absolute last episode that was originally aired!
Imagine being an original fan and wanting this story to continue, only to find out that Fox was keeping the actual beginning of it from you for months and months. On the surface, there may not be a lot of similarity between the world of Firefly and the world of Star Trek. However, when it comes to shows getting canceled, the two of them have one big thing in common: fan campaigns!
Star Trek: The Original Series was famously saved from cancellation though relatively briefly by an immense fan campaign petitioning NBC to save the show. Firefly had several efforts: there was an Immediate Assistance campaign to keep the show on the air and then a concerted campaign to move the series to UPN or SciFi. To this day, there are still fan campaigns to have networks like Netflix revive the show!
Considering how callous Fox seemed to be regarding this show and its success, many fans have often wondered if the network has any regrets about what they did. She claimed it was one of the most difficult decisions she ever made and that she particularly hated to hurt Joss Whedon, whom she had worked with closely. However, the biggest evidence about Fox regretting this cancellation is the fact that Fox wants to bring the show back to this day. The Fox President of Entertainment, David Madden, said in early that he would like to bring the show back.
It seems unlikely that he would leave that kind of money and opportunity behind to go back to Fox. One of the hallmarks of the Firefly universe is the idea of hope. As bleak as things got for our heroes, they always fought for another opportunity and a better tomorrow. He wanted Firefly to last seven years, but its quick cancellation meant he was directing the Serenity movie that much sooner.
Another factor when it comes to why Firefly was canceled was exactly when it was aired. Specifically, this show was aired on Friday nights. While some Fox shows have managed to succeed in that time slot early X-Files comes to mind , Friday nights are typically viewed by audiences and networks as a death sentence. She has an obsession with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and enjoys bullying people into playing the Buffy board game.
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Nathan Fillion 's first role as a leading man. The pistol-sized lever action gun Zoe wears on her hip and sometimes uses is called a Mare's Leg. Joss Whedon originally thought up the premise of the show with his friend Tyler Lovelly, who was not interested in pitching the show, so only Whedon was involved in production.
Fans blame the show's low ratings on Fox's decision to air it out of sequence and with frequent preemptions, both of which made continuing story arcs difficult to follow. They were aired in this order: 2, 3, 6, preempted, 7, 8, 4, 5, 9, preempted, preempted, 10, 14, 1. Episodes 11, 12, and 13 were not aired until the Sci-fi Channel brought the series to the United Kingdom, where they aired all 14 episodes in the correct sequence. Joss Whedon has said that he was inspired by Michael Shaara 's novel "The Killer Angels", which also inspired the film Gettysburg In September , the New York Times reported on an American couple Amber Balmer and Trey Memmott who were such big "Firefly" fans that they not only incorporated references to the show into their wedding ceremony, but they also both changed their last names to "Reynolds" in tribute to the character of Capt.
Malcolm Reynolds. After the wedding officiant introduced the couple as "Mr. Reynolds," she proclaimed, "No power in the verse can stop them! According to an oral history of Dr. Many of the names of off-camera and minor characters are drawn from the ranks of science fiction writers.
Gina Torres joined the cast, after the cancellation of her science fiction series Cleopatra Media coverage of Joss Whedon's shows often mention his practice of gathering cast members and other friends at his house to hold informal readings of Shakespeare's plays. Whedon's enthusiasm for Shakespeare's plays is reflected in a number of references throughout Firefly. These include the names of several planets visited by the Firefly crew Ariel and Miranda are both characters from The Tempest and plot devices in both "Ariel" and "The Message," different characters take a drug that slows their physiological functions enough to make them appear to be dead; this completely fictional drug is a major plot device from Romeo and Juliet, which Shakespeare wrote in the s.
Whedon's Shakespeare readings eventually developed into a feature film version of Much Ado About Nothing released in , which also starred Firefly regulars Nathan Fillion and Sean Maher. Joss Whedon was one of the screenwriters of "Toy Story" about a cowboy doll and a toy spaceman.
Joss Whedon originally cast Rebecca Gayheart as Inara. In an interview in , Summer Glau stated that the series was misunderstood and that it was about underdogs. In the s and early s, Ron Glass was a cast member of the sitcom Barney Miller , which was set at the 12th precinct of the New York Police Department.
Though they didn't share any episodes or scenes together. Jayne Adam Baldwin calls his favorite gun 'Vera'. This may be a joking reference to the fact that Baldwin was in Full Metal Jacket , where marines in training were drilled to treat their rifles as their spouses, to the point where they had to take it to bed and give it a girl's name.
Summer Glau was 19 - 20 years old when the series was in production. Series creator Joss Whedon had previously been the screenwriter of the 20th Century Fox film Alien: Resurrection , in which a crew of space pirates are hired by scientists on a military vessel to kidnap humans in suspended animation, and smuggle them to the scientists to serve as hosts for aliens.
Whedon had written the dialogue with a playful, tongue-in-cheek tone in mind, but was dismayed to find out that the director had made the actors do a straight, deadpan delivery of his lines.
He later made Firefly, which is also about a ragtag band of space smugglers on a very old ship, incorporating the tone and humor he had originally meant for Alien: Resurrection. Whedon claimed that he wasn't aware of the similarities until someone pointed them out to him. As coincidence would have it, the Serenity set was built in the same studio as where the underwater kitchen scenes for Alien: Resurrection had been shot.
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