# Firefly officially cancelled

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-officially-cancelled/142591>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 13, 2002, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-officially-cancelled/142591 "2002-12-13T19:55:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-officially-cancelled/142591/61 "2002-12-16T19:51:36Z")

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Scrolling across CNN right now: Joss Whedon says show “has been treated shamefully.”

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**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-officially-cancelled/142591/62 "2002-12-16T20:24:03Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Barbarian \*  
> \*\*Scrolling across CNN right now: Joss Whedon says show “has been treated shamefully.” \*\*

He’s right, you know.

_Sob_

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**Author:** ![Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c67d28/32.png) [@Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weird_AL_Einstein)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-officially-cancelled/142591/63 "2002-12-19T04:09:03Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Tamerlane \*  
> \*\*What I absolute cannot tolerate is the deliberate introduction of Old West ( _cliched_ Old West ) anachronisms. It makes my ears bleed. It makes me want to gouge out my eyes. It makes me want to take a hammer and pound, pound, pound away at my skull until it fractures open and I can rip the gooey mess that is my brain out and stomp it into the ground. I hate it. It’s cornpone to an absolutely ridiculous degree and I curse Whedon for ever putting that abomination on the air. No matter how good the acting, no matter how nuanced the characters, no matter how exceptional the writing, _Firefly’s_ very existence is an unholy affront to every fiber of my being.  
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Thank you, thank you for putting into words what I could not. There were a few good ideas in this show, but I nonetheless found it to be unwatchable. Literally. I couldn’t bring myself to finish watching the first episode, it was that bad.

I will shed no tears for the demise of this show, but Fox is still on my shit list for what they did to Futurama and Family Guy.

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