Sigh. You know, this is the only network show we have watched in about a year? We actually do tape it. So of course FOX instantly does its best to kill it.
Not that I expected anything else, of course. It was obvious from the first that a good show like Firefly could never survive.
On the other hand, Fox did just bring back Andy Richter Controls the Universe, and gave it a beauty time slot. (Sundays after Malcolm in the Middle) Give this instance of wholly unprecedented intelligence and good taste on behalf of the Fox network, there may yet be hope for Firefly.
Great, just great - I check out the boards for the first time in about six months and the first thread I read tells me my favorite new show is about to be cancelled. Thanks for the good news!
Next you’ll tell me that fave new show No. 2 John Doe is on the chopping block. I’ll have to check the rest of the boards for that info.
After what they did to Farscape ?
Umm, no.
John Doe has solid ratings and has been picked up for a full season. No thanks to the smacktards at Fox.
:mad:
So what is it about Doe that overcomes the Friday night time slot?
So what’s the death count for that Friday 8 EST/7 CST time slot? Even when The X-Files was doing well after it, everything they tried to put on before it failed. Casualties I remember are:
Brisco County Jr, Strange Luck, Sliders, Millenium (I think that was in that slot - it stayed around for a little longer than most, but I suspect more as a Chris Carter pacifier than anything else).
That slot has been death for at least seven years. What does FOX think it’s going to put there that will suddenly grant magic ratings? Stick a Malcolm re-run in there as an antidote to the teen sitcoms commonly found on Friday nights and give Firefly a decent time slot and advertise it. There, problem solved, now someone at FOX send me a check for a few hundred grand.
Well, it is a very different show then Firefly. While it has some X-Files to it, it also has a very strong crime drama aspects as well. Somehow it has improved on Firefly’s ratings numbers each week.
I like both shows and wish they would keep them as a solid block. But Fox hates me, so that will not be happening. :mad:
I’m not sure that Sliders belongs in that list. It lasted for three or four seasons before wandering off to the Sci-Fi channel.
Maybe they could try swapping John Doe and Firefly so that the larger JD audience maybe stays with the second show?
Or they could just cancel the whole thing and then piously declaim how saddened they are to have lost such quality programming.
Bastards.
I simply cannot understand how John Doe can be so popular, especially compared to Firefly.
I watched the first episode of John Doe, and thought, “Well, the writing was a little weak, but it’s intriguing. I’ll watch this some more.”
Then the second time I watched it, it was markedly worse. Really bad writing, wooden characters, silly dialog, and cliches everywhere.
The third week I started really paying attention to Doe’s ‘brilliant’ explanations of things, and discovered that they were just made up. They bore almost no relation to reality. That was the final straw for me. If you’re going to make a show about a guy who knows everything, you can damned well do your homework and make sure that his explanations are real. Instead, we get a scene with him playing blackjack which made it clear that not only did the writer not understand the finer points of the game, but didn’t even understand how it was played. He didn’t even get the playing rules right. To me, that level of sloppiness is inexcusable.
I gave up on JD after that. Haven’t watched it since.
The Arkansas diamond mine reference in JD was goofy, too.