🚀 go-pugleaf

gray.wizard@moria.mines wrote:
> 
> When the show originally aired it must have gotten near-zero
> publicity. I never knew the show existed until SciFi aired the reruns
> gearing up for the film release.

I agree. I'm typically a non-TV watcher except as very late night
brainless material when I'm too tired to use the computer. Every week I
look at the new TV guide and every week I put it back down and shake my
head. I'm not a Buffy nor Angel fan (not seen either of these except
when clicking along the channels) so this was my first experience of a
Joss script. 

One night while watching a Simpsons re-run there was a commercial
announcing the new Firefly series and it looked interesting, a bit
darker than the usual fare, so I made a point of catching episodes 3 and
4 (dunno why they didn't start with #1) and it was good. My wife got all
excited because I finally found a show worth watching. 

Then the network canceled it. 

After eight months of asking my local DVD store to order it in I finally
gave up and ... uh ... obtained the series else wise. (Nothing to see
here, move along, move along ...) My wife later found the DVD and it
became a birthday gift. 

I couldn't believe the network wouldn't try more than two episodes, that
it was so hard to obtain legitimately, and almost nobody knows about it.
Even diehard Buffy fans I know knew nothing about it. It's like some
sort of Alliance conspiracy.   ;)

I honestly don't get it ... but I'm glad I've seen it.


  - Sheldon