11 thoughts on “Tweet of the Day, IT MUST BE MINE edition.”

  1. Seen this passed around the last few days, and it just struck me that people are missing something critical. Disney already owns a popular science fantasy franchise…

  2. You know, I never got Firefly fandom. It was indeed a good show and it was canceled way too soon, but the fans are way too fanatical about the whole thing.

    2. ‘s an easy one. Before Firefly, if you were into science fiction and didn’t like reading, you had a choice of emulating the lawful-good pseudo-military Star Trekkies, the chaotic-good whiny farmboy Star Warsers, or ..
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      Browncoats offered several different options, all of them more pragmatic than the above.
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      Mew

      1. You left out Babylon 5, which was also popular in its’ day.
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        I wasn’t all that into Firefly, but I know people that liked that series. It is unlikely Disney would do any series or movies associated with Firefly unless they had the rights to the series, which I don’t think they have.

        1. I also left out Space 1999, Battlestar Galactica, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, Blakes 7, and several others, eh?
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          Interesting that, with the exceptions of Battlestar Galactica and the aforementioned Babylon 5, the above are all Brit imports that’d – at least around here – show up very late on PBS.
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          That is, if you *didn’t* want the whiny farmboy or the Federation’s philosophical mixed-bag, you had to really work at it ..
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          B5 also had a bit more .. heavy lifting .. to keep track of all the plots, which may have put it beyond the reach of the non-book-friendly sci-fi fans.
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          Mew

      2. When the prequels killed Star Wars, there was a void that needed to be filled. Firefly filled that niche that appeals to same group that the original Star Wars attracted. Scruffy heroes battling a repressive empire.

        1. Prequels generally are not a good idea because everyone has a pretty good idea how everything is supposed to turn out.

          1. Lucas reportedly understood “how everything is supposed to turn out”.
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            The problem seems to have been that, because he knew that, he went very *very* far into world-building instead of character-building, which .. while interesting as a “future history”, is deadly boring as a story.
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            Mew

    3. What acat said.
      Barring some of us old enough to remember the old Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers, there wasn’t anything on the landscape but Star Wars and Star Trek. George Lucas did his level best to kill the former, and the vocal fans of the latter are even less appealing than the show itself.
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      Granted, Joss Whedon fans can be every bit as annoying as Trekkies… But they were at least something new at the time.

      1. Plus, Firefly was a Western, in space. How many Westerns have you seen on television in the last 30 years?
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        Which why some us were so offended by Serenity.
        One minute we were watching a Western and seeing one of our favorite characters killed deus ex machina. (Perfectly in keeping with the genre, of course.)
        Then we were suddenly watching a superhero origin flick as the waif emerges unscathed from a combat that would have been instant death to the biggest certified badasses in the setting.
        No. Just no.

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