They took the sky from me

[jchrisobrien]

an excerpt from Unseelie's LJ, about the fate of Firefly.

When Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon looks back on 2005, he
can take comfort in knowing that his film-directing debut, the sci-fi Western
Serenity, resurrected his canceled-too-soon cult classic TV series
Firefly, and was also one of the year's best-reviewed movies. ''I should
say I'm above reading reviews,'' he says. ''But I would be lying.'' Alas,
Whedon's fond memories are also tainted by Serenity's status as a
franchise nonstarter; despite Universal's best marketing efforts, the film only
mustered $25 million. ''In the end, it was what it was: a tough sell,'' says
Whedon, adding that it appears the Firefly saga has reached its
conclusion. He has no regrets and he's moving on.

Maybe Joss will be nice enough to answer a few questions about where the show was going.
In the grand scheme of things... well, fuck the grand scheme of things. There was a powerful lot of good storytelling to come out of that Verse.
It will be a shame not to see them.

Comments

[silas7.livejournal.com]

Well, that's something. I mean, it's most likely we won't see any more screentime for our Big Damn Heroes, but at least he hasn't abandoned it. Christ, I mean if they can do Starship Troopers 2 or Mansquito or just about any of the crap you see on the Sci Fi network, they can do some direct-to-video Firefly episodes.

Did you see there's a DVD about Joss and his writing style? I'm tempted to buy it, since he talks alout about how he comes up with his stories and characters.

[clayrobeson.livejournal.com]

ooooooh, no, I didn't see that!!

Here is the link.

[(Anonymous)]

http://creativescreenwriting.com/whedon.htm