No WAY will they axe Firefly

I don’t know what does or doesn’t constitute “real” science fiction — seems like an oxymoron to me — but I know what attracts me to a TV show or movie, whether it’s scifi, fantasy, mainstream drama, whatever, are the story and the characters who tell the story. If all you want is technobabble and special effects, you might as well go watch the Discovery Channel so you won’t be bothered by all that human drama.

Science fiction is speculative, sure. What if we could travel from planet to planet at FTL speeds? What if there were alien civilizations? What if we had a society where everything was turned on its head? All that is fun. But what if there’s no real story? What if there are no people in the story to care about? Boring, pretty quick.

One of the most powerful scenes I’ve seen on TV in a long, long time is when Mal locked Jayne in the airlock and opened the outer hatch as the ship was taking off. Instead of begging for his life like the lowlife scum he had been, he just asked Mal not to tell the others about his betrayal. That was Firefly’s potential, all the way. I’m extremely disappointed that Fox canceled it (and for a piece of “reality” trash called Joe Shmuck — oh, sorry — Joe Millionaire).

If anybody is interested in saving Firefly, the official site has all kinds of campaigns going to get it moved to another network.
[url=http://www.fox.com/firefly/]http://www.fox.com/firefly/[/url]

[ 18-12-2002: Message edited by: Lucygoosey ]