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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from monkeyrobot]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[So, Firefly tanked because it can't be summed up easily?  How about &quot;Firefly:  Space cowboys&quot;?  See, that was easy.  It tanked because Fox never gave it a chance.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Zume]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[as the kids say &quot;Firefly Rkx&quot;.... actually, the kids never said that.... if they had said that they might not have cut it from TV...

Peter: Everybody I've got bad news. We've been cancelled.
Lois: Oh no Peter! How could they do that?
Peter: Well unfortuantely Lois, there's just no more room on the schedule. We just gotta accept the fact that FOX has to make room for terrific shows like Dark Angel, Titus, Undeclared, Action, That 80's Show, Wonder Falls, Fast Lane, Andy Richter Controls The Universe, Skin, Girl's Club, Cracking Up, The Pitts, Firefly, Get Real, Freaky Links, Wanda At Large, Costello, The Lone Gunman, A Minute with Stan Hooper, Normal Ohio, Pasadena, Harsh Realm, Keen Eddy, The Street, American Embassy, Cedric The Entertainer, The Tick, Louie, And Greg The Bunny....
Lois: Is there no hope?
Peter: Well I suppose if ALL those shows go down the tubes we might have a shot. 
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from tragicmishap]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[My own theory about popularity and quality in entertainment is that the two have an inverse relationship.  You seem to at least partly agree.  You observe that it requires something simple and easily understandable to attain popularity, after which the shows or whatever develop quality.  

IMO, anything that is popular is probably simplistic and shallow.  Anything that is actually good is probably not popular.  Perhaps at later stages popular shows do tend to grow in quality.  But as you have also observed, quality can be there from the beginning and the show won't ever get popular.  I think though, it's better to just realize that at least for people who are smarter than the average monkey, you have to dig to find anything good in entertainment.  

One more example for you would probably be South Park.  They started out with your artistic skills and quickly passed those duties on to other people, fortunately for the rest of us.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from tragicmishap]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Now you've done it Scott.  There is a whole underground of Firefly geeks you have just uncovered.  You are now a Browncoat.  Welcome to the club.  Oh, don't forget to watch the Serenity movie after you finish the show.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Darren]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[If this is true, then why is the first season of a show almost always the best?  And conversely, why are the most popular shows (&quot;reality&quot; tv fare such as Survivor, American Idol, and so on) so thoroughly void of quality?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from zedolor]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In my opinion, the only description Firefly ever needed was/is &quot;Great Science Fiction&quot; (any great story of any genre will likely have additional elements that aren't necessarily inherent to the primary genre) . I think the network's mistake (or Joss Whedon's mistake) was highlighting early-on that it was a Joss Whedon project ; this likely had the effect of instantly turning away potential Firefly fans who weren't fans of Buffy or Angel, and possibly also turning away Buffy and Angel fans who were hoping for more, well, Buffy or Angel. As wonderful and creative as Joss is, by that point in time he had been (unfairly) pigeonholed by viewers into the &quot;teen/vampire&quot; category.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from 1_234_5]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I'm not familiar with any of this. I can't stand television, except for Seinfeld, which I love.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from april26]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Firefly was a GREAT show. I loved the whole western angle. But then half the shows I love are cancelled and the really stupid ones survive. I hated Seinfeld, Friends, Desperate Housewives after the first season, and Prison Break after the first season.  I've never managed to sit through an Idols or a Survivor, or pretty much any reality show. 

It's difficult to be different when the media goes only for mass appeal. I am really hoping they get the niche internet TV up and running some day.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from JeffV]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott,

This isn't on the topic of your blog entry, but I think you'll like this video. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo_24_qTNac (part 1/3) No Arms, No Legs, No Worries!

It's a limbless motivational speaker.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from JeffV]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott,

This isn't on the topic of your blog entry, but I think you'll like this video. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo_24_qTNac (part 1/3) No Arms, No Legs, No Worries!

It's a limbless motivational speaker.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from KevinKunreuther]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[1.)Charles Funnish - get a life, please!
2.)I'd rather hope Scott is taking a break. I'd hate the reason to be illness or some other mishap in his life. 
3.)Does it have to be entertainment? The original Apple Macintosh was NOT a hit, it took time. Most people were happy with their Apple II's, MS-DOS PCs, Commodores, Color Computers or other proprietary boxes. The Macs popularity didn't take off or have a real effect until the LaserWriter and Office for the Mac happened along.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from charlesfunnish]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[

No blog yesterday.  No blog today.

I knew this week was going to suck, I just knew it.

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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from marcg]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I'm glad you mentioned Firefly, and someone else brought up Brisco County. Two excellent shows that Fox never gave a chance. Once upon a time Fox had cojones to stick it out with quality shows. But now they've fallen into the quick return mentality that has dragged the other networks into gutter trash. I doubt X-files would have lasted more than a season if it came out today. I would also bet the Simpsons would have lasted. Both, I believe, suffered in the ratings early on. Jericho, on NBC, was another that got cut because of the networks' spineless, bottom-line, greed.

But if you haven't seen enough Firefly, then at least you can get a couple good hours more. Rent the movie Serenity.
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from ldcroberts]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[i can't believe you summarized your own cartoon wrong, its about &quot;office life&quot;, thats where the appeal is]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Hot_T]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[If quality does indeed follow poularity, why are Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler still so unfunny? Or is it just that sometimes the quality follows WAY TOO LATE?

This is the same sort of point being raised by bloodboiler (but I like wrestling, because it's so bad it's funny - and because there are morons who still believe in it.)]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from IMAWILDPARTY]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I've found the same to be true with Firefly. Everyone I know who's seen it has loved it but it's impossible to get anyone interested by explaining it.
Also, buy the DVDs, mooch.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from mlwhit]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Seinfeld survived its first season beacause, while it had poor ratings overall, it had excellent ratings with males in their mid-twenties, which is an important and hard to hit market share.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from The Dude]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Here are a couple of examples of other shows that were canceled dispite being great shows:
1) The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. - starring Bruce Campbell of The Evil Dead trilogy.  It falls into the same category as Firefly in that it was a little sci fi, a little action, all set during the &quot;wild west&quot; period.  It was a great show that only lasted one season.
2) Titus - a very short lived sitcom based on the life of Christopher Titus (he has a fairly successful stand up career).  Excellent show but Fox canceled it.
3) Sifl and Olly - sure it was a show with sock puppets but it was proof that you didn't need a large operating budget to make a quality show.  Unfortunately MTV canceled it after only two seasons in the late 90s and is still holding the rights to the show hostage so DVDs of the show may never be released.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from BryanK]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Strange. You just described a &quot;pitch&quot; (basically selling an idea to notoriously short-span brains of Hollywood producers) and a subgroup of that which is &quot;high concept&quot; (getting it done in a few words).

Well done! You've discovered &quot;warm water&quot;, as we say in Croatia.

What is strange is that no-one of 50-something commentators didn't bother to tell you that. Maybe you cleverly distracted them with the mention of Firefly...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from TexasBob]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Off topic - I'm pretty PO'ed at you, Scott - I just finished The Religion War, which is proof of intelligent design.  You should warn prospective readers that it is an intentional mental virus.  Yes, I know the warning would defeat the purpose, but you're still a dick for putting stupid rhymes in my head, forever attaching them to thoughts about God, and permanantly compromising the sublime pleasure of passing gas.]]></description>
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