I'll link you to this script then :) The incident of which we do not speak hurt...but the fact that Joss made it hurt? Good writing. And it did ramp up the tension for me *shrugs*. (I make people new to Firefly watch all of the show before the BDM, because they get the most that way, but also so that incident bites. Um, because I am mean.)

I think Joss could make me care about anyone kicking the bucket, heh.

Sorry, nope, that development felt schlocky to me, and always will. Caring about a character is good and all, and their death hurting is good writing, but that death always goes for shock value for me over storytelling. :)

Fair enough :) I had high hopes for Float Out after, but nope *sigh* naff comic.

I still laugh at how Jayne goes out. I haven't read any of the supplemental stuff because I kind of want Firefly to go away. I like it and all, but any time you have a science-fiction talk, somebody always shows up to talk about how unfair the cancellation of Firefly is, usually by claiming it's 10 times better than whatever show you were talking about in the first place. I enjoy it, too, but you don't hear Twilight Zone fans bitching about how Rod Serling got the shaft from the network in every. single. conversation. even. remotely. related. to. it.

:)

I love Firefly, I love that it got enough of a following to get a film, the little tv show that could *grins*, and yeah, the whole bundle of wonderful. Longer tv shows though, they start great, peak, and then trail off until you wish they'd quiet whilst they were ahead, and I don't know if Firefly would have gotten such a cult following if it hadn't been cancelled. Like, Dollhouse. Season One is rather meh. Season two starts off slow and then rockets into brilliance, which I swear is because they'd found out they were getting cancelled, or might be getting cancelled, and so Joss just went for it, went for tying things up and went for what he wanted to do rather than pleasing the network. A case of cancellation was good for the show, maybe. There's always going to be unfair network and production stuff. (And always going to be fans who claim their stuff is the best.) To me, it's how things impact the creative process.

Yeah, I think cancellation probably helped out Firefly in its own way by keeping it from devolving like so many TV shows usually do. Dollhouse did really take off when the network cancelled them, you're right. I love the first season, though, and have a lot of issues with the second, so... That said, I also love the second season.

The thing I was complaining about is more the Browncoats that flood every conversation with whining about how Firefly was cancelled and it's so unfair because these other shows are "waaaaay worse." And while I understand that feeling, they get rather rude about it because other people like those shows they're dissing, you know? Like I said, I like Firefly. I thought it had great writing and it was a neat show to see, but it ended over ten years ago, and it's stillllllll being touted in every conversation. Gah.

(Also, I'm probably a little sensitive about this because a show I love just ended after five very awesome years where it never wavered, and then I have to deal with Firefly fans who tell me, "Oh, that's just too bad! Hey, my show got cancelled in less than a season. So your pain means nothing." Is it too much to have some freaking empathy? Why does everything have to be a competition? Shut up, Annoying Browncoats)

And I absolutely got fooled when Alan showed up and acted all Wash-ly at first lol. Well played, Joss.

Ah. This is a fan/people problem of fail, luckily one I haven't come across. Let me see, I remember reading an interview with Peter Jackson about how him and these two other directors - one was the director of Avatar - keep building on each other's work, like developing techniques that the next person can use to make their film better, or possible even, when asked if he felt like he was in competition. Or something like that. I just remember loving the idea of that, these bigshots getting their geek on by raising the bar for the next person not to jump over but to use to pull them all up. I'm sorry you met the other kind of people. They're really missing that point of being a Browncoat were even if you lose out on something that doesn't mean it meant nothing.