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Despite the eventual fan love for the series, I have some pretty strong memories that it was NOT popular leading up to the launch, specifically for the comparisons it was getting to anime/Outlaw Star and the 'girl in a suitcase'(c)(tm)(pat.). But there was a long history of Western, um, Space Westerns before and during that time, too, that the show had just as much similarity to. But keep in mind, the anime fandom was a lot more protective of itself post-Lion King, so everything was a complete anime rip off after that if they shared a single element. Van Helsing equally got the 'anime ripoff' argument. Pretty much, it was being written off by a ton of the geek fandom pretty much instantly. It seems like Firefly really only took off in a big way AFTER its cancellation, and a lot of the same demographic who hated it before it launched were now always the original fans. DVD made it massively accessible, the epics about the Fox mishandling of the show, etc. It created a legend and a mythos that THIS could have been the next Star Trek or Star Wars if the studios weren't run by stupid people.
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When I saw the Fright Night remake about 13 years ago, I was just rolling my eyes at the film. Turned out a Buffy writer also wrote it. Fright Night's about due for a Teen Wolf/Buffy/Stargate tv series reboot, though.
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I'd say the original hardcore fanbase is still fairly strong, but like all fanbases they're fickle as all hell. But the vacuum that Buffy filled has more or less been filled by other media in the last decade, too.McSpanky posted:Joss had this script idea he was obsessed with where the Reavers (the psycho cannibal rapists) would attack the prostitute played by Morena Baccarin and she knew she was going to be taken, so she injects herself with vagina poison that would cause them all to die when they gang rape her, and he kept enthusiastically bringing this up to the staff writers like "I can't wait until I can work this amazing idea into the show, this is my magnum opus". Isn't this a plot point in the Ninja Scroll anime, too? Maybe Firefly was just an anime rip-off, after all. Or Invasion of the Bee Girls. One or the other.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Firefly could have had 6 seasons has it started when trump was in office. It would have been called for cancellation because River seemed to have superpowers and was 'best girl evar' energy.
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How many spinoffs would Firefly have gotten if it had been successful? That's the real measure of this.
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