[ SECRET POST #3825 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3825 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Basically accusing FOX of sabotaging Whedon and Firefly never made any sense to me.

Um, they didn't air the first episode. Like, it doesn't get much more sabotage-y than that! It was a show with a huge cast, and a complex universe, all of which needed to be properly introduced in order for the show to gain any kind of narrative traction with viewers. And all of it was introduced, quite well...in the first fucking episode. Which the network took a pass on, in favor of starting with the second episode.

There are very few shows out there that would manage to survive being undercut in such a way right off the top.

[(Anonymous)]

That was completely commonplace in the era before tightly serialized shows, and Firefly was not tightly serialized at all-it was even more loosely serialized than Buffy was, to put a later filmed episode on first so that the cast would have better chemistry to give it a stronger start. FOX was actually helping it by airing another episode first. If Joss didn't know that then he had no business being in the production game. To try and claim that it was sabotaged by being subject to common practice is disingenuous to say the least.

[(Anonymous)]

No horse in this race but...

it's pretty common for editors to trim out as much exposition as possible while still remaining coherent. If a show has to take an hour to explain every little thing, then there's something wrong with the writing, or the world design. Things should speak for themselves as much as possible without someone having to handhold the viewer through it. Every decent sci-fi series manages this just fine.