Worlds collide in the Jossverse

[lotusbiosm]

I'm not sure that any of you care, but I had to look it up and see, because it was driving me nuts. Warning, there are spoilers, so if you haven't seen the last season of Buffy and don't want to know anything at all about it, stop reading (no major plot points, mostly character mentions, but I might give something away unintentionally) and rent/buy the DVDs and catch the f*ck up already.

OK, so, you know Caleb, the scary villain from the very end? He's played by the same guy who played the Captain on Firefly and in the new movie Serenity (Ha! Take that fox- you cancel the series, and they make a movie!). Incidentally, I wish to see this movie, when it comes out in Sept, and would like to have seen the whole (one season) series before hand.

Comments

[zombiesmustdie.livejournal.com]

at it's best firefly was better than buffy in my humble film nerd opinion, why it was ever cancelled is beyond me...oh wait its not, fox played the episodes out of order and no one knew what was going on.

[lotusbiosm.livejournal.com]

It doesn't surprise me that Fox cancelled it- they didn't really put much effort into it, it seems to me. Starting a show off in prime-time on a Friday night when a significant part of your target audience is not going to be home then is a bad plan. Maybe they promoted it heavily on Fox, but I don't watch Fox, so I forgot that it was even on. I do covet the DVD set though- maybe after the film is released on DVD they'll bundle the film and the series together. I saw a few episodes, and they were great, and probably better than baseline Buffy. Buffy ran for seven seasons, it had it's moments of greatness and it's episodes where you weren't sure that the writers were sober at the time of writing. I still think it should have gotten an Emmy, because at it's best, that writing was some of the best writing television's ever seen. But that would never happen because it was on the WB (and later UPN), and because of the genre.