I rewatched it last month and forgot how good that show was - the colors, the narration, everything. It’s been 15 years and I still want to know what happens after that cliffhanger. Anyone else think Netflix should pick it up?
My buddy at work kept bugging me to give it a shot for years, but I figured it was just another hyped up sci-fi show. Then we were stuck in the break room during a 3 hour power outage in January, and he pulled out his laptop and played the first episode. That scene where Mal kicks the guy out of the airlock in episode 2 is what got me. Has anyone else been convinced by a friend to give a canceled show a real chance?
I was stuck in a hospital break room at 3am scrolling through Netflix realizing we're never getting season 3 and now every true crime show is about serial killers but nobody wants to talk about the FBI guys who actually had to sit in a room with them.
I was visiting a friend in Century City last week and noticed the old sets from Firefly are still standing in the back lot. It made me realize how much that show could do with a revival now that streaming is huge and budgets are bigger. Has anyone else seen leftover sets from canceled shows just gathering dust like that?
I know everyone loves Arrested Development but Freaks and Geeks only got one season and had so much more story to tell. I picked it for a revival petition I started last year and only got 53 signatures. Has anyone else had to choose between two shows and picked the wrong one?
I remember sitting in my truck after a long day of patching a leaky flat roof in Portland, flipping through channels and finding out they cancelled it after season 2, and have you actually seen how many loose threads that ending left dangling?
I was so mad when they canceled it that I sat down and tweeted at Jeff Bezos like 50 times in one night thinking he'd personally read it and greenlight season 7. My roommate came home and caught me rage-typing at 2 AM and just laughed until he choked on his pizza. Anybody else waste a whole evening doing something dumb to try and save a show?
He pointed out that Fox didn't even air the episodes in order and that killed any chance of a fanbase forming, so now I wonder if a revival could actually work if a streaming service just committed to the right season order has anyone else heard a similar theory about a show getting sabotaged by scheduling?
After rewatching the whole series in one shot, I think the finale actually wrapped up enough threads to be satisfying on its own, so does it really need another season or am I just being greedy?
My friend Dave kept bugging me for like two years to give Firefly another shot. I told him it was just a space cowboy show people hyped up because it got canceled early. We finally binged it over a long weekend last September and I was dead wrong. The character writing (especially the way everyone talks like a normal person) is just so good it makes you mad they cut it after 14 episodes. Anyone else change their mind about a show after someone basically forced you to watch it?
I had this buddy in 2016 who kept telling me Firefly was totally coming back. He found some interview with Joss Whedon and a mention on a fan site and swore up and down it was a done deal. I was skeptical but he was so confident I actually believed him for a while. Three years later and nothing happened, not even a whisper from a network. He still brings it up every time we talk about canceled shows but now I just laugh. Has anyone else had a friend or family member give you really bad info about a show's chances?
I was reading an article on Vulture yesterday and it said the streaming numbers were actually decent, but the production costs got way too high. Anyone else think they should just do a limited final season instead of leaving it hanging?
Finally watched season 3 last month after he bugged me about it for ages and now I get why he said the original run would make zero sense without seeing where Lynch was heading, anyone else have a show where skipping the original seasons ruined the revival for them?
I dropped like $40 on a pretty niche OA fan forum membership back in 2019 thinking season 3 would get greenlit any day now. Anyone else still holding out hope or am I just throwing good money after bad?
Found a beat-up box set of Deadwood S1 for $2 at a garage sale in Fresno and somehow it still plays perfect. The tragedy is HBO cancelled it after 3 seasons with so much story left, and that movie years later felt like a bandaid on a bullet wound. Am I the only one who still gets salty thinking about that abrupt finale?
It is now a parking lot for a strip mall. I honestly felt a little angry seeing it, like they paved over a memory. Anyone else get weirdly emotional about old filming locations of shows that got canceled too soon?
I caught myself doing it again last night during *The OA* and that's when it hit me that I'd been ruining my own revivals by not actually paying attention, anyone else guilty of this?
Backed a campaign to bring back 'Dark Matter' for a fan-funded season. They strung us along for 18 months, sent one lame update, then ghosted. Anyone else get burned by one of these fake revival promises?
Back in 2019 I threw $80 at a Kickstarter to revive that space opera show with the blue aliens. They promised a movie to wrap it up. The creator took the money, made a 10 minute short film, and then vanished. Has anyone else gotten burned by these revival crowdfunding campaigns?
So I was at my cousin's place last Sunday and she asked if I ever finished watching 'The OA' on Netflix. I admitted I stopped after season 1 because I thought it was too weird. She just looked at me and said 'you literally quit right before the best part of the whole show.' She's the one who got me into it in the first place. And honestly it hit different because she explained how season 2 answers all the big questions and ties up so many threads. Now I'm actually going back to rewatch it and hoping for a revival. Anyone else ever write off a show too early and regret it?
I remember back in 2012 when everyone was begging for another season and it seemed impossible. Then three years later they actually did it with a whole new format on Netflix. It was cool seeing the Bluth family come back but honestly the new season felt different from the original run. Anyone else think the revival was worth the wait or did it miss the mark?
For like 2 years I was making bread and it never rose right. I figured I just had bad luck or my kitchen was too cold. Then last month my sister watched me dump sugar into water with the yeast and she goes "that water is way too hot, you're cooking it." I had been using tap water straight from the faucet at like 140 degrees without thinking. Has anyone else made a stupid basic mistake like that for ages without knowing?
Everyone always says Firefly deserved a full 5 season run but I disagree... I just rewatched the whole series over a weekend and counted exactly 14 episodes plus Serenity. That tight package told a complete story without dragging out the plotlines like other shows do. For a space western, it hit all the right beats and left us wanting more instead of going stale. Does anyone else think short runs force better writing?
I was scrolling through Twitter last night and saw someone mention The OA again. It reminded me how that show ended on such a wild cliffhanger with the crestwood crew finding the house in that other dimension. In my experience, that final scene with Homer in the hospital room was the kind of storytelling you don't see every day. Your mileage may vary but I think Netflix killed something special when they pulled the plug after two seasons. Has anyone else rewatched it lately and still felt that sting?
He had a whole wall dedicated to Firefly merch and said Serenity aged way better than most sci-fi from that era, so has anyone heard any real buzz about a revival or is it just fan pipe dreams at this point?