Other people's words
May. 17th, 2003 04:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ealgyldenTen Questions with Joss at the NY Times (sign-in, of course). Mostly Buffy (no finale spoilers, unless you know absolutely nothing. At all. Then one pic might be.), but #8 is the one I'm most interested in, because
"8. "Firefly" was the first time in a while when your ideas did not get to make it through to fruition. First of all, is there anything you would like to share with people following the show on the edge of their seats? And secondly, having seen how you turned a previous disappointment, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," the movie, into an artistic success on your own terms, can we hope for something similar with "Firefly"?
A. "Firefly." I’ll answer the second question first. I have every hope in the world of bringing "Firefly" back to people in another format. I haven’t got anything definite yet but I’ve been fighting to do that since the day we were cancelled. I therefore don’t have any particular plot things I want to share with people because I’m hoping I’ll get the chance to do that in the near future, whether it be on TV, film or a t-shirt.
It was a bizarre blow to have a story in your head and suddenly not get to tell it. I don’t know why, I’ve written movies long enough to know that that’s usually the case, but after "Buffy" and "Angel" sort of took off I got lulled into overconfidence and was so excited to tell the stories of these people, and then suddenly had it truncated. However, knowing that what we shot will be coming out on DVD in its full form is a big vindication, because I got to say a lot of things that I wanted to say right, up in the first episodes. So, as I said, watch and wait."
I'm waiting, Joss, believe me. Everything that can be crossed, is.
Speaking of Firefly, it gets a mention in this LA Times article about Fox and UPN's next season line-ups (which sound awful, naturally). The relevant bit: Canceled Fox shows include "John Doe," "Fastlane," "Andy Richter Controls the Universe" and "Firefly." Berman said that the futuristic "Firefly" combined too many genres for it to connect with audiences, but that creator Joss Whedon was developing a feature based on the series.
I think it's cool that Firefly is the only one that gets any sort of discussion, even if it's only a single sentence. But I don't get Gail Berman's explanation. It combined too many genres? Westerns, scifi... two? Two is too many? You could say the way in which those genres were combined was problematic. I've certainly seen that listed among the reasons why the show didn't find an audience. But to say that two genres is too many to combine seems... odd.
The BBC did a poll on Britain's 100 best-loved books, and the results are a nice mix of classics and more "popular" works. Maybe a third would make my own list, but only one would be in my top 5 (Good Omens, natch). Still, it's nice to see that other people love the books I love- it's fun to be a loner but I'd rather share such good books.
Oh, and apparently Trinity is zooming up the "popular baby names" lists. Seems like a mean thing to do to your kid.
Hey, if this is all links, does that make it a blog disguised as a LJ?
"8. "Firefly" was the first time in a while when your ideas did not get to make it through to fruition. First of all, is there anything you would like to share with people following the show on the edge of their seats? And secondly, having seen how you turned a previous disappointment, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," the movie, into an artistic success on your own terms, can we hope for something similar with "Firefly"?
A. "Firefly." I’ll answer the second question first. I have every hope in the world of bringing "Firefly" back to people in another format. I haven’t got anything definite yet but I’ve been fighting to do that since the day we were cancelled. I therefore don’t have any particular plot things I want to share with people because I’m hoping I’ll get the chance to do that in the near future, whether it be on TV, film or a t-shirt.
It was a bizarre blow to have a story in your head and suddenly not get to tell it. I don’t know why, I’ve written movies long enough to know that that’s usually the case, but after "Buffy" and "Angel" sort of took off I got lulled into overconfidence and was so excited to tell the stories of these people, and then suddenly had it truncated. However, knowing that what we shot will be coming out on DVD in its full form is a big vindication, because I got to say a lot of things that I wanted to say right, up in the first episodes. So, as I said, watch and wait."
I'm waiting, Joss, believe me. Everything that can be crossed, is.
Speaking of Firefly, it gets a mention in this LA Times article about Fox and UPN's next season line-ups (which sound awful, naturally). The relevant bit: Canceled Fox shows include "John Doe," "Fastlane," "Andy Richter Controls the Universe" and "Firefly." Berman said that the futuristic "Firefly" combined too many genres for it to connect with audiences, but that creator Joss Whedon was developing a feature based on the series.
I think it's cool that Firefly is the only one that gets any sort of discussion, even if it's only a single sentence. But I don't get Gail Berman's explanation. It combined too many genres? Westerns, scifi... two? Two is too many? You could say the way in which those genres were combined was problematic. I've certainly seen that listed among the reasons why the show didn't find an audience. But to say that two genres is too many to combine seems... odd.
The BBC did a poll on Britain's 100 best-loved books, and the results are a nice mix of classics and more "popular" works. Maybe a third would make my own list, but only one would be in my top 5 (Good Omens, natch). Still, it's nice to see that other people love the books I love- it's fun to be a loner but I'd rather share such good books.
Oh, and apparently Trinity is zooming up the "popular baby names" lists. Seems like a mean thing to do to your kid.
Hey, if this is all links, does that make it a blog disguised as a LJ?
