it was the victim of a change of guard in Fox. the internal politics , not wanting the other guy to have success was the death of the series. they put it on at a horrible time slot and didn’t show it in order.
i was working an early Saturday shift at the time, so I was watching Friday night tv, and fell instantly in love with the show. even though it didn’t make a lot of sense because it wasn’t shown in order, made it mysterious and even more interesting. then they cancelled it before the whole series was presented.
I for sure helped keep it alive at the time
i was a popular person in a couple large internet circles at the time. I had been working a couple contracts at top tech jobs in Seattle. I had the ear of a couple very rich people. and my anger about it for sure helped bring attention to the injustice. I was able to invest in the DVD sale before it was announced to the public ❤️
Well, too be fair to the network, coming back to the series without my rose tinted glasses I absolutely blame Joss for sticking to his guns and insisting the pilot had to be feature length. That pilot absolutely could have been cut down to less than an hour, and as you said the out of order opening left audiences confused. I’d say it’s like 70% the studios fault and 30% on Wheaton.
Yeah, wasn’t this one of the many shows they Foxed up by trying to air it during primetime, creating an obvious audience mismatch, panicking when the ratings didn’t top the charts and then moving it around through various time slots until it was canceled?
Don’t forget how Fox wouldn’t even keep to a schedule. Shows would get bumped from their slots on an almost weekly basis to play baseball, “news flashes”, re-runs of movie franchises that had a new film coming out soon. It was like a 2/3 chance that the show you wanted to watch was even going to air in its usual time slot each week.
For a show nobody watched, they sure have squeezed a lot of material out of it.
The first internet success case. Edit: you also can’t blame them, they aired on FOX. lol
it was the victim of a change of guard in Fox. the internal politics , not wanting the other guy to have success was the death of the series. they put it on at a horrible time slot and didn’t show it in order.
i was working an early Saturday shift at the time, so I was watching Friday night tv, and fell instantly in love with the show. even though it didn’t make a lot of sense because it wasn’t shown in order, made it mysterious and even more interesting. then they cancelled it before the whole series was presented.
I for sure helped keep it alive at the time
i was a popular person in a couple large internet circles at the time. I had been working a couple contracts at top tech jobs in Seattle. I had the ear of a couple very rich people. and my anger about it for sure helped bring attention to the injustice. I was able to invest in the DVD sale before it was announced to the public ❤️
so it’s revival is so sweet right now
Well, too be fair to the network, coming back to the series without my rose tinted glasses I absolutely blame Joss for sticking to his guns and insisting the pilot had to be feature length. That pilot absolutely could have been cut down to less than an hour, and as you said the out of order opening left audiences confused. I’d say it’s like 70% the studios fault and 30% on Wheaton.
Yeah, wasn’t this one of the many shows they Foxed up by trying to air it during primetime, creating an obvious audience mismatch, panicking when the ratings didn’t top the charts and then moving it around through various time slots until it was canceled?
Don’t forget how Fox wouldn’t even keep to a schedule. Shows would get bumped from their slots on an almost weekly basis to play baseball, “news flashes”, re-runs of movie franchises that had a new film coming out soon. It was like a 2/3 chance that the show you wanted to watch was even going to air in its usual time slot each week.
Ah, the Farscape treatment.
Not different timeslots, the same one with random preemptions for baseball games. There was one point where the show missed 2 weeks in a row.
Oh, wow. That’s even worse than I thought. Are Fox executives just pencil-whipping stuff between lines of coke?
Save Our Sailors didn’t spend all that time making websites to be forgotten like this