The Avengers 2

[thejeff]

baron arem heshvaun wrote:

thejeff wrote:

Josh Whedon and George R. R. Martin walk into a bar.

Everyone you've ever loved dies.

Those two alone have the cholesterol blood equivalent of chocolate beer batter fried bacon donughts, of course everyone dies.

thejeff, may I have permission to make that into a shirt?

It's not original. It's been running around the SF community for awhile. In different variations.

But, as far as I'm concerned go right ahead.

[Aranna]

Grey Lensman wrote:

Aranna wrote:

There are rabid Firefly fans? Really? Who?

I would start with the ones on syfy and other science fiction messageboards who were so bad that no threads about Firefly were allowed, and mentions of it were considered grounds for account banning.

Although now it is mostly the annoyance of fans being unable to make a top ten list of anything without having to include Firefly at least twice.

If there are fans this loyal... why on earth isn't someone cashing in by restarting the show? This is the kind of popularity most networks dream of having.

[TriOmegaZero]

Because the fans are broke?

[Dazylar]

Since this is presumably the place to put it:

We get A:AoU first! Yay!

Now you must pay me to prevent the spoilers randomly hitting any thread I visit! ;->

Well, for one week anyway!

Spoiler:

Only joking, anyone who saw my CA:TWS post would know that I don't do that.

[Hama]

HULK BUSTER ARMOR YES

[yellowdingo]

age of ultron pics

[MMCJawa]

Marvel's Movie schedule through 2019

2017 is interesting...they have never had 3 movies on the docket before, which makes me wonder if previous two movies will be part of some big build up to the conclusion of the Avenger trilogy.

[lordzack]

Freehold DM wrote:

And you mention this because...?

Because you mentioned that there were tropes in Whedon's work. Saying a work of fiction has tropes is like saying "this mug is comprised of atoms". Some people treat tropes like there some arcane thing and they really aren't.

[Deadmanwalking]

Aranna wrote:

Grey Lensman wrote:

Aranna wrote:

There are rabid Firefly fans? Really? Who?

I would start with the ones on syfy and other science fiction messageboards who were so bad that no threads about Firefly were allowed, and mentions of it were considered grounds for account banning.

Although now it is mostly the annoyance of fans being unable to make a top ten list of anything without having to include Firefly at least twice.

If there are fans this loyal... why on earth isn't someone cashing in by restarting the show? This is the kind of popularity most networks dream of having.

You'd need Joss Whedon and pretty much the whole original cast back in order to please said fans (something involving different people in the same universe might be cool, but wouldn't inherently tap fully into the same popularity)...and a lot of the people on that list are rather busy doing other things. Nathan Fillion's starring in Castle, Joss Whedon's busy with a host of projects, Gina Torres is doing Suits and Hannibal, and so on and so forth. Getting them all back together is...less than likely.

Also, they already sorta did this for the movie, which didn't do too well commercially, making it a lot harder to get the financial backing to do this even if they could get the people.

[feytharn]

Also, while the show was great, a restart wouldn't be measured against the show that was, but against the expectations of its fans. Since the fandom by far exeeded reality, a restart of firefly would be hellbound from the very beginning.