FOX and TV Shows

I am quite convinced that Fox has something against Science Fiction.

For example, after about five or six seasons of the X-files, they yank around the writers and threaten to cancel it pretty much every year, and it started going bad. The story went nowhere.

They cancelled Harsh Realm after only a few episodes. They screwed over The Lone Gunmen. And they dropped Firefly, but only after showing all the episodes in an incorrect order.

Firefly, in specific, is what I'm talking about. It lasted one season, in a Timeslot of Doom. And yet, the DVD box set is a bestseller, with a five-star rating on Amazon after 1600 votes, and is the basis for the current #2 movie in the US, with an 80+ fresh rating on Rottentomatoes.com.

Kids, get that many people to agree on anything on the Internet, and it must be good. Fox, apparently, would be unable to recognize a hit show even if it was used to bludgeon them.

I just finished watching the pilot episode (Which was oddly enough televised last), and it was pretty darn good. It's light Sci-fi, which means it keeps it's technology in the background (No engineers complaining about how the Tachyon build up in the Dilithium crystals are keeping the Warp Core at 60%, or whatever). Plus, it has a lot of anacronistic qualities. People using old guns and riding horses and stuff. It's a Western in space. Pretty groovy.

But yes, back to Fox. They suck. The end!

Rock on kids.