Firefly coming as an online MMORPG!

[yendi]

Firefly will become an online RPG.

I bet the game rocks, but has all sorts of downtime, and gets shifted to different servers constantly over the span of a few months. Then, just as folks are starting to get into it, it'll be cancelled. Only to be released as a standalone game two years later that has all sorts of plot holes and fucks with everything I liked about the original.

No, I'm not bitter. Why?

Comments

[boutell.livejournal.com]

I hope Whedon actually has some input to making this feel like something other than a generic space battle with different chrome.

[yendi]

Whedon or Minear. I'd take either one.

[badlittlemonkey.livejournal.com]

I'm not particularly hopeful that this will ever actually see the light of day, and I'm even less hopeful that it'll be any good. :S

[yendi]

Probably right on both fronts.

[kradical.livejournal.com]

I'm with you up to "just as folks are starting to get into it." FOX didn't cancel it to be mean, they cancelled it because not enough people were watching it and it was obscenely expensive. The ratings dropoff after the first two episodes was tremendous.

Of course, the first two episodes were the execrable "The Train Job" and the mediocre "Bushwacked," the two worst episodes of the show, so it's not surprising that most folks didn't stick around on the off-chance that something good would come.

But people weren't getting into it. That was the problem......

[yendi]

True. Although I actually liked TTJ well enough (if only for the opening flashback and that wonderful final moment with the engine. Plus it has the scene with Wash playing with dinosaurs, right?).

That said, it's not like Fox exactly gave it a good time slot (has there been a Friday night first-season hit since X-Files?).

[kradical.livejournal.com]

Er, "The Train Job" had neither an opening flashback nor Wash playing with the dinosaurs. Those were both in "Serenity," the pilot episode that FOX didn't show first because they're morons.

I wrote an entire essay in Finding Serenity on this subject, but I suspect that if FOX had actually aired the fucking pilot first, instead of opening with a lame-ass heist story that felt like it was written over a weekend (mainly because it was, in fact, written over a weekend), September 2005 would've been when Firefly's fourth season began, not when Serenity was released to theatres.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... How long will it be before someone does the obvious Pratchett Discworld game, with the obvious title? ...

[CAREFULLY LACES UP RUNNING SHOES]

...ANKH-MMORPG! =:o>

[RUNS]

[yendi]

*groan*

Although I could easily imagine Pterry putting that one into one of his books.