Subj : Re: "Serenity" dropping off in the Box Office take... To : alt.tv.farscape From : Tyler Trafford Date : Sat Oct 15 2005 23:18:56 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote: > Tyler Trafford wrote in > news:3rdcivFj03q1U1@individual.net: > >> weirdwolf wrote: >>> Tyler Trafford wrote in >>> news:3rdam6Fimdm7U1 @individual.net: >>> >>>> weirdwolf wrote: >>>>> Tyler Trafford wrote: >>>>>> Ken McElhaney wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Films that get great word-of-mouth tend to bring in more "casual" >>>>>>> fans, even if it's not their favorite genre. So far, "Serenity" >>>>>>> has gotten generally good reviews, so I'm kinda surprised that it >>>>>>> isn't doing better. >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm reminded of Arrested Development, which has won lots of awards >>>>>> and is a favorite of many critics, but still had their second >>>>>> season cut short and almost had the third cancelled. >>>>> >>>>> Only Firefly is good, arrested development is bad, so very very >>>>> baaad. >>>> >>>> You, as catherine would say, are clearly insane. >>> >>> I just don't find it amusing, there is nothing there to make me laugh >>> or even smile wryly, from the hook handed mummies boy to the mistaken >>> identity twins the humour could have been lifted straight from the >>> seventies and it, like me has not aged well. >> >> Mistaken identity twins? > > I do hope we are talking about the same programme, I'm sorry but I am a > little hard of thinking today. The father and uncle that is really his > father that got sent to prison instead of his father.. confused you will > be.. Oops sorry that was soap it's so hard to tell them apart. The chap > from the Larry Sanders show? Oh, George and Oscar. When yousaid twins I was thinking of Micheal and Lindsay. -- Tyler Trafford .... A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. -- Mark Twain .