Subj : Re: "Serenity" dropping off in the Box Office take... To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Sat Oct 15 2005 23:21:36 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Tyler Trafford wrote in news:3rddigFj03q1U2@individual.net: > 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. Well it would be kind of difficult to mix that pair up Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .