Re: Your lack of brains.
Dear Fox,
Regarding your upcoming sci-fi western you're planning on broadcasting: I'm not certain the over-paid executives who came up with the idea are aware of this, but the interest in the genre? All Firefly related. Your giant potential audience? All very passionate, very angry Firefly fans who hate you, yes you personally, for the show's cancellation. Your entire potential audience is already alienated. The show is going to fail spectacularly, in a way that's going to make Martha Coakley's campaign, the Titanic's maiden voyage, and the Treaty of Versailles all look like over-whelming successes. All at the same time.
Lucky for you, though, I have a solution.
First, hire Joss Whedon. You owe him for canceling Dollhouse just when it had gotten good, anyway. And then you set it in the Firefly universe during the civil war that gets set off after Serenity. You follow a ship of profiteering, occasionally blockade-running rogues out to make their fortune while the rest of the universe falls apart.
You could even bring in one of the characters from the series. Maybe Mal went to join the resistance and kicked Keiley off the ship, not wanting to get her killed. Maybe he did the same to Inara. Maybe Zoe left of her own accord, after Serenity. Or maybe Nathan Fillion thinks he really is Captain Hammer, and thinks he's up to doing two shows at the same time, and then you could just do Firefly season 2, which you should have done, what, 8 years ago now?
P.S. I can do this kind of work, something I call "thinking" and "logical reasoning" for a mere $200,000 a year. Considering what you're probably paying the rest of your executives, that's a bargain.
Regarding your upcoming sci-fi western you're planning on broadcasting: I'm not certain the over-paid executives who came up with the idea are aware of this, but the interest in the genre? All Firefly related. Your giant potential audience? All very passionate, very angry Firefly fans who hate you, yes you personally, for the show's cancellation. Your entire potential audience is already alienated. The show is going to fail spectacularly, in a way that's going to make Martha Coakley's campaign, the Titanic's maiden voyage, and the Treaty of Versailles all look like over-whelming successes. All at the same time.
Lucky for you, though, I have a solution.
First, hire Joss Whedon. You owe him for canceling Dollhouse just when it had gotten good, anyway. And then you set it in the Firefly universe during the civil war that gets set off after Serenity. You follow a ship of profiteering, occasionally blockade-running rogues out to make their fortune while the rest of the universe falls apart.
You could even bring in one of the characters from the series. Maybe Mal went to join the resistance and kicked Keiley off the ship, not wanting to get her killed. Maybe he did the same to Inara. Maybe Zoe left of her own accord, after Serenity. Or maybe Nathan Fillion thinks he really is Captain Hammer, and thinks he's up to doing two shows at the same time, and then you could just do Firefly season 2, which you should have done, what, 8 years ago now?
P.S. I can do this kind of work, something I call "thinking" and "logical reasoning" for a mere $200,000 a year. Considering what you're probably paying the rest of your executives, that's a bargain.