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Firefly

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Netflix Head of Content Talks Why Arrested Development Could Make a Comeback, and Other Shows Can’t

by Susana Polo | 12:34 pm, May 3rd, 2013

Netflix is pretty decent when it comes to piracy. In fact they just implemented a measure that makes it easier to share one Netflix account between multiple people. So it’s not surprising to hear their Chief Content Officer, Ted Sarandos, say something like:

I think people do want a great experience and they want access – people are mostly honest. The best way to combat piracy isn’t legislatively or criminally but by giving good options. One of the side effects of growth of content is an expectation to have access to it. You can’t use the internet as a marketing vehicle and then not as a delivery vehicle.

But what’s more interesting to me, in the same interview, is what he says about bringing back old television shows with cult followings, specifically for Netflix, and why we shouldn’t expect new episodes of Twin Peaks, Firefly, or Buffy to show up anytime soon.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Tiny Mal and Kaylee Cosplay

by Susana Polo | 5:01 pm, April 30th, 2013

I bet nothing in the ‘verse can stop these two. They’re too cute! (Fashionably Geek)

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Firefly Fans, Wear Your Displeasure With Fox On A Shirt

by Rebecca Pahle | 5:00 pm, April 17th, 2013

Now you can wear your reaction to the great Jayne Hat Debacle of 2013 on a shirt. Clothingception. BRRRRM. (via Fashionably Geek, shirt available here)

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i swear by my pretty floral bonnet i will end you

ThinkGeek Will Donate All Jayne Hat Proceeds to Firefly Charity

by Susana Polo | 10:58 am, April 11th, 2013

It’s become clear this week that now that Fox has actually decided to license merchandise based on the ten year old television series with a massive cult following that might actually have lasted more than a season if they hadn’t heavily interfered with it’s scheduling, episode order, and air dates… they’re going start taking shots at the smaller, unlicensed retailers that have been serving the market niche they’ve been ignoring. This has left a lot of folks pretty angry.

ThinkGeek, a, well, nerdy stuff retailer with really savvy social media presence, is one of the outlets that carries Fox’s now official Jayne Hat, one of the most recognizable pieces of clothing in the series. And they’ve announced, in the wake of Fox’s cease and desists to Etsy Users, to donate all profits they make from the sales of Fox’s Jayne Hats to Can’t Stop the Serenity.

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i swear by my pretty floral bonnet i will end you

UPDATED: Are You A Firefly Fan Who Makes Jayne Hats? Watch Out, Fox Is Coming For You.

by Jill Pantozzi | 12:30 pm, April 9th, 2013

As if Firefly fans didn’t hate Fox enough already, it seems a newly licenced Jayne Cobb hat has started a chain reaction of cease and desist notices to Browncoats who make them for fun. Gorram… 

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Awwwwww

Mal Reynolds, Harry Potter, Totoro, and Gandalf Have Never Been Cuter Than When They Are Mice

by Rebecca Pahle | 3:30 pm, April 4th, 2013

Mice and nerdiness are bound together in eternal partnership, if just because so many of us grew up with Redwall. So Quernus Crafts‘ sculptures of famous geeky characters as mice is really the perfect fit. Don’t question it. Just let yourself coo at Mal Reynolds, Gandalf, Harry Potter, and Totoro as mice. None of your fellow geeks will judge you.

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We Have Done the Impossible and That Makes Us Mighty

If The Characters Of Firefly Lived In Game of Thrones’ Westeros, These Would Be Their Sigils

by Jill Pantozzi | 3:30 pm, March 26th, 2013

HBO has been doing a ton of marketing for Game of Thrones Season 3. Most recently, JoinTheRealm.com, where you can create your very own House Sigil. (I did it yesterday.) But reddit user CerebralBypass thought to make them for the fictional characters of Firefly instead. And considering the limited options offered, they did a pretty great job.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Turn Your Kindle into The Neverending Story

by Rebecca Pahle | 5:00 pm, March 22nd, 2013

Best Kindle cover ever. None others come close. Etsy seller GeekifyInc has also made tablet covers that resemble H.P. Lovecraft‘s The Necronomicon, the Red Book of Westmarch from the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, and To Serve Man from The Twilight Zone. (/Film)

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: What Does Firefly Smell Like?

by Rebecca Pahle | 5:00 pm, March 15th, 2013

BigBadToyStore is selling this Firefly air freshener, but they don’t say what it smells like. Banter and despair? (Nerd Approved)

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Officially Official

Joss Whedon Can’t Kickstart Firefly Because He’s Too Busy Making the Rest of Your Dreams Come True

by Susana Polo | 11:25 am, March 15th, 2013

My fourth feeling when I read about [the Veronica Mars Kickstarter campaign] was a kind of dread. Because I realized the only thing that would be on everybody’s mind right now. I’ve said repeatedly that I would love to make another movie with these guys, and that remains the case. It also remains the case that I’m booked up by Marvel for the next three years, and that I haven’t even been able to get Dr. Horrible 2 off the ground because of that. So I don’t even entertain the notion of entertaining the notion of doing this, and won’t. Couple years from now, when Nathan [Fillion]‘s no longer [on] Castle and I’m no longer the Tom Hagen of the Marvel Universe and making a giant movie, we might look and see where the market is then. But right now, it’s a complete non-Kickstarter for me. — Joss Whedon, to Buzzfeed.

There you have it folks. Joss Whedon is too busy to work on more Firefly because he’s doing all of the other cool things you want him to do. At least not until after 2015. So set your alarm clocks.

Previously in Veronica Mars on Kickstarter

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