Why Firefly’s Single Season Contributes To Its Legacy
When Joss Whedon announced Firefly, his newest series, he was then-current pop TV’s golden boy. He'd transformed his 1992 flop film, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, into a top-rated TV show and created a successful spinoff, Angel. Buffy had taken the world by storm, and anticipation for Whedon's next work couldn’t have been higher.
That it was a proposed sci-fi show didn’t phase anyone—despite the outcome of his work on Alien: Resurrection, his other genre forays were already beloved. The once and future expander of the MCU into a full-fledged mega-beast of a franchise was good to go, as far as audiences were concerned. But of course, the show was canceled after a single season.
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Wunderkind is a phrase tossed around all too easily regarding any relatively youthful up-and-comer in the industry — Seth MacFarlane, for example earned the moniker when he brought back Family Guy from the dead over and over again. However, Joss's earning the title is a little odd. He'd come up under his father’s shadow, Tom Whedon, a writer on such perennial megahits as Benson and The Golden Girls, and his grandfather John, who helped turn The Andy Griffith Show andThe Dick Van Dyke Show into all-timers for Desilu back in the 1960s. It was no wonder that Joss Whedon had a legacy to live up to, as well as an already well-established “in” to the industry at large.
Cutting his teeth on shows like Roseanne and Parenthood, Whedon soon sold his first feature script, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which came out in 1992. The film was much goofier than Whedon later claimed he intended, and it came and went without much of an impact. Licking his wounds after the film and before his TV version would come out, Whedon turned to
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