Let It Go!

Let me preface the following post with this:

I think that Joss Whedon is brilliant. I have made that abundantly clear in various posts. I love Firefly and Serenity. My coat may not be brown exactly, but it's definitely a deep deep tan.

OK, so there's been kind of a weird story going around the internet, started by this CNN.com article in which Nathan Fillion said that if he had the money he would buy the rights to Firefly and distribute possibly new content on the internet, and that he would definitely play his role of Malcolm Reynolds again.

The small but loyal fanbase of Firefly have now started an internet fund raising campaign to get Nathan that money. I'm not planning on donating.

Look, do I think it sucks that Firefly got the plug pulled? Yes. Do I wish that Joss could have gotten a chance to fulfill his vision for the show? You betcha! Do I think that people take those sentiments too far? Absolutely!

Firefly is hardly the only "gone too soon" show that people loved. But for some reason it's the only one that it's fans won't let go of. Twin Peaks fans don't continue to create web petitions to return to that tiny weirdo town. Aaron Sorkin's hardcore fanbase doesn't continue to whine about how unfairly NBC treated Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip. Jason Segel, Seth Rogen and James Franco don't make mad declarations about how they want to revive Freaks and Geeks. (Although they could probably afford it.) So seriously what's so special about Firefly?

I honestly don't know. And I like the show. It's a nice little piece of Sci Fi. But it wasn't a perfect show, by any means. And it was probably really expensive for Fox to produce and it had next to no mass appeal. And Joss Whedon has moved on, Summer Glau has moved on, Morena Baccara has moved on. Everyone has moved on except for one tiny pocket of fans, and evidently Nathan Fillion.

By the way, those people that did move on? You know, those other shows I mentioned? Those people haven't been doing so poorly:

Kyle MacLachlan, the star of Twin Peaks has had a steady career, including paying Charlotte's first husband on Sex and The City and Bree's second on Desperate Housewives and has a recurring guest character on How I Met Your Mother. Not too shabby.

The Studio 60 gang? Um, well the creator, Aaron himself is doing OK. He's just the odds on favorite to win the Oscar for Best Original Screen Play this weekend for a little movie he wrote about some website. (I don't think that many people even saw it!) And two of the show's stars Matthew Perry and Nathan Corrdry are on two of the best mid season replacements in a while, Mr. Sunshine and Harry's Law respectively.

And the crew behind Freaks and Geeks as well as it's cast? Uh...yeah, look if you don't know what they're up to, climb back under that rock you where you were clearly living before reading this post. You'll be happier there, but before that watch Knocked Up, you won't be sorry.

So what's my point? Let Joss make The Avengers in peace. Let Morena be an evil alien overlord. Let Summer keep kidding herself with network sci fi show, after network sci fi show, after network sci fi show. Let Nathan solve crimes and quip away. Please people. Let it go!