Where we speak of bad movies.

[Kevin]

Worse. It was like some Borgesian horror, a book read with the chapters all jumbled up. Firefly was never an episodic show. It was a beautifully crafted linear show, each episode building subtly and carefully on the last, and then shown in the wrong order.

Yeah as I mentioned earlier in the thread Fox pissed Joss off and essentially killed his baby. I believe the episodes aired on Fox in this order 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 4, 5, 9, 10, 14, 1 and yeah they never showed 11-13 and they also changed time slots a few times and preempted it a few times, which made it even harder for people to try and follow it. Ep. 11-13 didn't actually get broadcast until it showed up on Sci-Fi. Sci-Fi airing them all in the right order I think started in July of 2005. That brought in a lot of new fans as well, though I think it was really just a way to hype the movie. DVD sales after Fox had mangled the show were enough to get the movie green lit.

It's my understanding that Joss had designed the story be 7 seasons long (about 74 hours worth of episodes). We basically got 15% of that (about 12.5 hours). I do wonder where the story was supposed to go because what he did in the movie was not all that was intended.

Stupid marketing people....