I, on the other hand, thought Angel was much, much more clever than the last two seasons of Buffy. But I completely agree with you on FireFly. I don't know anything about TV production politics, but from a viewers point of view as soon as I heard that Whedon had sold it to Fox, I went "oh oh", as Fox is *notorious* for giving shows the axe based solely on numbers and demanding instant, up-front performance.
With luck, the feature film will be successful enough to make Universal (who now own the Firefly rights, I believe) think seriously about bringing it back to the small screen: ideally in a series of made-for-TV-movie productions.
I'm kinda hoping that the Farscape people might try the same thing (except I know that Farscape is hideously more expensive to produce than Firefly was -- one of Firefly's chief virtues, apparently, was the production costs were quite low for a show of its type).
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