Das sf-radio redet über die Save-Kampagne. gulli auch. Wechselweise reden letzere sogar von Whedon und Wheadon, und wenn sie am Ende prognostizieren: "Sollte Eliza Dushku als Chefin der Untergrundorganisation in zwei Jahren in den Kinos landen, war der Beistand der Sendeleitung von Fox mal wieder nicht von langer Dauer."... dann wissen wir, das war nicht kreatives Extrapolieren, sondern einfaches Nicht-Lesen der basischsten Infos. Himmel hilf, wenn sogar hier in Europa nur diese Kampagne das Thema ist, dann ist es wirklich der schrecklichste PR-Zug aller Zeiten.

Gewohnt okay sind aber die serienjunkies, die in ihrer Berichterstattung über das Luxusproblem sogar folgendes sagen:

Whedon brachte gleich sieben Scripte mit (die Bestellung für die Serie wurde auf 13 Episoden aufgestockt; der ursprüngliche Vertrag sah eine Strafe für FOX vor, wenn nicht mindestens sieben Episoden geordert würden.)

Strafe? Für Fox? How come i've never heard of it?

Das dritte Serenity-Comic, A Shepherd's Tale, bringt uns die Vorgeschite von Mr. Book und erscheint Ende des Jahres. Hier ein Interview mit Dark Horse Editor Scott Allie:

COMICMIX: Okay, Scott, we talked about Serenity spin-offs before, like the one featuring Shepherd Book. Will it be old Buffy and Serenity writers on that one or...

SCOTT ALLIE: No. Joss [Whedon] will still have his role as co-writer, plotter, all that, but the rest of this is changing up. This one is such a different thing. It's a flashback with a single character, before the television show, so we figured it was an opportunity to go in a real different direction.

CMix: There's a story about the Shepherd Book comic's origin, right? Something about Ron Glass (who plays the character in both the tevelvision series and feature film) going on a cruise?

SA: Yeah, Ron Glass has been doing conventions ever since [Firefly] was on. So Ron does all these conventions, and I guess people frantically are asking him at shows, "What is Book's story?" And Ron has to tell them he doesn't know.

So finally, he just went to Joss and said, "Look, I'm doing this Serenity cruise, and I'm going to be stuck on a boat with these guys for days... I have to have something to tell them. Give me something."

So Joss said, "Okay."

And he wrote Ron a letter that he copied me on, which said, "Here's the deal, we're going to do a three-issue release series at Dark Horse, totally devoted to Shepherd Book, and here are five facts that you, Ron, can spill out on the boat."

I can't remember what they were. But he gave him 3-5 little details.

Und hier besagten 3-5 little Spoiler, die mich sehr yummy stimmen:

SPOILER (mark it to read it)

(NOTE: In case you're curious, here are the facts that Joss let Ron Glass spill: There will be a Dark Horse Comic released about Book called The Shepherd’s Tale. A part of Shepherd Book is artificial. He found God in a bowl of soup. Book is best known for his greatest failure. “Derrial” is not his real name. He took that name from a man he killed. - CU)