Nobody's claiming that Fox made the decisions out of spite. Just that those decisions happened to greatly contribute to Firefly's failure. > "Giving a show a c

Nobody's claiming that Fox made the decisions out of spite. Just that those decisions happened to greatly contribute to Firefly's failure. > "Giving a show a chance to develop an audience" is technically achieved by airing it at all Nah. You might get away with that now with DVRs and streaming and Twitter word-of-mouth, but not in 2002.