Anyone Wanna Talk Wonderfalls 1 to 13? (Spoilers)

I love the Wonderfalls theme. It kind of reminds me of Randy Newman. Is that comparison fair?

Bad news on the DVD front, I think. I seem to recall something being said about a postponement. It was supposed to come out before Christmas. You'll have to double-check that at SaveWonderfalls.com though. I'm not sure.
 
Jaye Tyler is a character for the new millenium. She's referred to as Gen Y (generation Y). She's dissatisfied with the world around her, and deals with it by taking on an armour of purposelessness, and an air of superiority to those around her that play the game.

One day something strange happens. A wax lion novelty toy starts talking to her. It forces her through a series of events that seem disconnected, yet in the end gel to make a kind of sense.

Is she mad? Is she gifted? Is some otherworldly force trying to show her how to make sense of her world?

As the series progresses these questions are never actually answered as even more inanimate objects start to talk to her.

But you know none of that really matters, because what makes Wonderfalls such a treat is the wit of the dialogue, the continuous surprises of what happens next, the unique characters, and complexity of the total fabric of the Wonderfalls world as it develops.

When it first appeared they only showed us 4 episodes. It hooked me then, but when I read the remaining episodes later, I discovered "I hadn't seen nothin yet".
 
This article was just too good not to post:

Mon, October 4, 2004

It's Wonderfalls news
FANS OF 'BRILLIANT, QUIRKY GEM' CAN CATCH THE


By BILL BRIOUX, TORONTO SUN



"SURRENDER TO DESTINY." That was the catch phrase on Wonderfalls, the brilliant, quirky little gem Fox cancelled last spring after four startlingly original episodes.

Fans prayed to see more. Miracle of miracles, Vision TV has come out of the heavens and picked up the entire series, including nine never before seen episodes. They debut tonight at 9 p.m. More good news: All 13 hours are also coming to DVD Dec. 7.

Maybe Wonderfalls was just too Canadian for Fox. After all, it's about a trailer park girl. Montreal's Caroline Dhavernas (Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story) stars as Jaye Tyler, a sullen slacker who lives at the "High and Dry" trailer park and works at a Niagara Falls souvenir store. Suddenly, tacky stuffed toys, cow creamers and other inanimate objects start telling her what to do. The girl who hates people starts saving them left and right. Call it Touched By A Slacker.

The series was shot last fall and winter in Toronto and Niagara Falls. It also featured B.C.'s Tyron Leitso as Jaye's bartender buddy as well as dozens of Canadians in support (including Gabriel Hogan, Aidan Devine and Kari Matchett). Canadians Allan Kroeker and Jeremy Podeswa were among the directors.

But it was two Americans, Todd Holland (Malcolm In The Middle, The Larry Sanders Show) and Brian Fuller (Dead Like Me) who created the show.

Holland was in Toronto last month, cramming in as many independent features as he could screen at the Toronto International Film Festival. (He's working on his own indie feature.)

Wonderfalls was like an extended independent feature, says Holland, a "personal journey movie." Whatever you call it, it was a total labour of love, he says, despite the heartache over how the network booted the series.

Then again, that's what Fox does best. Keen Eddie, The Tick, Firefly, Andy Richter Controls The Universe, all smart, original shows that were dead on arrival. Emmy-winner Arrested Development was barely renewed. Why can't Fox sell anything clever?

Holland has several theories and is not shy about sharing them (see sidebar). All you need to know about reality-obsessed Fox these days is that they replaced Wonderfalls with reruns of The Swan.

It didn't help that Fox frantically juggled the series, rushing one of the last episodes produced to air in a desperate attempt to hook viewers. Characters and stories didn't follow and viewers were left confused, Holland feels.

He's thrilled Vision TV will air the series in the order he originally intended. He's cool with the Canadian specialty network's religious mandate, saying a similar U.S. broadcaster, Pax TV, would never touch it.

They'd be all over the other show that launched last season about a girl who gets messages -- Joan Of Arcadia.

The similarities of the two shows probably doomed Wonderfalls more than any other factor. CBS got their show to air first, a fatal blow, says Holland.

He feels the two shows have important differences. Wonderfalls is less about religion than it is about tolerance and "universal spirituality." Like Joan, Dhavernas' Jaye gets messages, but they're decidedly mixed.

The good news for Vision viewers is that it all leads to a fairly tidy conclusion. With all the Fox flubs, Holland didn't need a cow creamer to tell him to arc the series to some sort of resolution. The 13 episodes do tell one complete story.

Thanks to Vision, we can finally find out how it ends. Just do what Jaye had to do: Surrender to destiny.
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http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/TorontoSun/Entertainment/2004/10/04/654966.html
 
my moms gonna order it for me this week, so hopefully i'll be able to tell you soon.
with my house no guarantee when i get to watch or when it comes in so..might be a bit...but..can't wait.
 
Apparently Wonderfalls on DVD is a hit.

FANS SNATCH UP WONDERFALLS DVD
Success of axed show surprises execs
By Susanne Ault 2/14/2005
The Fox network killed the fantasy/sci-fi TV series Wonderfalls after four episodes, so the show's early success on DVD is surprising, to say the least.

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment shipped almost 100,000 units of Wonderfalls to retail for its Feb. 1 bow, and the studio already has sold through about 25,000 copies.

"It's totally surprising," said Bryan Fuller, Wonderfalls co-creator/co-executive producer. "I ordered 50 copies off Amazon.com myself to get it going. I was hoping it would do well, but honestly I didn't think that many people knew about it."

In fact, the title ranked as an Amazon Top 20 seller. And a number of bricks-and-mortar retailers were taken off guard and ordered additional units last week.

"We brought in a cursory amount of it because we didn't know what to expect with its lack of TV exposure," Tommy K's CEO Frank Slugaski said. "It's selling very well though. The only way you can gauge whether a [canceled] show will do well is check Web sites, go into chat rooms, but that's very time-consuming."

Tommy K's was scrambling to order more units last week, Slugaski said.

Although Wonderfalls was a blip on TV screens during its April-May run, it had the makings of a cult DVD title. The involvement of co-executive producer Tim Minear stamped the series with a fantasy/sci-fi pedigree from his past work on Angel and Firefly, and the genre is famous for cultivating voracious Internet fan bases.

Fox sensed the Internet love from www.savewonderfalls.com, which fans created after learning of the show's impending demise last spring. Via the site, Fox staged its first live Webcast DVD launch Feb. 1.

Nearly all the Wonderfalls cast participated in the event either from New York or Los Angeles.

"Actors do want to support a show because it will further its longevity," Fuller observed. "But after the show is dead and gone, it's weird to get people to turn out."

Hundreds of people logged onto the Webcast. The group included such key consumer cheerleaders as E! Online TV blogger Kristin Veitch. In another boost, the Museum of Television and Radio in New York hosted a Wonderfalls marathon the weekend before the DVD launch.

Retailers are aware of the wild popularity TV on DVD sets can have, regardless of the fate the shows might have suffered at network hands. Family Guy, another Fox network cast-off, went on to sell more than 3 million units over various Fox disc titles, leading the studio to slot fresh Family Guy episodes to air in May.

"It's part of a growing trend that will likely grow further, where we'll see good quality programming getting a second life that didn't have it in all the years before DVD," Virgin DVD product manager Chris Anstey said. "The strange thing about Wonderfalls is that when we were first solicited, it wasn't immediately recognizable. But I asked around the office and people said they really loved the show. That gave me some good info."

Few shows that have been cut off as quickly as Wonderfalls have since enjoyed life on DVD. But Anstey noted other relatively speedy TV to DVD transitions outperformed retail expectations, including Freaks and Geeks, My So-Called Life, The Ben Stiller Show, Firefly, Greg the Bunny and Mr. Show.

"When you have a work that is not available, it makes folks ravenous to get their hands on it," Amazon.com DVD editor Doug Thompson said. "This has led to the great interest and sales on DVD with canceled series like Wonderfalls, The Family Guy and Freaks and Geeks to name a few."

New Regency Prod., a sister movie unit to Wonderfalls' Regency Television production company, hopes to develop a Wonderfalls feature film with Fuller and co-creator/co-executive producer Todd Holland. But it's unlikely there will be fresh TV episodes a la Family Guy, as contractual differences between actors and voice talent make reunifications trickier with live-action series.

"But the Family Guy thing is interesting," Holland said. "I'll be curious to see if those same [DVD] people show up on a weekly basis to watch it on TV. These people didn't have to tune in every day. TV on DVD might be changing the way we watch TV."

Holland also would want to make extra sure that the Fox network would handle the show with care.

"I'd want to know they were committed," he said. "I don't want to be heartbroken twice."
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http://www.dvdexclusive.com/article.asp?articleID=1933&categoryID=
 
I did, I did! God I love it. and I got some family friends hooked too, go me,...well...rather go the awesomeness that is Wonderfalls, cuz boy is it awesome. 😀
but all the episodes are awesome, and they get better and draw you in....You have no idea how hard it was to have to stop every night at two episodes, (we hadda wait till my dad got home) so my whole family of seven is all addicted too. 🙂 I'm gonna lend the dvd's to a friend, who has good humor tastes so, hopefully she'll like and spread the word. But totally worth every penny. 😀

anything else you wanna know that I might be able to say? you get them yet n4h?
 
They rerun them here in Canada, so I have them all on tape.

I should buy the DVD for the commentaries, but I'm cheap. How much am I missing?
 
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