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Subject: Brimstone
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002
From: elaine
i
only caught brimstone on tv by accident, it broadcasts here in england
at the awful time of 4am.the kiss of death time for any program...i get
up for work at 4am or i would never have known this terrific program
existed.I was hooked on it right from the word go, its a brilliant concept..incredibly
well acted and well filmed,why broadcast something of this quality at
a terrible time when 99% of the population are asleep leaving us all
day with tv crap like docusoaps and game shows,given a good spot this
show could take off over here
.......elaine..
MY
VIEWS
Subject: my views on BRIMSTONE
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002
From: diana
i
was obviously distraught when i found the show had been cancelled
and while i haven't reached the end of the series yet i am pretty
sure that it wasn't properly concluded as the makers were hoping
for a second season. It would be nice if there was one or two episodes
made after Zeke has sent all 113 back two hell and what happens to
him. Like does the devil try to renegade his promise but god steps
in. Or does Stone go to heaven or does he reunite with his wife after
15/6 years or maybe god sends him back to before he killed the rapist
with Stone remembering everything and since he knows when he was
killed he can not go to wherever it was that he died and he doesn't
kill the rapist only sends him to jail . I know that likely hood
of the show coming back are a million to one but still it would be
nice if 2 (or an extra long one) was made so all us fans could have
a conclusion. If 2 episodes are two expensive to make then it would
be nice if a book was written in the same style as the Buffy, Angel
and Charmed books are.
diana (A big fan)
FRIDAY
NIGHT SOUL CLEANING
Subject: Brimstone
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001
From: "Mark Kriston"
I
was happy to find a site that was still talking about Brimstone.
As I believe that the vast majority of Hollywood is of Satan, I was
not surprised regarding the cancellation of the show. As the series
progressed, I found myself contemplating my life and soul, how awful,
a series with redeeming value! I still hold out hope for a movie
or a continuation of the series by some up and coming producer. I
would even consider a cash contribution to help it get started. Barbara,
keep up the good work! Mark Kriston
DVD
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001
From: "Ryan Smotherman"
Hi,
like a lot of people out there, I'm a huge Brimstone fan and feel
that the show should never have been cancelled. Anyway, I'm just
wondering what the chances are for a Brimstone DVD collection? A
collection full of all 13 episodes and a butch of extras and out
takes would absolutely rule! Thanks for your help.
Ryan Smotherman
SECOND
CHANCE
Subject: Brimstone
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001
From: Michael
I
like Brimstone, but I was shocked at the way most of the "dammed" characters
are portrayed. When I see the "souls" being returned to Hell, I felt
sorry for them because they lost a second chance for living and starting
life over again. In addition, it seems like the show is glorfying
the Devil and Hell. In the future, I suggested that the person who
played the detective E. Stone should work on a more righteous show
that has God on his side. Therefore, the whole family can watch the
show.
Michael Reed
P.S. These two can be responsible for the cancellation of Brimstone on
FOX.
BRIMSTONE
THEOLOGY
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001
From: KAPTEYN
I
have never seen the show. I think I avoided it because the previews
showed it was based on bad theology. I read your previous e-mail
to someone who objected to the theology. You say that the show could
be used to discuss what is and isn't good or bad theology. While
this is true, there are many people who already believe that they
will go to heaven as long as they don't do anything really bad. Many
people who watched the show would not end up discussing it with someone
who could correct that impression, but would just be reinforced in
their faulty beliefs. I do watch "Touched by an Angel," but cannot
promote it for the same reason. It's nice to have a clean, non-violent
show that isn't afraid to mention the name of God other than in vain,
but they are encouraging the same faulty belief mentioned above.
Even the goodness of the most righteous person on earth is like filthy
rags compared to God's righteousness. No one will go to heaven unless
they accept Christ's salvation from sin and it's punishment, which
includes letting Him be lord of your life. The show "Twice in a Lifetime" also
promotes the idea of a second chance after death and of how good
or bad you've been being the determining factor of where you go.
It doesn't happen that way, but most viewers will not end up in a
discussion group that would correct the misinformation.
FOX
AND BRIMESTONE
Subject: Suggestion
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001
From: Anne
I
watched Bimstone on Fox, but quite honestly, Fox doesn't keep any
really good shows. Sorry, X-Files. Simpsons and all those cop videos
don't interest me. I was wonderung if the producers would apporch
TED TURNER at TNT. If he could be convinced to fund Brimstone, and
show him all the support of the fans he might just do it. Another
person who might want to try his hand on the small screen, George
Lucas. It's worth a try. There's so much junk on tv now that we only
watch one or two programs. Hope this will help.
Anne
Please don't post my e-mail address, thanks.
May God touch one of these mens heart.
FROM
UK
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000
From: alasqua
i
hope you are still interesteed in brimstone. writing from the u.k.where
the show went out at 3 or 4 am. until the last episode a week ago.
been searching the web.i think it's great but most of my friends
had no idea it happened.i will write to the broad casting channel-our
4th largest of 5 non satellite channels for a repeat screening at
some hour people might see it.don't expect to impress WB! still a
great show-include my e-mail.would love to hear from other watchers!
Alasqua
DISAPOINTED
BY CANCELLATION
Subject: Can't Get Enough
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999
From: furry
I faithfully watched Brimstone the first time it came on,and was very
disapointed when it was cancelled. I think Peter Horton is great. I can
now see the re-runs on the Sci-Fi channel four times on Friday nights,
and it is worth staying up late for,even if it means being tired at work
the next day !!!
I wish that they could make more episodes of it.
( A faithful fan )
http://community.webtv.net/furry3/Melissaswordstolive
QUESTIONS
THEOLOGY OF BRIMSTONE
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999
From: B. Norton.
I have never seen this show, but I am a bit troubled by your apparent
take on it. The bottom line is that the theology of the show is contrary
to Scripture. We are ALL already dead in trespasses and sins without
Jesus and headed for the lake of fire. It is ONLY through the completed,
substitutionary work of Christ on the cross that we are granted eternal
life, through faith in Him. If this program offers any other means of
redemption, it is simply the same old false gospel, packaged in slightly
more acceptable wrappings but still false. No one is released from hell
with a chance at redemption again, as this show seems to wrongly suggest.
This life is the only "chance". Once a soul is in hell it is
too late. I find it sad that Christians are apparently praising this
show, since it is so off scripturally. Maybe you could enlighten me as
to why.
B Norton
Massachusetts
(do not include my e-mail)
My response: Theologically you are right. However, what the show offers
is a way to talk about afterlife, faith, and God. The show makes no claim
to be THE GOSPEL, or even to be another gospel. It is a fictitious
story. The writers are not theologians, but rather, they are story tellers
who have the courage to write about spiritual things in for prime time
television. Bible passages that might relate to the show would be 1 Corinthians
3:11-15 and Mark 9:45-50. "Everyone will be salted with (hell) fire " (Mark
9:49) "the fire will reveal ...and test ...they will suffer loss
...(But) they will be saved, but only through fire" (1 Cor. 3:13-15).
These are not popular passages and are seldom quoted. We are "saved
by grace through faith" (Eph 2:8), but "judged according to
(our) works" and held accountable (Rev. 20:12). This seems to be
the thrust of the show.
See what we just did? We used the show to engage in a theological discussion
about salvation. That is the value of the show.
THE
LATEST ON BRIMSTONE
Subject: Chat alert
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999
From: Barbara
David,
latest scoop! The first Brimstone cyberchat will take place 12/2/99
at 10:15pm Et (7:15 Pacific Time) at Scifi.com chat section. Cyrus
Voris and Ethan Reiff the creators of the series will be chatting
with the fans. Please post on the HJ site. WOW 5 millions hits, how
are you keeping up?
SciFi
Channel is promoting Brimstone to death. 4 promos in one hour. Lets
see that is maybe 3 more then Fox in the whole time Brimstone was
on. LOL There is a Brimstone Marathon beginning 12/3, 12/10 and 12/17
(please note this on the HJ site if you have time) There will be
4 episodes per night for these three nights. I was contacted by a
SciFi net person and they are setting up cyberchats with the creators
of the series Cyrus Voris and Ethan Reiff and Peter Horton, John
Glover and Lori Petty is all schedules can be arranged. WOW!!
AUUSIE
SAD ABOUT BRIMSTONE
Date:
Thu, 11 Nov 1999
Australian
fans who are sorry to think this good production is to be ended
so soon suggest you film down here and lower costs, chase Aussie
evil....surely Yankees haven't cornered the market? Time slot has
been a problem here too - 11pm Monday !!!
Golem and Ariella
IS
BRIMSTONE THE "PRISONER" OF THE '90s?
June
2, 1999.
I, too,
watched Brimstone from its inception and was utterly hooked. Atmospheric,
intelligent, maybe even Jesuit in thought, Brimstone brought to the
fore issues of free will morality thought to discuss in a society
brimming with relativism's confusing lack of ethics. Several good
shows besides Brimstone died in the same time slot, and such makes
me wonder if the 7:00 pm central time slot on Fridays is a tax write-off
spot for someone. Brimstone may have been too confusing for those
not schooled in pre-Genesis mythology: Lucifer's fall predates the
fall of Adam, and how many young people even know of it? Then again,
I know of young people who may have been rooting for the 113 who
escaped. Slating Brimstone at the time it occupied was its death
knell from the beginning. I feared for its life from the beginning;
it was in a bad spot, and basically too good for television. The
golden age of television, a period of live plays, serious examinations
of the human dilemma, was a brief period of excellence in American
tv because people wanted Cid Caesar and Uncle Milty and the like,
and not Requiem for a Heavyweight or Twelve Angry Men. If only Fox
had run Brimstone after Millennium instead of before it. What wiz
kid in the programming department at Fox picked that one? This is
what happens when bean counters, who may not even understand the
medium involved, do the programming. I apologize for my scattered
entry here, but writing in this little box is tough. Is Brimstone "the
Prisoner" of the nineties? Let's hope not. -Peter
FOX
DOESN'T DESERVE BRIMSTONE
May
08, 1999.
Four
years ago, the X-Files was running last in its Friday night slot.
Today it has the widest, most fanatical following of any television
show. I don't think Brimstone had THAT much potential, but it certainly
would have attracted a loyal, steady, growing audience for FOX. In
a way, though, as long as somebody else picks up the series, I'm
glad it won't be on FOX. That's one of the trashiest networks on
TV, basic OR cable. From a spiritual standpoint, Brimstone was a
challenging, thought provoking series. I don't get my theology from
television, so I'm most concerned about the general approach and
general messages. Hope it comes back somewhere. -Mark
UNDERDOG
IS CASH COW
May 3, 1999.
Somebody
get the message to WB! The public loves to root for an underdog,
and this particular pup could be a cash-cow for WB. People will tune
in just to see what the hub-bub is about. And in seeing the show
once, they will be hooked.\ Guaranteed. This show is crafted so that
those who don't crave too much thought with their TV will be entertained,
while those o us who like a good quandry are enthralled by all of
the questions this show raises. Every parallel can be made to the
early X-Files seasons except one: Brimstone was cancelled. Someone
please get WB to see the wisdom in this. They already have a night
where spiritual/supernatural is the theme. It might be worth a thought
for them to include Brimstone on the same prime-time ticket as the
new "Buffy" spin off. It sounds like it may work. Lets
keep up the pressure, folks! -Todd
COULDN'T
BELIEVE IT WAS CANCELLED
April 13, 1999.
My husband
and I couldn't believe that Brimstone was cancelled. We loved the
show, but, unfortunately, we didn't get to see it often because of
other conflicts. We kept watching for it to come back on and even
sat through that awful Guiness to see if it would come on after.
We just found out that it was to be no more. Had we only known it
would be so short lived, we would have had someone tape every episode.
I'm all for this campaign. Brimstone IS a great show and we truly
miss it. We're voting and writing. -Kelly
HOPE
WB COMES THROUGH FOR US!!!
April 09, 1999.
Brimstone
is a great show. It starts with an interesting concept and then moves
on to a series of thoughtful, though exciting storylines. It's the
best new show I saw on TV this fall. I've been shipped off to Bosnia,
and it's sad to think Brimstone won't be there waiting for me when
I get back. Let's keep our fingers crossed that perhaps Warner
Bros. might come through for us.
NICE
CHANGE OF PACE
March 30, 1999.
I have
watched Brimstone from the first episode. The program only gets better
and better. With all the garbage on t.v., it was a nice change of
pace. Shame on them for cancelling it. --Dorthy
DESERVES
AIRTIME
March 28, 1999.
This
is one of the only shows I would classify as "Must see TV".
It was intelligent, witty, and completely full of twists. Had Fox
given this series the chance that it needed- it wouldve payed
off threefold. Compare the short duration of time that this program
aired with the number of avid fans I've found @ www.brimstonetv.com and
the ratings displayed @ http://www.worldcharts.com/tcm-full.htm
Creative writers- excellant acting staff- This is a show that deserves
Airtime! -Brittany Puschell show that deserves
FOX
+ SCI-FI = 0
March 27, 1999.
In my
opinon brimstone is one of the better show on tv today much better
than all those sitcoms that are springing up on all the networks
look at the history of fox sci-fi series star trek the original that
aired on NBC during the sixties when that show was on the brink of
cancellation tens maybe hundreds of thousands of fans wrote in supporting
the shows and the shows was saved for another season after 4 movies
or so the series returns to tv with an all new cast on fox they took
a chance with the next generation and that series lasted 7 years
even if the first series was cancelled and on to sliders another
sci-fi series on fox after 3 seasons they thought it wasn't popular
enough to continue so they cancelled it. the sci-fi network pick
it up for a fourth season and sliders became one of the highest rated
shows in the history of the sci-fi network and now fox is about to
end brimstone which will be another lost series to the fox network
when it becomes a highly watched and popular series on another network
BRIMSTONE,
A BRIGHT GEM
March 24, 1999.
Brimstone
is a bright gem in a pile of rubbish. So much of the fare presented
by the major networks is just trash, especially the "When Animals
Attack" type of garbage put out by a certain network. Such shows
are degrading. Brimstone became my favorite show from episode #1.
Yes, I was one of the lucky ones who saw all the episodes produced,
and not one was bad. For a while we had a perfect evening of TV with
Brimstone and Millennium, but of the two Brimstone had better stories
and better acting. --Phil
Musgrave, Hawaii musgrave@email.com
THE
FILMING, ACTING WAS ALL GREAT
March 18, 1999.
I only
got the chance to watch one episode, but the filming, the acting,
it was all great. I think people who like any kind of gothic like
show, any shows that deal with the supernatural etc would love this
show. Its weird though, since it was fluke that I even know the show
exists, it was so poorly marketed that I stumbled upon it by sheer
chance.Howard
FOX,
SEEMINGLY, DOESN'T WANT EXCELLENCE
March 17, 1999.
"Tis
the best, thought out and soul searching show on TV!" Excellence
seems to be something that Fox didn't want. But--God works in mysterious
ways so on to a new network, I hope!
HAS
A MULTITUDE OF QUALITIES
March 17, 1999.
This
show is full of such a multitude of qualities! It has such humor,
the music is such a mesmerizing sound which flows which the awesome
camera shots! To add to all this brilliance is the witty conversations
between our hero, Zeke and the devil - and Zeke always comes up on
top! How can he not! He is a flawed human but a good human! Throw
in there a dash of moral dilemas and you've got a show for all senses!
I am fighting for this one!
BRIMSTONE,
A REFRESHING CHANGE
March 17, 1999.
I love
this show. The acting is terrific. The scripts are wonderfully written.
This show is worth saving because it is not like anything else on
television and that is a refreshing change. We must continue the
fight. --Krista kgerber@webtv.net
WRONG
TO CANCEL
March 12, 1999.
I love
Brimstone, I really do hope that another network picks up the show.
FOX never gave the show a chance, and I think it's worng of them
to cancel the show. It's too bad that they don't realize that not
evryone likes cartoons & soap operas. That seems to be all
that they choos to broadcast anymore. cjl@southwind.net
HOOKED
AND OUTRAGED
March 11, 1999.
Well
of course I'm a bit outraged at the cancellation of this series.
I don't have cable yet, but it aired on a Canadian channel I get.
I'll admit I wasn't impressed by the commercails for it, but once
I watched it I was hooked. I couldn't stop talking about it, and
my cousin, in Mexico at the time, even agreed to watch it when she
returned! I began to faithfully tape the episodes for her, but the
next week it was gone. Overtaken by what I'd learned earlier with
the X-Files was a fanatical cult-hit obsession I begged a friend
to use her sattelite dish, and watched it on FOX. Sadly, the next
week, it was gone from there as well. I had witnessed the same thing
with American Gothic, and it just kills me that a great cult tv show
like Brimstone has to go that way as well. There's no financial reason
for it, even if it's ratings were slow this show is headed for the
same place as Xena and the X-Files, a strong following that watches
the show with our without Sweep's months' tricks and gadgets, and
a huge merchandizing potential where obsessed fans will buy anything
related to the show. I've watched it happen with the X-Files, it
would have happened with American Gothic (and kinda still does) and
I'd like to see it happen with Brimstone. It will, given the chance.
Please e-mail me if anything new turns up dstumbaugh@hotmail.com thank you, ~~LadyDarkwulf
RARE
GEMSTONE OF TELEVISION
Mar 9, 1999.
I am
so happy to know that "Brimstone" is appreciated by so
many people. It is a truly unique show dealing with the modern issues
of the decade, all the while keeping with the moral, spiritual ideas
of damnation and redemption that are central to the show. Not only
does it display that God exists, but that He is forgiving, even to
a soul already damned for a crime of vengeance. There are second
chances, even after life... which is why fans are banding together
to save this rare gemSTONE of television.--Liz Kent
KEEP
THE MOMENTUM GOING
March 9, 1999.
A wonderful
show that has great potential to be the biggest show on TV. It deserves
a second chance. The advertisers as well as FOX and WB execs need
to hear from us. We need to stay focused and keep the momentum going.
THE
PROBLEM IS NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT IT
March 8, 1999.
Brimstone
is the first show that I have given up an hour for every week, regardless
of what's going on. I save the clubs till later. I don't even particularly
likeT.V., however, Brimstone managed to capture the interest of those
of us that are sick of the mainstream bandwagon of benign intellectual
pursuit that sadly enough is so prevalent on the tube today. Every
aspect of this show is spectacular from the dark, gloomy filming
to the quick wit and intelligent humor that is constantly throughout
the show. I give Kudos to Peter Horton in his efforts and would want
him to know that his show is the best hour on T.V. as far as my friends
and I are concerned. The problem with Brimstone is that no one knows
about it. I talk to people about it and they've never heard about
it. How stupid can one be to place this show when most of the viewers
that would like the show are the ones that are out and about on Friday
night. Sure enough when they do view the show, everyone I know that
has seen it watches it adamantly now. It would be a great shame to
see the show go off the air and I'll do my best to find the support
of those over the Internet. --Thanks
Wiz Mike Wizniak vishnue7@hotmail.com
ONLY
INTERESTING SHOW ON FOX
March 8, 1999.
I was
hooked from the first show. It was a really thought-provoking show.
How could you not be touched by the thought of how it would feel
to come back from the dead, from hell no less, and see the wife you
lost, remember the days you had together, remember the taste of a
chocolate, the feel of grass under your feet. I can't say why this
show has been canceled. But, to think that the big world out there
wants nothing more thought-provoking than the "worlds greatest
disasters" or "worst medical cases" is disgusting.
Does no-one out here want to think? Just have brainless mind-candy
where you can be entertained be viewing someone else's misfortune,
accident or death? Save Brimstone! It's a lot more interesting than
99% of the rest of Fox's programs! --Cats
SAVE
BRIMSTONE
March 8, 1999.
Dear
HollywoodJesus,
Please, please, do more to save Brimstone!
FANS
WILL FOLLOW IT TO ANY NETWORK
March 7, 1999.
I am
here in an effort to help save this wonderful program. I can not
access this site and have enlisted help on the vote and message.
Thank you for all the work you have done on this site for Brimstone
and the viewers. I miss it already and 3/12/99 is the last air date
until we find it a new home. 4-5 million+ dedicated viewers (not
counting Canada which has a huge Brimstone following) will follow
it to any network.-- Inna
IT
MUST SURVIVE
March 7, 1999.
Brimstone
is the best show on tv! It must survive. It deals with the spiritual
workings of the universe better than any other show, including Touched
By An Angel. If we work together, we can bring Brimstone back. Keep
the faith! Andrew
SUPERNATURAL
SHOW FOR ALL RELIGIONS
March 7, 1999.
Many
people like to go out on Friday nights and therefore have not had
the chance to realize what a brilliant series that Brimstone is.
What could be a better premise than a supernatural cop show that
obviously appeals to people of all religions .I personally would
like to still see FOX run the show by possibly airing it in the X-Files
time-slot on Sunday nights while that show would be just running
re-runs. That way they could expose Brimstone to a wider fanbase
of people who like paranormal programs. It's up to FOX to do or be
damned because by disappointing so many loyal viewers,their executives
just may find it very ironic when it comes time for their coporeal
existance to be canceled.
IT'S
THOUGHT PROVOCKING
March 6, 1999.
Brimstone
is one of the most thought-provoking shows on TV, and it is a shame
that a series that deals seriously with the Christian world view
(and in a totally engrossing way) has been treated so despicably
by Fox. In addition, Fox has treated Brimstone's fans in the same
manner. Perhaps this is why network television is consistantly losing
viewers - - it fails to respond to listen to the viewers. Bonnie
POSITIVE
MESSAGE
March 6, 1999.
My husband
and I love Brimstone. It was the first tv show in a long time that
we actually watched every week, no matter what. It was beautifully
produced and really had such a positive message. We hope some network
will save it. Thanks for the opportunity to share my thoughts. Debbie
Wagar
WORTH SAVING
March 5, 1999.
This
is a great show. It is certainly worth saving even if means going
to another network. The writing is good and the actors are terrific.
I became so attached to the show in such a short time that I cannot
imagine Fox opting to show such things as "Worlds Worst, Best
Most... whatever. They are all full of violence and destruction.
For this reason I have given up on Fox as a network worth watching.
M.H. |