While You’re At It, Mr. Fillion, Buy the Rights to “Drive”

Nathan Fillion, who was the star of the ELROYHEADDOTCOMRECOMMENDED show Firefly (also referenced on last week’s Community, and is also going to be airing on the Science Channel on March 6th) and is the current star of Castle, recently said the following in an interview with Entertainment Weekly:

If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to Firefly, make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.

…to which the Internet responded, CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

I have an additional idea, Mr. Nathan Fillion: buy the rights to Drive.

For the uninitiated, allow me to initiate you (lol). Drive was a TV show from 2007 that featured an illegal street race with a mysterious purpose. It was kind of like LOST meets a sinister version of The Amazing Race, because anything that involves a mystery is like LOST.

Starring Nathan Fillion.

It aired on FOX, and was cancelled within ten days. They only aired four episodes, which were awesome, and some episodes were streamed online, because they cancelled it oh my god those jerks.

You’re not going to believe the reason why it got cancelled. Take it away, Wikipedia:

It debuted in the United States on April 15, 2007 on Fox, and moved into its regular time slot on Mondays the next day; in that slot it faced stiff competition from NBC’s Deal or No Deal and ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. On April 25, Fox canceled Drive only after four episodes had aired.

Yeah. Flippin’ Dancing With The Deal Or No Stars. Criminal, really. It wasn’t even given the chance to build an awesome fanbase like Firefly. What’s the Drive equivalent of Browncoats? OH THAT’S RIGHT WE’LL NEVER KNOW BECAUSE IT WAS ONLY ON TV FOUR TIMES. Actually, three times; the first two episodes were a two-hour premiere. So it’s even worse. That semicolon might be in the wrong place.

This is the other reason to bring it back:

Drive is the first place I saw Emma Stone, and is probably the first acting job she ever had in her entire life. So, I am basically saying that Emma Stone would not be famous today if Drive had not existed, which seems contradictory since nobody got to watch it, but this is my tumblog! “It was made for me!” Go tumbl your own og, you pedant!

Therefore, Drive was one of the most important shows of 2007, as its impact has had drastic effects on our pop culture today as we know it. Heck, even Spider-Man misses the show. And do you know who’s going to be in the new Spider-Man movie?

YUP

EMMA.

Fate has smiled upon us, Nathan Fillion, and it is telling you to Revive Drive.

Get it? It…rhymes?

Okay, one more “for the road” (lol)