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Browncoats, we have a problem

POSTED BY: ecgordon
UPDATED: Sunday, December 1, 2024 04:41
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Thursday, July 15, 2004 2:34 PM

Reading this, I decided I would do a little promoting of my own...I work for a bigly huge giant dot com, and I'm in charge of the television section of the website. I think I'll go right now and stick Firefly in the Recommended section. I don't know why I haven't thought of this before!

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THG
Friday, August 30, 2024 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ecgordon:
When you are involved in a fandom it can be easy to overlook the fact that a lot of people do not share your obsession, especially when you spend a lot of your spare time conversing with other fans on message boards. But we must not lose sight of the fact that Firefly is still a relatively unknown property to the general public.

Last night I attended a party at a friends house. It was partly her birthday party, but instead of accepting gifts for herself, she was collecting donations to be sent to Operation Gratitude - http://opgratitude.com/website/html/index.php. Please check out their "wish list" for things to be sent to our troops overseas. At the top of the list is DVDs, and I was going to contribute a Firefly set, along with some other items. If I had thought of it enough in advance I would have ordered it from amazon.com, because I went to seven different stores yesterday, in a vain attempt to find a copy. No one had it in stock! That was three different Wal-Marts, Best Buy, Circuit City, Hastings & Target.

Worse than that, there was only one of the clerks I talked to (Best Buy) who was even familiar with it. He said they usually just get two at a time but that they sell quickly. When asked why they don't order more he just shrugged noncommitally, but hopefully he will pass along the notion that more is better. And at the party, when I mentioned that I had wanted to give the DVDs but explained the reason why I didn't have them, there was only one person who had ever heard of Firefly, that being the hostess, and that only because I had mentioned it to her a couple of weeks ago. I would say there were at least 50 people there last night, and not another Browncoat among them.

So, to make a long post even longer, we need to continue to make a concerted effort to check retailers often to see if they have it in stock, and take every opportunity to talk about the show to others when possible. The more people who see the series, the more that will be anxiously awaiting the BDM.




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Saturday, August 31, 2024 12:35 AM

20 years later, most retailers don't even carry DVD/BluRay anymore.

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Saturday, August 31, 2024 1:40 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
20 years later, most retailers don't even carry DVD/BluRay anymore.

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The Pirate Bay carries the TV series and the movie, for free, with instant delivery:
https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=Firefly
https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=Serenity+2005

One piece of free software is needed to download these videos: qbittorrent
https://www.qbittorrent.org/

To add a bittorrent link only the info hash identifying the particular video is needed.

Firefly Season 1 COMPLETE 1080p info hash:
935A77D282BCE621FE0514668225ABF597F5756A

Serenity (2005) 1080p info hash:
E96C262A470564DA72F7C6E38353098F1857D6B5

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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THG
Sunday, December 1, 2024 4:41 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ecgordon:
When you are involved in a fandom it can be easy to overlook the fact that a lot of people do not share your obsession, especially when you spend a lot of your spare time conversing with other fans on message boards. But we must not lose sight of the fact that Firefly is still a relatively unknown property to the general public.

Last night I attended a party at a friends house. It was partly her birthday party, but instead of accepting gifts for herself, she was collecting donations to be sent to Operation Gratitude - http://opgratitude.com/website/html/index.php. Please check out their "wish list" for things to be sent to our troops overseas. At the top of the list is DVDs, and I was going to contribute a Firefly set, along with some other items. If I had thought of it enough in advance I would have ordered it from amazon.com, because I went to seven different stores yesterday, in a vain attempt to find a copy. No one had it in stock! That was three different Wal-Marts, Best Buy, Circuit City, Hastings & Target.

Worse than that, there was only one of the clerks I talked to (Best Buy) who was even familiar with it. He said they usually just get two at a time but that they sell quickly. When asked why they don't order more he just shrugged noncommitally, but hopefully he will pass along the notion that more is better. And at the party, when I mentioned that I had wanted to give the DVDs but explained the reason why I didn't have them, there was only one person who had ever heard of Firefly, that being the hostess, and that only because I had mentioned it to her a couple of weeks ago. I would say there were at least 50 people there last night, and not another Browncoat among them.

So, to make a long post even longer, we need to continue to make a concerted effort to check retailers often to see if they have it in stock, and take every opportunity to talk about the show to others when possible. The more people who see the series, the more that will be anxiously awaiting the BDM.




wo men ren ran zai fei xing.





T

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