Time for confession, Browncoats!
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Monday, April 18, 2005 02:44
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Thanks Chris....alway hard to know what length is acceptable when one joins a new website.
Alan was great in I,Robot. He is as good in his serious roles as he is when he is doing comedy. My kids have seen it, though not in my home. (they are 6, 5, and 4 years) They go around the house saying Sonny lines. It is so funny to ask a 4 year old what he is doing and have him look at you completely seriously and say, "I was dreaming", using exactly the same intonation and pronunciation (sp?) that Alan used in the movie. It cracks me up.
frogger
"There's obeying going on RIGHT UNDER MY NOSE!!!"
"It shall be loquacious to a fault!"
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I was wondering if I could show I,Robot to my 6 year old...did it have to be 'edited' or anything for your kids?
Oh, and I joined this website over a month ago, and you'll find some of the funniest, brightest people ever here. I don't go to any other now.
We're so lucky Firefly seems to attract the intellegent and such.
And I've seen replies that last pages!
The also(sorta) new Chrisisall
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My only confession is still being a bit pissy with people who snubbed it the first time through. Sorry, Chris, I can't forgive you, but I think we can agree to move on. 
Seriously though, I'm guilty of a similar crime. Since the Firefly/Fox fiasco, I can't bring myself to watch any television intentionally. I know I'm missing shows that many of you rave about (Carnivale, Lost, etc...) but I just can't go back.
Now, to be fair, I'd given up on TV long before Firefly, and it was only a fluke that I ever discovered it in the first place. For a while there after Firefly turned out to be so good (and before they canceled it) I'd even decided to give the medium another chance. But it didn't take long to realize what an anomaly Firefly really was.
Anyway.. I don't care how good it gets, I won't be subjecting myself to the mass of drivel and commercials for any show ever again. I'll download the eps if there's something really, really good, but I won't play ball with their little consumerist game ever again.
SergeantX
"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock
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Wow, we really are of a mind on this.
After Dark Angel I swore never to watch tv again, period. I only watched that first ep of Firefly very casually, out of curiosity and like I said, with distractions. I might have caught it's brilliance if not for the COMMERCIALS and the kid and the questionable reception...
I wanted to watch Battlestar Galactica, but I won't see it's first season 'till I can Buy it!
COMMERCIAL TELEVISION
Anticorporate Chrisisall
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I was hooked on the previews, short and sparse as they were. Each episode just drew me in. When the dreaded day came that it was actually cancelled, i got online, i bought the 'Firefly: Requesting Immediate Assistance' T-shirt, i bought the Blue Sun mug, I sent many an angry, but not insulting, e-mails to Fox-the gorram mother-humpers...But we, the fearless Browncoats, have kept it alive and soon we'll have our lovely BDM...Life is good
"Haven't you killed me enough for one day ?"
- Mal, War Stories
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Hey MalsDoxy - long time!
Oh, it's been a long, hard, lumpity-bumpity road, hasn't it? Right now it feels like we're in the shallows, trees overhead with sunlight peeking through, promising warmth and light.
Remember the fires? First betrayal, then resurgence, and finally victory?
*huddling back under the trees, awaiting the movie premiere*
Fans come and fans go...but zealots are with you until the bitter black end.
I draw...therefore I am. http://www.mnartists.org/artistHome.do?rid=7922
Minnesota Meetup - join us! http://firefly.meetup.com/45/
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Originally posted by Channain:
....I was initially put off by the theme too, but then at first I only listened to the very Country sounding initial bars. Still don't like Country, but have long since gotten into Blue Grass.
Channain,
Hearing people say things like this, especially people of such obvious taste and refinement as yourself, truly breaks my heart. I'd like to propose the notion that you have been poisoned - poisoned by something called country music. I'm talking about the crap that passes for country on the radio. Please, please ignore it and realize it is NOT country music. It's nothing more the commercial pap designed to appeal to the feeble minded.
For the love of Firefly, get yourself a copy of Blacklisted* by Neko Case, anything by Jeff Black, Jim White, the Flatlanders, the Handsome Family, Julie Miller, Townes van Zandt.... the list is long. Then sit down and try to forget about the droning garbage on the radio and really listen to good country music. You might be surprised.
*especially "Deep Red Bells" or "I Wish I Was the Moon"
SergeantX
"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock
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you'll find some of the funniest, brightest people ever here. I don't go to any other now.
Ditto, to be honest I never survived more than a week anywhere else. The variety of people and posts here is incredible!
I really should get me a signature
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Wow, Emma. I wonder what the fall-out from his decision was in the household?
My confession is that I had no clue about the whole Firefly:Immediate Assistance campaign. We looked forward to the show, watched every episode, and were very sad when it was cancelled but I had pretty much suppressed the memory over the course of the next year. My girlfriend handles the Netflix queue so it was a surprise to me when the first two discs showed up in our mailbox back in December '03. We pretty much gobbled those discs up and I spent the next day driving around the South Bay until I found a boxed set. It was only from watching the extras that I learned about the grassroots movement that had been trying to save the show. Got online, found this place, and the rest is history.
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Next up: Early "Nutcrusher" Jubal and the Firebuggers
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So totally with you!!
Have so much to atone for!
Refused to watch it for the brief period it was on UK TV because "I hate Sci-Fi" (I know, please stab me now!)...
Then a good friend, "Evil Tom" as he is known, gave me the box set for my birthday with the words – “watch it, for me, if you do, I know you’ll like it.”
I remember being upset as I’d specifically ordered the third series of Angel. I left it on my “to watch” DVD pile for about 3 weeks and then decided I’d just have a wee look …
Boy! did I feel stupid! Luckily, it was a weekend so I didn’t sleep, eat or leave my room and watched the entire thing… I loved it so much I even forgave Evil Tom for screwing up my relationship with the "Love of My Life" 3 years ago – for which I didn’t speak to him for 6 months!!
Which just goes to show – everything can be made better by the Whedon Verse….
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armed.
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