Boss Joss speaks on Official Firefly Website

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NEWSADMIN

Thursday, June 20, 2002 2:50 AM

Boss Joss has finally spoken to the masses on the Official Firefly Website. Not much info that most of the fans don’t already know. The one exception being the words “Blue Sun,” which may be an important clue as to who may be doing the theme for Firefly.

You gotta remember Darling Violetta’s Blue Sun from Buffy.

Go and listen to what else Joss had to say about Firefly.

The URL is:

http://www.fox.com/firefly/joss.htm

HAKEN

Thursday, June 20, 2002 3:23 AM

Anyone want to spend some time and write a transcript of what Joss said so that people with a slow connection or no Quicktime can at least have the transcript to read?

NOVAGRASS

Thursday, June 20, 2002 4:24 AM

I'm thinking "blue sun" in the more literal sense... but I do love that song...

So, anyway... what Joss said seems very cool. I especially like the part about the special effects being a part of the storytelling... which is new for sci-fi.

It's always refreshing to hear a Joss interview (and I liked how he was looking directly at the camera... something about the seemed more intimate than the traditional "look at the interviewer, not the camera" interviews.)

Me like.

--Dylan Palmer, aka NoVaGrAsS--

"Nice guys can only get so mad." Fillion on Mal

TLSMITH1963

Thursday, June 20, 2002 3:54 PM

With me, the interviews kept stopping a lot on Quicktime. I have the standard 56k modem, so that is probably why. It's frustrating, but I managed to get through the interviews anyway, even though it took *forever*!

Tammy

HAKEN

Thursday, June 20, 2002 5:43 PM

The words, Blue Sun, also appears in this image:

Maybe it's a new club...err...saloon, like The Bronze.

TIEKA

Thursday, June 20, 2002 8:57 PM

For all of you have have slow connections or low level of patience, here are my transcripts of 3 of the four interview bits.

Quote:
Action and a Whore

Starts with babblings between Joss and guy running video tape recorder.

Hi, welcome to the interweb.

Firefly. A lot of people are asking me, you know, what exactly is Firefly? It's a tv show you morons! Everbody knew that. It's a science fiction-western-drama-action-comedy-hybrid, much like all of the shows I do. It's something I haven't seen on tv for a awhile. I'm not sure if I've ever seen all of the elments in place. It's got a great deal of action and a great deal, obviously, of cool space ships, and all of the things that I love in science fiction. But actually it's just really Stagecoach. It's using a nice compelling setting, a journey. In this case, hopefully a very loooong journey. To learn about people, and see thier interactions, to see what makes them tick, and learn about society, and life and what it all means, but with action and a whore!

Two Words

There are certain things that we are going to be threading throught out the show to keep the world alive and insert in the background. So the two words I have to say to you right now are "Blue" "Sun".

Boring Pontification

You know, I remember now what I was going to say before too, about the show, is that you're going to see something that you really haven't seen before. The special effects that are so seamlessly introduced in the show that they don't feel at all like CGI effects. They feel like the same kind of of thing. You'll really feel like you are there, in those (CGI shots). So it's not one of those things where suddenly you cut out and everything is stately and boring and kind of very clean and digitial, then you cut back in and it's all different.

We have the best effects house, Radium, going, and they are so interested in just being part of the story telling. Everybody who is working on the show is part of the same thing. Hopefully that is the same thing you are going to get from the site, that apparently I am talking thru right now. You know we don't want to be be the same regular old network site. We're interested in finding new things to do and new things for you guys to see. I'll be appearing occasionly and pontificating in boring fashion like I am right now. And just trying to find new ways to use the internet to hight light what the show feels like, and the experience of it so that this can all become part of the same story because hopefully when you see the show the story will start to expand beyond the borders of your telivision set and into your daily lives and into your dreams, and control your mind...

I mean, umm, did you like it?

(off screen voice) Here's your twenty bucks

laughter :)

btw, it was very easy to listen to Joss for 3 hours, he has a very sexy voice.

Once you've been in Serenity, you never leave. You just learn to live there. --Firefly script

HAKEN

Thursday, June 20, 2002 9:29 PM

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Originally posted by Tieka:
btw, it was very easy to listen to Joss for 3 hours, he has a very sexy voice.

Whoa...three hours? You rock! It would be a shame to waste all that hardwork if no one saw the transcript. I'll post it in the feature section so that those of us who don't have Quicktime and broadband will be able to see it. Here's one for you.

NOVAGRASS

Friday, June 21, 2002 12:54 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Haken:
The words, Blue Sun, also appears in this image:

Maybe it's a new club...err...saloon, like The Bronze.

Hmmmmm.... how very interesting... I love "Blue Sun" as the name of a saloon/club/bar/whatever!

--Dylan Palmer, aka NoVaGrAsS--

"Nice guys can only get so mad." Fillion on Mal

GUANTES

Friday, August 2, 2002 10:10 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Haken:
The words, Blue Sun, also appears in this image:

Maybe it's a new club...err...saloon, like The Bronze.

I'm glad you guys picked up on the whole 'Blue Sun' thing I'm still at a loss as to what it all means.... I was thinking corporation?

The logo in that picture looks like it is on the side of a cargo container so I'd guess it was something the crew were haulling.....

Still I'm only speculating since the whole thing is driving me crazy!

I want to see I want to know!

I'll give Joss the credit of being able to write a show and then not be so excieted that he tells us all about it before it airs..... but I wish he would tell just a little more!

Phil
"We few, we happy few, we band of buggered" -Spike

MOJOECA

Friday, August 2, 2002 10:21 AM

Of course, even though it's a frontier kinda of style, there must be some remnants of the consumer world. After all, it's only 400 yrs in the future.

BTW, I'm really drunk right now. Woohoo! Vodakka rule@>

--- Joe

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