Joss writes a great post on the Universal board

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UPDATED: Monday, October 17, 2005 22:00
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NAKEDANDARTICULATE

Friday, October 14, 2005 3:54 PM

"I love my Captain."---y'know in (ahem) a MANLY way--YEAH!

Posted: 14 Oct 2005 10:18 am
Post subject: Joss made a post from typings!

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Hello, young lovers, wherever you are. This is Joss, coming to you
live via technology. I thought it would be fair to give you all my
little State of the Onion before I descend into the depths of the
Warren to pound away at my keyboard, munch lettuce and ignore that
annoying nerd Fiver who keeps saying something bad is coming, like he
can tell or whatever. I'm excited to beat this Wonder Woman script
into shape (and munch lettuce). Mostly, to be honest, I'm excited to
(deliberately split infinitive) not be a Professional Serenity
Barker. I love you guys, I loves me some Serenity cast, but I am
yammered out. By Spain it just got surreal (I think Nathan and Summer
will back me on that one). Selling is not my strong suit. Actually,
my strong suit is Kevlar, but it bunches in all the wrong places.

So I have read much over the past weeks: we have Won! Lost!
Triumphed! Failed! and have, of course, agreed with every single
thing I read (one of the exhausting things about having no
personality). But in the dark blue of early morning I do have some
perspective, and it runs thus:

I'm very content. I think the movie is really good. That was hard to
a)do and b) realize. The response has been terrific, the majority of
the reviews extremely positive: people GOT IT. What's more, an
impressive number of people saw this movie who never would have, and
even more still will. This is not spin: I know we didn't do the
expected numbers our first weekend, we didn't have an unprecedentedly
small drop-off the second (which was my personal fantasy.) I've been
to some dark places, just like you guys. But the movie has legs, and
people who loved it LOVED it crazy, the way love is supposed to be.
Europe has been a nice boost (and a lung-splitting shout out to my UK
and Aussie UIPeeps -- they're dears, and efficient as hell). We'll
keep soldiering on, until we can't crawl and we find DVD to carry us.
I see us kind of like the Shawshank Redemption without all the Oscar
nominations (unless Best Feet becomes a catagory). People who were
befuddled by the title or lack of premise hook will finally pick it
up, and keep picking it up... They may miss out on the big-screen
exitement, but they'll see our little tale and take it to their
hearts. Takes a while. Just like the show.

I've seen a couple of posts with Browncoats beating themselves up
about not having done enough. I never want to hear that again. You
guys have gone above and beyond above and beyond. The people who are
above and beyond are looking at you guys and going "Man, don't they
ever quit?" Your efforts, and your investment (emotional as well as
tickety) have done an enormous amount for this film and my battered
heart. No more self-flagellation, unless it's the healthy, what-every-
young-person-needs-to-learn-about-their-body kind.

And what about Da Fyoocha? (And why did I need Arnold to say that?) I
have no idea. It could be that this tale is told. Or it could be that
down the line, dollars accumulate and some exec says, "let's spin
that wheel again." Or who knows. I'm not resting my hopes on it, but
it's not a concept I'll ever close the book on. In case the 30,000
reporters I told didn't get this message out, I love this crew like
Nick loves Nora, like Hellboy loves Pancakes, like Bridgitte loves
Bernie (and if you're old enough to get that reference, my
condolences.)

Thank you all. I'll be in touch again, but I have an Amazon to
rassle. Remember that this is not over; every dollar (or Euro)
counts, every new convert is a friend for life. But don't fret too
much on what's to come. Enjoy the remarkable things we've
accomplished. You're Big Damn Fans. Have some lettuce.

All love, Joss.

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"It's about how much freedom you

CYBERSNARK

Friday, October 14, 2005 4:00 PM

Cool. And reassuring.

Also: Watership Down reference!!!

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SIGNYM

Friday, October 14, 2005 4:00 PM

Well, I don't care WHAT Joss says... I'm going to see the movie again this weekend!

Please don't think they give a shit.

CHRISTHECYNIC

Friday, October 14, 2005 4:29 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
Well, I don't care WHAT Joss says... I'm going to see the movie again this weekend!

Always nice to see someone else who remembers that fan is short for fanatic.

Besides, he didn’t say don’t go, he just said don’t beat yourself up.

STAKETHELURK

Friday, October 14, 2005 4:32 PM

I'm with you, SignyM!

And ChrisTheCynic is right, Joss didn't say not to go. He just doesn't want the Browncoats beating themselves up about it. So, hit the theaters, everyone! It ain't over yet.

JBJ

Friday, October 14, 2005 4:59 PM

Thanks Joss!

I'm all for a Best Feet category! LOTR would have won that category for 3 straight years.

IMALEAF

Friday, October 14, 2005 5:09 PM

Thanks, I love how you guys make the Serenity/Firefly news so easy to find

~~River: Bible's broken. Contradictions, false logics. Doesn't make sense. ~~

MIRAMEL

Friday, October 14, 2005 5:22 PM

Quote:
Cool. And reassuring.

Also: Watership Down reference!!!

here here, to both :P and i think by "dont beat yerself up" what he ment was, save your energy so you can see it again :) least, thats how im gonna interprit it

CS

Friday, October 14, 2005 5:25 PM

It's been tearing me up not knowing how Joss has felt about the outcome, thanks for posting that.

Being in the UK I have me big shiny #1 to drool over, but even overall I think we did great. And I'm sure I'm not the first to think this, but Serenity II has a much bigger change of being huge.

KAZZAHDRANE

Friday, October 14, 2005 5:25 PM

Joss truly is one of the nicest guys around.

JOSS IS BOSS!

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