Firefly Conversion Stories

POSTED BY: engineangel
UPDATED: Sunday, February 5, 2006 23:39
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SMOKE

Monday, October 17, 2005 2:54 AM

I'm trying to convert my friends but its not that easy a couple of people i have tried to get were comparing it to like farscape and star gate. But I'll get someone lol i'm trying to get my girlfriend but she not into this kind of stuf....i'll get them sooner or later

ENGINEANGEL

Wednesday, October 19, 2005 3:23 AM

keep converting people, travelers. We need those box office #s!!!! Has anyone brought someone to the BDM with them? What did they say about it? Are they going to watch the series now?

keep flyin'
EngineAngel

MEANGOLDFISH

Thursday, October 20, 2005 3:29 AM

I was converted via a message board. People on it always told me how great the show was, i need to watch it, fox screwed the show. blah blah blah. it went in one ear and out the other. i figured it was no more than some people trying to pawn some half-assed sci-fi show on me.

well, i finally broke down and watched an episode. then i watched another one. and another. and so on until every spare moment i had was spent watching firefly.

needless to say i'm a rabid fan, and am converting my friends. i dragged two of my friends to Serenity, they both loved it. One of those friends was forced to sit down and watch some Firefly before we went to the theatre. He ended up watching 8 episodes (on top of the BDM) that day/night.

ROCHESTERBROWNCAOT

Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:46 PM

me, my fellow browncaot and 2 of our friends went to see the movie opening day and that sunday one of my friends wanted to watch the DVD's. We got though 2 episodes (he went to bed..not as deticated as some) and my other friend took the DVDs and got to and almost finshed disc 3. It was a glorious thing, he was the one thing i though i was going to have a hard time converting and he LOVED IT. My DVDs are currently making the rounds between a few friends and more fans are on the way

QUINZBROWNCOAT

Friday, October 21, 2005 12:07 AM

Quote:
...(he went to bed..not as deticated as some) ...

Next time try the bamboo under the eyelids trick--that'll get 'em converted faster.

Semper Fidelis

SCARLETBEGONIA

Saturday, October 29, 2005 7:27 PM

I just found this thread and wanted to add my stories!

I myself became converted after seeing the movie trailer in the theater in July, then remembered that it was connected to Firefly which I had only heard about but hadn't seen (I was already an obsessed Joss fan through Buffy and Angel but was living out of the US when Firefly aired). I ordered the box set off of Amazon and watched it in one weekend, and it has been addictive obsession ever since!

I have gotten about 10 people to see the show through lending them my DVDs, all of which really liked it but haven't actually bought the set themselves. I did get a total of 16 people to see the movie with me on 5 different occasions, which in my book is huge since I hardly go to the movies anymore and rarely talk up movies to my friends (the last one I really talked up was Whale Rider, which is amazing btw). I have also peaked the interest of several more people who just haven't been able to get to the movie for various reasons, and who now will have to see it on DVD because it is pretty much out of the theaters locally. So I'll just have to have Serenity watching parties when it comes out!

The universal response: "Wow, this is really great! I never even knew it existed!"

SHINYGEEKET

Monday, October 31, 2005 4:21 AM

I self converted this summer, mostly due to the scifi channel reruns. I've been a BTVS/Angel fan since the early years so my FF obsession was kind of inevitable. Since I've gotten the box set, I've converted both my mom and my stepdad, and just this past Friday I took my aunt to see Serenity, and she loved it. I'm still working on most of my friends, their a very resistant bunch, but I believe the combination of my whiles and the power of FF will win them over

"We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land'."

JETFLAIR

Saturday, November 19, 2005 7:45 AM

This is a lazy person's post...meaning I'm copying and pasting what I wrote on the Browncoat forum a while back....but it was so much fun I had to share:

I'm driving down the highway the other week, and I get stuck in one of those epic traffic jams. The kind where it's taking so long that you step out of your car to look down the line of traffic, and all you see are cars, with nary a glimpse of the catastrophic wreck that caused the whole mess.

One of those where people start passing messages from the back of the line: "What happened? How long are we going to be here?" and by the time the telephone-game style message gets back to you it sounds something like "the road caved in on top of a shopping mall - we won't be moving for at least 3 hours!" At that point you learn not to ask questions like "since when did they build a shopping mall under the highway?" You just surrender to apathy and lateness.

I carry a portable DVD player (not one of the fancy built-in ones, but the kind you plug into the cigarette lighter) around in my car for passing time in occasions such as this. I also had my inseperable companions, my Firefly DVDs. So, naturally, once I had given up my once hopeful dreams of actually getting to my destination, I hauled out the DVD player.

What with the frustrated little pack of motorists prowling up and down the line, this move attracted some attention, followed by more than a little envy. You don't want to cross drivers on the hunt, I know this much. So, charitable individual that I am, I invited them to gather 'round and watch with me. Of course, you, my fellow browncoats, have already cottoned to my big and evil plan. My open-armed kindness came at a price. They were going to have to watch Firefly! Mine is an evil laugh!

I opened my door and propped up the DVD player, and about 5 people gathered around to watch as I started playing Out of Gas. Now, we all know what happens when a crowd of people gather during a roadside crisis......they develop a powerful magnetic field that draws in every person within shouting distance. Before I knew it, at least 15 people were gathered around my car, straining to watch my little 8" screen!

Did I mention I live in Oregon? About halfway through the episode, it starts to rain. Hard. Before I know it, I have 5 complete strangers and 3 children packed into my very compact car, and heads sticking into literally every window. I'm not sure it's possible to comprehend what a comical sight this was without being there. Not a one of them contemplated actually stopping watching and returning to their own vehicles for shelter.

We watched the whole episode, and then the comments started. "How could this possibly have been cancelled?" "That Captain is an awesome actor" "What's the name of that guy in charge of the ship? I need to see everything he's done." "The Companion is hot!" "What do you mean there wasn't even a full season?" "There's a movie out on this? I'm watching it tonight!" "Where did you buy your DVDs? I need them!" "Are they starting the show again?" "What an incredible story, that should have won an Oscar."

After the main group had trickled back to their cars, I admit to participating in a "drooling over Nathan Fillion" session with a few of the other women. If traffic handn't started moving agin, I am relatively certain we would have watched Trash on the spot.

Heeheehee.........a whole pack of accidental converts. An enjoyable and damp time was had by all. What's the craziest way you've ever introduced anyone to Firefly/Serenity?

"Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells you when she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home." .......We love you, captain

"Now, if I'm not back in an hour, I want you to take this ship, take off... and you come and you rescue me!"

"This is the captain. We may experience some slight turbulence and then.....explode"

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PSYCHOTICBRIDE

Sunday, November 20, 2005 2:55 AM

I've made at least one solid conversion, but I don't really have an interesting story to it. When we were planning our Serenity Appreciation Party (which was basically the three of us that had already seen Serenity going again and taking two new people with us), I decided to have Whitley over and make her watch a few episodes to give her a foundation for the movie. She was in love before the end of the pilot, naturally. ^_^ Oh, and she loves Jayne- he's her favorite. I tease her about it sometimes.

Me: "You do realize that this will never be a monogomous relationship in the strictest sense. The man is married to his guns."
Whitley: "Yeah... I've resigned myself to that."

MRTOADE

Thursday, February 2, 2006 11:54 AM

Is this old news?

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