It's Spreading....
POSTED BY: UnregisteredCompanion
UPDATED: Thursday, November 17, 2005 14:31
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That's funny because today in my History of the Middle East class we took the afternoon off and went to a local Lebanese restaurant. Our teacher invited several students from the local college (FSU) and the guy sitting across from me was from Lebanon and out of the blue he said "Yesterday I saw Serenity" and I said "That is so my movie!" lol and my friend next to me and I just started talking all about the movie with him. So awesome, you just never know where a fellow Browncoat will pop up.
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Viral marketing... hmmm..
I do not feel SICK at all.. though....I could use a nice handsome medic/doc to check me out.. just to be sure...
Chindi
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I lent my set to a friend, and her adult step-daughter saw it and shrieked, "You have "Firefly"!
Like the Bird Flu of the television world . . .
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I don't think this is quite what people mean when they tell me I'm "sick", but I've definately got the Firefly disease.
And I keep hearing it too. Every once in awhile, I'll bring it up, and a classmate will be like "You watch Firefly too?" or "I love Firefly!" I've met at least five other Firefly fans and made two more myself. My best friend Sam is a problem because she's against the show as she is against everything her mother likes.
But I'll work on her. Promise.
*after getting the English vocab sheet*
Me: "Sanguinary... hey, sanguine! There's a good Firefly quote about the word sanguine."
Sam: "Oh my GOD, Jackie."
Me: "C'mon! It's a good one! 'You sanguine about the kind of reception we'll get-' Hey! Don't be coverin' your ears!"
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Originally posted by Ursula:
Like the Bird Flu of the television world . . .
Bird Flu? ...That's disappointing as all hell. I aim for pneumonic Black Plague!
"it has some sweet character deaths -- I mean moments!" - Joss Whedon
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I desperately want to convert my flatmate, but he's incredibly stubborn and maintains that "Firefly is shit" despite having never seen it. He reasons that if it was cancelled quickly it must be rubbish, plus he likes annoying me :P
Anyone have any great plans for getting him interested? Once I get my DVDs back from my dad i might put them on his desk with a Post-it note saying "WATCH THEM BITCH!!"
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Originally posted by Kazzahdrane:
I desperately want to convert my flatmate, but he's incredibly stubborn and maintains that "Firefly is shit" despite having never seen it. He reasons that if it was cancelled quickly it must be rubbish, plus he likes annoying me :P
Anyone have any great plans for getting him interested? Once I get my DVDs back from my dad i might put them on his desk with a Post-it note saying "WATCH THEM BITCH!!"
Do you have rope? If not, your local hardware store carries it. So now you have means of securing him, you know where he sleeps, and you have the DVD's... At that point, "You have the choice between Firefly and reality shows for the next 24 hours," tends to work. I assure you, he'll be begging to watch Firefly in very little time.
"it has some sweet character deaths -- I mean moments!" - Joss Whedon
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Originally posted by Kazzahdrane:
I desperately want to convert my flatmate, but he's incredibly stubborn and maintains that "Firefly is shit" despite having never seen it. He reasons that if it was cancelled quickly it must be rubbish, plus he likes annoying me :P
Anyone have any great plans for getting him interested? Once I get my DVDs back from my dad i might put them on his desk with a Post-it note saying "WATCH THEM BITCH!!"
Do you have rope? If not, your local hardware store carries it. So now you have means of securing him, you know where he sleeps, and you have the DVD's... At that point, "You have the choice between Firefly and reality shows for the next 24 hours," tends to work. I assure you, he'll be begging to watch Firefly in very little time.
"it has some sweet character deaths -- I mean moments!" - Joss Whedon
You could always use the old "Chain of Command" theory lol.
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Sent a copy to my three young neighbours from the countryside where I grew up--smart and handsome lads of 19, 17, and 14--and got a report back a few nights ago that all were converts except the middle boy, who liked it "okay" so far. But he said, "Even Dad is really into it"--Dad being a 55-year-old Marxist-intellectual logger-hermit from Belfast, and notoriously discerning about his viewing habits. Hah!
That means my dad, his best friend, will get sucked in. Mom already watched two episodes, had to turn it off because of "tension" (anything with any tension in it just kills her; makes it hard to find movies to watch with her...), but she "can see the appeal" and made me tell her how everything turns out, including in the movie. Hum. To tally, since Serenity was released and I got the Firefly set (next day), that makes about 10 for me.
I was talking to a friend the other day about how strength of sentiment, although more difficult to measure or apply than sheer numbers, must count for something, and shouldn't be so totally overlooked by studios and networks. (This was partly in connection with FOX cancelling Arrested Development, as well as, of course, Firefly.) This morning I thought of one very concrete effect: because there's nothing worth watching on TV, I don't subscribe to cable. If Firefly came back, I'd get reconnected in a red-hot minute. That's $80 a month the cable company is losing because of Fox's decision. I'm sure there's a measurable connection, also, between fans' love of a show and their inclination to identify with and buy the products advertised on the commercials. God, I'll buy 10 boxes of Tide a week, if I can only have my Firefly back!
This is a happy thread, and happy threads make me happy. Enough despair in the world: let hope spring eternal, even if it has to jump up and down on the same spot!
Vancouver
p.s.: we made it past the $36-million mark, worldwide, today: yay! Only 3 million-ish to make up for the break-even, and who knows: it could do that in rep, second-run, and the remaining first-run. It's still here in Vancouver, by the way.
(Since a lot of the increase is international, this would be a good time to give a hand to the Aussies, who are giving it such a great run down there. In case you missed the thread on this subject, someone crunched the numbers and verified that Australians are the #1 per-capita Serenity-goers. Thanks, all you down under!)
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I guess if you have good stuff , you want to share it, no?
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