Wondering what sort of fans Firefly attracts?

POSTED BY: Ruthie
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TRAGICSTORY

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 1:05 PM

Well, here are my demographics:

23
Male
living in Worcester,MA
Love anime, fantasy (Thanks to Succatash I am severly lacking sleep from satying up and reading George R R Martin) sci-fi (if it is somewhat believable or just out there like Hitchhikers)

I grew up reading David Eddings (until I realized he only had one stroy line and kept reusing but with new characters)and from their expanded onward and outward.

My favortie movies are Orgazmo (great if you live in Utah *hint,hint*, Battle Royale, fight club and Meet the Feebles.

And if every person were issued a Derringer or other pocket pistol common courtesy would be reborn... After all who wants to be shot in the ass over a parking space?

"Societies are supported by human activity, therefore they are constantly threatened by the human facts of self-intrest and stupidity." --Peter Berger

MAGUINAN

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 1:37 PM

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Originally posted by canttakesky:

Any other libertarians here?

Forget the libertarians, are there any libertines here?

-maguinan

That's right...I went there.

SUCCATASH

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 5:16 PM

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Originally posted by TragicStory:
Well, here are my demographics:

23
Male
living in Worcester,MA
Love anime, fantasy (Thanks to Succatash I am severly lacking sleep from satying up and reading George R R Martin) sci-fi (if it is somewhat believable or just out there like Hitchhikers)

My favortie movies are Orgazmo (great if you live in Utah *hint,hint*, Battle Royale, fight club and Meet the Feebles.

Tragic, George R.R. Martin rules, eh? By the way, Orgasmo is also one of my favorite movies. I highly recommend Cannibal the Musical too.

ATHERTONWING

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 5:47 PM

well i just found this board a few days ago, thank god there are other firefly fans out there!

im an 18 year old a-level student in the uk i wasnt really a sci-fi or fantasy fan until i discovered joss whedons work, i fell in love with buffy all most from the offing. then angel, followed by fray and now firefly! i'm hooked. and also distraught it was cancelled i really dont understand why such an amazingly origional and deep world didnt catch on. i have already got all my friends hooked on the show,
id just like to say great board and im really glad to be part of it!
chris.

ATHERTONWING

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 5:47 PM

CAPTBAGGYTROUSERS

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 6:23 PM

Every time I watch "Shindig," during the part where Mal is stabbed in the side I will say aloud "Atherton winged him!" and laugh uproariously.

I will die alone.

History repeats the old conceits

TWOBLUE

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 7:39 PM

Hi Ruthie and everyone,

I've posted here a few times before, mostly asking for help with downloads and such (again, to all involved with making the un-aired episodes available, many thanks !) but visit daily. This thread has been interesting to read, (we are a diverse group ! ) so thought I'd also introduce myself, share my Firefly love, and make a suggestion.

It was the music that attracted me to Firefly first, heard it playing in another room and immediately drawn to the T.V. The look of the ship kept me there, loved the dirty, dusty, mismatched, clanking metal of Serenity, (similar to the look of other loves, "Blade Runner" and "Brazil") and then of course once I got to know the characters and cast, and their great dialogue, I was a goner. I'd given up on T.V. a few years ago, and here they've canceled the first show I've watched in years. Heartbroken doesn't cover it, I'll be wearing all black (except for a brown overcoat) from now on.

So back to no T.V. for me, except on your recommendation Ruthie, I think I'll give "X-Files" a try on DVD. And since Firefly was my first foray into Joss Whedon's shows, think I'll also look into Buffy and Angel. That should hold me until the please dear god let there be a Firefly movie.

Also, one thought about Angel. A Joss Whedon show, only one still on the air, featuring a vampire, and they live forever, right ? Within the realm of possibility don't you think, that the writers could just speed up the time thing ? You know, like soap operas, a character is a child for one week, pregnant teen the next, middle age divorcee by week three. Maybe they could also get a little loose with time on Angel this season, have episodes progress until he's lived to Firefly's time period, and suddenly he's a passenger on Serenity ? Then we can have Firefly back ! Maybe a campaign to steer Joss and the writers in this direction ?

And lastly, my demographics ? Well, not exactly sexy, but maybe cute in a 47 year old female, single, living in a nursing home, rock 'n rolling around in a wheelchair kind of way.

A diverse group ?

Well, yeah, as our beloved captain said "Ain't we just."

DUTCH

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 7:40 PM

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Speaking of Zelazney... would anyone else LOVE to see Whedon could do with the Amber series?

The Amber series started out really good, but got worse as the series progressed. Especially after book 5.

LJC

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 8:26 PM

I'm 29, female, professional web designer, and freelance journalist. I mostly read urban fantasy, horror, folklore/fairy tales, hard-boiled detective fiction, and some high fantasy (Terry Pratchett, and Guy Gavriel Kay). I read a teeny tiny amount of SF outside of media tie-ins, but more in the vein of Spider Robinson's Callahan's short stories than anything else.

I'm a big ole media fan--started going to cons at age 15--both media cons and comics cons. I got to lit cons now and then, but only locally.

TV shows I've been madly in love with are Robin of Sherwood, Doctor Who, DS9, Earth 2, Angel, Buffy, Farscape, Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, Quantum Leap, Invisible Man, Smallville, The New Adventures of Wonder Woman, Due South, EZ Streets, Lois & Clark, X-Files, Brisco County Jr., Young Riders, Nikita, Three, Wiseguy, Now & Again, Sports Night, The Ghost & Mrs Muir, Forever Knight, Highlander, and to my eternal shame, Voyager.

For me, the appeal of Firefly is both the writing--incredibly well-drawn characters, all with distinctive voices, and the episodes themselves--and the performances. I've probably seen the show through about 10 times now, and seem to find more to love with each viewing.

--
Some take the high road. Some take the low road.
And some just go screaming down the highway, dropping flaming bits of wreckage.

CHANNAIN

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 9:53 PM

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Originally posted by Ruthie
So - does anyone else here share my interests, or am I alone (not that I'd either stop watching or visiting here even if I am!)...

oh Ruthie, unfortunately you have fallen in with a very, how do I say this, INTERESTING (good Minnesota word, that) crowd. all of us have some interest in Sci-fi/fantasy/horror, and if we didn't get brainwashed to it early, we certainly have been now.

don't be frightened. we're not entirely certifiable. i'm a mid-30s female, single no cat, who currently utilizes administrative and computer skills in the office of a church. that's just to pay the bills and really has nothing to do with my convictions of Christian faith, such as they are (notice i didn't use the word "religion"). i've been an artist since the beginning of time, working in black and white or colored pencil, depending on the mood. results of this lifetime obsession will be available to the Firefly public shortly.

my oldest sister plunked my brother and i down in front of Star Trek reruns back in the 70s and i just couldn't turn away. since then if there's a sci-fi/fantasy show on, i'll give it a chance. 5 minutes for some (Lexx), or a lifetime to others whether they're reincarnated (Star Trek) or not (Man From Atlantis), short lived (Roar) or not (Babylon 5, FarScape) and everything inbetween. my favorite writers include Anne McCaffrey, who i also grew up with, and Robin Hood, who i didn't. A.C. Crispin, Brian Daley and Peter David also rate pretty high on the list with the classics, but i'm always open to reading new stuff. as a Gemini, I'm all about variety.

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Originally posted by Ruthie
I just wish that the joy of discovery had not been coloured by the knowledge, from the start, that it would be a short-lived pleasure...

that makes two of us, hon. 4 words: Beauty and the Beast. my experience with the life and death of that show pretty much scarred me for life. now every time i find something i like, i'm convinced it's going to disappear. although i didn't expect Firefly to vanish quite as quickly as it did.

I found the way, by the sound of your voice--so many things to say.
These are only words. Now I've only words. Once there was a choice.
David Sylvian

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