Wondering what sort of fans Firefly attracts?

POSTED BY: Ruthie
UPDATED: Thursday, July 26, 2007 21:16
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SUCCATASH

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 2:26 AM

Ok, Ruthie, it's your turn to cough up more information about yourself. Or at least say, "Wow, you guys are great," or something.

JAYNESGIRLFRIEND

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 3:37 AM

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Originally posted by Succatash:
I care about Firefly and boys.

Hey! These are good priorities. Take away the "and" and these are my priorities. Mmm. Firefly boys.

Stats on the legally insane Jaynehead: I'm 23 years old. I was born in Dyersburg, TN and have never lived farther north than Kentucky. Yee-haw, y'all. I'm a Libra who may never enjoy long walks on the beach again due to the horrendous sun burn I got today. Between Dr. Who on PBS with my dad and Stephen King bedtime stories with my mom I was sort of programmed from birth to be a fan of all things sci-fi, fantasy, or horror.

I seem to be a bit of an anomaly though since I was never into any Trek, except Wrath of Khan, love Wrath of Khan or Star Wars which seem to be the Big Two of Sci-Fi fandom roots. At least I can blame the being a girl thing on not reading Lord of the Rings as a kid. A book about a bunch of guys with a ring? I think not, hand me the Robin McKinley and shut up about this Frodo person. And now I'm just rambling.

Hmm, where was I? On the TV front the first show I ever became absolutely Firefly level obsessed with was Due South(kisses LJC) followed closely by Buffy and Angel and finally Firefly. I only have Angel left. Don't cry for me, FFF.net, there's always Tru Calling or Fearless. Yep, I'm screwed.

"I was gonna get me an ear, too." - Jayne

WULFHAWK

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 4:08 AM

Damn, I'm bumfoozled and amazerated! All these library employees! Hell, I weren't even aware there were so many different kinds of librarians!

Did I miss the Dewey Decimal revolution?

tanstaafl

SIRENKAIN

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 5:04 AM

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Originally posted by Dutch:
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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.

Book 1-5 are Corwin's series and 6- 10 become Merlin's series. Merlin can't hold a torch to Corwin.

Morbid and creep-ifying I got no problem with.

CHANNAIN

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 2:53 PM

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Originally posted by Succatash
Sorry, Ruthie. I'm actually quite normal most of the time. Well, half the time.

I'm sorry...half the time? is it me, or does Tash spend more than half the time apologizing for something?

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

SUCCATASH

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 6:27 PM

Cute, Channain. Woe is me.

CHANNAIN

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 6:32 PM

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Originally posted by Succatash
Cute, Channain. Woe is me.

awwwwwww, poor Tash.

we love you just as you are, you know that, right? you just can't keep scaring the mundanes, man. one of them might be as crazy as we are, they just don't know it yet. these things take time...seasoning...tequila...

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

MERLINDREA

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 6:35 PM

Hi Ruthie,

I am female, 32, and originally from East Germany. That means my discovery of all those famous SF writers came relatively late, after the iron curtain was lifted. Man, I even read Star Wars (smuggled by my cousin to me) years before I realized there is a movie :-).

Actually, "western" SF came quite as a shock to me - a lot is so brooding and dark. The "eastern" SF was all positive, like in the future we all will live in peace... Close to Star Trek, when you think about it (which I was able to watch, although black&white only).

But I have adapted (even though I really recommend to read Stanislaw Lem, his "Star Diaries" are cult!) to the new world open to me now. A friend of mine made me watch Buffy (I was hesitant at first, I mean how does "a teenage-series where they kill vampires" sound to you?), but since then I am a die-hard Whedon fan. In fact, his shows are the only ones I watch regularly. With Firefly and Buffy gone and Angel in summer break, we haven't even switched on the TV for two weeks!

Well, more time to read, then. My favorite authors are Robin Hobb, Tanya Huff (girls, if you like great female characters, their books are a must!), Neil Gaiman (you surely know his "Sandman" comic books, but I also recommend "American Gods") and - dare I say it - J. K. Rowling. And Waltraud Lewin, but as she is an Eastgerman author, you guys probably never heard of her :-). Writes the best history novels, though...

Merl

SERENIDAD

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 7:18 PM

Okay, might as well open my big mouth. I normally just lurk around here. The first movie I ever saw in a theater was The Empire Strikes Back, I was six months old. My mother always watched Star Trek TOS as I was growing up and I saw the majority of those movies in the theater, too. So suffice to say, any movie/tvseries/book with at least some sort of scifi turn to it, I'm probably familiar with. (Anybody else remember VR5?) Course I have a low tolerance for BS so once a show goes downhill I get bitter. For example Seaquest (3rd season when Roy Scheider was replaced and all they seemed to talk about was aliens), Sliders (3rd season when all but one of the original characters was gone, and all they seemed to talk about was the alien-like creatures) and ST Voyager (when it just went crazy, 2nd season I think. Of course I still tuned it every week to see if it got any better. However, Joss's other shows have proved themselves in the test of time, so I'm sure Firefly would not have suffered from the sam horrible fate as the shows I mentioned above. Especially since he wasn't/isn't interested in using aliens.

Oh right, demographics,
Female, 23, single, teacher
That enough for you?

no?
Ok, what else?

TRAGICSTORY

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 9:01 PM

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Originally posted by Drakon:
utopia is a word and probably one of the most accurately labeled political concepts out there. It is greek for "no where"

"My kind of stupid"

Did you ever stop and realize that a utopia is a totalitarian dictatorship?

There is no social mobility in an utopia.

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

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