Wondering what sort of fans Firefly attracts?

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KOFFEE

Saturday, June 28, 2003 5:10 AM

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Originally posted by Archer:
Gotta say, Koffee... FF is not in the typical mode for SF tv, but not for SF literarily.

Ah, I see what you are saying here. My main experience to sci-fi is through the mass media outlets. I haven't really read many literary stories on the topic. My main experience with "sci-fi" literature was being made to read A Wrinkle In Time back in school. Sorry, but I hated it. I have always prefered reading something historic than anything futuristic / sciency / technologicly influenced. Basically a diference of shooting arrows vs. shooting lazer guns. Just a personal preference is all.

But hey...differences are what make us great.

I think that is why I have taken to Firefly so much. It is the western side of it that I love the most. They are still shooting bullets, still riding horses, and still wearing those cavalry style "tightpants".

Plus it is the first show me and Ry have agreed on in along time. He gets his space ships, and I get my six-shooters. A happy combination.

P.S.- Sorry it took me so long to get back to you on this.

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RAYANN

Monday, June 30, 2003 3:59 AM

Hi everybody. *waves* My name is Rachel, and I'm a seventeen year old girl from California. I'm a bit of a sci-fi/fantasy geek; some of my favorites include Robert A. Heinlein, Larry Niven, Michael Crichton, and Orson Scott Card, to name a random few. (Another, lesser-known favorite of mine is James Schmitz; if anyone out there has read The Witches of Karres, we need to talk!) I am a fan of the original Star Wars trilogy (hate the prequels, though). I'm also a lit nerd, so Jurassic Park sits next to Jane Eyre on my bookshelf, and Wyrms is next to Wuthering Heights. What can I say, I'm weird.

Became a Whedon fan after my parents got me hooked on 'Buffy', then quickly became addicted to 'Angel' as well. I've been watching 'Firefly' since the first episode aired in the US, and I cursed a blue streak when it got canceled. Now my television viewing is essentially limited to 'Angel,' 'The Simpsons,' and, once in a while, 'Smallville'. (Occasionally, when I'm in a masochistic mood, I watch 'Seventh Heaven' or the latest FOX drivel.) I used to watch 'The X-files,' and I had a growing interest in 'Farscape' that was abruptly killed when my family stopped getting the Sci-Fi Channel.

I am absolutely addicted to 'Firefly' fanfic, which is what kept me lurking around this site for awhile -- there are some very talented people who post their stories here. Finally decided to start posting, so, uh, hey. I just want to say that you guys are a great community and I look forward to becoming a part of it.

GINOBIFFARONI

Monday, June 30, 2003 4:14 AM

A little off topic here,

I loved Due South as well, could you picture the Nothern Pikes doing music for the Firefly movie??

Something between " Kiss me you fool " and " Shotgun Morning " likely.

Anyway

CQ

Monday, June 30, 2003 5:15 PM

Hi all! My name's Cheryl and I generally lurk, but this thread drew me out I'm 24, live in the lovely city of Vancouver, BC and am deperately hoping for some good news on Wedneday! I do HR/compensation type stuff, which right now means I decide what certain positions should get paid. Oh, the power

I'm not a huge sci-fi fan. I mainly stuck to X-Files, Red Dwarf, BtVS, and Angel. Loved Due South (and I see I'm not alone), and lesser known Canadian shows like Made in Canada and Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy. I also watch Law and Order (original recipe is still the best), and my reality tv Survivor and Amazing Race.

Let's see.... what else.... I read just about anything - history, business books, and, ehm, romance novels. I listen to country music. I like figure skating. I miss Firefly.

KURUKAMI

Monday, June 30, 2003 6:34 PM

Hello all...

My name's Mark, and like a few others on the board I'm a native Californian, residing at present in the San Francisco Bay Area. I'm 28, male, single, once-upon-a-time-web developer, sometimes writer, and part-time Macy's employee. Retail, bleck. And I'm a bit of a liberal activist.

I've been an avid sci-fi/fantasy reader and watcher for a long time -- Heinlein (well, some of it, anyways), Niven (but mostly his collaborations), both Vinges, Lawrence Watt-Evans, S.M. Stirling, George R. R. Martin, Kage Baker, Connie Willis, and J. Gregory Keyes top my reading list. Weirdly, though I watched quite a passel of Next Generation episodes in my youth, I never really found myself as enthralled by the later expansions upon the series. My favorites were more along the lines of early X-Files, Strange Luck, Babylon 5, Farscape, and the ever-cheesy yet still enjoyable Invisible Man.

And, of course, Firefly. Firefly had such an unusual blend of on-the-edge living, old mixed with new, and enough anti-authoritarianism in these "interesting" times to provide a welcome escape. Fascinating characters, cool setting, great effects, and a wondrously talented cast combined to form a glorious blend of the familiar and exotic.

History doesn't always repeat itself. Sometimes it merely shouts "Weren't you listening the first time?!?" and lets fly with a club.

JOSH294

Wednesday, July 2, 2003 9:09 PM

I'm kinda scared about posting in this thread... I don't think I'm the typical Firefly fan. I'm 14 years old, and I'm dangerously obsessed with Buffy and Angel (my parents want me to go into therapy...i'm not actually sure if that is a joke) and anything Joss puts out. I absolutely love everything I've seen of Firefly so far (we're up to Out Of Gas so far in the UK) and it gets better every week. Even at this early stage, every character is beautifully developed and realised, the acting is great, the direction and writing and melding of different genres is all just amazing. Every week I watch in disbelief that a show like this can be cancelled while so many other terrible shows go on for years with huge, braindead audiences.

At school, while other kids talk about how awesome 2 Fast 2 Furious ( ) was, I'm writing outlines for Buffy and Firefly fanfiction. I have a couple of friends who watch Buffy and Angel, but I haven't got any of them into Firefly. It's just too slow for them...I totally don't understand it, I just need to show them Out Of Gas and I know they'll be hooked. Anyway, i've babbled on for too long... i'll leave the grown ups to talk, lol. I think I'm gonna go watch Out Of Gas again...

SALESMAN
You hear a word I been saying?

He hasn't. Because he's looking across the lot at something else.

Across the lot sits Serenity, dirty, broken-down, and entrancing.

JOSH294

Wednesday, July 2, 2003 9:10 PM

Crap, crappity, crap crap crap. Double post. Please forgive me, I'm kinda new at this...

LORA

Tuesday, July 22, 2003 12:32 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Josh294:
I'm kinda scared about posting in this thread... I don't think I'm the typical Firefly fan. ... I have a couple of friends who watch Buffy and Angel, but I haven't got any of them into Firefly. ... show them Out Of Gas and I know they'll be hooked.

Josh, be welcome here. We are not ones of whom to be frightened. The only thing we really have in common is a sense of despair that Firefly is not on the air but garbage like Anything for Love is.

If Out of Gas does not get your friends to love the crew on Serenity, then ... get new friends!

Everyone at their best behaviour, even Jayne.

And it's all about Mal.

"Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity?" Zoe, War Stories

SKF

Friday, July 20, 2007 9:59 PM

You are not alone. I just finished watching "FireFly" the entire series again. I am now watching "Angel" the entire series again, am at Series 4 Disc 3. It's a long look, but worth it, especially "The Special Features" there a hoot. I am a 44 year Female Engineer and love Joss Weedon and David's work. "Serenity", the movie is a must see if you have not seen it. It brings the entire FireFly series together as only Joss can do :)

SKF

SKF

MISSWHATSIS

Friday, July 20, 2007 10:15 PM

I, too, am a proper grown-up. 50, with 4 kids the oldest at 19. My sci-fi loving teenage daughter gave me my first hit of Firefly.

Come on, Ma, it's almost as good as Miles Vorkosigan.

And it is --

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