First Firefly Experience...Last Week!...and what should happen NEXT!!
POSTED BY: ShepherdNate
UPDATED: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 15:01
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Wow, thanks for all the great info--obviously I have a bit of catching up to do :)
I've never gotten into the "visual companion" thing, but my best friend always gets the Star Wars books, so I'm guessing when he gets into Firefly which he will *waves Jedi mind-trick hand* I'm sure he'll get it and then I'm good. But the SOUNDTRACK is a great idea! I love soundtracks, and these are especially well done I think, so I'll try to pick those up with my Christmas money :)
But my first priority is to introduce the show to some more people. I already made my best friend start watching it, now I have to get my brother, sister, cousins, and wife hooked--I'm calling it "Operation: Browncoat Christmas." I'm starting out with just giving them some ripped files of the first episodes (sorry), and then I'll make them buy the dvds. What I'd really like to do is show them Serenity, but I'm convinced that's a bad idea--gotta start with the series. But I'm a completionist and so I always think that way. (I'm gonna start watching Buffy season 1 after the holidays--never got into the Buffy/Angel thing, but now I think I have to give it a try given Whedon's obvious genious.)
Merry Christmas everyone!
Founder--Coalition for a Firefly Miniseries
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(I'm gonna start watching Buffy season 1 after the holidays--never got into the Buffy/Angel thing, but now I think I have to give it a try given Whedon's obvious genious.
Good plan. Like you, I was never exposed to Joss Whedon's universes until AFTER they were all off the air. I "discovered" Buffy the Vampire Slayer over the past summer in reruns (I picked it up about midway through season 3), got good and hooked, and started buying the seasons on DVD to catch up. Season One of Buffy is a *little* hard to get through for some. The budget and effects really weren't there yet, but there's still some good writing and good story lines. Stick with it and you'll get a good ride. I started picking up Angel DVDs at the point in the show when he went off on his own, and started watching the episodes in correct order to maximize my viewing pleasure.
Some Buffy and Angel seasons are better than others, but ALL of the episodes have some goodness in them. With "Firefly", though, it felt like Joss had really found his place and matured in his abilities to an astounding level. Tighter writing and dialog, better directing, and so on. Fortunately for me, I picked up Firefly last, and finished watching all the episodes for the second time just before the movie hit the theatres.
I still pop in Buffy and Angel disks, but I tend to re-watch the Firefly disks a lot more often. And I just finished watching Serenity on DVD for my third time since Thursday. So far, none of them have gotten boring!
It should be noted that before I got hooked on Buffy, I used to refer to Sarah Michelle Gellar as "that rat-faced little whiner", and when my wife asked me if I knew what "Angel" was supposed to be about, I told her I thought it was "a spinoff with that stiff-haired stupid broody guy from Buffy." Neither of us had ever watched a single episode of either show, figuring that they were "beneath us" - my opinions of the shows and actors were formed purely from what I saw on previews and heard from other people. Boooooyyyy, were WE wrong! Now we're both hardcore Joss fans, and it's all because of the writing, the stories, the characters, and the actors! I'm sorry I ever sold them short.
Mike
Grrrrr. Arrrgghh.
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Yea, my opinion of Buffy has always been that it was pure and simple hyper-cheese. But then I cought a few episodes of Angel on TNT and actually thought it was pretty intelligent for cheesy sci-fi. I think these shows are the epitome of post modernism. But I stated to consider the possibility of watching Buffy when I was in Scotland a few years back--I"m convinced that EVERY SINGLE PERSON in Great Briton watched/watches Buffy. Seriously, it's like crack to those Brits, it's so wierd. On a number of occasions people would ask us if we watched Buffy or what Buffy was like in the States--and I have to admit that my wife and I made fun of them behind thier backs. But it was like a huge cultural joke that the country shut down when Buffy was on ("the best time to nic your favorite sweater from the shop" of "a smart one robs the bank during Buffy--the coppers won't even know it happened for at least an hour" etc.)
Anyway, we'll see what we see, but at this point I can't imagine liking anything more than Firefly, In think I could watch them over and over for quite a while without getting bored.
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Welcome home, Browncoat!
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