New to Serenity
POSTED BY: KNIGHTOFCHRIST
UPDATED: Saturday, December 31, 2005 21:27
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I am an merchant marine and spend ten months a year away from home, onboard ship. Reading, ocassionally writing, music, computer games and watching movies are the chief forms of entertainment when off duty. DVD Box sets are especially enjoyed. It is now mean feat to watch the entire five or six seasons of the Sopranos in four or five days. When a shipmate suggested I watch FireFly, I had never heard of it before. But having nothing better to do, I gave it a try.
Kiss my ass and call me Sally! That is one damn good show! I was very impressed! I devoured the box set in two nights time. The story, the charactors, the charactor's stories, the ship, the worlds, the timeline, the settings - everything just drew me in and left me hungry for more. Now I understand there is a movie - Serenity, that I will see as soon as I'm back in the States. But besides the box set and the movie, is there anything else? If there was ever a story that would make a good book series, FireFly is it. Ain't there any books out there?
I'm wanting more!
Jay Jordan
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Patience. We must have patience!
And welcome to the ranks! :D
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So excited for you! You will find that there are books available, soundtrack cd's (check out Amazon.com for a listing) and comics from DarkHorse. Check out cafepress.com for excellent t-shirts, caps, etc...to geek out on--just type Serenity into their search engine.
I saw the preview for the movie Serenity on the Sci-Fi channel and thought it might be a good one to see--that was the beginning for me. Fantastic movie--so as soon as I get home I immerse myself into the net to sponge any info. I can find about the movie and it's origins--and came across Firefly. Went out the next day to purchase the Firefly DVD set--and am now a giddy fan for life! This fandom is all new to me--lol. I've seen the movie 6 times not enough. Can't wait for you to see it too--Take care!
*Never judge a book by it's movie*
*The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark,less sharp version of the truth*--D.Koontz (Forever Odd)
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Kiss my ass and call me Sally!
Sally!!NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
You definately want to see this before the movie-
http://www.session416.com/mirrors
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Welcome to the 'verse, KOC.
Be careful though. There's tons of spoilers for the movie here and at other related sites.
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Welcome to your new obsession. 
Eating people alive? Now when does that get fun?
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Welcome to the raggedy edge KOC... hope you find it as comfy here as we all do...
Heed the spoiler warning above.. always more fun to experience the film and the show without prior information..imho
Chindi
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Pick up the 3 dark horse comics, "Serenity" they might be hard to find now as each had 3 covers, featuring a different character. Though I think the Collected "Graphic Novel" should be available soon. These three issues, make up about 1 episode and take place between the end of the series and the beginning of the movie.
There is also the unfilmed script "dead or alive" floating around out there.
The River Sessions, that someone else pointed out, also very good.
So read "dead or alive", read the Serenity comics, Watch the River Sessions, see the movie, and you're all caught up.
There is a novelization of the movie by KRAD, other novels potentially coming up, and more comics are almost a certainty.
oh, and Welcome aboard.
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Howdy - so is your ship anything like Serenity? Any crew similarities??
I've heard of speculation of a book or 2 being written but they are more of the fanfic-looking-for-a-publisher variety. There's also fanfic on this board - some of it is pretty darn good imho.
My favorite extra though is an unfilmed original script:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/feature.asp?f=45
It would have been a great tv episode. Enjoy!
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