Noob Browncoat in need of assistance!

POSTED BY: itsbroken
UPDATED: Friday, January 6, 2006 04:30
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DAX82

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 1:10 PM

I just got hammered with all my buddies and told em the show is awesome. They know me well enough to trust in my taste. Booze does help break the ice. After I sprung Firefly and Serenity on them we talked about it for awhile. So now theres a few of em who went out and bought the series and the movie. One of my buddies tried to pawn The OC on me, since I actually live in Orange County I put a stop to that 90210, Melrose Place generic drama Bull**** right away. So to sum things up. Use alcohol.

BROWNCOAT1

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 1:22 PM

Getting people to love Firefly/Serenity is not the hard part, getting them to give it a chance is. The show is so good it sells itself, but getting people to be openminded enough to give a cancelled sci-fi/western a chance is tough.

Case in point, my stepfather. He is a big Joss fan. He loves Buffy & Angel & has all of the seasons for both on DVD. He likes westerns & sci-fi, so you would think Firefly was a no brainer, right? Wrong. For some reason he didn't seem interested while it was on tv, even when I visited him & my mom & talked the show up. Last Christmas I bought him the DVD set in a hope he would give it a chance. It sat on the media shelf in his entertainment room until October of this year when my son went to visit. My son is a huge Firefly fan & asked if he could watch the pilot episode. My stepdad is a sucker for his grandson, so they sat down & watched it. My mom said they watched all of "Serenity" then the rest of disk one and most of disk two before they decided to stop for dinner. My stepdad finished the set the next day. He has since tuned into Sci Fi to watch the episodes again, and when I got him the Serenity DVD for Christmas he flipped.

I guess my point is that you can't force someone to give the series a shot. Better to educate them about the show, offer up the pilot to watch & see what happens. If they refuse, back off for awhile then try again. The above suggestion about having an episode in the DVD player when the holdout comes over is a good one. I used it to crack a diehard hold out & he is now a fan. I knew he was coming over to hang out & I popped "Serenity" into the player. When he knocked on the door I had it playing. He sat down & asked what I was watching. I just shushed him and acted totally engrossed in the episode (even though I have seen it nearly twenty times now). Next thing I know he is really getting into the episode.

When it went off he asked to borrow the set & watched them all over the weekend.

You have to be a bit tricky as well as patient & persistent.

Hang in there & keep flyin'.

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IVY

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 1:32 PM

I gotta go with the booze suggestion also. I have been talking non-stop about Firefly/Serenity for the past 3 months (yes, I came to the 'verse a bit late). I'm a known scifi fan/geek so most of my friends just stop listening when I start talking...

Anyway, I got 2 of my friends (girls) watching it one night when we were drinking several very nice bottles of wine. One got totally hooked and I'm still working on the other...she is coming around.

Funny thing is, I'm having trouble with the guys. I find this perplexing because they are usually much more willing to talk about geeky stuff with me.

So, booze...and start with the women.

Ivy

LOOTZEE

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 1:34 PM

Best way to get poeple to watch Firefly/Serenity is good sturdy rope ,stong chair (not from Ikea) and two match sticks work every time.

Yes i had trouble to get friends to watch the show they just didn't like the souund of sci-fi westen, but just leave it on in the back ground and slowly turn the conversation towards tv

GLOBLABSURDITY

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 2:16 PM

LMAO @ the Ikea comment! So true--too funny.

*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)

ITSBROKEN

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 9:11 PM

all suggestions sound great. Im still a couple years away from the booze, so are most of my friends but ill see what i can do Tried having it the background with my cousin, but he picked up the cover and said.."Serenity, sounds gay.." and never paid attention to the tv. Most of my cousins and friends are big sci-fi or western fans, they're mostly mainstream and think everything else not mainstream is stupid or 'gay' or a waste of time . But i havent given up yet! still trying to trick my girlfriend into watching the pilot

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***someone should make a MMORPG based on the 'verse!***

Geeze i want Firefly to come back!

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QUEENOFTHENORTH

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 9:39 PM

Well, these friends of yours are obviously juvenile, stupid . . . and exactly like my friends.

Seriously though, here's a few things you can do: constantly have one of the episodes/movie playing every time someone comes over, until they become interested in spite of themselves. I'm guessing some of your friends are teenage boys, so having one of the River fight scenes playing will really help. You know, ass-kicking action and hot girl goes a long way with that audience.

Or, try starting people off with Jaynestown. I've discovered it to be one of the funniest and most accessible episodes. That's how I converted my cousin. Who now has series/movie on DVD.

Finally, just plain force 'em. That's what I did with my brother. He was laughing right from "We're gonna explode? I don't wanna explode!" to "Three full mags and my swingin' cod!" at which he nearly pissed himself. That's my suggestions anyway.

"Sir, you actually said 'wink, wink'. I don't think that -"
"Oh, you'd be surprised."

"Yes, the new plan will STILL involve rocket skates."
"YAY!"

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to find out how to buy mine!

CORNCOBROB

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 9:53 PM

Sorry to hijack the thread

Quote:
Originally posted by j6ngo1977:
Yeh I'd love a MMO in the Firefly 'verse. My idea is to take the Eve - Online engine and tweak it for the Firefly 'verse. That'd work

i gave this some thought. i dont think id like it to be too much like eve. the interface is kinda cold and daunting(sp?) for new users. id rather like to see something like Freelancer, something that would give you more controll over the ship.

maybe something like SWG because id also like to own a character (or i thought it would be fun to own an entire squad, and if you lost a member, you could go hire new hands) and run around on a planet. something i do like about eve though is the total PvP aspect of the game, you can hold up anyone, and shoot them after they pay you. you have to fight to survie in that game.

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry

ITSBROKEN

Thursday, January 5, 2006 6:44 AM

Freelancer is a pretty sick game. I've only played the demo though. Maybe something with a feature that you can wander the plantes. With a PvP feature in space and on the ground. Maybe putting a squad together of different users, so that you would have to collaborate? that would be really fun.

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***someone should make a MMORPG based on the 'verse!***

Geeze i want Firefly to come back!

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HANA

Thursday, January 5, 2006 8:39 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by LootZee:
Best way to get poeple to watch Firefly/Serenity is good sturdy rope ,stong chair (not from Ikea) and two match sticks work every time.

Yes i had trouble to get friends to watch the show they just didn't like the souund of sci-fi westen, but just leave it on in the back ground and slowly turn the conversation towards tv

LMAO!!!!!!!!! i will have to try that out!

*+*~HaNa BaNaNa~*+*

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