Browncoat Influx

POSTED BY: dascribe
UPDATED: Thursday, January 12, 2006 17:28
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MATTIE

Thursday, January 5, 2006 9:19 PM

It's totally awesome to hear from all of these new fans! I've only been here since November, but it sure feels like I've been here longer. (0f course I meant that in a good way.) I feel like a vet, though I haven't come close to putting in the time. I enjoy reading all of these "I'm New Here" threads because I can relate to the excited confusion that these newbies have, but I think the best part is that I've been enlightened and I can answer all of their questions. It's fun to see all these new names. A big fat welcome to everyone and an enthusiastic hello to everyone else.

Wacky fun!

WILDHARE

Thursday, January 5, 2006 9:29 PM

OK I posted this somewhere else but I think it belongs here.... : )

Ok so my friend had been telling me about this Movie firefly for about 2 years. I of course blew him off (shame on me) because it just didn't sound like something I would be interested it. That and I was still sorta boycotting Sci-fi since the complete Star Wars debacle and the cancellation of Star Trek NGR. I will have you know it was not completely my fault. Said friend did leave out some very important details. Joss the creator being one and super cool characters, including some very hot girls who can kick a$$ being the other.

So he comes to visit two weeks before Christmas with a video box in one hand and beer in the other. I have to give him credit; he is a great manipulator and knows what buttons to push to get me to do something. I would watch anything if beer is involved.

So we all sit down and he puts in the first DVD of firefly. I open my beer and wham, in no time at all the first 3 episodes are over in a flash. Needless to say I’m completely hooked. Beer and Firefly, it really was a great night I must say. So we watch all four disks over 2 days. Man it was one of the best weekends I have had in a long time; woops I’m getting ahead of myself a bit.

Back to the completion of the box set, I completely loved the series. He then informed me it’s canceled. I of course respond with a drunken WTF because I was drunk and seriously disgusted that anyone would cancel such a great show. Followed by are your kidding me who a$$ do I need to kick to get this show brought back. I immediately went to the computer and fired off a drunken email to Fox. Ok so that was probably not all that helpful to the cause but none the less they are complete idiots and it made me feel better.

After a few days of completely sober thinking I decided I needed a different approach. Money is what makes the world go round and what drives the movie industry. So I methodically planned my attack. I had to start recruiting my friends. So I bought two copies of firefly. My personal copy and one I loan out. Only I only loan the first two disks. If they want to see what happens from then on they have to go buy it. Then I tell them hey there is the movie Serenity out too (which I also own of course) and it picks up where the show leaves off. I then tell them they have to watching firefly before you get it though.

So this is really working for me. My family and friends are lovin it. I am boosting sales one person at a time. I am determined to get 20 people and have them get 20 and so on.

Then I find this place. Now I will have you know I am not normally geeked about any TV show and have never joined a fan site before but I am very excited to be here really, and visit daily to see what’s up. Just want you all to know I am out here fighting the good fight and working everyone I know to keep our little movement going.

Take care and good luck!

KWICKO

Friday, January 6, 2006 4:03 AM

I'm with y'all - amazing to see all these reinforcements showing up. I say that a bit ironically, because I myself am pretty much a noob to the Firefly 'verse as well; I got addicted in July.

The stories are all so varied as to how we came to be here. I myself had vaguely heard something about some sci-fi show on Fox, but never saw any of it (it probably conflicted with something else I thought I had to watch). Then, last summer, I went and did a stupid and wonderful thing: I got hooked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer in syndication! Like Firefly, I'd *heard* of it, but never seen a single episode. Nevertheless, within a week or two of watching occasional eps on FX in the afternoons, I was hooked completely. I bought up all the Buffy seasons and all the Angel seasons, one at a time, until I'd seen all of both shows. Then a friend of mine told me that I was missing something else of Joss's: Firefly. Before my addiction to Buffy & Angel, I'd have said "Joss Who?" But now he had my full attention. I went out searching for the Firefly DVD set the next day... and didn't find it. :( Took a couple weeks of trying, but I tracked it down at Best Buy, finally, when they got a new shipment in. I watched it over a 2-day stretch while my wife was out of town, then showed it to her when she got back. Boom - she was hooked, too!

Of course, my friend who'd turned me onto the show in the first place, being a somewhat evil bugger, hadn't told me there was a feature film coming out, until AFTER I'd watched the whole series. I found this site while searching for more info, and it's been kind of my home ever since. Needless to say, I was there at the theatre for the first screening on opening day, along with my wife. I took my friend to the 5:00pm showing when he got off work that day, too.

So we all got here by different means, but we're all here, don't matter how. And in all honesty, I'm more than a little bit touched by the welcomes that are given to the fresh faces. Most web boards I frequent, noobs are basically told to sit down and shut up until they learn and have something to contribute. Here, though, we were welcomed as new recruits and reinforcements, and the grizzled old veterans were actually glad to see us! It's amazing, really... and very cool. I'm glad to see it.

Let me throw out my "Welcome, Browncoats" to all the new recruits. You'll like it here, and you'll be among friends, all fighting the good fight.

Mike

"Kaylee, find that kid that's taking a dirt nap with baby Jesus; we need a hood ornament."

KWICKO

Friday, January 6, 2006 4:09 AM

WildHare wrote:

Quote:
So I bought two copies of firefly. My personal copy and one I loan out. Only I only loan the first two disks. If they want to see what happens from then on they have to go buy it. Then I tell them hey there is the movie Serenity out too (which I also own of course) and it picks up where the show leaves off. I then tell them they have to watch firefly before you get it though.

What a cool idea! Though, since I think we're all agreed that Firefly and Serenity are an addiction, doesn't that kinda make you a Firefly pusher? :)

I've loaned out my Firefly set a few times now, and I think I'm gathering up a few recruits of my own. Not a battalion yet, but hopefully at least a platoon. Now they need to start putting their money where their mouths are, and buy the sets for themselves so THEY can loan them out, too. And from now on, I'm only loaning out the first two disks of Firefly!

Mike

"Kaylee, find that kid that's taking a dirt nap with baby Jesus; we need a hood ornament."

SINGATE

Friday, January 6, 2006 5:22 AM

Hello, another new guy here. This whole thing is definitely addictive. I thought I was over the whole watching things obsessively phase back in the 80's (I'm an old school Star Wars geek) but this show and movie have pushed me to repeated viewings.

Not to mention I can't seem to get the Fruity Oaty bar song nor "The Hero of Canton" out of my head.

BROWNCOAT1

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:59 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by dharmagal:
I’m another new fan. This is my first post, although I’ve been lurking for a few weeks.

I don’t like television.
Hadn’t had cable or satellite in over 18 years. On the way home from a meditation retreat this summer, I saw the first part of Serenity on SciFi. Fell in love.
Got Disk 1 from Netflix. Had to have my own, so I bought the DVDs.
Addicted. Is the term.
So when I tell you that I can’t get enough of the ‘verse, I want you to understand my full
meaning.

I have to have more. I’m hopeful that there will be more because I’m doing to the math. I’ve managed to spread my addiction to 3 other households. None of these people had even heard of Firefly or Serenity. Now they’ve all got a big space monkey on their back too.

What I really want to do is thank everyone here for keeping this thing going so people like me can find it. And get addicted to it.

Welcome Dharmagal! Glad to have you aboard. Sorry for the lateness of the welcome, but I missed your intro in the middle of this thread.

Thanks for sharing how you came to discover our 'verse. Make yourself at home.

__________________________________________

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

Richmond, VA & surrounding area Firefly Fans:

http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/richmondbrowncoats/

http://www.richmondbrowncoats.org

DHARMAGAL

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 7:21 PM

Thanks Browncoat1! I know I should have started a "hi I'm new here" thread, but this board is so big I got stage fright.

Dharmagal, who finds that meditation helps with the space monkeys

TANSTAAFL28

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 7:30 PM

I saw one episode of "firefly" before buying Serenity on DVD. Then I bought the box set. I'd rather be a late recruit than miss the fight all together!

ZIIANARKIST

Thursday, January 12, 2006 11:29 AM

I suppose this is the place for new recruits to fall in.

I've been on the ship, someone's ship anyway, since about late November of '05, and believe it or not it was because I borrowed the box set from someone who insisted a few discs were unavailable to me and that I would have to buy the boxed set on my own in order to get those discs in any reasonable amount of time.

I wasn’t much of a Joss Whedon fan nor was I a fan of how Fox treats its new shows, mostly because I didn’t know what Joss Whedon dialogue and characters were like, only that I was repulsed by the teeny-bopper image of the Buffy series, and never gave Angel a chance, and that Fox simply doesn’t understand the desires of its audience in the slightest, as firefly should've gotten the crucial Sunday 8:00pm timeslot that catapulted every other series that got the slot into the stratosphere (X-Files for one).

The show struck a chord with me as I deliver pizza, and make barely enough to keep gas in the car, and keep the car in running condition. 'Find a ship, keep the ship; find a job, keep flying.' Honestly if I had to live in my car, never out of the question as it were, I'd now need a portable DVD player and a box set of firefly in the glove box. I'd need it like a gospel message.

And, take this as you will, but the show seemed to have an underlying anarchist message whether Whedon intended it to or not. Not the raping, pillaging, murdering, left-nut, punk-rock 'capitalism kills' anarchism, just the bare fact that there isn't much law out in the Black, just a lot of people dealing with the consequences of their actions. 'I just wanna go my own way.'-sort of thing. That which I liked, as I believe folks can be decent to one another given the chance, and the way the Great American Democratic Republic Experiment is turning out hasn't impressed me much. It's not one or two presidencies; it's been a steady gradual drop in ratings, advertising revenue, merchandising, and overall popularity and audience participation since about 1952.

Maybe I'm just bitter missing out on the frontier days, yet growing up in Texas, and am fairly certain I won't live to see the Black expanse frontier days. That BIG frontier. But before this world sees the end of me I want to see first-hand if Earth looks like an un-twinkling blue/green star from the surface of Mars, and firefly greatly affirms within me that desire.

If you'll have me, I could lend a gun-hand and about $100_USD a month to whatever 'save the ship' fund is floating around at any given time, and I don't eat much.

Traits:

*Addiction/Caffeine(1) *Alertness *Allergy/Pollen(1) *Combat Paralysis(1) *Fast Learner *Good Hearing *Tech Empathy *Vehicle(1) *Owns Vehicle

*Anarchist *Dependants(2) *In For Life/Browncoat *Introvert *Patience *Quirk/Jerk(1) *Quirk/Stubborn(2)
*Quirk/Regret Wasting School Years(1) *Stigma/Abjured Christian *Stigma/American *Stigma/Ricer
*Stigma/Pizza Delivery Driver

BROWNCOAT1

Thursday, January 12, 2006 1:55 PM

Welcome aboard ZiiAnarkist! Glad to have you here w/ us.

Thanks for sharing your story w/ us. Be sure to share Firefly & Serenity w/ everyone you know. We need to do all we can to push the DVD & expand the fanbase if we are to have any hope of a movie sequel.

Take care & keep flyin'!

__________________________________________

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

Richmond, VA & surrounding area Firefly Fans:

http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/richmondbrowncoats/

http://www.richmondbrowncoats.org

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