Serenity2: Change the Paradigm NOW

POSTED BY: aahhaaa
UPDATED: Monday, January 9, 2006 04:07
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AAHHAAA

Tuesday, January 3, 2006 5:18 AM

Chris- actually tho, you raised a good point. How do we get episodes of Firefly (but not Serenity?) to all the folks who have those Neilsen boxes? :]

Its not over til we say its over... John Belusi

CHRISPV

Tuesday, January 3, 2006 5:28 AM

In all seriousness, I have learned from my ignorance and done some checking. The Nielsen families are asked not to reveal themselves so that some group of fanatical fans of some cancelled show can unfairly skew the sample. According to the Nielsen Media Research Office's website (holy cow, that sounded way too much like my last term paper; I've spent too much time in college)

"There are 5,000 households in the national People Meter sample, approximately 20,000 households in the local metered market samples, approximately 1,000 metered homes for our national and local Hispanic measurement, and nearly 1.6 million diaries are edited each year."

I figure that comes to about two million people, give or take, who determine what gets shown and what doesn't.

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, Fox!

AAHHAAA

Tuesday, January 3, 2006 5:44 AM

ooo kay... we got 77,000 browncoats...

(carry the zero)

CHRISPV

Tuesday, January 3, 2006 5:55 AM

We've got 77,000 Browncoats, and a whole lot more casual fans. I still say the problem that Firefly had back in the day was Fox marketing, pure and simple. We needed time to grow.

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, Fox!

GIRLASKEW

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 3:25 AM

We must live near to each other. I frequent your local Taylors Wal-Mart. I have not looked recently, but Christmas Eve-Eve, they were low. I guess everything was low that night. Full shelves at Wally-world depends on when you go. I donno. I don't dare brave Woodruff road. ICK, indeed.
As for other local Browncoats, there is a clerk at Suncoast in the Haywood mall that I accidently discovered and Richard, of Richard's comics on Laurens Rd is a big fan with some cast autographed pictures on the wall for sale.

Your post didnt seem negative, the lot of us are here and posting because we have some sort of faith that this is not over. Even if we don't believe in much else.

Some people juggle geese!- Hoban Washburn

FERT1

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 4:54 AM

I'm glad I didn't sound too negative. Yep, we basically live in Taylors off Wade Hampton. I second the comment about Woodruff Road. I especially avoid it during the holidays. Whereabouts is Richard's Comics on Laurens? What end of Laurens? I know for a fact that there are fair number of fans in our area, mostly because we converted them. LOL! Seriously, I can think of 7 people off the top of my head that we've turned on to Firefly, and I'm sure I'm forgetting some. So we're doing our part to spread the word.

We have other friends that found it on their own too. So it's been pretty popular in our group of friends, one of which is running an online role-playing game set in the Firefly verse. Our little circle of friends are all techno-geeks for the most part, and I mean that in a good way. I notice that with Firefly, people either hate it or love it so much they're practically rabid about it. So have you introduced it to all your friends yet? We still have a few hold outs, but I'm still nagging them to check it out.

GIRLASKEW

Saturday, January 7, 2006 4:03 PM

I have not turned many, mostly because I don't know many people. I have not developed much of a social circle in this town. I have a couple of people I am working on, however.

That's cool that you are running an RPG. We are more pop-culture geeks then tech geeks. Our computer is a dinosaur and we use dial-up. I understand if you don't want to reply.
At least it's not AOL. Could be worse.

Some people juggle geese!- Hoban Washburn

PDCHARLES

Saturday, January 7, 2006 4:24 PM

I live in Wilmington, NC.
I have seen Serenity "half-stocked" about everywhere I go here.

I was visiting NYC the day Serenity was released and of course the Virgin Megastore in Times Square was flooded with fans for all types of releases. Trust me I didn't tackle that.

But on an encouraging note, I went the day before to buy the Firefly series for my brother and they were sold out. That is where I came up with an idea.

A few days later when I returned, I purchased eight Serenity movies and kept one and wrapped the rest for Friends and Fam for Xmas. 4 of the seven I sent out were to non sci-fi fans. 3 of the four raved about it and these people don't even like star wars. ...and that is how I drew them in. "I said and do you want more?" like a corner pusher. I then explained the story of the show and how it wrongfully cancelled and they could buy the series on DVD.

Money talks.... become a salesperson.

FERT1

Saturday, January 7, 2006 10:19 PM

I'm not actually running a Firefly RPG, a friend of mine is running it. I'm just playing in it. You said you hadn't developed much of a social circle here. Are you new in town?

Hey, we had dial-up and even AOL (AO-Hell) at one time. I have to say, I like cable much better. Although even that can act up at times.

Where on Laurens Road is Richard's Comics? I was curious.

I see we also have a NC person on the list. We went to the Serenity screening in Charlotte, NC that was back in June. I was amazed that I was actually able to get tickets.

LITTLECROW

Saturday, January 7, 2006 10:39 PM

You'll know when Serenity/Firefly has made it when you start seeing Halloween costumes for the characters in the stores in the fall...

How do you go about getting those into production, anyway?

I still run into tons of people who have never even HEARD of Serenity, or don't remember what the trailer was about. I think the key is to keep the energy flowing by keeping up the advertising campaign - as pointed out, be a salesman. My Serenity button is on my jacket. I get asked about it sometimes, which is the perfect segue for a pitch. The more t-shirts, buttons, bumper stickers, etc. that people see, the more they're going to ask about it. Continue being big fans as time goes on, so more people get intrigued now that the movie is out on DVD and can be rented. Don't let the excitement die, just because a sequel may not be in the works right now.

Um, anyhoo - I think I'm done preaching to the choir, this being my first post and all!

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