Im in love...
POSTED BY: FoundSerenity
UPDATED: Sunday, January 22, 2006 11:56
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Originally posted by Windwalker:
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
I just had to give you props on the Bladerunner quote!!!! Rutger Hauer (sp) was the best in that and that was a great scene!!!
"Faster would be better"
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Nice to know I'm not the only cheap one around here...But, after hearing so many stories, I feel compelled to add mine to the mix.
And now the story goes waaay back to when I was sane...
I was harmlessly watching tv a few months ago (I think it was around July or August) and *BAM* there on screen is this person that I had seen before, but who I remembered was funny. Cute, too. What's this? A new film? Serenity, eh? Wow what a juxtaposition considering the bang-em-up trailer. But I've seen that guy before, and I like action and space, so maybe I'll go see it. You know, if I can find someone to go with me to a scifi flick that may or may not stink.
Fast forward about to the middle of October. Still haven't seen it, but a bit more motivated, because hey, I like a popcorn movie as much as the next girl. I'm talking on the phone to a very good friend of mine from college. We were discussing movies (both of us watch far more than the average bear) and I said something like, "Hey, you know what movie I'd like to see? That one that only shows a trailer every once in a while, maybe you've heard of it, 'Serenity'." I'm telling you, there was dead silence on the line. Then she busts out with the whole story of how she loves Buffy, (which I have yet to see, but is on my Netflix list, thanks to her) and how this movie is based on a show that was cancelled, but that she had already seen the movie twice and loved it both times. She then mentioned this person, Joss Whedon, who created Buffy, Firefly and Angel. (I know, I'm a loser who watches so little tv that it is downright un-American. Hence, the movies...) Anyway, this means nothing to me except that she insisted that I see the show before I watch the movie or else I would miss out on some of the subtleties. Which, of course, are the entire basis for watching a movie more than once. Which I do. Often. It drives my parents crazy. But that's a story for another day. So I put this 'Firefly' show on my Netflix queue (another thing I have this friend to thank for - see what I mean about a really good friend?!) and right away, I'm struck - there's that guy again! (It was Nathan Fillion, by the way. I remembered him from previous escapades on film - I do not know him. Please do not think I am misrepresenting myself.) So I'm waiting, and I mentioned it to a co-worker one day about how I couldn't go see this movie without watching the show first, because my friend made me promise. Well, the next week, she brought in her copy of the show. Actually, I think it was her roommate's. Whatever. Life goes on. I take them home after checking that the film is still in theatres, because by this time, I'm really intrigued. I take the DVDs home. I figured I'd watch the first episode to get the feel of the thing, and then watch the rest on the weekend, and see the movie Sunday night if it was any good. I think it was right around the time that Mal tells Simon that Kaylee's dead and then laughs uproariously with the others in the bridge that I knew I was watching something that was really amazing. I proceeded to watch the rest of that disc before dragging my exhausted self to bed. Friday looms, and I told the girl who lent me the DVDs that I'd been up all night watchign them. All she did was nod. It was right around this time that I looked for the movie to get tickets for Sunday night, when I realized that IT WAS GONE! VANISHED! No trace. Nothing. It had left the theatres in this pathetic bible-belt backwater of cultural illiteracy before I could watch it! They wouldn't recognize the frozen pits of hell that they would be sent to for this because not one of them has ever read Dante. This sucks! I waited, and waited, and now the movie is gone.
Okay, console yourself with the show. It can't continue to be this good. It's probably going to get to a point where it sucks and then, I'll be glad that the movie is gone. Ha! Fat chance. Every episode was better than the last! Grrrr....
Oh wait! Keep reading - if youv'e gotten this far, maybe you can go a li
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Originally posted by CraicBean:
So that's my tale.
Right now there are a few dozen students waiting at their school, wondering why their bus isn't there to pick them up. (I'm a schoolbus driver)
Man oh man alive!! Talk about long stories. Really, I have to get back to work!!
Oh, and before I forget, welcome!! New browncoats are always welcomed -- even long-winded ones...
My kids (not mine, but the school's) won't understand any of this, so I don't have a good excuse.
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Originally posted by CraicBean:
I was also a bit afraid that I would be the only wackadoo around...)
Who?! YOU?!?!? Nah. Who'd ever think that?
Really, I do have to get back to work. Later.
"The girl's a problem."
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Yeah. Sorry about that. I didn't realize it would turn out that long. I guess even editors need editing sometimes. Dammit where's my red pen?
Madness does not always howl. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “Hey, is there room in your head for one more?”
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Love the name! I am fairly new to the site. My husband checks it out from time to time, but now I have a compulsive need to check it several times daily. Does that make me sad and pathetic? I hope not. I like to think of it as being a dedicated Browncoat :D
"I swallowed a bug"
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Originally posted by CraicBean:
Yeah. Sorry about that. I didn't realize it would turn out that long. I guess even editors need editing sometimes. Dammit where's my red pen?
Madness does not always howl. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “Hey, is there room in your head for one more?”
not at all! i loved reading your post. it made my morning, frankly. i think one of the best things about this and other boards is hearing these discovery stories. yours is especially compelling, because the film left your town, like so many others, too quickly, leaving you in a panic and making you actually have to BOARD A PLANE to go see it elsewhere. that's gotta be a first! i'd never heard of 'firefly' when i went to see 'serenity' in the theater. i liked the trailers precisely for the fact that i recognized abolutely NONE of the actors (except adam baldwin, from 'full metal jacket') and wanted to see a pure sci-fi story unsaddled by the extra baggage that comes with recognized hollywood stars hogging the screen all the time. naturally, the film blew me away. absolutely fantastic. but then i hear on tv somewhere that it's the continuation of a tv series. WHAT!??! amazon confirms. i get the dvd set of the show and, like you, fall in love. gone. and what's this? the show got cancelled?!!? it's at this point that i go through the various stages of loss - anger, denial, etc. and i all but trip over myself getting back to the theater - by now a tiny little screen full of devotees only - to watch the film once more, with new eyes, and a full appreciation for the depth of these characters, these actors, the story, and the fact that it had been cancelled and had not seen the light of day for three long years whilst the creator and a community of browncoats struggled to find it a new home. the opening is ten times more resonant than before. and then up comes the title, then the beautiful ship flying once more, and i lose it. not ashamed to admit it, folks. cried like a hungry, angry baby. and i'm still pretty confident i'm the same sane person i was before i discovered this 'verse. but only just.
so welcome. now you'll have to go through the series and film over and over like the rest of us, looking for subtleties and nuanced reactions that tell far deeper stories than ever thought possible. honestly, the more i watch, dig, study, the more is revealed. it's fantastic.
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Welcome aboard FoundSerenity! Glad to have you here. 
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"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
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WELCOME FOUNDSERENITY!!!GREETINGS FROM PHILLY.
Actually, I'm glad to know I'm not the only late-comer around here. I just joined up a few days ago and I'm lovin' coversin' with these fine folk. Hope you do the same.
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That was fanatastic and very symbolic.
the dove he set free released as he died was very touching
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
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