New Browncoats Shout Out (Newbie Thread)

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UPDATED: Monday, January 30, 2006 11:00
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MISTERCAT

Friday, January 27, 2006 11:44 PM

Greetings, fellow sentient beings! It is my pleasure to be here; and I look forward to surviving in this strange part of the universe.

=^..^=

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. — Michelangelo Buonarroti

BELOWZERO

Saturday, January 28, 2006 4:42 AM

Yeah. I wanted to see Serenity in te theater but was told "not a kid movie" and as a single mom I could not afford both film and sitter so I had to wait. Saw the DVD Christmas eve thanks to already-addicted Browncoat and said "I am buying this." Didn't have to, I got it from him for xmas and every weekend since have been watching episodes at a friend's house til I can buy my own and play them til they are worn through.

New, and totally obsessed. I even bought stuff on ebay. I never buy stuff on ebay. I even turned on the TV to watch the DVDs. The TV exists for our PS2 and Gamecube these days. TV sucketh. And I'm boycotting Fox. Wonder what would happen if we all did?

Did I mention I am OBSESSED?

"Do not go gentle into that good night....
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. . ."
--Dylan Thomas

"...you will go to...Special Hell, reserved for child molesters, people who talk in theaters, and Fox executives." rephrasing Shepherd Book to reflect my reality

RHYIANAN

Saturday, January 28, 2006 7:07 AM

Wow, I feel horrible now. I too am a newbie...however I actually watched my first episodes of FF when they were originally aired on fox. (I think I only saw a few though....the ones that I can remember watching are Shindig, Serenity, and Objects in Space.) Anyways, a friend told me that there was a movie in theaters and I thought "I remember I watched Firefly, I remember I liked it, but I can't remember anything about it." So I rented the dvds and watched them all the way through (one dvd a night). All it took was the opening credits for me to remember the show. By the time I was done, I was ready to watch the movie. However, I had taken too long and it wasn't in theaters anymore. So I was left with firefly withdrawls until the dvd came out. And now they're back.

Wash: Yeah, but psychic? That sounds like science fiction.
Zoe: You live on a spaceship, dear.

KRISPEE

Saturday, January 28, 2006 10:12 AM

well, just shoutin` 'hi' all the way from the UK.....got into firefly first on a whim, hired the DVD series and loved it.....

krispee

SHEPARDMONK

Saturday, January 28, 2006 3:31 PM

Hullo to all, from another recruit. How did I find the whole Firefly enchilada, do you ask. Went to Amazon, randomly searched new fantasy books, saw the RPG with M. Weis listed as publisher, looked at that saw the link to the dvd, bought that, got hooked, bought the series.

This is a great show, with a great fan base. Proud to be a part of it!

MEIMEIMEG

Saturday, January 28, 2006 5:27 PM

I LOVE reading the newbie threads, it just warms my heart to see so many others finding (and loving) our little 'verse. Welcome, welcome, welcome to you all. And if my recently converted best friend/writing partner is out there lurking around these threads, it's time to post and make yourself known. You know who you are.

BFE

Saturday, January 28, 2006 5:39 PM

Hey all! Another newbie here who took the Serenity DVD-> TV show DVDs -> almost unhealthy addiction route to get here.

I suspect there is a new wave of fans like me coming onboard since the movie's release on DVD. Would have liked to have been there from the start but I just don't know why it never caught my attention until recently. Hopefully there will be more projects from the Friefly verse in the future.

HALFBREEDINKC

Saturday, January 28, 2006 5:56 PM

Heya y'all - ANUTHER new browncoat here in the heartland. I've followed the same route as a lot of the new recruits - bought the movie on DVD, then HAD to buy the series, and the soundtracks, and the books, and...well y'all get the point. Been lurkin' for a bit, just readin' (to paraphrase a line from the movie, yeah we browncoats can do that, try not to faint).

Been tryin' to figure out what it is about this 'verse and I think I finally figured it. There are so many levels in the show/movie, not the least of which is this, we all have a basic and fundamental desire to be free, to go our own way as it were - and in the modern world we have today, that ain't an option for the most part. It's the allure (dayum ain't I a cultured browncoat?) of not having the "powers-that-be" not meddle, not having some nameless entity or group tellin' ya what ta think, how to act, what to wear/read/listen to - it's a way of life that is, pretty much for the most part, lost to us in our modern society, but something we all long for on a basic level.

Well anyways - glad I found this port, don't plan much on strayin' far from it. Here's hopin' that the verse finds a way to keep doin' the job, keep gettin' paid, and keep flyin'...

Might have been the losin' side, not sure it was the wrong one.

CANDLELIGHT

Sunday, January 29, 2006 12:38 PM

Hi Folks. I've been lurking here for about 3 months now, and have decided to 'just do it' and come on out and say hello.

I haven't been this completely obsessed with a show since Star Wars (before it was "A New Hope") and Battlestar Galactica (when Starbuck was a guy) I don't watch much TV, but I love my movies and I enjoy my science fiction, so seeing Serenity at the movies was almost a no-brainer. I was blown away. I just couldn't find peace until I had found out all I could about it, which of course led me to Firefly. And that was it. I was a goner. Within days I had bought the box set and had watched it in it's entirety within 24 hours after that. The people (they're not characters, they're people), the stories...wow. I now have the comics, the novel, the collection of essays edited by Jane Espenson, and when the DVD of the BDM is released here in Aust. Feb 8, I'll have that too. My kids laugh at me. But they sing the "Ballad of Serenity" and the "Hero of Canton" at the top of their lungs as well. Plus, they tell everyone they meet about it. They meet a lot of people.

This is such a shiny community, and I enjoy you all as much as I enjoy the 'verse.

CAPELLA

Sunday, January 29, 2006 1:47 PM

Hi,

yeah, I am new, too. And it took the show about 100 minutes or less to get me totally and absolutely devoted to it. (like Candlelight I did love StarWars and Battlestar Galactica in my long gone youth and I really love Farscape as well, but Firefly beats all of them!).

If you want to find out more about me, read my blog or visit my homepage (most of it is in German, I am afraid, I will try to change some of it to English soon). The fan video section is in English, though and I already have one Firefly vid up and hope for more to come, soon.

Keep flyin',
Capella

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