Firefly Conversion Stories

POSTED BY: engineangel
UPDATED: Sunday, February 5, 2006 23:39
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LUTHIEN1121

Friday, February 3, 2006 10:11 PM

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Travelers, if you have a conversion story or any special techniques you use to introduce Firefly to the world, share them!!! The rest of your crew wants to know!!!

I have a friend that I chat with on AIM a lot, and I keep posting the Joss Whedon quotes from these pages to her--she's a sci-fi fan and I know she'd love this series! Anyway, I keep talking about how great the series is and last night she asked if Hollywood/Blockbuster might have them for rent!

She lives too far away to borrow my disks, so we'll see what happens.

We're gonna explode? I don't wanna explode!

LUTHIEN1121

Saturday, February 4, 2006 7:20 AM

Update! I'm chatting with my friend on AIM right now and she and her husband are watching Serenity!!! Woohoo! Now to hear what she thinks of it!

We're gonna explode? I don't wanna explode!

RAVANREDGRAVE

Saturday, February 4, 2006 7:48 AM

I am quite the Browncoat n00b.

Back in October, I got a call from a good friend of mine who wanted me to come see this random movie with her. We both like Star Wars and a few other sci-fi 'verses, but I had no idea what I was getting myself into. My friend just kept pestering me: "I think you'll really like this movie, just come see it!" I had never heard of it. I was pretty loaded with classwork at the time, and I rarely had time to watch TV, much less go see a movie. But obviously, I did give in and go see it with her.

Now, I'm not too big on your run-of-the-mill sci-fi. I'm very into Star Wars, had a fling with the newer Star Treks, but I rarely ventured out into other sci-fi, mostly 'cuz they...well, they just suck. Overdone plots, bad acting, poor budgets, etc etc etc... So when I say that Serenity blew me away, rendered me speechless, made me nearly forget about Star Wars altogether, and drove me into a new maddening obsession...'I want you to understand my full meaning.'

I bought the series. And I watched the series. And I got the DVD for Christmas. And I have since converted two members of my family into fellow Browncoats.

And here I am. I eat up all the amazing walls you creative and very talented people post. I envy you Veteran Browncoats; I'm always on the tail end of a fan bandwagon, but what a unique bunch to fall in with.

This 'verse gorram rocks !

RavanRedgrave
AIM sn: OUBrowncoat

RAVANREDGRAVE

Saturday, February 4, 2006 7:51 AM

sorry, double post

LEIGHKOHL

Saturday, February 4, 2006 8:32 AM

I saw Firefly when I accidently recorded it on SciFi. I watched the episode "Shindig" twice that night and immediately got it on Netflix. When the dvds arrived I only had three of the four. I watched them all in one night and not being able to wait for the next dvd, went out and bought the series. My best friend laughed at me for becoming "obsessed" and told me he would never watch the show. Well, a week before the movie came out he saw the first three shows on SciFi and called me up because I was driving out to his house that weekend for a visit. He wanted me to bring up the dvds of Firefly and completely repented on his former statement. We watched them and went to the movie that Monday night (my weekends start on Sunday). Now I have him coming to FlanII, and we both swore we would never go to conventions. I convereted my sister with the Fruity Oaty Bar commercial during Christmas. She now is watching them through Netflix and is totally digging it(she loves Simon). She emails me during her lunch break to chat about it! Yeah, so I have almost converted my whole family (got my Mom too!).

ENGINEANGEL

Saturday, February 4, 2006 6:55 PM

oh shiny shiny shiny!!! This thread is starting up again. wow. Welcome Leighkohl, RavanRedgrave, and Luthien1121.

Leighkohl, that is so cool that that you converted your mom, sister, and friend. keep 'em coming! we need more people! and really??? you converted your sis just by showing the fruity oaty bar commercial?? maybe there really is a hidden message in it..... hmmmm

Luthien1121, interesting way of sharing firefly with your friend (the quoting joss thing) and what happened? did your friend and her husband like it?? *hopes they did*

RavanRedgrave, glad you did go and see that "random movie."

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So when I say that Serenity blew me away, rendered me speechless, made me nearly forget about Star Wars altogether, and drove me into a new maddening obsession...'I want you to understand my full meaning.'

and same with me re: "run-of-the-mill" sci-fi. i liked star trek enterprise and star wars (not so much the latest ones but the originals) but that was about it. needless to say, firefly and serenity are not "run-of-the-mill," nothing Joss does is, so yay! and LOL@ usage of firefly quote! nice. and good job converting two members of your family!

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This 'verse gorram rocks !

YES! it sooo does.

keep flyin'
EngineAngel

ENGINEANGEL

Saturday, February 4, 2006 6:59 PM

okay, here's an update. the friend i mentioned in my first post doesn't want to see the rest of the series for some reason, i think the whole being grounded thing turned her off to it. i have however converted:
1) My friend in History class
2) That friend's mother
3) Another friend at school
4) A science teacher at my school
4 1/2) A partially converted friend (she has seen the movie and a few of the eps, still not totally convinced)
5) A partially converted teacher (has seen the movie, loved it, and wants to see more but hasn't the time at the moment)
6) Another friend outside of school
7) That friend's brother
8) That friend's mom
9) That friend's dad
10+) (hopefully) numurous amounts of people at my school, many of which i probably don't know. (my dad made and then i hung up lots and lots of serenity posters all over my school before it came out. probably was against the rules, but "I Aim to Misbehave!" :P)

These posters actually prompted someone to put on The Announcments at my school that there was going to be a group of people having a "shindig" (yes they used the word shindig :P ) on opening day at the movie theatre. i saw lots of people show up from my school, but i don't know how many of them were converted :P hopefully lots :D

the posters can be found here:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=5110
http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=5109

Keep flyin'
EngineAngel

ELOISA

Sunday, February 5, 2006 1:25 PM

My lords, ladies and gentlemen, please raise your glasses to one of the 'verse's latest Browncoats... my little brother.

It's his seventeenth birthday today. I sent him the Firefly DVDs. He was on the phone to me when he opened them at about 10.30am. He just rang me again (1pm), having watched the pilot and The Train Job so far and only having stopped for the minor necessity of having lunch. Very, very, very happy boy. (And he has the hots for Kaylee - I foresaw it, she's totally his type...)

Yay!

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ENGINEANGEL

Sunday, February 5, 2006 7:05 PM

lol! way to go!! glad he liked 'em. *raises her glass high into the air*

LADYSINGS

Sunday, February 5, 2006 11:39 PM

I have tried many times (without a lot of success) to convert family and friends to Buffy and Angel. (I managed to "force" my mom to watch Angel while she was staying with me after I had surgery. We almost made it through the first season but if I don't sit down and watch it with her at my house, she won't watch it. She is like that with any movie or TV series. The woman can't sit down for anything! LOL I gave her the first season boxset to watch at home but then took it back when she still hadn't watched it after two months!) Anyways, when I started getting into Firefly, I sort of gave up on converting anyone to it. I just assumed that none of my family or friends would ever get any of Joss' shows. Then, during the Christmas holidays, I took the boxset over to my mom's. I knew that it would be just my mom, myself and my step-father that would be celebrating Christmas day together...in other words, no distractions for my mother. I broke out the first DVD and we all watched the pilot. When it was finished, I asked if they wanted to watch another episode. We ended up watching the first 7/8 episodes together. I decided to leave the entire boxset with them as an experiment to see if they would watch it on their own. I was so excited to find out that my step-father stayed up all night to watch the rest of the series by himself. Then I was doubly excited to find out that my mother had watched the rest of the series...on her own....all in one night! (now mind you, these people are not young folks....not the typical age of most browncoats. My mom is 65!)

To make a long story not so long....we have all planned to go out for a steak dinner and then they are bringing over a mutual friend to my house and we are all gonna watch the BDM together!

"Kaylee, find that kid who's takin' a dirt nap with baby Jesus. We need a hood ornament."

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