Just finished watching the series on DVD...

POSTED BY: ChrisMoorhead
UPDATED: Monday, February 20, 2006 01:07
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DINKY

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 7:39 PM

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Originally posted by ChrisMoorhead:
Wow. I'm still amazed that anyone could find that show not fit for television. I'm actually feeling really empty inside right now, somethingt hat seems to be common when I finish good stories. It happened with "Musashi" by Eiji Yoshikawa, anime called "Cowboy Bebop", and not much else, actually, but it's never been this... desperate feeling. There's too much left unfinished, I don't think the verse is cruel enough to let this series die. On that alone, I'm SURE that the show will return someday, and probably very soon.

I'm undergoing an invasive surgery to remove a 5.56 mm bullet from my shoulder at 1300 today. I thank the good Lord that I was able to finish this series before I went under the knife, and I plan on watching it up until the second I leave home. This is no longer an interest for me. It's a way of life. This show, the movie, the concept has been here for me during a time when my friends weren't and my family couldn't be.

EDIT NOTE!!! Wow I ca'nt believe I missed that you said it was 5.56mm..... Wow m4 round, that's about the size of a 22 though, just harder of a bullet, and more powerful, much more powerful. The 7.62 round is the AK47 round, it's much bigger.

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Wow I felt exactly the same way when I finished the series. Except for the bullet thing.

Do you know what size you got shot with? .45 (ouch) .40 or 10mm (there is a difference, 10mm is more powerful, probably would have went through you), 9mm, .357/.38, 380, or a measly little .22?? If it's a .22 no wonder it stayed in you! Those little bullets like to puncture, then bounce around against your bones.

If it's a .45 or even a .50... Dude you have a hole big enough in you to.. :D "Keep an extra hankey in" -Zoe

Goodluck in surgery and quick healing to you, my friend!

"Th3re !s n0 spo0Ne." -The Matricks

GUTTERBALL

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:04 PM

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I'm undergoing an invasive surgery to remove a 5.56 mm bullet from my shoulder at 1300 today.

Geez, man, I wish you the best of luck with that. One more scar for the collection, and I suspect one more fascinating story to tell someday?

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This is no longer an interest for me. It's a way of life. This show, the movie, the concept has been here for me during a time when my friends weren't and my family couldn't be.

Amen. It's more than just a show. For some reason -- for MANY reasons -- this Firefly/Serenity thing just gets into you and refuses to let go. It's all-consuming.

And I'm glad it was there for you when no one and nothing else was. Anything I can do to make up for the lack of others? Can't think of anything off the top of my head, but hey.

I make pretty damn good cookies, and I'm not afraid to overnight them to a friend in need -- even one I've never met and have never actually passed a word with. Heh.

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ADRIENNE

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 10:52 PM

I hope your surgery went well Hon, and there are no complications. Funny, suffering such a major thing as a gun shot wound & you're upset about a cancelled TV show.

I totally get it!

I've never been shot, but was "jailed" @ home after spinal surgery. FireFly & Serenity helped get me through (can't read on heavy drugs). You are right, best SciFi show ever (even over Babylon 5 for me)- and the actors are (were) all pretty much unknown. Wow, Joss.

Have you watched the special features on Disk 4 of FireFly? It's fun. Maybe while you're recovering, you can rewatch the series. And if you don't own the Serenity movie, bribe one of your friends to pick it up for you! :)

Get better. I'm sure Summer will get a chuckle over her "present." Hey, it's original!

TexasSadie

FLORALBUNNY

Wednesday, February 15, 2006 7:43 AM

So, Chris, another cool scar, eh?
We never did the guessing as to which were lead and which were metal....
There's a candle lit here for you.
Please message us and say you're okay.
::-)
I play my series DVDs all the time and do things like "watch only Jayne in background of Heart of Gold" or "watch Summer's feet." There's so much to absorb.

bun
-- bastards singed my turtle --
----- why's the rum gone? -----

CHRISMOORHEAD

Friday, February 17, 2006 1:37 PM

Wow, didn't expect so many personal and kind responses, but thank you everyone. The surgery went fine, it's four days after and I'm just now able to leave my mother's house to find a computer. Drugs, man, they're gnarly things. Anyways, I can't express how much it means to me to have people caring for me, especially people I don't know. I've just recently brought my family back into my life because of this and I was in a lonely place for a long time. On that note, I'd like to respond to anyone who I feel brought up specific questions or comments.

Floralbunny:
I'm doing fine, thank you, my apologies for not being able to respond for a couple days. Although I like Jayne, I have to say I pay much more attention to Ms. Glau's feet. Someone else on here mentioned something about almost developing a foot fettish because of her... I can't say it's gone that far, but I know what he's talking about.

Adrienne:
Glad you "get it", everyone I know thinks it's slightly obsessive. Of course, they're right, but other coats like you lend me vindication. I did watch all the special features, plus the episode commentaries. I now get a couple of the "inside jokes" on this forum that I never got before, and it all made me feel much closer tot he cast and crew. In the end, my feeling of emptiness just got bigger, but it's a whimsical type of emptiness, with just a little bit of hope. That makes all the difference.

Gutterball:
Thanks for the offer of cookies, but I think I'm going to be out of shape enough as it is from sitting on my ass all day. Really a sweet offer, though, can't tell you how nice it was to read.

Dinky:
The 5.56 was from an M-16, not a carbine. I did take a 7.62 from a 240B in the gut during the same incident, but that was actually less problematic because it didn't get stuck inside of me. Funny thing about the bravo, tends to have a much higher muzzel velocity, so the round just kinda tears right through you.

I can't imagine getting hit by a .50 cal and living, too much pain... I thought it was funny, during one of the commentaries I heard Nathan Fillion refer to the flak gun at the begining of the 2 hour pilot as a "50 milimeter". I immediately chuckled to myself at the thought of such a concept, then slapped myself for being one of "those" people.

To everyone else, thanks again for the kind words. I want you to know that as it is right now, I would feel more accomplished having lobbied for this show to stay on the air than having fought for my country.

"Deep in the battlefield covered in blood
Lies an Airborne Ranger dying in the mud
He fought for his country and he died like a man
Though some people back home just wouldn't understand"

JERRYT

Friday, February 17, 2006 8:24 PM

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I thought it was funny, during one of the commentaries I heard Nathan Fillion refer to the flak gun at the begining of the 2 hour pilot as a "50 milimeter".

Lol. I remember doing the same thing.

JerryT
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"I'll be in my bunk"

DINKY

Friday, February 17, 2006 8:41 PM

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Dinky:
The 5.56 was from an M-16, not a carbine. I did take a 7.62 from a 240B in the gut during the same incident, but that was actually less problematic because it didn't get stuck inside of me. Funny thing about the bravo, tends to have a much higher muzzel velocity, so the round just kinda tears right through you.

Well by mentioning the gun I kind of just said what gun I am familiar a 5.56mm coming from, since we have an M4 here at home...

Your fighting? Fighting in Iraq I would assume? So from an M16... It wasn't friendly fire was it? Or did some wild terrorist get a hold of an m16 from elsewhere?

I heard this story that I thought was funny (me being a gun enthusiast and all), about a five-seven. One of the Terrorists had a Five Seven (and if you know the five seven you know the rounds are small, but powerful), and he managed to hit a Marine in the pelvis, the round went straight through him and he was knocked down, but he got back up and killed him (the bad guy got killed I mean, of course what chance does he have with a 40-1 chance of living).

I have a Five-Seven and we've shot these metal rotating targets about 20 times with one (it holds 20 rounds in one magazine). The gun left dents in the metal piece... Our 1911's only scratch it, everything only scratches those targets (except the high powered rifles). That little pistol costs about $1000 but it's a really fun gun.

"Th3re !s n0 spo0Ne." -The Matricks

CHRISMOORHEAD

Friday, February 17, 2006 10:38 PM

Ah, I wasn't even aware that they made a civilian version of the M4.

Not fighting anymore, not medically fit for service, so they say. That could all change in the next two months. None of it was in Iraq, though, all South America, Columbia down through Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. There's still some question as to if it was friendly fire or not, as the fire team to our 3 did have a GPS failure, but that 7.62 was said to have come from a bravo that that fireteam was not "supposed" to have. If there was any further developments on the situation, I wasn't made aware of them.

Five-seven sounds like a mighty powerful sidearm. I'm not too well versed in arsenal outside of the Army's, but I never did like the idea of being issued an M9. I got to fire me one of them HK Mark 23 Model 0's once... ahh, the SOCOM, how I long for one. Aren't Five-Seven sales supposed to be restricted to law enforcement and the like? Am I mistaken, or did they start making sales to civilians? ...Or are you maybe not a civilian? Lemme know, I'm looking to get a carry liscence soon, and I'd be happy to drop a C on a more than decent pistol.

"Deep in the battlefield covered in blood
Lies an Airborne Ranger dying in the mud
He fought for his country and he died like a man
Though some people back home just wouldn't understand"

DINKY

Friday, February 17, 2006 11:30 PM

Well I'm only 16 but my Dad's got a carry license and owns something like 30 firearms :D.

He's a glock man mostly, though I like more exotic guns and the glocks look all alike, though they are awesome.

Yeah they M9 Berreta is gheyyy, exposed barrel and the slide can be removed with one hand by someone that is standing in front of it.

The Five-Seven is sold to civilians and we are nothing more than that. The only difference is the Armor peircing Five-Seven is not sold to civilians, only military. But the ammo we have can peirce kevlar, and that is legal civilian Five-Seven ammo.

They make civilian versions of almost all public Military firearms. Shoot I bet they will make a civilian version of that new P2000. But I bet that it won't have any of those fancy electonics :P.

Our Collection is liiike:

12 glocks, they're mostly all different, we also have one that's ported which is neat because when you fire it, steam and sometimes fire comes out the top of it.

2 1911's (1911 is my favorite semi-auto), 2 357's one of them being the highly rated Ruger Vaquero, Five-Seven, a Beretta (it's not the M9), a Taurus .45 revolver.... I can't think of all our Handguns since we have so many.

As for Rifles we have an M4, AK47 (romanian version), two Savage long range accu rifles, 2 .22 rifles, and 1 Henry rifle (with that cowboy cocking mechanism, like Zoe's gun only her's is made so she can twirl and cock at the same time)... I think that's it for our rifles..... OH YEAH!!! We also have a Tommy Gun with a Drum that holds 50 .45's and a violin case to carry it in... I think I have some photos....

Sorry for the large photos... I don't know how to post links to photos... :(. the A Href code doesnt seem to work =/.
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EDIT: And the Five-Seven is used by the US Army's Special Forces, along with SCAR-L Carbine's (5.56mm without mod), which is pretty neat :D.

OH AAAAND!! If you've ever played the Splinter Cell game then you MAY know that Splinter Cell himself (Sam Fisher) uses the Five-Seven, and that fancy future weapon the P2000 (the rifle to replace the M16).

EDIT 2: And again, the Five-Seven bullet is about the size of a .22... The measurement is like.... The name of it is it's measurement, 5.7 which I think is 5.7mm... I'm not sure. But it's real small, the wind can even push it around.

If you want a decent carry gun I say go with Glock. I am a .45 kind of shooter myself, if I had $1300 and the age of 18 I would get the Kimber 1911, there's like a million reviews on that AMAZING 1911. But if you like smaller shell's then again, find a good Glock. I love the Glocks abilities and if it werent for the 1911 having a soft spot with me the Glock would be my favorite semi-auto handgun.

The .40 and the 10mm (which is basically the same size, but the 10mm has tons more power) were made to have the knockdown power of the .45 with more of the recoil of the 9mm. My dad loves his Glock .40 for carrying, I'm more fond of the 10mm glock he has though because it's so powerful you can literally feel the concussion from a few feet away when it's fired.

"Th3re !s n0 spo0Ne." -The Matricks

PHILYBURKHILL

Friday, February 17, 2006 11:57 PM

Cowboy Bebop is awesome, better than Firefly, but I agree with Bebop at least there is closure on the whole series rather than just ending, you're left disappointed (and I was left emotionally drained) that it's ended. Wit Firefly it's more about the fact that it's ended without a conclusion.

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