I'm just speachless
POSTED BY: Mc1csmo
UPDATED: Monday, March 6, 2006 04:53
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Originally posted by GrimJack21502:Quote:
Originally posted by daveshayne:
In the meantime we hold. We hold till Serinity comes back.
David
Wow that seems really familiar...
We will hold...we hold till Mal gets back.
Well I never made any claim to originality; though I was thinking more of FollowMal's sig when I wrote that. Still I think it says it all - whoever get's the credit for it.
David
"A lot of people are asking me, you know, what exactly is Firefly? It's a tv show you morons!" - Joss Whedon
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That would be Joss Whedon 
We will hold...we hold till Mal gets back.
"And once you're gone, you can never come back
When you're out of the blue and into the black"
-Neil Young
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Originally posted by GrimJack21502:
That would be Joss Whedon
Well... um... yeah.
David
"A lot of people are asking me, you know, what exactly is Firefly? It's a tv show you morons!" - Joss Whedon
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Originally posted by GrimJack21502:
Welcome JaynesBunkWoman!
You almost brought a tear to my eye with your comment about being alone in the Black...because I felt the same way **wipes corner of eye when he thinks no one is looking**...stupid Space Dust.
awwww shucks Grimjack21502 , what a sweetie
I just love all you browncoats out thereand Vera will stay holstered 'till the captain says shoot
I'll be in my bunk
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WOW.....as I said in the title....I'm Speechless. I didn't expect this response.
Dons his shiny new Browncoat....considers how it will look when broken in
Much obliged FollowMal, I'll wear it with pride. No true Browncoat would do less. And thank you all for the incredible welcome, and welcome as well to my fellow 'new browncoat's' I guess I should have considered a cuter name for my board-handle, but this one has been with me for some time. Can't be overly creative all the time. I'll just have to learn to say 'Aint' a bit more, yes..that'll do.
OH! And just so no one thinks I renege on promises...
passes out a cookie to all who finished reading his original post. They are Chocolate-chips - baked by my wife. I might be needing a coat for her too, we've even got a jr 'BC' on the way ;)
I sure do hope we see Serenity fly again. Books, comics, great stuff and it's one way for it to live on well beyond it's current shelf life. There were dozens and dozens of novels in the span of time that kept the spark alive from the end of Trek's run in the 60's, along with conventions galore, animated shows and plenty of fan supported events, scripts and such (There's even currently a series being privately funded and filmed...and of pretty good quality. These 'new episodes' are a revival of the original series), so I know it won't end as long as there's a community of this kind. Boy does it appear to be a strong one, I'm just amazed.
Still, I'm a purist, and I won't ever be satisfied till it's new by JW and has the original cast (those that are left that is). That might be awfully hard, in the short term at least. However, that never-say-die attitude, and keeping the spark alive means that there'll be hope. I'm extremely heartened to read that JW also plans to not let it lay and end as it has. It's never easy to get these things going again once they've stalled. Small screen means we get gratification near weekly, and that's the best for fans of a series like this. I also feel it works a bit better in serial format than in the movies. Serenity the movie just felt like a two part episode to me, all shown at once with out commercials (thankfully). The small screen suits this show so much better.
I'm rather thinking we'll get periodic motion picture installments though, which means longer lag between and a greater need to statiate the thirst for returning to re-live the tv episodes...oh if only there were more. Even 3 full seasons and there'd be a chance for regular viewing in syndication! Not even a full one, it just hurts, really hurts. At least there are the dvd's but still...too few.
See I've got enough knowledge about the industry to be dangerous (to myself? yeah, that's it) and I know that once many of these relative unknown (and gifted) actors start working again (someone mentioned that a few have already jumped onto other projects - bravo for them!), it's hard to get all those stars aligned again, no matter how much they loved the time they spent working on the show, it's a real world, and they need to pay the rent. Some are likely to rise in their profession, perhaps even really break out, which means more commitments, and a harder time getting everyone on the same timetable. It complicates things, more so than I'm portraying.
I like to think that the specialness will overcome that though. See...ensambles that just click, that work, that fit from the start...they don't come around all that often. The sidewalks of the industry are littered with the corpses of great concepts and even well written ones, but that crashed and burned, in some cases (like this one) long before they were given half a chance. But every once in awhile, something gels. Not only is the writing crisp, witty and of the nature that truly compliments the viewer's intelligence (and that is rarer still), but the actors just work. They seem like the parts were written FOR them, before they even landed the roles.
That's how I look at Firefly/Serenity. It's one of those cosmic events were if you real
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Oh, my gosh! I was out in my shuttle when I got a wave that the strawberries were all gone. Where are all these people coming from? So very glad to see you here.
(Puts a big bowl of fresh berries out on the table "for questioning" like the buffet in "Shindig")
bun
-- bastards singed my turtle --
----- why's the rum gone? -----
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Count in another new -- and late -- volunteer to the Browncoats from the Great White North. It was just my luck that I happened to read the religion thread first, and I've already managed to prove myself quite weird as well. Such a homey feeling. 
Unlike some, I had extremely spotty exposure to Joss's prior works, mostly due to several years spent stuck with peasantvision. It didn't help that, although some friends raved about the likes of Buffy and Angel, I'd known said friends to be of questionable taste in chosen entertainment, which further put me off seeing what the gorram 'ell they were babbling about. Oi, before you feed me to PMSing Reavers, you would have questioned their recommendations too had you known them!
In truth, my link to Joss comes through Nathan Fillion, for not only am I from his corner of the 'verse, but his mom was my high school English teacher -- no, really, she was, my hand to god! She was the best one I had, too, and that's a lot of teachers. Once, in her Classroom That Was during a Macbeth session, Nathan stuck his head in the door to ask her something. His visit was very brief as (I think) he was on his way back to LA, and after he'd left she told us what manner of work he was doing while trying unsuccessfully to hide how proud she was. Part of me could barely conceive at the time of someone only three years older than myself already doing acting work; the other part was mildly annoyed he'd interrupted a fascinating discussion and wanted to get back to the business of murdering people. 
The encounter left some manner of imprint on me, because from then on I'd watch something on TV if I happened to catch his name in the credits; though part of it was out of respect for his wonderful mom, part of it was also out of curiosity to see how he was doing. Man, he looked so gorram different bald in Saving Private Ryan. *snerk*
Where does Firefly come into this? For a year and some, I'd heard the series' name, drifting about on occasion like a leaf on the wind, but nothing at all on the content itself, not even so much as a vague description. Then Serenity came out and a number of acquaintances possessed of far better taste were SQUEEing over the experience. Now, the mentions of the series had me faintly curious by this time, and when I heard nothing but universally favorable reviews of Serenity -- definitely an anomaly in itself -- I finally decided to watch the series first, courtesy of a friend who was more than happy to rewatch her DVDs with me. I admit I don't see many movies or shows because I'm very, very picky and tend to find a lot of what's on nowadays disgustingly predictable, trite, recycled and ho-hum. (Call me a snob, but I'm quite serious.) I figured what the hell, let's give this Firefly thing a chance to disappoint me.
Humped, just like that. This was roughly a month ago. 
The bitch of it all is that I was actually at the San Diego Comic-Con last year when they were screening Serenity for the 5000 or so loyal Browncoats who'd crammed into the viewing hall. Even had I known what the rutting fuss over this fool movie was all about, I wouldn't have been able to go see it because I was working at another exhibitor's booth on the dealers' floor for the entire con's duration, trying to establish some business connections. 
I succeeded in my endeavors, but gorram it, had I known but a year earlier...!
Oh well. I'm here now. Hope y'all will forgive me for such lapses. I'm beginning to think it was an Alliance plot to scramble the signal so it'd just be static by the time I got it.
*offers fresh strawberry cookies*
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Originally posted by christhecynic:
Welcome here, we're weird.
We have heard it before, though no two stories are exactly the same, but that doesn't mean we don't want to hear it again.
Whenever someone comes here I make sure I say a couple of things.
One is that you need to have faith and go out there and introduce people to the show. We can have more, Joss has said that he'll do his part, he's said he wants to see it continued and is still working towards more. However at the moment it isn't up to him, it's up to DVD sales.
If more people become fans, buy the DVDs, and convert still more, we can have more. You won't have missed the boat, you'll have helped it launch again.
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The other thing is very simple, we've all been drawn together in a way that non-fans just don't understand. We're family, and you're one of us now, welcome home.
Hello fellow BrownCoats...i recently became a member of this amazing site...i jus would like to say...you guys are the best, you are so considerate and friendly...the above post nearly choked me up, when you said 'welcome Home' that put a smile on my face...im 19 and have been into firefly only after the release of Serenity..its apart of my life now...I am proud to say, i am a BrownCoat...Take care everybody :)
"May be on the losing side...Still not convinced it was the wrong one"
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I want in on this warm fuzzy thread!
Has anyone else been watching the number of people registering? (Put your mouse over the users name and look at the number on the address it connects to) We just got to 18,000 a few weeks ago and now we're getting to 18,750!
So several hundred people a week are fanatic enough to hunt down this web site and actually register on it. This has got to be a smallish fraction of the total new fans, included lurkers and non-internet-ers. Think of how many new fans there are out there total!
It really is good stuff. We'll get our show back, one way or another!
I brewed some fresh coffee, have a cup and toast the positivity! 
m4p
Ask Dr. Science ... he knows more than you do.
"I have a Master's degree ... in science!"
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