Explain this to me...

POSTED BY: Danen03
UPDATED: Saturday, March 4, 2006 01:01
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FOLLOWMAL

Friday, March 3, 2006 6:19 AM

Hey, Danen03, I see you got your browncoat from Kaele. She seems to have you in order. Wear it with pride... we all do here. Contrary to some posts on this page, we are VERY happy you are here.

Usually this is a shiny place Danen, where we all get along like family.. only family that gets along. You know.... You will have folks come along and welcome you here by saying welcome home. We mean that.

We have a lot of fun here while we hold the line and wait for our sequel. Please make yourself to home. We are glad you are here!

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

MALNOURISHED

Friday, March 3, 2006 6:54 AM

Hey Danen03! I'm glad that you found us. I think you'll like it here once you settle in. There are only a couple of land mines to avoid.

SERYN

Friday, March 3, 2006 10:07 AM

Hello,

There is a list, somewhere about, of all the books comics and tie in things that are available for avid consumption. Like's of the River Tam Sessions, the comic trilogy that brigdes the gap between the end of Firelfy, and the start of the movie, and a few tie in books, like Finding Serenity. Which is worth reading for Firefly vs. The Tick, an essay on the parallels between the two shows as written by a crazy person:tm:.

BB? You're hanging around on the site of a T.V.show celebrated for its idiosyncratic use of not one, but two languages.

Pickin' on peoples use of words, not the done thing (Plus, almost completely redundant).

Bad boy! Go to your room

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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. O.W.

NUCLEARDAY

Friday, March 3, 2006 12:02 PM

I smell food. Nian Gao? Mmmm... cake. Must mean another recruit stowin' away on the ship. :)

Like others have said, just being a fan of the 'verse makes you a 'coat. Now go out and spread and the love. There's a few threads around here with some ideas on what we can be doing to help relight Firefly, and I saw upthread a link to another shiny site with some good ways to go about it.

Most important, though, we hold. The veteran Browncoats had to go through quite an uphill battle to see the BDM get made. It took perseverance, fanatical dedication, and heapings of patience. Now that us cavalry have arrived, just imagine what we can be capable of doing.

So keep the faith, spread the word, and know that we'll all be here holding the line until Mal returns.

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You can take my hope when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

GUENEVER

Friday, March 3, 2006 12:42 PM

Keep the faith, spread the word, and hold the line. I love that! Lots of people here do diffent things to help the cause. I bought my second set of disks (inlaws took my first one); some write virtual seasons; others write letters. Some of the lazy ones of us just mope.

CYBERSNARK

Friday, March 3, 2006 3:46 PM

Yet another new recruit! Welcome, make yourself at home.

Quote:
Originally posted by Kaele:
DINOSAURS!
Plastic or latex?

GUH! Scary mental image of. . . of. . . I'm not quite sure how to describe it, but just --GUH!!

*heading to the brain-scrubber*

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

JONESTEIN

Friday, March 3, 2006 3:50 PM

Welcome aboard. Like others have said, best thing you can do is spread the word and hold the line till Mal returns.

I spent the better part of last Saturday getting my buddy hooked on FF and I've been writing reviews for FF & Serenity wherever I can.

It's been very encouraging to see the flood of great reviews on Amazon, the latest have been from folk like me...rented Serenity, loved it, bought it, bought the FF DVD set, and bought into the whole 'Verse...hook, line, and sinker.

I'm now buying every dang piece of FF mechandise I can find...cuz as an earlier poster mentioned, cash flow talks, and it's the only language spoken in Hollywood.

There have been many tv shows I've liked, loved, and been a devout viewer of, but never, ever, have I been this swept away by a show. No tv show or movie has ever given me the impetus to join a fansite either.

Finally, I've seen a LOT of tv shows & movies in my 40+ years and can say without a shred of doubt, Firefly was the best damn show ever made, period.

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KAELE

Friday, March 3, 2006 4:20 PM

What really hits me is the fact that there wasn't a whole build-up. I'm always surprised at how when they go to promote a movie, there's junk everywhere: ads, t-shirts, toys, books, collectables, trading cards. You name it, there's merchandising with the movie's stuff all over it.

They didn't do that with Serenity. Is this because the felt it would flop?

It makes me wonder, with this run of sales on the movie and series, what the movie industry moguls are actually thinking. There wasn't a whole lot of marketing, and we the fans are doing it mostly for them.

What was that line?
"There's nothing like a major motion picture to make you feel better about your TV show being cancelled."

Not only have the fans done so much, but it really bowls me over that it isn't just the scifi community that really enjoys this movie, it fairly well STOOD ON ITS OWN MERITS!!! There was no typical hype leading up to a movie. The cast was not made up of headliners where the name of the star is all the advertising they need.

If I were Joss, I'd be sitting back in my little hidey hole, and just chuckling. With a big sh**-eating grin on my face.

All hail the Joss.

~Kaele

DANEN03

Friday, March 3, 2006 10:01 PM

i almost completely agree with you Kaele. It is funny how Serenity has attracted so many people, such as myself, all on its own. I didn't see one commercial for it, I didn't hear one reccomendation-- until after i watched it -- but i was so impressed, my whole family was. We immeadiately bought the FF series and I haven't ever been so excited to sit down and watch something like that before. It is a real shame it didn't get father into it. This is the type of show that takes lots of time to build up, not only time but money. Had fox given FF more time, i think it would have most definitely been a bigger show. There hasn't been anything like it before. I bet your right, I bet Joss thinks its funny that they let it go. it is successful without press. imagine what it would have been had it been advertised just a bit more.

MELAM

Saturday, March 4, 2006 1:01 AM

Now, normaly I'm the type to be a pessimist with no faith in anything, but with Firefly I'm determined to see more of it, and I have faith that I will.

Like everyone else has said, dig in and hold. Buy what you can find, I especialy recomend the comics, and the visual companion (which not only has prety, prety pictures and the script, but also has loads of interviews and background info. on the 'verse.)

So welcome, and enjoy your time here amoung us Browncoats.

"Putting the Me in Mercinary, Jayne Cobb."

"Joss, what is the future of television? What will we watch? And how will we watch it? Surely you must know, for you are wise, and slender."

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