Converting my friends....advice
POSTED BY: nrdpwr
UPDATED: Sunday, April 9, 2006 02:02
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Well, I don't know if they'll thank me for it. I'm still kind of annoyed with the person the got me hooked. I had a fairly normal, non-obsessive life before this.
This really nails it on the head. I was always diversified in my taste for shows and the like. This show came out of left field, I never saw it coming, and now I fear I am trapped forever. It is kind of like the reaver-to-be in "bushwacked." It only seems to get worse.
Its bad when you start using firefly for all methaphors in life these days.
In regards to converting people. As with all good sales, go to the people you know first. Family are always easy targets, I converted my entire family by telling them to watch and I literally said "This is the best damn show I have ever seen, but be warned, there are only 14 episodes and you will be crushed when it is over, and then you will start rewatching it....forever." Warnings like "be careful, this could significantly change the reality in which you live" or "now, I must tell you, if you watch this, there is no going back..." are some good examples of nifty phrases I have used.
I have found throwing in these "warnings" drastically increases a persons curiousity by allowing the person to see how much it effected me without gushing while adding the eliment of risk. People like the challenge created by being warned. They want to dive in to prove to themselves and to you that is just a show, and then they watch it. The bigger their reservations, the harder they fall. 4 members of the family + 7 friends and counting.
BROWNCOAT CONVERTING OFFICIAL WARNING
If you show somebody the dvd's, they watch, and they do not like it... there is a good chance that you will no longer view that person the sameway again. So becareful when converting family, loved ones, and friends.
Browncoat stabled to my skin for life...I just don't see anyway out...
Kuang Zhe De
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nrdpwr, creative methods! giggle.
But! E Z Duzzit. The show sells itself if you don't get so hard-core that you drive folk away.
An example: Years (and years and years) ago a lot of people in my workplace decided I should watch a show they liked. They pounded and pounded on me. Relentless bunch of wimmen!
Finally I gave in and told them I'd watch it that very night. I can't even remember what it was called. The hero lived in a sewer or something and I think he came out at night and righted wrongs or wronged rights -- well, he was a pest.
I could barely get through the hour.
In the morning I was greeted by shamed-looking faces and the question: had I watched it?
I gave them a look I think of as "basset hound" in which I can feel even my ears begin to droop.
Someone said, "Last night's show was the worst ever. It really sucked."
"Yes," I said, "It did."
They left me alone about it after that.
Now Firefly doesn't have anything that bad in it (no sewers in space, thank our dear and fluffy Lord -- only the vat in the ship) but it isn't going to be to everyone's taste, and when you get all pushy about it you could make a monster -- someone who'll actually say Bad Things about it -- and our BDHs don't need that.
I'm also always amazed when I discover a closet browncoat. Found three yesterday, wouldn't have suspected any of them, and they didn't suspect each other. Offered encouragement and we also had a good yak about it in front of others who started to look interested. Wished I had a coat full of DVD sets to hand out to the bystanders...
bun
-- bastards singed my turtle --
----- why's the rum gone? -----
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I work in a DVD shop and I try selling Firefly to anybody who'll listen - if they're buying something sci-fi/TV show related I always casually ask 'Have you ever seen Firefly?' and try to convince them to buy in the few seconds I have serving them. It's even worked, once or twice.
I did lend the show to a girl at work, who'd heard vague things about it - turns out she really enjoyed it, though she did have a few mean things to say about the characters. Wanted a certain pilot to die and was pleased when she heard the outcome of the movie.
Some people... 
Managed to get my Dad obsessed just by dropping hints about it, then buying him a copy of the box set. He loves him his Firefly now!
-- My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle --
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I simply chose an episode my victi- erm, potential browncoat would like. In the case of my litte brother it was Our Mrs. Reynolds, which I knew would suit his sense of humour perfectly.
Did it work? Yep. You met him earlier in this thread. He posts here under the name GeekMafia
Desktop Hippie: at one with the 'verse
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I give the DVD's as birthday gifts to people who I think will love FF (friends, family, workmates). Nobody has complained about my gifts since.
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MWS wrote:
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Wanted a certain pilot to die and was pleased when she heard the outcome of the movie.
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Yeeps! Do we want to know why? Or what kind of person she is? Got a thing about plastic dinos? Semi-muscular men? Rumpled hair? How is she about children and small animals?
bun
-- bastards singed my turtle --
----- why's the rum gone? -----
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