Is Firefly your favourite show?

POSTED BY: ekidd79
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EKIDD79

Saturday, May 13, 2006 3:21 PM

Just curious to know whether anyone has an active interest in other shows as much as they do with Firefly....do you post on other boards and if so which ones? and is there a connection amongst the programs, for example the science fiction genre? Also would you class Firefly above the other programs you are a fan of and if so why?

This is a query for my ongoing University assignment.

FOLLOWMAL

Saturday, May 13, 2006 3:59 PM

Yup, Firefly is my all time, forever in love with it show.

I am currently watching Buffy, and like it very much. It's stellar, cuz it's Joss, but it isn't Firefly of course ( ah, it does make me yearn for what Joss could have done with Firefly if he'd had all those years to develop it!). So I can come here to discuss Buffy, as there is a separate forum on this board.

I also like and watch Stargate: SG1 and Stargate: Atlantis and of course the new Battlestar Galactica. But I am not going to post on a board about them, don't LOVE them, that being the difference between how I feel about them and Firefly. Prior to coming here.. I never posted online, had never even been to a fan oriented site. Now of course, this is my home away from home.

My daughter is into Lost, and posts and browses the web for clues and the ongoing mystery to be solved.. so I have been exposed to some of those boards.. just from the " Mom, c'mere and see this!" factor.

I don't know if there is a connection between the genre's and boards... I think someone with more cross over between 'em would be able to answer that question... although I am a member of several Firefly/Serenity boards and love to yack and be a part of them all. This one is home though.

Firefly is above the other shows absolutely, let me try to count the ways:

I fell in love with the characters.. especially Mal. Never fell in love with a tv show before.

The writing and stories are first class.. there are a few stellar eps that stand out, OMR, OoG and OiS, being the three that I consider high art.

The special effects make our ship and crew real to me. I don't know praise higher than that.

Finally, I want to go on Serenity with the crew.
Never felt that way before either... not the Millennium Falcon and not for all the holodecks in Starfleet. I would board Serenity right now if I could and follow Mal.

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

EMBERS

Saturday, May 13, 2006 4:02 PM

yes, easily my favorite show ever...
I posted on Buffy boards, and I adored BtVS
but I never cared about it as deeply and completely as I do about Firefly/Serenity

And although there are a number of shows I really love now:
Doctor Who and Veronica Mars are both amazing,
I have no desire to check out boards, fan fic, or anything like that....

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watch the R. Tam Session vids: http://www.hittarivertam.nu/
and buy the 'Serenity' comics published by Dark Horse
have you checked out this thread?:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=15816

and listen to 'I'm Going To See Serenity':
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=a0
c814e1229742ce77ed4497cbf4631c

NUCLEARDAY

Saturday, May 13, 2006 4:15 PM

I'd have to say Firefly is my all-time favorite as well. And I'll just second FollowMal's sentiments as to the why. (Though I get all dreamy over Kaylee, as opposed to our Captain :)

There's been other shows I've liked (Farscape, Wonderfalls, Red Dwarf to name a few.) But this is the first show that's ever brought me out to the fan community. I used to spend some time on the Highlander boards back in the day, but I wasn't much of an active member. Firefly's definately in a class all it's own. There's so few episodes, and just the one movie (so far,) and yet there's still so much to talk about.

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You can take my hope when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers. (Or if Kaylee asks me nicely...)

CAPTAINSHINY

Saturday, May 13, 2006 4:32 PM

Yes, by far. The only show that comes close is the Prisoner (I am not a number! I am a free man!) and I am enjoying buffy and will soon be enjoying angel, both of which i am renting in netflix.

-Stay Shiny
"The people who made the show, and the people who saw the show, which is roughly the same number of people, fell in love with it, a little bit too much to let it go, too much to lay down arms when when the battle looked pretty much lost. In Hollywood, people like that are called unrealistic, quixotic, obsessive... In my world, they're called Browncoats."
-Joss Whedon

JOSSISAGOD

Saturday, May 13, 2006 4:39 PM

I wouldn't be here if I didn't LOVE Firefly! but that's just me. The characters are amazing the story is kick ass, and from the very begining I wanted to see where Joss would take the show(until FOX canceled it!). Now I've gotten into the Sci-fi channel Friday night line up, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica(remake) and Dr Who(remake). None are as good in my mind though as Firefly/Serenity.

JOSSIS(Most Definitely)AGOD

MONKSDAD

Saturday, May 13, 2006 4:42 PM

Firefly is my alltime favorite show. I have liked other shows before but this is love. I have never been a "fan" like this before or gotten into anything this much before. I mean I have been buying Serenifly stuff up at a feverish pitch, I have watched the series over and over and over again and it doesnt get old, I get cranky if a few days go bye and i dont watch an ep or BDM. The funny thing is for the past 4 months my cousins to whom which i am very close have been making fun of me for wearing my little browncoat nylon bracelet or my you cant take the sky from me bracelet or for wearing my jayne hat t-shirt or my serenity shirt or my serenity necklace, I finally made them watch the series, and guess whos ordering buying doing what they can for the cause, yep my cousins, instantly addicted and it is great!!!! I had to nurse them through that final ep because they didnt want it to end. Firefly has brought out the fan in me and the fan in them. I have always been interested in sci fi (star wars/next generation) and serenifly takes all the things i like about star wars & next generation and eliminates all the stuff that annoyed me about them, (Aliens especially non humanoid aliens, i hate that everything is clean everywere in star trek) I like that firefly is about the people about little moments the important stuff. Plus how could you not like a show about space pirates who shoot first and talk shit!!!

"And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic lowlife community."

VINTERDRAKEN

Saturday, May 13, 2006 5:12 PM

Firefly is definetivly my favorite, and ive never before been this much into a series. I dont usually post on other forums and such, but I will occasionally discuss Buffy, Angel and some movies on the forums here.

You can’t stop the Signal.
Keep spreading the word about Firefly!

RALEIGHBROWNCOAT

Saturday, May 13, 2006 5:15 PM

Although I have watched a fair amount of TV in my life, I'm usually not a TV person -- meaning nothing on TV really captivates me. I'm not really much of a sci-fi person either, outside of the original Star Wars of course. So, when I tell you that Firefly is the best show I have ever seen on TV, bar none, and that it's something I truly love and long for, I hope you'll see where I'm coming from. It takes a lot to get me so obsessed. I have never posted on other boards about other TV shows, or written letters to Hollywood types in support of a particular show, or read "fanfic" of other shows, or anything like that -- all of which I have done for Firefly.

So, yes, Firefly is my favorite television show, without question.

KEYOKE

Saturday, May 13, 2006 5:18 PM

Im quite active through the entire online sci-fi community. But Firefly is without a doubt my favourite show ever.

Only thing that ever came close was Battlestar.

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