How did you find the 'verse?

POSTED BY: SimonB
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 17:43
VIEWED: 12562
PAGE 1 of 7

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NEXT PAGE

SIMONB

Sunday, May 14, 2006 10:59 PM

I'm sure this is a thread that's been posted before, probably many MANY times, but with new people coming here all the time, it's of great interest to me, so I'm gonna ask it again.

What brought you to the 'verse? how did you discover Firefly/Serenity and what made you start watching in the first place?

For me it was a friend of mine - he knew I was curious by the new Serenity film after I saw the trailer, and insisted I watch FIREFLY first (he said I'd love it, and boy, did he know me well or what?! lol) I bought the DVD on a lunch hour and watched the series - well, devoured the series - in a matter of days. Then felt terrible that there was no more. Finally, months later the BDM came out, and I watched it and came out of the cinema having both loved and hated it with a passion, kinda feeling like the survivor of a natural disaster - stunned, grief-stricken and shaken by the bad bits (you know the bits I mean) but also with a weird kind of love and elation at having had another Firefly adventure (Who but Joss can make me love something and hate it in equal measure, huh? lol). So that's how I fell in love with this gorram shiny special 'verse.

How about the rest of you?

- Shiny. Let's be bad guys.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die

MONKSDAD

Sunday, May 14, 2006 11:16 PM

Back when the show originally aired my best friend happend to see the train job and thought it was awesome because it was everything we always wanted in a sci fi series and left everything we didnt want out (wierd looking aliens and everything so clean). So I tried to watch but I think there was baseball playoffs in its place or something different everytime i tried to watch it. So of course I watched one episode that he had taped and bamm, it was canceled. I thought it was great but really didnt give it a second thought until BDM, I went to go see BDM got to the first River Fight seen in the bar and had to leave because of a family emergency ( MY kid got hurt and I had to go to the ER she was fine just a nasty bump on the head) anyway really didnt even think about firefly to much until X-mas when my best bro bought me the series. I watched it straight through except for the last ep. (I just couldnt do it, i couldnt let it end) I finally watched it then bought the BDM watched it, started looking on the net, found fff.net , started buying everything i could get my hands on that had to do with firefly/serenity and have been obsessed with the series and converting new browncoats ever since.

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

13

Sunday, May 14, 2006 11:41 PM

I'd already been an Angel and Buffy fan for half my life (I'm not joking, I haven't been around awfully long) and when I saw 'Joss Whedon's Firefly' my brother said, 'Hey, that's Angel guy, kid. Maybe I oughta..'

So, he bought them as a Christmas present.

For my mother.

I didn't watch them until January, when Fate decided to give me nothing to do. Then, I saw them sitting on the table. I thought, 'I'll give this a try.' I did, and stayed up the entire night watching it, and didn't sleep until 9:30 the next day. Fell asleep on the bus twice and once in class. I joined the site the day after, finding it through a Google search.

That's me story, boyos. Anybody got a more exciting one?

RMMC

Monday, May 15, 2006 12:11 AM

I heard about it before it got aired as I was somewhat active in the Buffy and Angel fandoms. The magazine Starlog had had a really nice article prior to the debut.

I watched it from the Train Job on (a monumental task considering the airing schedule it had) and mourned when the 'station that shall remain nameless' axed it.

****
RMMC

BREXAN

Monday, May 15, 2006 12:20 AM

I had seen adverts for the movie and thought it looked pretty interesting (I'm a fan of many other space sci-fi shows, Startrek, Farscape etc etc) and thought it was pretty cool to see a new film of the genre that was pretty much out of the blue. Unfortunately I never got around to seing it, but I bought the DVD as soon as it came out purely on the chance that I would like it. I really enjoyed it, regretted not seing it on a huge movie screen, but still.

Even after that though, I didn't really give any thought towards watching the TV series. I live in England where I believe it was never shown, so it would mean forking out the cash for a series I may not like. On top of that I wasn't too sure how the movie and TV series connected, I had heard somewhere that while it was the same 'universe' they weren't really connected, that it was more like starting afresh because the original series 'failed'.

My god, what I missed out on! A friend of my father's happened to mention that he'd bought the series, and that although it was cancelled it had a cult following (which now I see for myself :D) and he lent it to me just last week. I watched the first 2 hour episode and was addicted! and I mean addicted! I've been a fan of StarTrek since I was 9 (10 years ago) and (while I love that to bits) I'd never felt quite as much for that as I did Firefly. I couldn't stop watching.

I knew there were so few episodes so I restricted myself to 2 episodes a night (I could have watched the whole thing in one go to!) and loved the show (and most importantly for me, the great nine characters) more and more each episode that passed. As each DVD finished I knew the end was near, and I really had no idea what to expect from the last episode. I was affraid to watch it, but at the same time desperate to simply see more! Right now, I'm starting watching the whole series over for the second time, and will probably watch it again and again until I can come to terms with the loss :*(

I have to say though, I liked the fact that the last episode wasn't 'expected' by the shows produers, I would have hated a 'good bye' episode with everyone leaving and the usual. I feel like I still have some hope that another series will be made (although I'm an avid pessimist and I'm prety certain it will never happen) and I can see so much that could be done with the story.

FOLLOWMAL

Monday, May 15, 2006 12:38 AM

Ahh, don't be a pessimist Brexan, you are living proof it's not gonna be necessary. The 'verse will return. We have new folks like yourself falling in love with it everyday! All this week there have been folks signing on our website and telling us how they hated to see it end ( we all did ) and how much they want to see it go on. Our numbers are growing every day. We are holdin' and recruitin' 'til Mal gets back.

Share with others Brexan.. that's the key, as our numbers grow and we buy DVD's and we buy stuff, they will know they can make money off of us and they will give us more.

We have all kinds of things planned for the summer... shindigs and buying drives for purchasing the DVD and a Firefly Fortnight for buying the show thru ITunes. If we all take part.. it'll convince the folks who can give us more.

Oh, and you're new... so you get your very own browncoat...

*hands Brexan a browncoat*

Welcome home.

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

FOLLOWMAL

Monday, May 15, 2006 12:46 AM

And because I didn't mean to hijack your thread, SimonB...

I saw Firefly for the first time on SciFi while waiting for their SciFi Friday lineup.. Stargate SG:1 etc. Within the first couple of minutes (especially seeing Mal!) I was hooked. I fell in love.
Bought the DVD of the series that night. Watched it from the pilot to OiS all in a row, couldn't stop. I've about worn my copy of Firefly out..I ordered BSG the same night and it is still wrapped up. I can't go but a couple of days without seeing the BDM or the series or I get cranky. Of course I got the series before the movie came out and I was in my seat to see it when it opened in theaters... oh, my heart racing I was elated to see the crew back with us.

I googled about Firefly the first night and got FFF.net.. this is now my home and I'll never leave. Now I'm here holdin' the line with the rest of the Browncoats... waiting.. working.. and I'll keep going til I draw my last breath.

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

BREXAN

Monday, May 15, 2006 12:48 AM

"I can't go but a couple of days without seeing the BDM or the series or I get cranky."
^ Amen to that!

And thanks for your words of inspiration FallowMal!
WIth people like you on our side, how can we fail :D

Sorry from me too for hijacking, nothing to see here, continue with the topic :D

ZISKER

Monday, May 15, 2006 12:53 AM

I was down at Airborne School in August and the only thing to do was see movies. I kept seeing the trailer for Serenity and thought "Of all the dumbass, cliched yadda yadda". Got back, mentioned it to my brother and he says "No, that's based off Firefly. You liked Buffy, right? Well, this is better." I found the DVD set for thirty bucks and since I had a bit of money to burn I thought "Why the hell not? At least it's short."

Forty-eight hours later I was online condemning Fox to the depths of hell and the rest is history . . .

One day.
One plan.
One army of Browncoats.

On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
http://www.serenityday.org/
http://forum.serenityday.org/

Little or no free time, but want to help?
Help Spread the Signal: http://www.geocities.com/browncoatsignalcorps

MEANGOLDFISH

Monday, May 15, 2006 1:08 AM

i was against firefly before i ever saw it. i'm not big onto sci-fi, i don't like aliens, the only sci-fi that kept me interested were the original start wars movies.

on a messgae board i post on, everyone always told me how great firefly was, you have to watch it, yada yada and i would reply "i don't want to watch your goddamn show" so i never did. i figured, hey, it's sci fi, and it got cancelled, so it can't be that good.

one day one of the posters sent me to a site where i could download the episodes, so i downloaded the pilot and gave it a shot, so they would leave me alone about it.

now i own the dvds, the BDM, a shirt, the comics, and spread it all to everyone i know like it's my job. i bleed brown.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NEXT PAGE