How did you find the 'verse?

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RUGBUG

Monday, May 15, 2006 6:48 PM

Hi all! This is my first post so I thought this thread would be an appropriate one. :)

I've been a Buffy fan since season 2. I blindly turned to Angel when Buffy was in its last season...I just couldn't let go of the Buffyverse and Angel was slightly related. Well, both of those ended and there was Firefly.

Sadly, I just didn't want to watch this odd show. I had heard about it when it was in pre-production, when it aired and when the series came out on DVD. Still no interest, even though it was by Joss.

Fast Forward to January of this year. After having spent three months on what amounted to couch rest for a broken arm (fell of my horse), I decided to give Firefly a try. I had watched all of Buffy and Angel again and was still thirsty for some more Joss. I decided to rent the series, but it was out, so had to make do with the movie. LOVED Serenity (although I wouldn't know how wonderful it was until I had watched the series and then the movie...very different perspective on BDM when watched as it should be), went back the next day for the series. I had to go to three different video stores before I found it in stock. Watched the four discs in two days and knew I had to have it for myself.

I've since bought the series and the movie as well as introduced friends to the 'verse. I'm here because I just can't get enough. Now I'm trying to figure out what is available to continue...I know there are comics and podcasts...what the heck are those anyway? Someday I may be able to count myself amoungst the browncoats...for now, I'm in training in something that is tannish colored.

GIXXER

Monday, May 15, 2006 6:55 PM

Knew almost nothing about it. 'Cowboys in Space' was about the long and short of it. Strangely, as an obsessive review reader, I'd never read a word about it anywhere.

Went on holiday, Fall of 2004. Bought it in a Mall somewhere. Possibly Maine, or maybe Vermont. All I remember clearly for some reason, was that it was $24 in a sale.

Impressed by the start, but Staite has the honour of officially hooking, striking, gaffing, stuffing and displaying me in a glass case over the sideboard with "Now I can't get down."

Been like a (thankfully) silent Billy Bass ever since.

ITAMOON

Monday, May 15, 2006 7:00 PM

Had a housemate who was into all things Whedon. I'd been religiously watching Buffy and was quite taken with whoever was playing Caleb. Great voice / presence.
My housemate mentioned he'd been in another great show and (illegally) downloaded 'Shindig' so I could see. Neat enough. She was excitedly waiting for the DVDs at this point.
It went out of my mind until I ran into a fellow on the T (subway) wearing a 'can't stop the signal' badge. No way! Serenity: a whole movie? What miracle is this? Gotta check out this series. Impulsively ordered Firefly and that was all she wrote.
Food for thought: if I hadn't seen the counterfeit copy first, I never would've spent all that dough on 5 copies of Firefly and 5 of Serenity and been responsible for many more purchases. In this case, a little theft payed off big-time for the network and the studio.

MERCURY002

Monday, May 15, 2006 7:07 PM

For me it was that poster thing that the fans did, they put out a full page article in a load of papers (in the US i think) then that attracted media attention and i saw the article on the BBC and in a newspaper, i thought i would check it out and bacame interested from then on.

i remember one quote from it :
"you keep flying
we will keep watching"

Simon:"If the battle was so horrible, why did he name the ship after it?"
Zoe:"Once you've been in serenity you never leave"

SIMONB

Monday, May 15, 2006 10:09 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by FollowMal:

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

Hey FollowMal and Brexan - no apologies necessary, we're all here because we love the show and we're all here to talk about it. It's all good - so keep going! It's what makes this site such a shiny place.

- Shiny. Let's be bad guys.

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

SWEETSERENDIPITY

Monday, May 15, 2006 10:59 PM

I had heard about all the good reviews Firefly got, but didn't watch much network tv back then. Saw the trailer for Serenity, saw Adam, and knew I wanted to get the dvd. Before the dvd came out, I happened to catch most of one of the scifi channels marathons of Firefly and was hooked. Been bleedin' brown ever since!

Deb
Serendipityagain.com

MER

Monday, May 15, 2006 11:00 PM

For me, I heard about Firefly airing and I made sure to tune in as much as I could. I could've just "watched" it, but b/c me never finishing "Out of Gas", I searched online for Firefly fan pages as well as fictions b/c I had this burning desire to know what happened in the series.

And so, that's how I got to this board and getting to know the storyline before actually watching the series on DVD.

NOSADSEVEN

Monday, May 15, 2006 11:43 PM

Welcome here, RugBug and RadioactiveChimp...glad to have you!

I had been keeping up with the upcoming new fall season back in Ought-Two, and was looking forward to Firefly having read positive things about Joss and Firefly before its debut. I have to say, though, the few ads I saw kind of made me question my anticipation. But I planned to watch it anyway, ended up getting home late that night and missed the first 10 min., or so. I felt like I had missed a hell of a lot more than that! I I figured that I had messed up and missed the pilot episode somehow (which, obviously, I had), but shrugged my shoulders and tried to piece together what was going on.

The show surprized me repeatedly, and as soon as Mal kicked Crow through the engine, I started programming my VCR for the next week - I was not going to miss a moment of another episode. And I didn't.

Quote:
Originally posted by ladyserenity:
I let my mom borrow my laptop and they found my fanfic and laughed at it! They said they didn't read all of what was there but I don't believe them.

*cringe* That is the kind of nightmare scenario that has kept me from writing fanfic for so long.

But sometimes I just can't help myself!

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Ain't. We. Just.

RIVER6213

Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:36 AM

I found Firefly through the movie Serenity. It was a dark, rainy day and I was way too depressed at the office, so I decided to go to downtown Seattle and do some window shopping. I ended up thinking that a movie would be a nice change, so I walked into the 1st movie theater I could find without even bothering to find out what was actually playing.

I was one of those closet sci-fi fans by the way. Before the movie started, the coming attractions included a video of all these people called "brown coats" that was all hyped-up about serenity/Firefly. They were all fanzied up like the people of old who used to be Star Trek fans. I never heard of Firefly, so I didn’t know what that was all about, but it looked interesting, but because I didn’t really know what I was seeing, it didn’t register.

Then the actual movie started and there I sat, by myself, with a bag of popcorn and a soda. I was entranced by the opening scenes with the story of the earth- that- was being over-populated, and how the human race left it and found a new home, and then the I got to watch the whole Simon rescues River scene + the Operative stuff. I still didn’t know what I was seeing.

Then I got to sit and listen to some really good music and watched an unfamiliar ship stamped with the words Serenity, deorbit and reenter a planets atmosphere, and the captain and crew’s behavior seemed so comfortable to me right off. I liked Mal from the moment I saw how he acted and how he thought, and from there I was entranced and ate not a crumb of my popcorn while I watch this totally interesting movie unfold. I didn’t know Wash, but when he died in Serenity I thought “how brutal and unfair” I noticed also that Wash’s wife, Zoë, for a few seconds was in complete denial about his death…I thought this was a good touch and made the movie more real for me. I was Stunned by Summer Glau’s acting. She reminded me at the time, of myself, which should give you an idea of my private state of mind at the time.

I got home later and googled Serenity and Firefly. I later went out and purchased the whole box set of Firefly and watched the whole thing on a Saturday. I was hooked, totally hooked. And then I felt cheated, and then I got mad, and then I went crazy.

River

P.S. I think I love Nathan Fillion

WASHBURNEFAN

Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:55 AM

I first remember watching the show, but I didn't understand it. It wasn't until I grew up a little and became a constant movie goer that I watched Serenity and loved. All the images flooded back into my mind like a suppresed memory. I thought to myself, "How could I not like this!". Immeadiatly after going to the opening night of Serenity I got the Series. I was literatly applauded for my purchase, for (even though I didn't know it) there were over 200 people in the theater that night, only 140 chairs, everyone was wearing brown. It was the best feeling I 've ever gotten from a simple T.V. show. This made me come here.

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And a good south wind sprung up behind ;
The Albatross did follow,
And every day, for food or play,
Came to the mariner's hollo !

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