How did you find the 'verse?
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It was back when I had cable, and cable had the TV Guide Channel. So there I was with that playing in the background (I can't stand silence so a lot of the time I leave the TV playing for background noise) and it said, "Our editors pick is ..." and it went on about Firefly.
It showed a commercial that made it look like the show was utter crap (and they wonder why people didn't watch) but I am a firm believer that you have to give sci-fi two seasons to mature.
So I decided I'd watch it, but I had missed the bit saying when it was coming on (maybe it didn’t sometimes they just say, "This Fall," or some such.) So I looked online, I was fairly sure they said it was coming to Fox. I couldn't find any evidence that a show named Firefly existed (and they wonder why people didn't watch) after looking around the Fox website for ages I became convinced that either I heard the name of the show wrong or it wasn't on Fox.
So I watched commercials on TV on programs that I thought would advertise for such a show. And I saw nothing. Not one commercial on any channel ever. (The only commercial for Firefly I ever saw was the one that Fox didn't actually pay for on the TV Guide Channel that got this whole thing started. And they wonder why people did't watch.)
I watched the TV guide channel hoping that they'd mention it again: nothing.
Before I even reached this point I didn't give a damn about the show anymore I just didn't want the effort I put into it to amount to nothing. I was also wondering if I had somehow imagined the whole thing, I mean try as I might I couldn't find any evidence that a show called, "Firefly," existed.
I remembered that it had been said to be on Fridays though, and so I checked the guide for all the major channels on Fridays ... for a few weeks (I hate quitting.)
I really was becoming convinced that the show simply didn't exist, there was nothing anywhere that talked about a show named Firefly.
Then one Friday there it was, The Train Job. I fully expected it to suck completely and utterly but after I put all that effort into finding it I was determined to watch it anyway.
I was blown away from the start. I hated Fox for that damn commercial that made it look like crap and even more for never playing it or doing anything else to tell anyone the show was coming on.
And from then on I had my Friday nights all planned out, sort of. One week it wasn't there. There'd been no warning, it was just gone. So I looked it up online. That's when I found here.
That's also when I learned that the show was teetering on the brink of cancellation. Of course it came back, it had just been preempted without warning, at least I think that's what they call it.
So the next time it disappeared without warning I was online again, clinging to every little bit of news.
Then after a bit of oddness it was gone. Trickles of goodness came to us, Heart of Gold, Trash, and The Message, the script Dead or Alive, news of people trying to save the show, and the realization that the best show I had ever seen was gone.
I remember the withdrawal, and StarHunter (that took some of the edge off though I'm at a loss to explain why), and hope, and being ignored by every single network in existiance, and more withdrawal, and then finding out Serenity was coming.
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That's my story.
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Originally posted by RiveR6213:
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.
Provided you aren't talking about the ass kicking I know exactly how you feel.
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Originally posted by christhecynic:
It was back when I had cable, and cable had the TV Guide Channel. So there I was with that playing in the background (I can't stand silence so a lot of the time I leave the TV playing for background noise) and it said, "Our editors pick is ..." and it went on about Firefly.
It showed a commercial that made it look like the show was utter crap (and they wonder why people didn't watch) but I am a firm believer that you have to give sci-fi two seasons to mature.
So I decided I'd watch it, but I had missed the bit saying when it was coming on (maybe it didn’t sometimes they just say, "This Fall," or some such.) So I looked online, I was fairly sure they said it was coming to Fox. I couldn't find any evidence that a show named Firefly existed (and they wonder why people didn't watch) after looking around the Fox website for ages I became convinced that either I heard the name of the show wrong or it wasn't on Fox.
So I watched commercials on TV on programs that I thought would advertise for such a show. And I saw nothing. Not one commercial on any channel ever. (The only commercial for Firefly I ever saw was the one that Fox didn't actually pay for on the TV Guide Channel that got this whole thing started. And they wonder why people did't watch.)
I watched the TV guide channel hoping that they'd mention it again: nothing.
Before I even reached this point I didn't give a damn about the show anymore I just didn't want the effort I put into it to amount to nothing. I was also wondering if I had somehow imagined the whole thing, I mean try as I might I couldn't find any evidence that a show called, "Firefly," existed.
I remembered that it had been said to be on Fridays though, and so I checked the guide for all the major channels on Fridays ... for a few weeks (I hate quitting.)
I really was becoming convinced that the show simply didn't exist, there was nothing anywhere that talked about a show named Firefly.
Then one Friday there it was, The Train Job. I fully expected it to suck completely and utterly but after I put all that effort into finding it I was determined to watch it anyway.
I was blown away from the start. I hated Fox for that damn commercial that made it look like crap and even more for never playing it or doing anything else to tell anyone the show was coming on.
And from then on I had my Friday nights all planned out, sort of. One week it wasn't there. There'd been no warning, it was just gone. So I looked it up online. That's when I found here.
That's also when I learned that the show was teetering on the brink of cancellation. Of course it came back, it had just been preempted without warning, at least I think that's what they call it.
So the next time it disappeared without warning I was online again, clinging to every little bit of news.
Then after a bit of oddness it was gone. Trickles of goodness came to us, Heart of Gold, Trash, and The Message, the script Dead or Alive, news of people trying to save the show, and the realization that the best show I had ever seen was gone.
I remember the withdrawal, and StarHunter (that took some of the edge off though I'm at a loss to explain why), and hope, and being ignored by every single network in existiance, and more withdrawal, and then finding out Serenity was coming.
-
That's my story.
That was a good story; you are a stubborn one aren’t you? If it had been I, I would have given up. At that time in my life I kept my Sci-fi leanings under wraps.
River
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That was a good story; you are a stubborn one aren’t you?
Yeah, mostly. I don't mind changing my mind, but I hate failing.
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Son there I was spending two weeks in Pusan, Korea. One of my buds had tapes, there was nothing else to do so I watched a couple episodes, then begged for more. Got home and got the DVD ASAP and been "bleeding brown" ever since.
"Killed me with a sword. How weird is that?"
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I found the verse from watching a scifi trailer that said if some tries to kill you. you kill them right back. I ve been watching it eversince. I even bought the dvds of firefly and serenity. I watch them every day and i read the book. Three times already
Someday the verse will spit in your soup but at least they gave you soup.
one day
one plan
one mission
one army of browncoats
june 23rd serenity day
-Our mission as browncoats is to make us known.
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Originally posted by christhecynic:Quote:
Originally posted by RiveR6213:
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.
Provided you aren't talking about the ass kicking I know exactly how you feel.
No, not the ass kicking LoL! When I saw Serenity back in 2005, I was reaching a point in my life where I seriously felt as though I had sold my soul for profits. I mean really, sold my soul. I am an independent minded woman who is used to doing her own thing, but I came to a point where I had a lot of skeletons in my closet. I had a head full of everyone else's stuff. I was the keeper of everyone else's secrets, including my own. I started to have nightmares, and depression, and the idea of suicide became my friend and constant companion. This is why I liked and related to the character River. I also relate to Mal.....I am as stubborn as him.
I will never let any man take from me that's mine.
Not ever.
River
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Originally posted by RiveR6213:
That was a good story; you are a stubborn one aren’t you? If it had been I, I would have given up. At that time in my life I kept my Sci-fi leanings under wraps.
River
Thats kinda what I did... I happened to stumble upon the pilot... I caught it where they were lowering the bay door. I was like WTF, cowboys ninjas, what they say? Then after the badger and book/kaylee convo.s. I was Hooked.
After it went off I remember saying "This is how Sci-Fi should be". I ranted to my roomate. Loved it. I thought it about later and passed it off as a made for tv movie or miniseries (Big Mistake! C'mon, Say it like arnold)
Didn't even think of it again until I saw a commercial on the Sci-Fi channel for the BDM.
Then found out how it was:
a series
played out of order
DVDS were doing fantastic, Bought 'em!
...and didn't find here til the first of this year.
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Wow! That went over well.
I guess I'm not alone in all of this after all.
If this helps. I never fail to cry and shed many tears after watching Serenity. Call me weak...perhaps, but it gets to me that way.
River
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I loved Buffy and Angel but missed Firefly during it's run on Fox. Fall/Winter 2002 was a bad time for me personally and I didn't watch much TV. Then three years later a friend of mine told me about Serenity coming out so I went to see it on opening night and I loved it. I saw it a couple more times in theaters. A couple of weeks ago I bought the Firefly DVD and I've been watching it over and over since ( I wish there were more episodes!) and I bought the Serenity DVD. Outtakes is my favorite part of that DVD. Nathan Fillion is hilarious, especially in the part where he tells Zoe to strap Book's corpse front and center on Serenity and then tells Kaylee to find the kid taking the dirt nap with baby Jesus to use as a hood ornament. I laugh out loud every time Fillion says "I've seen so much death" and then starts dancing. I don't know why that cracks me up every time but it does. I read about how Firefly fans helped get the go ahead for Serenity so I began checking out Firefly sites and this was my favorite so I joined.
I wanna be Mr. Baccarin!
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