Making attempts to recruit someone tonight

POSTED BY: Esther
UPDATED: Thursday, August 24, 2006 05:14
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ESTHER

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 12:34 PM

I invited two colleagues over to watch the first Firefly episode together tonight, so everyone might wanna burn some incense that they'll get hooked ...

Esther

Love my captain!

CYBERBARD

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 12:47 PM

XD! How cool is that?

Very, very cool! I'm sure they'll get hooked rightaway.

BROWNCOAT1

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 1:55 PM

We'll keep our fingers crossed.

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PENGUIN

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 2:07 PM

Does Firefly translate well into German, or will this be an English viewing??

ESTHER

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 3:02 PM

Quote:
Penguin wrote:
Does Firefly translate well into German, or will this be an English viewing??

I fear, we'll have to watch it in German, although the German version is crap. You just cannot translate Joss ... and then, the Serenity crew speaks "high" German (no Western Slang available here, and it would be stupid, to give them an German dialect - like bavarian or such).

So I'll might have to stop once in a while, to tell my colleagues, what the guys just "really" said ...

Esther

Love my captain!

FLORALBUNNY

Wednesday, August 23, 2006 2:45 AM

Must be over by now unless they loved it
so much that they forced you to hold a
marathon showing.

We're eager to know how the conversion
went.

(anyone reading here tonight please go to
the syfy VOTE! thread, click the link,
and vote. Time is running out.)

bun
~2006~Firefly Summer~2006~
==We aim to exponentiate==
----Hide the rum! 0507----

ESTHER

Wednesday, August 23, 2006 9:23 AM

Thanks for asking back, so here is my report:

They liked it so far, but I don't know, whether they will become real browncoats (and join FFF.net). They are just too "normal", I guess. One is thinking about buying the DVD though. Maybe I'll do another showing of the following episodes(next time on a Friday, so they can stay longer).

Anyways, one knew, that there was a movie, and he asked whether there was a sequel, and I said "we are still fighting for it". So he looked kinda surprised and said "we?" And I replied with some proud: "I'm a Browncoat", which ckracked them up a bit. So Im working on it ...

It's just that the German translation is sooo crapy!!!

Esther

Love my captain!

CBY

Wednesday, August 23, 2006 1:19 PM

This is why I didn't even try it. The German version is absolutely unsuited for any serious conversion attempts. The dubbing seems rushed and the voices are just plain off (Mal sounds too young, Kaylee sounds too old and so forth).

Secondly, the sci-fi-genre is just not very popular in Germany. Sure, we have our share of mainstream fans (Star Trek, Star Wars, Alien), but everything besides that generates only little interest. The "country & cowboy subject" is not that popular either so Firefly had and is having a hard time here.

Which is a shame, I might add.

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EMBERS

Wednesday, August 23, 2006 1:26 PM

I have a German friend who became a huge Firefly fan, but she was already a Buffy & Angel fan...and her English is excellent so she has watched all of Joss Whedon's shows in their original English.

She was very frustrated that 'Serenity' never showed in Germany (or I guess it did, in about two theaters...far away from where she lives) so she had to watch it on DVD.

FLORALBUNNY

Thursday, August 24, 2006 3:50 AM

Esther wrote in part:
They are just too "normal"
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Oh, but so was I until I found the 'Verse.

and:
So he looked kinda surprised and said "we?" And I replied with some proud: "I'm a Browncoat", which ckracked them up a bit. So Im working on it ...
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Brava, dear Esther! I am so proud of you.
Did you blush? I've gone pink a couple of
times trying to explain.

But I never give up. Today I made a note to try
to find out if there's an auto license plate
frame which says "My Other Ship is a Firefly."

Hang in there, and keep that coat all shiny
clean.

bun
~2006~Firefly Summer~2006~
==We aim to exponentiate==
----Hide the rum! 0507----

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