A little bit of hope-Joss posts at Whendonesque
POSTED BY: ncbrowncoat
UPDATED: Monday, September 11, 2006 04:14
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Originally posted by NotYolanda:
Hi Embers,
I'm new to the Browncoats. What does it mean when people say they will "bump" it? Inquiring minds want to know. Have a shiny day! Elaine
As the others have said, it's to keep older messages up near the top.. the Archives don't always work due to process errors, so it's a bit safer to bump up important posts lest they be lost to the Archive monster ;)
BTW, Admins, Anything I can do to help with that? I primarily Speak *nix, but can find my way around a Windows platform also. It seems the Spawned child process limits may be set a bit too low, and I don't know if that's on purpose (to save bandwidth) or just a config error... I'm also not sure what type of "Lock" this site uses to keep the posters separated, but it seems to take a bit of time to release/pass the lock when there's several folks posting, but I suspect that is a pure bandwidth issue... but if I can help in anyway, you've got my E-mail and I'd be glad to do so.
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Hey there NotYolanda, I see others have answered your question before me...
and in doing have managed to 'bump' the thread a couple more times!
BTW since you're new to the Browncoat I thought you'd want to check out this thread:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=15816
enjoy and welcome
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Thanks for posting this!
I swear, I feel crazy, but Joss' little, cryptic closing paragraph gives me so much hope. Do you think he knows the effect his "code" has on the fans? He must and I'm sure he does it on purpose- Sneaky jerk.
"Can't take the sky..."
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Thanks for posting. Always great to hear, er, read from Joss. :)
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Sneaky jerk.
My thougths exactly (except when I'm watching the BDM, and then I say much worse things).
But, really - whatever Joss says or writes is really intelligent and thoughtful, and that only adds to his likeability. It's what propels the fans from "that really cool writer of this show" to "Joss Whedon is my master," I do believe.
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WOOT WOOT GO JOSS!
So if I could I'd wish it all away, if I thought tomorrow would take you away.
You're my peace of mind, my home, my center.
Just trying to hold on one more day.
Dim my eyes
Dim my eyes
dim my eyes if they should compromise our fulcrum.
Want and need divide me then I might as well
be gone.
-Tool
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When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me, singing words of wisdom let it "BUMP...
I think that "Keep the Faith" and "Spread the Love" is certainly refering to the "Verse"
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It'd be time-consuming (but maybe a little fun) to sit here and try to break down and deconstruct the crypticness and relate it to the 'verse, but the overwhelming "makes me feel good" bit is that it's a cryptic little message - whenever JW seemed to be really bummed out about the chances of anything happening, he has expressed it verrrrry directly, but if there's some sorta hope, it gets him going, stimulates the ole creativity gland, and we get little messages like that. I am enthused!
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Originally posted by bad2verse:Quote:
Originally posted by ncbrowncoat:
Got this from another group that I'm a member of. It's a post by Joss at < http://whedonesque.com/?comments=11198#138754>http://whedonesque.com/?
comments=11198#138754
He's updating "Wondy Gal" and Goners and then comes one of his usual cryptic sayings:
Some other little irons in the fire, when they're hot I'll pull 'em out and brand you. Keep the faith, spread the love, (snip)
I can only speculate but it gives me hope that something Firefly/Serenity is in the works somewhere.
I saw it too.. and I've asked a friend at an advertising firm to ask F*x AND Sci-fi about "A possible Firefly return" (Their firm handles advertising for several large companies)
Sci-fi gave him the usual song and dance about F*X owning the rights, but that they were showing the Series in the UK if he wanted to put advertising there...
F*X gave him the standard "there's been a lot of questions about it returning, but the cast is tied up with other obligations "at the moment"" (Which wasn't a "NO")...
Hey, cling to what hope we can, and make the road in front of Joss as smooth as possible in case he DOES decide to give us more.
Remember that MANY shows failed initially (Tremors has a cult following, and they now ONLY release Tremors movies directly to DVD, but they DO make them) but have been resurrected in some form or another.
Tremors does it by using the "DVD only" format using investors that are "Longer term investors"..
Most companies want to make their money (and interest) FAST, like in the first opening weeks... but there are other companies are out there that don't mind getting their money (and interest) a bit slower in return (Over a period of months).
Facts are, Firefly and Serenity are STILL making money with DVD sales, Other Channels renting them to show, and merchandising.
ALL of the Firefly/Serenity material has made it into the black eventually, and then everything from that point on is profit... And there ARE companies out there that will take a "Sure thing" when it pays for itself, even if it takes "Longer than usual" to pay dividends.
Why do you think F*x is holding on to the rights? It's still making them money! Slowly, true, But SURELY and steadily... and ANYTHING that makes money has someone eyeing it to make THEM money.
I invest... If *I* see a company forming to give FireFly another shot (in ANY format), I'll put money in it, Cult followings of this size are sure things in the long run (Providing the show isn't totally hosed by new actors playing old roles, or trying to take the show in a different direction..).. Hey, I wish *I* had stock in the Rocky Horror Picture show, and I've never even seen it, but it's still being shown SOMEWHERE all the time.. those dollars coming in from every showing are going into someone's pocket.
F*x admits THEY screwed up... I can only believe they are letting the show "simmer" to build support for a future return done CORRECTLY.
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I agree. We kill F*X here. They will step in and save FF. Someone there knows they F*cked up.....And, Morena's not doing anything!
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Originally posted by kaneman:
I agree. We kill F*X here. They will step in and save FF. Someone there knows they F*cked up.....And, Morena's not doing anything!
You got it... hit 'em in the wallet... hold out a guaranteed contract, and the actors WILL come back, none of them seems to be doing anything "Long term Spectacular"
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