Brand New Fan

POSTED BY: Jeff58
UPDATED: Saturday, June 23, 2007 16:55
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JAYHAWK35

Thursday, December 14, 2006 9:23 PM

Jeff,

Another way to stay current on news and such is to listen to one or more the Firefly/Serenity podcasts. The Signal podcast just won an award for best produced podcast. The Signal, along with FireflyTalk are a couple of VERY good podcasts that help fans like you and me keep some sanity and motivate us that there is still hope for something more out of the Firefly "verse."

If you don't know what a podcast is, it is simply an mp3 that will play on your computer, or Ipod, or any mp3 capable player.

Here's some links:

The Signal: http://signal.serenityfirefly.com/
FireflyTalk: http://fireflytalk.libsyn.com/

Download a couple of shows and give them a listen. Episode #23, the latest, of the Signal is a Holiday special, where they joke and have fun, but all the the episodes prior are the "normal" style that you'll see every episode.

I hope this helps!

J

---
Zoë: "Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing?"

Book: "Quite specific. It is however somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps"

FLORALBUNNY

Friday, December 15, 2006 4:03 AM

Welcome home, Jeff58! You're #24077 on our
shiny crew, I do believe.

No need to hogtie anyone for the conversion.
::-) Just allow the aroma to drift through the
air from the player. Like leaving a pan of fresh
cookies out and cooling. Patience, man, and
then the reward of enfolding new fans in big
browncoaty hugs.

I'll ask you up to the galley where you can have
some strawberries I just brought in. There's even
fresh whipped cream for them. Mudder's Milk is
there in plenty, and fresh bao, hot cheese, mangos!
Ice-planets are in the cooler, bottom shelf.

Please do not step on ShipsCat or into her dish.

And yes, spread the news of our 'Verse far and wide.

bun
~Bastards singed my turtle~

VERSEEXPLORER

Friday, December 15, 2006 5:35 AM

Welcome, Jeff58,
We're glad you found your way to FFF.net. We are a friendly group. If you ever need anything, just get on the Cortex and send us a wave. There is always someone around.

You have found the right place because we are as obsessed about Firefly as you are. The awesome part is that the actors and actresses from Firefly are as committed to the 'Verse as we are. Last weekend the Flanvention 2 was canceled, and the California Browncoats organized a Browncoat Backup Bash (BBB) with very little time. There were several of the actors and actresses that showed up with no pay. It was inspiring to read some of the threads from people that were there.

I don't know if you've picked it up yet or not, but the characters are called Big Damn Heros by Zoe at the end of "Safe," and that term has stuck. They are our BDHs, and when "Serenity" the movie came out, it became known as the BDM (Big Damn Movie). Our BDHs love the 'Verse as much as we do!

Help Spread the Word to Non Sci-Fi Fans
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=20&t=25063&m=412141#412141

JVP

Friday, December 15, 2006 5:39 AM

As a new browncoat like yourself, I gotta say this community, that is any browncoat community, is one of the best, nicest, and friendliest you'll meet in your whole life.

I've been at it for a few weeks myself, and have watched the series about three times so far... I put it off this week due to finals, and throughout my final exam this evening I kept on thinking about funny things in various episodes and resisting changing the entire topic of my essay to one of Firefly (which would be fun, well written, and likely result in a fail grade).

~
How's it sit? Pretty cunning, don't you think?

A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything.

That hat makes you look like an idiot.

RHAEGARTARGARYEN

Friday, December 15, 2006 6:27 AM

This whole thread entices me to smile broadly and often.

You're all so damned adorable!

My signature...Rhae.

EVILBUNGLE

Friday, December 15, 2006 9:34 AM

Hey, Welcome to the 'verse.

I wont bother repeating everyone else as we all feel the same and know the joy and sadness of finding something so much better than everything else and having it snatched away to soon.

one thing I would ask of you is to visit this site http://richlabonte.net/tvvote/index.html and vote for firefly as the best tv show, we have been trying to get it into number one spot for a few months and have gone from 7th to 3rd and are set to get 1st place some time next year (it sounds a long way off but we will triumph) you can vote once an hour

http://richlabonte.net/tvvote/index.html
Together we will triumph.

CANTER

Friday, December 15, 2006 3:24 PM

Welcome Jeff58!

Being a Browncoat is addictive. You'll watch the episodes at least a few times more this year. And then you'll start getting all agitated about there not being anymore. But you won't want to watch the episodes *every* day, so you'll start rationing yourself to two episodes a week. Ok maybe three.
Then you'll find that random lines of dialogue would start popping into your head. Like "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!!" whenever you see the FOX logo.
"Shiny!" will come up often.

Frustration will from now on be your constant companion. And when it gets too bad, you will come here and find other Browncoats and everything will be better.

When you can't run, you crawl, and when you can't crawl......well, you know the saying.

Big Damn Browncoat Vote http://richlabonte.net/tvvote/index.html

JEFF58

Friday, December 15, 2006 5:12 PM

Thanks all. It is so nice to find people who are just as obsessed about this as I am. What is it about this show?! We've esablished the writing is excellent, as is the cast, the music, the effects and the brilliant camera work. But there is something more I find difficult to put my finger on. These people have a quality that makes them seem as if you have always known them. They are real and likeable (yes, even Jayne). You instantly sympathize with them and want to know them. You feel every emotion they do (wow, does this sound strange). Again, this is the first time I have attached myself so completely to any show.

My older brother got me interested in science fiction when I was little. I ordered the DVD Series and movie for him yesterday. He told me he has never seen it.

Jeff

http://media-1.net/

SHINYED

Friday, December 15, 2006 5:36 PM

Hey Jeff58,

Welcome to this fan verse. I'm sort of new here myself...just joined this week, but been watching Firefly for about a year now.

I'm a few years older than you, so my sci-fi geekdom is well established...going way back to the fifties with Alfred Hitchcock, One Step Beyond, TZ, OL, all the Treks, Space 1999, UFO, etc etc etc. I feel just like you...Firefly is in a class all by itself...there's NEVER been writing like that for any show, never been adult wit & humor without political corectness like that show, and never, never had characters that you cared so much about....I mean honestly....the last TV characters I really cared about were Casseopia, Sheba, Boomer, Apollo, Starbuck, Athena, and the rest of the gang from the 1978 Battlestar Galactica 22 episode series.

Keep watching the shows...they NEVER get old..in fact they ALWAYS get better as you learn more of the 'verse, and all the amazing relationships these great actors portrayed so brilliantly....I especially am fixated with the Inara / Mal thing...she is so amazing in so many episodes...like I said just keep watching them!

Cheen jeen.

SHINYED

Friday, December 15, 2006 5:53 PM

Hi VerseExplorer,

I just wanted to tell you how much I love your little signature thing with Christina & Nathan doing their wedding night thing....one of the hottest scenes ever...and also one of the funniest.

I'm also a bit jealous, because as kind of an old fart who's a computer idiot, I wouldn't have a clue how you manage to create such a cool logo.

Sie-Sie,
Ed

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