Firefly/Serenity...call out if they are as important to y'all now as ever!

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Thursday, March 27, 2008 18:00
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AKUKODOGO

Monday, March 24, 2008 12:27 AM

A warm and special place in my heart is reserved for FF.
To the point that I use it is an introduction to new people in my town. If they watch it I know they are living somewhere in a similar intellectual galaxy to moi.
I get the same warm fuzzy when I recommend it to folks and they email me with words of amazement that they didn't know about before now and what hole have they been living in to have had to wait so long to become friends with these characters.
Case in point: new couple to town were loaned the obligatory set and the wife said she wasn't too comfortable with sci-fi or westerns, the husband was happy to spend some time. A week later the wife is bursting with excitment and the husband, who enjoyed it, is shaking his head with the conversion to the verse.
I may not watch it all the time but I find I still look for ways to slip 'joss-speak' into the conversation.
I am revisiting Buffy - (up to season three again) and I can see the beginnings of the FF in some of the scenes, the conversations and the shots. eg, a scene of Giles walking out of shot in the library at the old Sunnydale High and the skylight looking just like the galley in the Serenity.
Firefly, a diamond of the first water.

Burn the spam, boil the tea....

ISROUSRO

Monday, March 24, 2008 12:40 AM

Trying to remember how to post pictures, maybe this will work.
Finally nice enough to clean the car and take a picture.
Hope it works.

passoniatetly indifferent

ISROUSRO

Monday, March 24, 2008 12:42 AM

Yes it worked, just have to make them a little smaller.
Sorry about jumping this thread.

passoniatetly indifferent

NCBROWNCOAT

Monday, March 24, 2008 12:50 AM

I'm watching other things too, but none have touched me like Firefly. I find that I'll still slip in a disc (especially #3) when I have some spare time "just because".

http://fireflyfaninnc.livejournal.com/

LOSTCAUSE1

Monday, March 24, 2008 12:55 AM

I think that being a Browncoat is almost a state of being, rather than just being a fan of a series. Most of us (if not all of us) own some sort of paraphernalia, like books, comics, music (Bedlam Bards, w000t!), bootleg Blue Sun t-shirts, etc. There is no other show or movie where I feel the same passion and love as I do for Firefly. Battlestar Galactica comes close, but what other series has fans that do showings for charity, make a their own documentary, or has a hero named Captain Tightpants? In many cases we are Browncoats just as much as we are human. I have a stronger belief in my Big Damn Heroes than I do in my own religion.

Hmm...Church of the Almighty Joss...sounds good.

www.stoodlemayer.com -- A Work in Progress.

AVENGINGWATCHER

Monday, March 24, 2008 1:09 AM

Firefly is the only television show that's important enough that I've had fights over it with my wife...those of you that are married understand. I don't watch the episodes as much anymore, but I still talk about it with all of my family and friends(many of whom are browncoats, trying to convert people to the ship o' serenity. I'm watching bsg right now and it's good, but it doesn't measure up to ff. FF is what sets the bar. Shindigs will keep going on...and the friendships last forever. Soon we will probably get picked back up in one shape or another, at least a movie and possibly a series but I foresee that taking at least 5 to ten years.

When there are no heroes where will we turn?

FAITHLOVESPURPLE

Monday, March 24, 2008 1:57 AM

I've been a fan since about April '06. I've actually never been too into scifi before, but for FF/Serenity, it doesn't really scream "scifi" for me...it screams other deeper things, like hope, humanity, freedom, etc. Mal speaks to me on so many different levels, because we all know we've gotten to points where we just lose it and yet there are always times where we feel like we belong, we've found our Serenity. Serenity is a home, and the characters in Firefly are ones you can't forget. There are also so many lines that you will never forget, and will probably keep quoting until you die.

Firefly was the first show that I felt--no, I NEEDED--to tell people about. It was like, if I didn't share this fantastic show I would feel like I was doing a disservice to everyone else. I had been a big fan of BtVS and Angel, but did I join their forum? No. As much as I loved those shows (and many others) this is one where, after I watched it, I *had* to be connected to it even more, look up things about it, etc. just so I could feel like it didn't really end. And the cast's love for the show, and their comradery, makes it that much more endearing and makes their chemistry so real.

I mean, really, I love this show so much that I wanna get Serenity (the ship) tattooed on me! It makes me smile everytime I see it. If that's not fandom love...I dunno what is!

Gee, thanks, now I wanna watch it AGAIN for the up-teenth time ;)

--Faith

"I can't get it right...get it right...since I met you."

SISTER

Monday, March 24, 2008 2:20 AM

It's more important to me than ever.

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Monday, March 24, 2008 3:39 AM

Hey, we're painting the exterior of our apartment house, for the money, supposed to have finished today to get paid, and only about 2/3 done, but the highlight of my day was the few minutes I stold to sit with my wife and watch the endings of Out of Gas and Objects In Space.

ROY

Monday, March 24, 2008 5:10 AM

Your only a Browncoat once, 'cause it stays for life.

I just know there'll be a Serenity II, its too good not to have a sequel.

Season 2 of Firefly anyone ? Direct to DVD would be good.

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I want my trilogy, and Season 2, and a plastic rocket...

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