When did you know you were obsessed?

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UPDATED: Saturday, May 8, 2004 17:18
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HOWDYROCKERBABY1

Monday, May 3, 2004 4:44 PM

When did you realize that you were completely and totally obsessed with Firefly?

I really loved the show when it was on the air, then when it stopped i was sad for a while, but hadn't really gone into mourning. Then in March of this year, my sister came to visit with a birthday present. It was in an Amazon box, i was able to life up the flap just enough to see the beginning F in Firefly and i totally freaked. I like started ripping at the box like a wild animal trying to get the box open so i could see my shiny and new boxed set...thats when i knew i was hooked.

so what about you?

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"Here's to Jayne, the box dropping man-ape-gone-wrong-thing"
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BIBSY

Monday, May 3, 2004 4:58 PM

I knew I was obsessed when "shiny" crept its way into my everyday vocab.

"Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?"

EST120

Monday, May 3, 2004 5:03 PM

Firefly is exactly the type of science fiction I have usually be drawn to. Well written and more character driven with just enough space based action and battles to keep the testosterone side of me happy. Thus, I would say I was obsessed from the first episode I ever saw which was Out of Gas.

LOST

Monday, May 3, 2004 5:05 PM

When I typed into google for the first time "fanfic firefly".

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Hey, I've been in a firefight before! Well, I was in a fire... Actually, I was fired from a fry-cook opportunity.

JOHNCLARK

Monday, May 3, 2004 5:17 PM

I guess I knew when I got the DVD set and watched it twice in one week - and then started using lines immediately

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Experience has taught me that interest begets expectation, and expectation begets disappointment, so the key to avoiding disappointment is to avoid interest. A=B=C=A, or whatever

LALLI

Monday, May 3, 2004 5:34 PM

I'm not really obsessed with Firefly. It's a great show, and had it lived longer, it would have pretty certainly conquered the hearts of people all around the world, but it's still just a show. I like it much and it's THE best scifi-show I've seen, but it's still only a scifishow that lived one brief, brief season. Like all good shows, it has (and will) stay in my head twisting, circling and growing in size and complexity long after the show has ended (it's about halfway through here in Finland) and everytime I think about it I feel a little bit sad for the stupidity of mankind for letting a show like that to end prematurely, but it's still only a show. So, once more, I LIKE IT BUT I'M NOT REALLY OBSESSED WITH IT.

LIZ

Monday, May 3, 2004 5:41 PM

so that would be that you don't know you're obsessed yet?

I knew when i called my dad long distance to tell him that the next time i come down to visit (in a few months) I would bring home this DVD he would love. at the time my boyfriend and i were about half-way through the series and were metering them out -- only 1 or 2 at a time. ah the good old days when there werew still episodes i hadn't seen... ::::

MAYDAY

Monday, May 3, 2004 5:57 PM

Like howdyrockerbaby said, the first sign is when shiny creeps into your everyday vocabulary, then comes the humming or "Ballad of Serenity" or "Hero of Canton", next thing you know you call the girl you've got a crush on "Xiou Mei Mei" (Still havent told her what it means, I'm building up to it...).

The final stages of obsession involve swearing in mandarin ("Ta ma duh" - Motherhumper, "Go-se" - Dog Crap and "Liou coe shuai du biao-tze huh hoe-tze duh ur-tze" - Salivating son of a bitch and a monkey!), you boss at work a "Purple-Belly" and playing with dinosaurs.

Chinese translations curtesy of this post: http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=14&t=1883

Ally.

Jayne:> Don't know these folk and don't much care to neither...
Mal:> They're whores.
Jayne:> I'm in!

DELIA

Monday, May 3, 2004 6:04 PM

Pretty early on. I knew I liked it pretty quickly. My then-roommate and I had seen promos during FX Buffy reruns and thought we'd watch it once or twice. I was out of town that Friday, but should have been back in time, but there was a traffic stopping accident on the New Jersey Turnpike and I went back to my grandparents' house. When I called her to let her know that I'd be back Saturday instead, I mentioned as an afterthought, "Hey, tape Firefly if you remember to." Watched The Train Job six times before Bushwhacked aired, and was quoting within a month.

Knew I loved it after Our Mrs. Reynolds, on the theatre line. We missed the rest of the scene, I was laughing so hard (and I agree with Book, there ought to be servere penalties for that sort of thing -- and don't get me started on cell phones!)

But I knew I was OBSESSED when I started mailing please-don't-cancel-my-show notes, something I never did before and have only done once since, for Angel.

BROWNCOAT1

Monday, May 3, 2004 6:12 PM

I knew I was hooked after Our Mrs Reynolds aired. I could not wait for the next episode.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

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