Ran into a guy from Fox at the airport
POSTED BY: biggestdamnhero
UPDATED: Sunday, June 1, 2008 15:35
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One of you is gonna fall and die and I'm not cleaning it up.
I think we can all chill a little, there's obviously some shenanigans afoot. But a surprisingly good discussion came from it....
Suspicious Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
One of you is gonna fall and die and I'm not cleaning it up.
Suspicious Chrisisall
HA!
Sorry, I cannot abide people whose egos and stupidity threatens our chances of getting more Firefly.
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I am afraid I have to go along with FM on this one.
As always!
eta - sounds like we need a little milk and cookies in this here thread!
I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"
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Originally posted by BiggestDamnHero:
Frankly FollowMal, your a boob and you need some testicular fortitude enhancement!(I wanted to type something else)
You formed a fantasy in your tiny brains what happenned.
Hey get over it. Obviously you have no life outside a TV show?
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Originally posted by BiggestDamnHero:
FOLLOWMAL,
Just so you know after reading your response I agree with you. apologies. he stated who he was. I stated what I liked and showed displeasure with what his company did. I did not beliitle a total stranger. He was a nice guy, who tried to awe me with his credentials, which happenned to be FOX. Bad timing on his part. Oops sat next to a Firefly fan, darn! He moved after I told him I have basically boycotted Fox. He moved I didn't force him to. Hope we can still be browncoats together. No hard feelings just got out of hand defending myself. Hope you understand. Take care.
Paul
Paul, I'm not sure which of these posts to address, but I have to say my need to "chill" as Chris says ( hey, he said he wouldn't clean it up! ) inspires me to say one thing in humor to the first one and then answer the second one and then finish with a comment.
I don't have testicles, I'm a she. I don't usually gender differentiate, don't find it necessary, except this thought is humorous to me today for some reason and my employees would whistle and walk away and be worried for you.
Now on to what you said in reply to me...
thank you for that. I knew when I responded to this thread that what I had to say would likely make you feel attacked and I hoped good would come from it anyway. I wasn't attacking, just disagreeing and truly being bothered by the amount of people jumping on the f***k Fox bandwagon. That's dangerous for us now.
Nuff said.
There's lots of different ways to discuss things on a board, you can be sarcastic, caustic, trollish, kind, sincere and funny. I'm gonna go back to having fun now, having had my say. I hope you'll stick around, check out some Browncoat charities and groups and see what all we're doing, and I hope next time you meet up with a Fox exec you'll shake his hand heartily and thank him for FF and ask him for more sincerely.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
One of you is gonna fall and die and I'm not cleaning it up.
I think we can all chill a little, there's obviously some shenanigans afoot. But a surprisingly good discussion came from it....
Suspicious Chrisisall
Shenanigans? I like shenanigans...
Dianeorneryisall
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I am afraid I have to go along with FM on this one.
As always!
eta - sounds like we need a little milk and cookies in this here thread!
I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"
FORSAKEN original
Hey, since you're goin' along with me and all, can I have the Cap'n's 'coat back? I'll trade you this hat I got from Jayne, whatdya say?
ETA cookies...cuz we need 'em and because they are further inducement to give me back that gorramn 'coat!
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We're a diverse fandom. Not everyone is going to act the way you'd like. Personally if I meet a Fox exec I'll be taking the same action as BiggestDamnHero. I'm speaking my mind not trying to hide the way I really feel.
I also can't say that I really want to see more Firefly on Fox. They did enough the first time around. I'll take no Firefly over bad Firefly. I don't want the verse stained by a new series that gets manhandled by executives who think they know better than the producers. No thank you.
Do you really think Fox has changed so much since the days when Firefly was canceled? Drive got killed off pretty darn quickly if I recall. The Sarah Conner Chronicles barely survived and they have a huge established fanbase already.
I will be completely shocked if history doesn't repeat itself with Dollhouse. I'll be there to watch, but I think the best chance it has is to be another Tru Calling. Yay maybe we'll get half of a second season that doesn't even start to air before they decide to pull the plug.
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biggestdamnhero did something many of us (myself, especially!) have to be careful not to do:
He let out his inner Mal.
I understand completely the reflexive, gut reaction to his encounter with Mr. F*X Suit. I even cheered him on, mentally, as I read his anecdote. After all, Mal, his own self, tends to frequent Alliance bars on Unification day, and, he doesn't try to talk reason with the folks who cancelled his independence.
However, in the real world, we don't always have the option of indulging our inner BDH. My first thought was "This guy probably wasn't even in on the game of corporate musical chairs F*X plays, when Firefly was axed."
Granted, Mr. Suit still came up with the pat response, based either on what he thought he knew, or, a patronizing surmise, which earned him a sharp smack on the back of the brainpan. But, FollowMal was correct; this was an opportunity lost to present a better impression of the fandom to someone who might could influence an important decision, later.
I don't blame biggestdamnhero for what he did and said (except not keeping that business card). I do regret that he wasn't able to exploit the situation to OUR strategic advantage.
Hindsight is always 20/20. All this learning experience cost us was an opportunity lost. It may serve us all well in the future, should another such arise.
-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
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Originally posted by Raycheetah:
Hindsight is always 20/20. All this learning experience cost us was an opportunity lost. It may serve us all well in the future, should another such arise.
-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
The enjoyment of any good thing is only enhanced by sharing it with others.
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http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=30176
Hear hear!
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My Dearest Darling FollowMal-
Whilst I hold you in the higest affection and would follow you anywhere, I must regretfully decline your lovely invitation to trade my turnipy coat for your cunning hat. For you see, I can not be blamed if some dum dum gives me the wrong coat.....and the Captain does so love to watch me nekid pyre dance in nuthin but it.
Kisses and hugs
FMF
I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"
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This has been an interesting rollercoaster ride. To tell the truth, if the guy is hanging around the airport bar and not the VIP lounge, it's likely that he is a middle manager in a cube farm with little to say about what Fox does.
TO be sure, when he got back to the mother ship, he'll a story to tell all the other middle managers about how life was unfair, he was just doing his job, etc....
The interesting thing is the excitement this caused. There is still a lot of fire and enthuiasm out in the Verse. Back in the day when I was a young Star Trek fan (TOS) and they cancelled that series for similar reasons, what brought back the movies (some good, some bad), spin off series and a whole bunch of conventions was that fire and excitement. Paramount figured out that there were a lot of intense people out there that wanted a product they could produce. They finally made a good decision.
We can follow that example. The initiator of this post handled it differently than I would have. I am glad he spoke up, other folks might have just let it pass. I hope I and others get the chance to speak up too. I hope Fox is smarter than Paramount and move quicker, but if not, we don't have to let it get us down. We'll out last them!
As one combat vet to another, first, thanks for serving. Secondly, remember that those that have served in combat see things with a different viewpoint. The one of the reasons we (or at least I) did it is so that differing viewpoints can be heard.
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