When did you know you were obsessed?

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SIOUX

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 3:55 AM

I knew I was obsessed when I bought Season One of Farscape for something new to watch (never saw it before). I watched 5 episodes and then put Firefly back into the DVD player.

GUNHAND

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 3:59 AM

I think I realised I was obsessed when I sat and watched certain bits of the DVDs over and over for 'Verse background, sat down with a copy of my old Star Wars Roleplaying 2nd Edition: Revised and Expanded (the WEG D6 one not that WOtC d20 stuff) and over the course of a weekend basically rewrote the whole gorram book so it was Firefly instead of Star Wars.

Then I had a couple friends over to Convert, they watched Disk 1 and then said,"Ya know it'd be cool if there was a RPG based on Firefly." Threw them the binders and said,"Start reading, I'll go get the beer..." Since I've known them since college and that's one of the things we used to do, the trap was soooo easy to pull off.

Yeah that could be considered obsessive by some.

~-~-~-~-~-~-~-
"Oh hey, I got an idea. Instead of us hanging
around playing art critic till I get pinched by
the Man, how's about we move away from this
eerie-ass piece of work and get on with our
increasingly eerie-ass day, how's that?"

My eerie-ass website:
http://gunhandsfirefly.homestead.com/Index.html

BADGERS1

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 4:24 AM

Hey, I've been looking on this site for as long as I can remember, first time doing one of these posts.
Surprisingly, by the commercials before it even aired, I knew I was gonna watch it, it had that effect on me. But I missed the Train Job, not even knowing that episode existed (shame on me) and watched the second Episode,after then I knew it was my show. And then after that I was quoting it and falling deeper into heaven.But the canceling of it made me appeciate it even more...so I guess thats really obsessed.

NEROLI

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 5:38 AM

Well, I should have known I was obsessed when I would watch whatever had pre-empted it just so I wouldn't miss it, or when I went into a deep depression after learning it had been canceled, or after typing Firefly in at work idly one day to see if there was a soundtrack only to find it was coming out on DVD (I work in a CD store) and let out a WHOOP that still has my co-workers ears ringing, or when I first saw it in the store, broke as could be and I still couldn't put it down...the person I was with literally had to pry it out of my hands, or when I bought it with the next paycheck before I paid any of my bills, or when I started re-watching them the day after I finished watching the DVD's for the first time, or when I started reading every fanfic I could find, which I had never done before, but no...I didn't realize I was obsessed till I started writing my own fanfics.

What can I say, I'm a little slow on the uptake.

DARKARCHON

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 7:25 AM

Pretty much watched it from the beginning but I signed on the dotted line after 'Shindig'. When Mal/Nathen delivered his "...I'm alright." line after his duel with Atherton I was rolling and knew Firefly was a winner. So, naturally because I liked it, I figured it wasn't long for the world. The mentally challenged execs at Fox did not prove me wrong. After that I just hoped it would eventually make it to DVD as so many short lived shows have. Then, one day, a friend of mine calls me at work and tells me the box set has been released. The next day I bought it and watched nearly all of it in one sitting. I did not want it to end all over again. DAMN FOX FOREVER!

"...the special Hell."

LTNOWIS

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 12:26 PM

I was obsessed after the first couple episodes I saw, having missed the 1st one, and many more after that. I didn't realize I was obsessed until after Serenity aired. Then I was thinking "Damn, I can't wait for the next episode!"
Fox
Edited to say: There's at least one previous board on the same topic.

EMPRESSPIRK

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 4:51 PM

I'm still waiting for my DVD set but I'm already obsessed and my obsession presents itself like this:

By the way, special greetings to my fellow finn out there. Nice to know I'm not the only one here.

So Firefly airs here around midnight and although I started watching with good intentions I dozed off during TTJ, Bushwacked, Our Ms.R and OoG. Each time I felt annoyed with myself but since I didn't really know what I was missing I got over it. I never really thought about giving up though and sat in front of tv again next week. Why that is I don't know but thank god I didn't give up.

I managed to stay awake with Shindig, had good sense to tape Jaynestown and by the end of Safe I was hooked. After that I downloaded the episodes I partially slept through but before watching them I read the transcripts of almost all the episodes in a kind of state of awe and horror. Awe as how good they really were and horror as the thought of that this was it starded to dawn on me. So that's kinda obsessive behavior, right, loving Firefly on paper?

I'd also like to point out that they show Firefly here in FOX order and my experience can be added as further proof of the brilliance of the decision to air The Train Job as the pilot. I don't know if seeing Serenity first would have made me fall for Firefly but... I guess none of us will ever know what difference another decision on FOX's part would have made.

I've also been on this site pretty much every day since I saw Safe, not posting much but reading stuff. But what I think is the most ridiculous aspect of my obsessiveness is the fact that I've read about half of the now 856 Amazon reviews on Firefly DVD set. Not that I needed any help on deciding to buy it, I just like people praising it.

I consider myself lucky for discovering Firefly after the movie had already been green-lighted. The thought of a movie is such a comfort. The feeling I got after realizing that these 15 hours were everything there was of this series was such utter sadness and horror I can't even imagine what those of you who fell in love with Firefly when it aired on FOX and got to witness the network abuse and then the cancellation went through last year. I mean not knowing there was going to be a movie.

As far as using “shiny” etc. and Chinese swearing in normal conversation not so much yet but I’m getting there I guess. I have how ever annoyed fellow players at Isketch.net by using shiny, gorram and such in my comments there. We get to see the episodes with subtitles and they translate the Chinese stuff too which adds my amusement because it tends to differ slightly from the English translations given here. The fact that I’m able to spot the difference might be an obsessive sign too.

"Then I fell. My head got hurt like Wash." -INARA

CAPTAINCERENTZ

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 4:59 PM

eh...

I never saw the show even once when it was on the air. However, I did see it for rent at my local video rental place...

Several weeks passed and I saw a few glowing reviews here and there on some sites that I frequent and one thing lead to another and I rented the first disk...

Within ten minutes of the opening credits... I was so hooked that there was nothing that would stop me from seeing the remainder of the episodes.

My obsession began very quickly.

WYDRAZ

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 8:43 PM

It snuck up on me, real slow like. I'm not sure when I crossed the line.

Originally I had a vague memory of having caught part of an episode, and then never catching another. I hadn't realized it was cancelled until late last year, when I looked the show up on google, because for some reason the name stuck with me, even if I couldn't remember the show, really. I downloaded a few episodes, and even with the graininy video I had realized I missed something very special.

It wasn't long before I found the DVDs were coming out, and the reviews guaranteed my purchase. When I got the set, I spent a weekend watching all the episodes, then the DVD extras, then the episodes again with the commentaries.

I immediately bought another DVD set for my friends.

But the clincher for me was when I read the script for the episode that was never shot, and a few weeks later I was reminded of a scene in it. I went through the DVDs again trying to find the episode with that scene! I later realized my memory of that scene was a complete fabrication, based on the script I read. Obsession complete.

ANNIK

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 8:55 PM

Ah, well ... I knew I was really and truly obsessed after waking up from one of those so-real-you-think-you're-there types of dreams ... a dream in which I was chiding Simon over the incorrect choice of tie for the type of collar he was wearing.

I know less than nothing about ties, shirt collars and the like, but it all made sense at the time.

Cheers,
Annik

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