When did you know you were obsessed?
POSTED BY: howdyrockerbaby1
UPDATED: Saturday, May 8, 2004 17:18
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Originally posted by empressPirk:
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
So the first episode of FF was Train Job? Meaning that I never missed "Serenity"? Phew. That's a relief. Do you happen to know if they're going to show the pilot at all?
When I first saw the series commercial I thought that it was some sort of kids' show, something like "hippy starwars meets hardy boys meets some childsh western". And it really didn't help that it was on the air on midnight. A lot of perfectly normal show aimed at kids/teens come out on Wensday/Thursday midnight at some point of their lifes. Family Guy, King of The Hill, Simpsons, South Park, Futurama, you name it and they'll put there. So, naturally, the first episode I saw was nothing I expected it to be:
*Oh, golly wee gosh, it's some sort of abandoned spaceship floating around! And it seems to be a colony ship, which basically means it's worth its weight in gold! Gee, I really hope we won't be finding any survivors*wink*, right Jayne *wink* *wink*? ( at this point I was thinking "What sort of twisted Hardy Boys is this?")
*They're Reavers, spacemen gone mad in the depths of space. They spend their time looming in space, killing, raping, torturing and eating their victims and after that skinning and building obscure monument
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Originally posted by Lalli:
So the first episode of FF was Train Job? Meaning that I never missed "Serenity"? Phew. That's a relief. Do you happen to know if they're going to show the pilot at all?
I'm now convinced that due to the unique logicality of the maincharacters Firefly is the best show currently on finnish TV, even better than W-Style.
The Objects in Space is on tonight. On the 12th and 19th they'll show Serenity in two parts. The US unaired trio follows those and then we're done.
No suprise I agree with you it's the best thing on TV. Not there aren't other watchable, entertaining shows. They just pale in comparison with Firefly. I'd like to comment on W-style but I haven't watched it. LOL though.
"Also, I can kill you with my brain."
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Originally posted by annik:
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
I have dreams like that all the time, except i'm not chiding simon about his tie, i'm usually taking it off of him!
now i've said too much! *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Here's to Jayne, the box dropping man-ape-gone-wrong-thing"
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Originally posted by howdyrockerbaby1:Quote:
Originally posted by annik:
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
I have dreams like that all the time, except i'm not chiding simon about his tie, i'm usually taking it off of him!
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"Here's to Jayne, the box dropping man-ape-gone-wrong-thing"
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LOL! Well, I write erotica (posted at http://www.literotica.com under the name Annik Ghoti) but to be honest, I'm not quite ready to do anything like that with these characters -- they're too complex for anything simplistic (as in: simplistic relationships), and I haven't had overmuch time to think on the possibilities.
Storyline suggestions are always welcome, of course.
Cheers,
Annik
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Originally posted by empressPirk:
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.
lol
"you're my kind of stupid"!!
"They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger."
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i can't believe i'm telling you all this. i had a dream about adam.
i was exposed to the mumps so i couldn't go home because my dad never had the mumps (dad died in '84) so i was staying at friends and adam was there. there was a bunch of us sitting and talking in the living room, about 6 of us crowded on the couch, including me & adam. we were holding hands. :-) i can still remember how his hand felt, all smooth and rough at the same time. anyway something happen that i now don't remember, but then i was standing at the kitchen counter messing around in my purse and adam walks up and asks what i'm doing and i say i am getting ready to go to work. he says he has to go to work too (and somehow i already knew he was a truck driver) and with a sly devilish smile also says he didn't mind if he was a few minutes late. i said "a few minutes??!!", laughed outrageously and gorram it,woke up.
now i'm so embarrassed.
"They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger."
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I think I became obsessed after seeing Out of Gas, which was the first full episode I saw. I didn't realize I was obsessed until my vcr ate my tape with Serenity and Shindig on it, rendering it unwatchable, and almost making me cry (this was a good six months before the DVDs were released).
Of course, my constant ranting about Fox may also have been a sign
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when I first caught about half an hour of it at a buddy's house. When I heard about the boxed set, I bought it. I just finished watchin the last of it, AWESOME. And they cancelled this??? What were they thinking? This is on par with Star Trek, no, better, much better...
Alas, only 4 DVD's, sad, very sad... please do more! i'm hooked...
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When I couldn't get the theme out of my head, and I was annoyed I couldn't watch the eps again cos I'd lent them to someone else.
I want them back, gorram it!
Mal: "We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so... very... pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die."
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I knew she was obsessed when our 30 year friendship was placed in jeapordy over my refusal to immediately go out and purchase the series DVD!
Hopefully she has forgiven me and we can get back to normal and regain the comfort of having a pure friendship and knowing that we can and always be there for one another any time the other needs it.
Much love.
SPiT
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