Newbie in love with this show
POSTED BY: Cole23
UPDATED: Sunday, January 4, 2009 22:05
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Hi.After hearing about Firefly so often,I decided to check it out,and bought the complete series DVD.I've watched the first three episodes.That's it.I decided to take a break and check the show out on the net.This show is so fantastic.I'm not even a sci-fi guy.Hell,I'm not even a tv guy.In fact I mostly like classic directors like Sergio Leone,Pecinpah,Coppola etc.But this story is so unique and great that I can't understand how it didn't work out.I am truly losing faith in the taste of Americans.I'm going to savor these episodes and the movie.This series must be revisited at some point.People can't be this stupid.Anyway thanks for reading.I'm going to read some threads and educate myself on this great universe.
Actually Cole23 it isn’t beyond belief that some folks can be greedy, power mongers and pig headed. Which is what I’m thinking was the case at the network that will remain unnamed back in 2002. If the folks at the top, or near the top want a show to fail ( for whatever reason) then it will fail. This is the case with our beloved FF. They tied an anchor around it’s neck before giving it swimming lessons.
JMO, Z
Btw welcome!!
Mal, “ Shoot them, politely.”
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Welcome it's good to have you :)
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.
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Thanks,guys!OKay.I've got my favorite episode.War Stories.I've still got four more episodes to watch,but it just can't get any better.It's not possible.
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Well, good luck with the spoiler avoidance. Good thing it's close to Christmas!
One of the things that most impressed me about the fandom, was that with all the preview screenings that happened in the UK and the US, not one person I know blabbed anything to me before the film was released. (Apart from Evo on Wingin' It and The Signal punished him on air :-)
Seriously, you will enthralled. I daren't say anymore. Just remember, this *is* Joss Whedon we're talking about here!
Oh and there are links to all the Chinese translations elsewhere on this site (the English subtitles for the Chinese bits are not always correct my friend from Beijing informs me after I converted her. But she enjoyed both Firefly and Serenity hugely :-)
The Signal even ran a semi humourous How To Speak Chinese segment in season 1 all based on Firefly phrases which was very popular. "Explosive diarrhoea of an elephant" was always my favourite!
Nick
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Amazing restraint you show, Cole. I think we ripped through the whole series in about 15 hours straight. (We did take a coupla potty breaks, but that was about it.)
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Originally posted by Cole23:
Thanks,guys!OKay.I've got my favorite episode.War Stories.I've still got four more episodes to watch,but it just can't get any better.It's not possible.
Just be real careful about spoilers- they're in the gorram thread titles hereabouts!!! Don't go runnin' loose in here 'till you've finished & seen the movie, that's my say.
*Passes the Mudder's milk*
The welcoming Chrisisall
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Thanks for the advice.Yeah,the Christmas thing ain't happening.As soon as we watch these next four episodes and it arrives in the mail,it's getting watched.My willpower isn't that great.The reason it's taken this long to watch Firefly is because it's now become a family thing.Me and my wife have four boys and nobody wants anybody else to watch an episode without them.Haha.
I'll be very honest,I'm not ashamed of my newness.I really have no idea of what Josh Whedon is about.Well,I know he created this awesome show called Firefly,and I like him plenty for that.I've heard of Buffy but never watched it.A cheerleader fighting vampires doesn't sound like it would appeal to me,but seeing as this show is so great,I might check it out.
I work as a salesman for Pepsi and spend a good amount of time driving so I checked out some podcast.Very cool.I listened to a couple episodes of The Signal.Oh,excuse me,the award winning The Signal and I liked it very much.Again,I'm avoiding spoilers so i just listened to a couple of episodes going through and talking about the Serenity pilot.Very insightful.I'm going to listen to Firefly Talk tomorrow.
Someone recommend some books to me.Thanks guys.You've been very cool and helpful to a newbie.
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Someone recommend some books to me. Thanks guys.
There are more episodes of Firefly at "Virtual Firefly"
www.stillflying.net
There are 7 more episodes for Season 1 of Firefly and 21 episodes for Season 2.
Written in the format of scripts, the stories are very faithful to the continuity of the television series, but the writers aren’t afraid to act definitively by killin' villains. The movie is written into late episodes of season 2.
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If I were you, I'd seriously expose myself to nothing fan-related, except maybe JUST THIS THREAD (EDITED To Add: and the virtual FF as mentioned above my post) until I got to the end of Serenity, it's a field of spoiler land mines out there (and in here)- the less you know before the end of the BDM (Big Damn Movie), the better.
Enjoy.
And now, a word on Buffy:
It's an acquired taste, you have to give it at least a season and a half before it starts to gel in your head, after that it's as inescapable as sixty-second epoxy, all seven seasons. But then, Firefly was like that from the first episode.
The Slayer-fan-as-well Chrisisall
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Hey, COLE23 and again, welcome. If you don't already know about them, there are three very shiny official companion guides to the show. There's a volume one and two for Firefly the series, and one for the movie Serenity as well. I got all three off of Amazon for fairly decent prices. You might also check your local Borders or Barnes and Noble. The books all have some great cast pictures, info on all the props an' such, interviews with Joss Whedon, and most everyone else, and complete scripts for each episode along with translations for all the Mandarin/Chinese phrases. Hope this helps! Keep Flyin'.
"Preacher, you got a smutty mind." "Perhaps." "Maybehaps I'm thinkin'."
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