Newbie in love with this show

POSTED BY: Cole23
UPDATED: Sunday, January 4, 2009 22:05
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Howdy Cole,I'm a realatively new recruit here meself. I'd seen Serenity a coupla years ago, but just discovered Firefly in the last few months. I'm only just now beginning to look at the fanfics, podcasts, and other shiny stuff out here.

A (lot of)word(s) regarding withdrawal: The show ended, as most good cancelled shows do, with me thinking "great, but what happens next?" The movie helps, but not enough. So in the last few weeks I've been rewatching the shows in pretty much random order. I discovered a few days ago that the episode that brought the most closure (I guess you could call it) for me was Out of Gas. It's the one episode where a shared threat brings the whole crew together, more or less. This time, it's Wash rather than Zoe who must balance duty to captain and duty to spouse. Mal and Inara are closer than they've ever been, and I think Simon goes the whole episode without saying something supremely awkward to Kaylee. The flashbacks show more of Serenity's history than any other episode, and they bring to light every crewmembers motivation for being on board.

But it's the ending that does it for me. The scene in the infirmary, with Mal asking if everyone will still be there, brings me a great sense of hope. That scene, together with the final flashback of Mal's introduction to Serenity, always leaves me with a very good feeling, that the characters didn't end just because the show did; they're all Still Flying. We just can't look in on them like we used to.

Anyway, that was my impression.

Mercy is the mark of a great man.
Guess I'm just a good man.
Well, I'm alright.

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Wow,great post.i think I'll go watch Out of Gas again.

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Ni Hao again , Cole23 !

Here's a little treat for you ; it's classic , and the price is right...

It's a song by Michelle Dockrey , known as 'Vixy' on the boards , and it's been set to a background collage of scenes from Firefly...


It's " Mal's Song " :

There are various vids of it , plus an mp3 that can also be found...But it's also on the DoneTheImpossible Soundtrack...

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That is awesome!Thanks.Great voice.

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Hey yall I'm a newb to Firefly as well... I kinda feel a little bit bad cause I wasnt around when it started heh... But hey better late than never I suppose. I'm just trying to meet some fellow browncoats out there... and maybe get a little bit of family to talk to me. anyways... I'm just glad to be here and glad people have my same obssesion/passion with this series and the movie.

"I think we'll rise again!" Malcome Reynolds

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What's up!So how'd you find Firefly?

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Ni Hao , then ! Hey Mirroden...

Happy to see all the new folk getting aboard !

Make yourself to home , tell us your interesting story , and bring us a little Love to keep 'er in the air...

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Well to be honest I saw Serenity first around my birthday last year... fell in love with Mal, Wash and Jayne. Then I watched it over and over and over... Found out about the Comic and started reading... then just a few months ago I found out about the Firefly episodes. Watched them all back to back... then again.... and again... and just today I finished again lol. My story goes pretty much like that allthough last month I stumbled accrosed a region in my game, Second Life... www.secondlife.com, where I happened to find a serenity RP... I when totally ballistic and joined up immediately. I currently serve aboard a smaller firefly called the Sun Dog.

The RP is awesome and they allready have several edicated regions for it. Second Life is pretty much a place where you can do anything you want. Im currently apart of a Final Fantasy 7 RP there as well, was formerly apart of a Vampire RP but that didnt work for me. But if you can dream it in 1st life... you can DO it in your 2nd. Wich is why I'd be more than happy if some of yall made your way over to take a look at it and see what you think.

The current regions they have are: Hale's Moon, Weishorn, Weishorn's "Washburn" AKA Washtown, Blackurn, Presidio, and about 4 others I've yet to visit. They sell ships there: Alliance, Independant, Reaver, and civillian. Weapons as well...

My screen name on SL is Mirroden Zessinthal if any of you are interested look me up and talk to me! Or if you dont want to talk to me you can always search for Firefly RP in the SL clients search bar. I hope to see some of you there!

You cant take the sky from me!

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There is an even better version of Mal's Song on Vixy and Tony's new album Thirteen. (Google them)

We played it on ep 21 of S4 of The Signal recently and if you think the solo version was good, you 'aint heard nothing yet!

(The original version of Mals Song appeared in ep 7 I think of Season 1 of The Signal back in 2005)

This also appears on the *free* Firefilk Album, Songs From The Black available here:

http://signal.serenityfirefly.com/shownotes.php?e=2240

This includes links to hi res versions of all 18 songs and CD artwork which works really well and is worth the bother of making up a hard copy. Use photographic paper and it looks great.

We originally released this as the Christmas bonus episode at the end of Season 2 of The Signal in 2006.

We try to include some Firefly related music in every show. This has on occassion included previously unreleased stuff by Firefly composer Greg Edmondson and by Serenity composer David Newman who both kindly gave us permission.

And yes, plans are afoot for a SFTB II at some point.

There is a large amount of great Firefly filk music (hence Firefilk) out there. Check out the Firefilk Yahoo group for example.

Plus you may get a different sounding surprise by listening to the Signal's feed in the next week or so :-)

Nick

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Thanks for this thread, Cole23. I've enjoyed reading your posts. It brings back all my memories of when I first watched Firefly. Welcome to FFF.net. Now that you've watched everything you can explore the site.

Mirroden, welcome to you, too.

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