spreading the word to more people

POSTED BY: stillson
UPDATED: Saturday, January 24, 2009 10:45
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STILLSON

Thursday, January 22, 2009 4:52 PM

I would like to see Joss Whedon tell his Firefly story. I suspect he will do this in comics for eventually. Dark Horse would make plenty of profit off of that to make it worth doing for them. And Joss wants to tell the story.

But I think we all have a greater vision for that, and I think that vision is video. TV, Movie, or Internet video (like Dr Horrible.) I think I might even settle for a radio series.

But, the 'verse is a complicated place and it helps if people understand what is happening a bit before they jump in. A lot of people. We don't need more browncoats, although they are surely welcome. We need regular people to understand what's happening if Joss is to get the money to continue.

So, my real point: We now have the tool to introduce everyone to the 'verse for free;

The whole series, like on DVD. A little fuzzy, but still engrossing, still great television. I think we need something like:

Watch the best TV show that didn't make it:

And maybe a simple website to explain what happened, point to some good boards, explain about the BDM, etc.

Our best hope is to spread the word to more people. The studio doesn't care about making a little money off of us. They want to make a lot of money off of everyone. So let's try and give them everyone.

FIREFLYPASSENGER

Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:10 PM

www.bigdamnboard.com is a web directory for all sites Firefly related.

www.browncoats.com

This site is great for explaining who we are.

STILLSON

Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:18 PM

I think we need to create an even simpler website. We need to make it easy for people to figure out what is going on and get involved if they want to.

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YINYANG

Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:47 PM

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We now have the tool to introduce everyone to the 'verse for free

Well, not quite everyone. Hulu is only available for Americans, I do believe.

Edit: But if you'd like to make a website, there's always Freewebs.

http://www.webs.com

STILLSON

Friday, January 23, 2009 12:27 AM

I forgot about that, but it's a start. Hopefully the fox overlords will release it to the rest of the world at some point.

I was hoping more for a new domain

learnallaboutfirefly.net or something. Mostly static content, friendly. Short easy to remember domain name.

The main point is to make firefly as ubiquitous as star trek. to make people understand reavers as quickly as they understand klingons.

More browncoats, while great, are not going to get us another movie. We need a more complete cultural understanding. We need regular people to get it. That will get us more browncoats, but it will also make it easier to pitch a new project based around firefly.

It's annoying that we have to do the studio's work for them, but we want more firefly and we need to think logically about how to get it.

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Shiny!

SIGMANUNKI

Friday, January 23, 2009 12:41 AM

Um, what makes you think that people are going to go out of there way to read a website when they aren't really willing to sit on there ass doing nothing but watching it? And if they aren't interested after watching it, what's a website going to do to change there minds?

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STILLSON

Friday, January 23, 2009 12:52 AM

The website is for after they see firefly. I think that some of them will want to read it after seeing firefly. For the same reason that we all ended up here.

The website is a secondary point, to give people somewhere to go after Firefly affects them. To make things a little easier. I don't think we need more websites for browncoats. I think we need one that gives you all the info you need to become a browncoat.

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Shiny!

STILLSON

Friday, January 23, 2009 1:40 AM

The thing is, this is not a short term plan. I'm not talking about a plan to get Firefly back this year, or even next.

I don't know if this is the forum to bring this up. I don't know if the forum exists. I just know that we need to encourage the world to see this so that there is a chance that it can continue.

It's great to have a social site full of people who like Firefly. I was just hoping that some people might be open to trying something. I don't expect it to happen overnight. It might not work at all. But you have to try.

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Shiny!

YINYANG

Friday, January 23, 2009 1:52 AM

You're new in town, so I'm going to be nice: however social this site appears, a lot of us are active in some way in spreading the word. And, there are people here who campaigned after the show ended (I'm not one of them) that helped lead to Universal making the movie. So saying things like

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It's great to have a social site full of people who like Firefly. I was just hoping that some people might be open to trying something. I don't expect it to happen overnight. It might not work at all. But you have to try.

comes off as insulting.

We have done, not just tried. Some of us still are doing, still active in whatever capacity we can be, whether it's watching shows that the actors are in or Joss is a part of (like Dollhouse), loaning the DVDs out to friends, or buying (official) Firefly and Serenity merchandise. We have a good idea of what works and what doesn't. Sigmanunki isn't being critical of your idea to be mean, but because he's been around for a long time, and seen many of these types of ideas come and go.

STILLSON

Friday, January 23, 2009 1:57 AM

I had no intention of insulting anyone. I just had an idea, and got excited about it.

Is there a central group working on these things, or a general consensus? I'm completely up for working with other people. I'm even up for my idea being shot down with good reasons. I just want to do something, you know?

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