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What does the future hold for Firefly fandom?

POSTED BY: Haken
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HAKEN

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 7:14 PM

Just passing this along. Anyone care to comment? I'll have him look at this thread.

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I'm writing an article for SpaceWesterns.com and I was wondering if someone at FIREFLYFANS.net would mind providing a sound bite?

Would you be able to answer: What does the future hold for Firefly fandom?

cordially,
Nathan E. Lilly

ZEEK

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 8:09 PM

Pain. Long drawn out pain.

TWO

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 10:05 PM

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Originally posted by Zeek:
Pain. Long drawn out pain.

Don't despair until Serenity loses airspeed, altitude and ideas, all at the same time. In the future:

May 25, 2010 "Firefly: Still Flying" will be released www.amazon.com/gp/product/1848565062

At "Still Flying", there are 7 Scripts for season 1 of Firefly and 22 Scripts for season 2 www.stillflying.net/?page=seasons

There are twelve scripts for a "Virtual Season Two" of Firefly www.firefly-tvs.com/guide.htm

June 2, 2010 from Dark Horse Comics there's "Serenity: Float Out" http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/17-004/Serenity-Float-Out-Jo-Chen-Cove
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There is the International (not just USA) based Serenity Firefly podcast, "The Signal" www.serenityfirefly.com

There is the UK based podcast "Sending A Wave" http://sendingawave.wordpress.com/

Firefly Talk http://fireflytalk.libsyn.com/
Winner of the 2007 People's Choice Podcast Awards for "Best Produced" and "Best Movies/Film Podcast".

September 4, 2010 "Browncoats: Redemption" release date for the DVD at Dragon*Con http://browncoatsmovie.com/?p=319

November, 2010 from Dark Horse Comics there's "Serenity: A Shepherd’s Tale" http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=25133

QMX has Firefly toys, Atlas, Maps, Firefly Models, Mal Reynolds Pistols, etc. www.fireflyshipworks.com/

https://store.quantummechanix.com/Firefly-and-Serenity_c_1.html

... and Reaver ships and Serenity lunchboxes and Zippo lighters at www.darkhorse.com/Search/serenity

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

RAHLMACLAREN

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 10:14 PM

More and longer bouts (is that a word?) of depression between viewings of the series and movie.

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Find here the Serenity you seek. -Tara Maclay

BYTEMITE

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 10:15 PM

I'm assuming Zeek is taking the historic perspective here.

I'd say what the future holds for our fandom depends largely on whether something happens with the apparent deadlock between Universal Studios and Fox Television over new types of franchise material after 2012, when Fox no longer owns the rights to Firefly. I'm hoping the answer is lots!

Video game, cartoon, live action, maybe even a reboot, if that's the only way we can have more. Though I think I'd like a cartoon voiced by our favourite actors more than a reboot, but if there's no other options, I'm sure I could love that too.

Meanwhile, the fandom numbers will continue to grow via recommendations, and firefly fans will have two new comic books coming out sometime in the next two years.

GWEK

Thursday, March 11, 2010 2:27 PM

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At "Still Flying", there are 7 Scripts for season 1 of Firefly and 22 Scripts for season 2 www.stillflying.net/?page=seasons

Thanks for including us! We're going to be giving you guys the start of Season Three later this year.

www.stillflying.net: "Here's how it might have been..."

REENACT12321

Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:24 AM

I think the answer is simple. Keep flying.

Keep telling your friends. Try to get people together to watch the movie and (for all you Fox representatives) Get them to BUY and not share the season DVD's or anything like that lol

Attend the conventions, and if we can keep Joss from letting the dream die. He's been beaten up at every turn lately with Dollhouse, and I'm sure keep encouraging the entire effort. Joss is Boss.

OLDGUY

Saturday, March 13, 2010 9:29 AM

this thread speaks for itself in one important way...IT'S NOT JUST TELEVISION ANYMORE!!

execs at Fox and all the other channel dwellers best be waking up and realize that the entertainment industry is growing far beyond their domain. It used to be that parents worried that their kids spent 8 times as many hours in front of the boob toob as they spent with their family...now kids are spending 12 times as many hours inside Halo as they do in front of traditional broadcast programming.

Someone like Joss and the many talents that exist in his universe will adapt their creations to this new world. I mentioned in the "what sci-fi show would make a good vid game thread" that Joss could create story line premise, run actual footage of our favorite crew and verse and let the foundation of the video game take on a life of it's own with cloud players engaging the verse...buying their own ships or staking claim in some lil moon...interacting in some cases with only hear-say about a firefly class rogue ship...in other cases actually meeting and interacting live online...it's the greatest role play (sorry..RPG) yet to be!...and the result is a product/story greater than any 40 min script offered up in a weekly timeslot.
money to be made with market vendors learning how to impose their products into the verse..figure out ways for players to earn/spend those pirateering credits on real bottles of pepsi and a pair of Red Dot sneakers (run faster jump higher..)
Developers of new movie SFX will love having this venue to create and test long before taking things to the big screen and when things do go to theater...the fan base will be beyond rabid!

There's a whole brave new world out there..waaaay larger than any one television season and when it comes...Foxx and other execs are gonna find themselves sittin in the dark.

SIGMANUNKI

Saturday, March 13, 2010 9:59 AM

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Would you be able to answer: What does the future hold for Firefly fandom?

Well, since the FOX/Universal deadlock isn't likely to go away any time soon, nothing, unless fans actually start doing something and FOX/Universal don't kill it. There's Redemption around the corner, and some announced comics (for those that like that kind of thing) but other than that, pretty much nothing.

In other words, we either become self-sustaining, or die. There really isn't any inbetween.

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I am on The Original List (twice). We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"

GWEK

Saturday, March 13, 2010 1:52 PM

We've been self-sustaining pretty much since 2002. Why should that change now?

And why the dig at comics? Most of the SERENITY comics have been written by the same folk who wrote the show. They read just like "lost episodes." Given that many of the cast members have moved on to other projects, it seems to be that a medium like comics or novels is the only way that story of the crew of Serenity will continue in the near future.

www.stillflying.net: "Here's how it might have been..."