I finally converted someone.
POSTED BY: christhecynic
UPDATED: Thursday, June 2, 2005 22:12
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Haaa.. I had *great* fun this past week. I converted my GRANDMOTHER. How awesome is that? We averaged 3 episodes a night when I came home from school. By "Bushwacked" she was asking incrediously why it was cancelled (and then decided as we continued viewing the episodes because of hte glorifying Inara's role as Companion and the raunchy sex jokes and innuendos {which didn't keep her from giggling, though, heh)).
I've converted one friend and I'm working on a campaign this summer to bring Firefly to my friends home theaters. *nods*
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I bow down before all of your superior converting skills!
extremely dimensionally transcendental
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Originally posted by Emma:
I bow down before all of your superior converting skills!
extremely dimensionally transcendental
Personally, I don't think it has anything to do with skill. Firefly just has a way of selling itself to anybody willing to take 10 minutes to sit down and watch it.
(Of course, that 10 minutes turns into 20... 50... 2 hours... 6 hours... etc.....)
Captain Pete
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Congrats,Chris. Good to hear there's one more fan added to the list. Curiously, I've had a less than stellar time in recruitment myself. 2 Buffy/Angel fans I thought would be a shoe in, but barely got either of them to finish watching the whole DVD set. One just 'couldn't get into it', what ever that's suppose to mean. The other said she 'liked it', but didn't elaborate too much. It wasn't untill the trailer came out online that I was able to get anyone really excited over the BDM.
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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Personally, I don't think it has anything to do with skill. Firefly just has a way of selling itself to anybody willing to take 10 minutes to sit down and watch it.
My problem is that though I am a college student my friends are just now graduating high-school and have the attention span you'd expect of that. I don't know why they do, I didn't at their age, but getting ten minutes from them is difficult.
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Also, if you start talking about conversion, people really are going to think we are a cult!
I’ve got to say, I don’t mind being a cult. I’ve got a whole stack of bibles and it just keeps getting bigger. I like religion, and all of it’s intricacies.
In three hundred years the phrase, “Lenny Bruce died for our skins,” will have blossomed into full tax exempt status. If we’ve got people worshiping our BDHs go for it, so long as no one kills them all off in a bloody crusade.
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I lent my sister my 1st Firefly disc (couldn't part with all of them at once) & after she finished that, she went ahead & bought her own.
Also I converted a Buffy fan I met online. She asked for Firefly for Xmas at my urging & is now a fan.
There's a Star Wars fan at work (I'm a SW fan also) that I'm working on now. Also, the Sci-Fi Channel will be running Firefly starting July 22. That should pick up a lot of new fans. I hear they're actually gonna run the episodes IN ORDER! Like Joss intended.
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Originally posted by Emma:
I bow down before all of your superior converting skills!
extremely dimensionally transcendental
Personally, I don't think it has anything to do with skill. Firefly just has a way of selling itself to anybody willing to take 10 minutes to sit down and watch it.
(Of course, that 10 minutes turns into 20... 50... 2 hours... 6 hours... etc.....)
Captain Pete
Personally I've found that people need to be able to sit thru about 15-20 mins of exposition and backstory in the pilot to get to the point when things start to really get going, culminating in the big payoff at the end. But I've known SAP (Short Attention Span) folks who couldn't sit through even 5 minutes -- to set up a whole universe!
Jayne, your mouth is talkin. Might want to look into that.
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Also, the Sci-Fi Channel will be running Firefly starting July 22. That should pick up a lot of new fans. I hear they're actually gonna run the episodes IN ORDER! Like Joss intended.
WHAT?!? Somebody in the TV industry is showing a little common sense?? Tell me it isn't so!
Captain Pete
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Originally posted by SubGuy:
WHAT?!? Somebody in the TV industry is showing a little common sense?? Tell me it isn't so!
Sci Fi has always had common sense, it's just it's impossible to predict when they will use it.
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Okay, I must admit, there are only two shows on TV I watch with any regularity, LOST and Battlestar Galactica. So I guess deep down inside I do recognize SFC has some common sense.
(BTW, for those who have not seen it, the new BSG is also a great show! And Serenity made a quick cameo appearance in the mini-series/pilot.)
Captain Pete
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