New Browncoats Shout Out (Newbie Thread)

POSTED BY: tanstaafl28
UPDATED: Monday, January 30, 2006 11:00
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FOLLOWMAL

Friday, January 13, 2006 3:39 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by embers:

and rest assured: there will be more!

soon we'll have more comics,
a little later we'll have some novels...
there will be news from conventions
and blogs & interviews....
and I think we'll get a sequel green lit by next year
(Just my personal opinion of course)

Em, I'm always so pleased when you post. You lift me up, you do. I appreciate your certainty about more Firefly/Serenity and love that you are so confident. It makes my day. Thanks.

"You're on my crew...Why're we still talkin' about this..." Mal

LOLA

Friday, January 13, 2006 6:04 AM

Thanks Cartoon..
yer nice.

Lola

SHAVENYAK

Friday, January 13, 2006 6:33 AM

I'm hoping for the series to get picked up by a network that will give it more than 0.0012 of a chance. I'm hoping it picks up right where the first series left off, ignoring the movie as a separate piece of work all together.

--Roman

BROWNCOAT1

Friday, January 13, 2006 3:01 PM

Welcome to the site & the fandom Tanstaafl28. Glad to have you aboard.

Make yourself right at home. Thanks for telling us how you came to be a fan.

Be sure to spread the word & introduce everyone you know to the show & especially to the movie. The more DVDs sell, the better our odds of getting a sequel & keep the story going.

__________________________________________

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

Richmond, VA & surrounding area Firefly Fans:

http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/richmondbrowncoats/

http://www.richmondbrowncoats.org

ADIRATYREE

Friday, January 27, 2006 4:02 PM

~New!
Last year (2005) we went to Gencon, Indy. Well....dumb us--we had never seen Firefly and Serenity had not been released yet, so we had NO clue who these people in the browncoats were (we really thought they were Civil War reconstructionists). Ron Glass was there, and I loved him in Barney Miller, but we had to leave before we could talk to him.

Then, we saw Serenity at the theatre.

OMG OMFG!

We immediately loved Serenity. So, naturally, we bought the boxed DVD set of Firefly and we watched it all, slowly, savoring all the episodes. My son bought another set so that he could lend it out to his friends at school (currently he says one of his teachers is watching it).

I am part of an online group of wives and I posted about Firefly/Serenity to them: the majority of the women bought this movie as Christmas gifts for their dh's--but the WOMEN enjoyed it more than the men once they saw it.

Everyone who watches either Serenity or Firefly has the same response: they are utterly shocked that a show this good could have been cancelled.

Glad to meet you all.

FATHOUNDDAWG

Friday, January 27, 2006 4:29 PM

Hi all!

I'm new to the board, too, and I suppose relatively new to Firefly/Serenity.

My (now ex) boyfriend got the Firefly boxed set from a friend about a year ago, but I had never heard of it and didn't really trust his taste so I never saw it. Then my roommate and I heard about Serenity and decided it was a movie we had to see. As poor college students, we don't often go out to the movies but we thought Serenity was special.

Boy were we right!

After we saw Serenity for the first time, we rented the Firefly DVDs from Netflix and immediately fell even more in love. Now we both own Firefly and Serenity and we're not shy about how wonderful it is. I think I may have converted my dad, but the rest of my friends and family...sigh...they have no taste.

Anyway, I've been lurking on the board for a while and I thought I should say hello.

So hello!

BROWNCOAT1

Friday, January 27, 2006 4:49 PM

Welcome to the site & the fandom Adiratyree & Fathounddawg! Make yourselves at home.

Be sure to spread the word of Firefly & the movie Serenity to everyone that you can. The more the merrier.

__________________________________________

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

Richmond, VA & surrounding area Firefly Fans:

http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/richmondbrowncoats/

http://www.richmondbrowncoats.org

GRIZWALD

Friday, January 27, 2006 4:54 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by fathounddawg:
After we saw Serenity for the first time, we rented the Firefly DVDs from Netflix...

Us too. My husband has this strange idea about staying on budgets and also that we have too many DVDs for any normal family to own. (Weird.) So when I asked if we could buy the boxset of Firefly he just gave me one of those superior, budget-conscious looks.

Thankfully our son stepped into the breech by asking for the set for his birthday. Whew! Can't say no to The Child!

I only discovered Serenity/Firefly in December... Can't BELIEVE how obsessed I have become so quickly.

GRIZWALD

Friday, January 27, 2006 4:58 PM

Oh, and this morning our little one, age 5, was filling out her "J Book" for kindergarten, where each page was to have a sentence about something that begins with J. She printed, "Jayne is a hero," and illustrated it with a beautiful drawing of Jayne, complete with Thrilling Heroics hat.

CHARLYO

Friday, January 27, 2006 5:56 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SubmarineGuy:
I just got on the boards today, and am sending my own little message around. Some of you may have seen it elsewhere, sorry, when I talk, I shout. Let it be said, I don't visit forums as a general rule. I'm not a huge sci-fi fan. I didn't know who Joss was until I saw the extra stuff on the series DVD. I don't even know what a "troll" is. What is fact is that this submarine sailor got lucky enough on a 6 month deployment that the Navy Morale group gave our sub the DVD series to take with us for enjoyment. Our reaction? What the **** is Firefly?!?! Why the hell didn't they give us something good? Two monthes into the deployment a couple of us got bored enough to actually watch it. Holy ****! How did I never even know this show existed on a major network? Long, long story short, it won us over and I know many who now own the series DVD. Now I own it myself, and my wife (really, really not a sci fi person. Likes reality TV) is hooked with me. Just want to say to Joss and the guys, I am NOT a fan of artists. I never even agreed art was worthy of a noun in the english language. But... if this is art, I could fast change my tune. Congrats on one hell of a story, characters I felt I knew, a unique idea and the heart to bear with all the crap and do it anyway (a job I know too well as a military man and a father of four). You have inspired me and won me over. I do hope your story can live on somewhere. With all the trash that fills the TV airwaves you would think there could be some room someplace for your show. For a person like me to get on the horn and try to drum you up some support, funders and sponsors should take note. Thanks to whoever made this site so that my only forum post I wanted to make since forums were new and had some novelty could come to pass. Thanks for your story Joss, you entertained many a bored submariner drillin holes in the ocean with nothing much to do but work, sleep and "push our plows". Most likely futile, but if you see this and send me a contact address (PO BOX, whatever...) I would be more than happy to send you a USS ALEXANDRIA ball cap. Not a mini-series deal, but its something.

Hah! Another brother! As a former boat rider from the 70's. it's good to see you here, submarineguy. Six month deployment sounds like you are on a fast attack? I was on a 640 class boomer.

I am new to FF and Serenity as well, and have never been as locked in to a show in my life. My wife is also and we have not watched anything else for the last three weeks.

It's ridiculous. Never cared for Buffy and any spinoff, but I saw a sci fi broadcast, think it was "Bushwhacked". Next one I saw was "Out of Gas", it really tripped my trigger. Next thing I know, I had my sweet wife tape them all Jan 6. She got hooked watching them that day.
So, now we are likely to buy the movie and the series and I'm talking to folks here at work ( oh yeah, work, yes, work, need to get back to that soon ).

Anyway, I always figured the closest thing to being on a space ship was a sub, the similarities are many. Long deployments, running out of fresh food after a couple of weeks and then everything you eat is either canned, frozen or powdered, hostile enviroment(water in the people tank will ruin your day), messing with other crew members as an entertainment and so on.
Just don't have a view of the sky.

Take care, enjoy, good to be here.

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