FIREFLY FORTNIGHT ~ iTunes Episode Round-up!
POSTED BY: 11thHour
UPDATED: Friday, August 25, 2006 19:01
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All episodes of Firefly are now available for purchase and download on iTunes for only $1.99 each. This is a fantastic opportunity for supporting our remarkable show. As a way of showing the ongoing vibrant fanbase for Firefly, and to make the most of such great access to our shiny show, fans will be joining in "Firefly Fortnight". As it just so happens, there's 14 days in a fortnight and Firefly has 14 episodes, so it's a great way to spend two weeks boosting the signal! The basic purchase plan is for everyone to start with "Serenity" on day one, and then organize our purchases to follow each episode, each day, in order. Everyone will buy the same Firefly episode each day -- in the order intended by Joss -- all 14 shows through to the end with "Objects in Space". Two full weeks of Firefly buyin' goodness!
This initiative kicks off on Friday, August 11th. The purchase dates are:
Aug 11 - Serenity
Aug 12 - The Train Job
Aug 13 - Bushwhacked
Aug 14 - Shindig
Aug 15 - Safe
Aug 16 - Our Mrs. Reynolds
Aug 17 - Jaynestown
Aug 18 - Out of Gas
Aug 19 - Ariel
Aug 20 - War Stories
Aug 21 - Trash
Aug 22 - The Message
Aug 23 - Heart of Gold
Aug 24 - Objects in Space
Now there's bound to be some spill over with the episodes, especially if you want to recruit someone halfway into the fortnight, well, they'll need to see Serenity first... so just buy Serenity, and all the episodes needed to catch up at that point! But the fun will be giving each episode its own special day. Makes for interesting discussions on the forum too. It's always great to rediscover a Firefly episode, and see something you missed the first 40 or 50 times you watched it... heh...
Spread the word — let's get some buzz goin' and have a great time boosting Firefly to the top of the download chart. Do you have a family member, friend or co-worker who would enjoy being introduced to Firefly on their iPod, or on their computers? Been tryin' to help folks discover how singularly incredible Firefly is, but you're meeting resistance? Getting excuses like: DVD sets too pricey; they don't have the time to go buy the DVD set; spaceships and cowboys sounds so weird; or they have a problem with their brains bein' missin'? Well, cut through all that resistance and just send them Firefly episodes as gifts! Yeah, that's right, it's the high tech way to badger folks into doing something they'll thank you for over and over again later on anyway....
Episodes can be purchased here:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/
TV Shows > FOX > FOX Television Classics
Gifts ~ Here's the info page on how to purchase pre-paid iTunes Gift Cards, or you can buy and SEND Firefly episodes via email, or print a certificate with a special code... Apple's got it covered several ways...
http://www.apple.com/itunes/give/
If you don't have iTunes, it's free for Mac and Windows (double check the specified system requirements though):
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Let's show that the audience for the 'Verse is still goin' strong... and growing! Buy 'em for yourself, buy 'em for other folks too. This is an outstanding opportunity to spread the word of Firefly at only $1.99 per episode. People are now only a few keystrokes away from the BEST. SHOW. EVER. Let's make it count.
11th Hour
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Little pressed for time these days, but I cobbled together a web banner for folks to use to promote "Firefly Fortnight". 
Here's a nice, little simple banner... Not enough room to give the whole message, but much easier to download. A good, general promotional banner for Firefly on iTunes.
There is another banner designed by the talented and brilliant Hera. Rumor has it folks will be spottin' it in the Blue Sun Room in the very near future. 
These banners are being offered as ready-to-use promotional tools for Firefly Fortnight... but for those who got a hankerin' to make their own banners, please do so. Just remember to make sure the dates are right and so forth, and give a folks a place to go to get more info... either the main FFF home page, or a direct link to this thread.
Let's have some fun with this!
11th Hour
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Folks, if you use the iTunes banner in your sigs on other boards, hotlink it so that interested parties can come get the full skinny on the initiative. Use the url for this thread: http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=19&t=22697
If you use it here on FFF.net (she don’t support no stinkin’ hot linkin’, unfortunately), just paste the link url as text above your banner, example shown here.
Help boost this signal!
-Hera
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"Wanna?" – Mal to Kaylee, Out of Gas
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Hera,
Great Idea! Im signed up and ready to go...now all I need is a video Ipod... :) Ill have to go talk to my wife. I mean, as long as I have the episodes I might as well buy the Ipod right?
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Originally posted by jtskier1200r:
Hera,
Great Idea! Im signed up and ready to go...now all I need is a video Ipod... :) Ill have to go talk to my wife. I mean, as long as I have the episodes I might as well buy the Ipod right?
I like the way you think! That whole cart/horse thing is really working for you here.
Let us know how it goes. Might be a useful selling point for other folks. Give 'em a good excuse, assuming their significant others are as sympathetic as yours!
-Hera
"Wanna?" – Mal to Kaylee, Out of Gas
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I don't mean to bust anyone's bubbles here, but Firefly is also available through Peer Impact, for HALF THE PRICE of iTunes.
http://www.peerimpact.com
They also have lots of other shows and movies too! If you have Windows/XP, you should definitely check them out. I have, and I prefer it over iTunes any day.
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In terms of that site. It seems interesting the peerimpact, however the price is for rental. So you can only keep it for 30 days and have to watch it in a 24 hour period once you start playing. its a nice idea, but I think some people would prefer to be abel to play the video whenever. its an interesting alternative for 1 buck per episode, however if they want the whole series(and keep it), might as well buy the episodes for 1 buck more.
Prakash
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I might just buy them all.
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This is about to get interesting...Define interesting...Oh GOD oh GOD we're all going to die.
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Originally posted by kurya:
In terms of that site. It seems interesting the peerimpact, however the price is for rental. So you can only keep it for 30 days and have to watch it in a 24 hour period once you start playing...
You have a point there. Of course, I'm sticking with Peer Impact for other reasons. Besides, I can always rent episodes every month to show support for the show, and you'll only buy an episode once!
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I plan to not only buy the episodes for myself... I want an IPod.. I'm gettin' an IPod ( being positive here!), but also offer them as downloaded gifts for two of my friends who just haven't gotten to looking at them on the DVD's. On their computer.. free to them... they just might give it a chance. And fall in love!
"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal
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