OMG!... I've got FLD!

POSTED BY: Penthos
UPDATED: Friday, March 28, 2008 18:34
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PENTHOS

Monday, March 24, 2008 4:07 PM

So, I've been feeling this vauge kind of depression for the last few weeks...

I thought it was just a small case of the Serenifunk but it turns out I caught full blown FLD... (I read about it here: http://www.fireflywiki.org/Firefly/FLD)
... Turns out, FireFly is the entertainment version of Crack! Why didn't anybody warn me? I feel like I'm losing my Gorram mind!

Yeah you know how it happens... Sure, I'd seen the movie, and yeah, I saw a few episodes here and there. ...But I was just experimenting, ya know? Well, next thing I know, BAM! I've got FLD...

Now all of a sudden the first thing I think of when I open my eyes in every morning is Firefly. Brushing my teeth? FireFly. Taking a shower? FireFly. I have two jobs and I can't focus on either one...

And I've lost interest in other things... For instance, I WAS looking forward to new seasons of Basttlestar and Eureka with great enthusiasm. But now I don't really care, I'm just a shell of a BSG Fan... Sure, I'll watch em, but just take my mind off FireFly. See! It's turned me into a user...

So anyway I decided to join a local Browncoat group on Yahoo! But I've never joined a user group before ...WTF is wrong with me? The only thing that makes me feel ANY better at all is watching the FireFly\Serenity DVDs or voting at TV_Vote to keep FireFly at number one...

Is this what life has been like for FireFly fans since the series and then the movie? If so, I would ask them, is it REALLY better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all? ...-Oh, I would also ask, does anyone know where I can get a Jayne T-Shirt?

WORLDOFHIGLET

Monday, March 24, 2008 4:30 PM

Oh, how I share your pain...It all sounds horribly familiar (including the joining the Browncoat group - the first time I've ever done anything like that!). I hadn't realised it was a well-documented malady so thank you for helping me to diagnose my symptoms. For me, I resisted completely until last Xmas. Then you know how it goes. On a whim you buy the all the gear and settle in to experiment. Like many before me the addiction was pretty much instant.

It's a pity that the only cure has not yet been fully developed by scientists (or networks!) and is still only theoretical at the moment.

If you can, try to embrace other sci-fi. Remember, Joss will be tuning to the new season of BSG so there is a connection there. It will never replace FF/S, obviously, but you have to try to live a little in the now. And keep campaigning, watching, meeting with Browncoats.

It is better to have loved and lost, but no-one said it was going to be easy....QED FLD

You are beholden to no man
http://worldofhiglet.blogspot.com/

NBZ

Monday, March 24, 2008 5:07 PM

Watching other Sci-fi will remind you how terrible most of it is.

Unfortunately, there is no known cure. Apart from more Firefly... and we know how scarce that is.

FREELANCERTEX

Monday, March 24, 2008 5:42 PM

FLC....splain?

PENTHOS

Monday, March 24, 2008 5:57 PM

Sorry, it's FLD; it stands for Firefly Letdown Disease. Here is the Link: http://www.fireflywiki.org/Firefly/FLD

PHOENIXROSE

Monday, March 24, 2008 7:47 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Penthos:
Is this what life has been like for FireFly fans since the series and then the movie?

Yes.

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is it REALLY better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all?

Yes.

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does anyone know where I can get a Jayne T-Shirt?

As a start, try here http://www.cafepress.com/buy/jayne,+firefly

You may say I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one.

ZZETTA13

Monday, March 24, 2008 10:43 PM

Now are we talking a genetic sickness or addiction here? If it’s a mental sickness I’m getting this image of an asylum full of white coated (more likely brown) straitjacketed lu/lues walking around spouting FF/Serenity dialogue. Another thing, can one of the symptoms be kinda like the tourett’s syndrome where if you come into close contact with another fan you immediately begin to start sputtering things like, “Browncoat, Firefly, Serenity, Big Damn Movie?”
I’m just wondering because, well I may have FLD. Come to think of it there’s no doubt, I am afflicted. Wait a minute I’m getting a vision, “Go ahead and laugh sir but our facetious Allied governmet know about FLD and if stricken it will haunt your dreams and yes harrow your very soul!”

So coming to FFF.net (or any other such fan site) is like a group of folk sitting in a circle at an AA meeting and confessing to their addiction to FF/BDM?

Well here goes. Ok my friends I’m a FF junkie. Been stricken for over 2 years now. Ain’t no end in sight nether……
Z

Yes it is painful to have loved and lost but it is still more painful to hit yourself on the toe with a hammer!!

TRAVELER

Monday, March 24, 2008 10:51 PM

I have gone through periods of obstinance. But they are short and when I slip the well used DVD back in the player I am off again. I religiously watch it as the episodes are layed out because that is how Joss wanted to place them in the DVD set. I know this is not the original order but Joss is God. I would go straight for my favorites but I can not make up my mind which are my favorites. The one I am watching at the time is my favorite. How many times can I hear "Ain't we just" and never get tired of it. It is like holy chant. Now I ahve a name for something I knew was real. I have FLD. To watch is to live. To see Jayne's face pressed against the glass pleading with Mal not to tell the others how he died. All these and more are in my blood. And what do I do? I come here and discuss it with others. "Well here I am".

Traveler

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

LOSTCAUSE1

Monday, March 24, 2008 11:33 PM

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Originally posted by traveler:
The one I am watching at the time is my favorite.

Exactly. But there is a cure for FLD, the problem is F*X has it and won't let us have more!!!!

www.stoodlemayer.com -- A Work in Progress.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 7:44 AM

I'm with GB, who said: I could have missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss The Dance. Our lives are better left to chance.

Take the risk. Savor the love.

SPACEANJL

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:38 AM

*stands up*

My name is SpaceAnJL and I'm a gorram FF addict

*sits down again*

TRAEVYNN

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 3:34 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SpaceAnJL:
*stands up*

My name is SpaceAnJL and I'm a gorram FF addict

*sits down again*

**everyone says in unison**
"Hi SpaceAnJL!"

~~~~~
"...I'm still free, you can't take the sky from me."

MALACHITE

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 4:13 PM

Yes, I'm sure many of us here know exactly what you're going through... I suppose that like with any major disappointment/loss, the symptoms will fade to hopefully just a dull ache/emptiness in time. How amazing is it that the loss of a show can produce bereavement symptoms in a viewer?

As far as firefly-inspired shirts go, check out bluemoonstuff.com. Their Independence flag shirt and the TG Freight shirt (Badger's front company) are cool. I also obtained an awesome "fighting elves" shirt (the orange shirt Jayne wears in Ariel and Safe, I think) from bluesunshirts.com, but they were forced to close down. Maybe if you search for various terms in google like "Jayne shirts" or "fighting elves shirt" or "troublemaker shirt" or "Jayne's pin-up girl shirt" you will be able to find some of the sites that make Jayne shirt replicas. Oh yeah, you can find blue sun t-shirts on various sites like hottopic.com or stylinonline.com, as they are official merchandise.

PENTHOS

Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:13 PM

I see we are all in this together... Guess it's just something I, like many of you have done, will learn to live with until the cure is made...

By the way, is the "fighting elves" shirt the shirt with the number 28 on it and the chinese writing behind it? That's the one I want.

MSB

Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:33 PM

Alright that's it... we now have a disease and F*X is withholding the cure...we can sue for that!!!

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Ain't Love GRAND!!!

MALACHITE

Thursday, March 27, 2008 1:36 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Penthos:
I see we are all in this together... Guess it's just something I, like many of you have done, is learn to live with it until the cure is made...

By the way, is the "fighting elves" shirt the shirt with the number 28 on it and the chinese writing behind it? That's the one I want.

That's the one. Good luck in your search.

AKUKODOGO

Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:36 PM

What is another bad thing about FLD is that we are ALL guilty of spreading it.
I have personally infected a nice young couple just recently, and do I worry, not me, cause now I have company.

*Hello SpaceanJL*

Burn the spam, boil the tea!

SHUKES

Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:59 PM

The one thing i notice is that i always know what the last episode i watched was, and when i next stick that much used, much loved disk back into the player i will continue from that exact same point, I couldn't honestly tell you how many times i've seen that series, but when i flick through TV channels despairingly i go straight for my Firefly fix.

PENTHOS

Friday, March 28, 2008 3:42 PM

Thanks for all the awesome replies. It's nice to know that someone afflicted with FLN will never be alone...

I'll continue to spread this disease in the hopes of finding a cure until the day I die... Even if it takes so long that Zoe has to cart Mal around in a wheel chair and Kaylee has to put in her dentures to enjoy a fresh strawberry, I will fight for more Firefly.

AVENGINGWATCHER

Friday, March 28, 2008 6:34 PM

Yeah I know what you mean Penthos... All the shows are just a comparison to FF now...

When there are no heroes where will we turn?