Firefly, I wish I knew how to quit you. by Krigan

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Firefly, I wish I knew how to quit you.

POSTED BY: KRIGAN
UPDATED: Sunday, April 16, 2006 17:21
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Saturday, April 15, 2006 7:55 PM

I am kind of new here, I just started watching the series a couple months ago. In that time I have seen the series twice, the pilot movie 3 times and the BDM 3 times. I listen to the soundtracks for the show and movie all the time. Also even before coming to this site I instinctively started spreading the word and loaning my disks out. The first person I loaned one to bought a set of his own so quick it shocked me. I have lots of movies laying around that I have'nt seen yet but all of my movie watching time is spent rewatching firefly. Do I have a problem? Is there a 12 step program or something?

"Yeah but she's our witch so cut her the hell down"

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Saturday, April 15, 2006 8:01 PM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

How could you think you have a problem?
Even if you do, we all have the same problem, so we certainly wouldn't tell you there's anything wrong with you.
Why would you want to quit, anyway? Other than wanting to avoid the heartbreak of knowing there's not as much as there should be right now, I mean. We all share your pain in that.
No, no twelve steps. But at least now you have a support group and people to bounce ideas off of. And we're always happy to see new faces. Er... login names. Whatever.

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Bible's broken. Doesn't make sense.

Zhu fu ni, mei-mei

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Saturday, April 15, 2006 8:13 PM

SINGATE

Once a man reaches paradise why would he want to be anywhere else?

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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

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Saturday, April 15, 2006 8:33 PM

FLORALBUNNY

Problem? Problem? Twelve steps?
No. There are sixteen steps. The 14 filmed episodes, the 1 unfilmed episode, the film.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

bun
-- bastards singed my turtle --
----- why's the rum gone? -----

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Sunday, April 16, 2006 4:20 AM

WHISPER

Don't forget the River Tam Sessions and the extended Firefly gag-reel

Want Firefly/ Serenity/ BtVS/ Angel desktop wallpapers? Take a look at the ones I've created at:
http://www.whispergraphics.net
Now hosting the Firefly Extended Gagreel
I have added a forum to my site and now I need some members!

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Sunday, April 16, 2006 4:33 AM

EMBERS

Whisper is right...your list of what you have done is sadly lacking:
R Tam Sessions
comic books
The Official Visual Companion
(just follow the links in my signiture)

you haven't truly become addicted until you started to build a replica of the ship.....

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watch the R. Tam Session vids: http://www.hittarivertam.nu/
and buy the 'Serenity' comics published by Dark Horse
have you checked out this thread?:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=15816

and listen to 'I'm Going To See Serenity':
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=a0
c814e1229742ce77ed4497cbf4631c

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Sunday, April 16, 2006 5:44 AM

DANIELFYRE

"Why would I want to leave Serenity?" - Inara
"Can't think of a reason." - Mal

I don't think it can get any more clear than that.

-Dan

Ain't that just shiny?

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Sunday, April 16, 2006 6:02 AM

WHOOPS

Only problem i think you could have is that you dont watch at least one episode in a month thats when you start getting withdrawrel symptons lol.

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"Love. You can do all the math in the 'Verse, but you take a boat in the air you
don't love, she'll shake you off sure as a turnin' of worlds. Love keeps her in
the air when she oughtta fall down. Tells you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens.
Makes her a home." Mal

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Sunday, April 16, 2006 6:11 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Sorry, there is no cure. The best advice I can give is seek out others who are so afflicted, and gain strength from it.

Now, where'd I put my gorram FIREFLY cd??

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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Sunday, April 16, 2006 6:21 AM

SIMONB

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Sorry, there is no cure. The best advice I can give is seek out others who are so afflicted, and gain strength from it.

But since you've found us here, you've done just that!

Welcome and good to have someone else to help us hold the line til Mal gets back....

- Shiny. Let's be bad guys.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die

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Sunday, April 16, 2006 6:34 AM

BROTHERJULIAN

Sorry pal, you're stuck with your shiny new addiction.

Zoe: "Because once you've been in Serenity you can never leave."

Btw: In what resource can I find the unproduced episod script? Does anyone know? It is one of the few things other than a full sized Firefly transport that I don't have.

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Brother Julian, Walking the World for a Spell.

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Sunday, April 16, 2006 7:38 AM

HERA

Quote:
Originally posted by Krigan:
...I instinctively started spreading the word and loaning my disks out. The first person I loaned one to bought a set of his own so quick it shocked me.

It is instinctual, you got that right. The way I handle my addiction is I get new folks to sit through the episodes and movie with me. It's fun to watch them watch the show, since I've seen them so many times. Instant converts.

Addict? Uh, OK. And your point would be..? Welcome home!

"Wanna?" – Mal to Kaylee, Out of Gas

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Sunday, April 16, 2006 7:40 AM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

Quote:
Originally posted by BrotherJulian:
Btw: In what resource can I find the unproduced episod script? Does anyone know?

http://www.fireflyfans.net/feature.asp?f=45

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

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Sunday, April 16, 2006 7:41 AM

HERA

Quote:
Originally posted by BrotherJulian:
Btw: In what resource can I find the unproduced episod script? Does anyone know? It is one of the few things other than a full sized Firefly transport that I don't have.

Here ya go BrotherJulian. Enjoy!

http://fireflyfans.net/feature.asp?f=45

"Wanna?" – Mal to Kaylee, Out of Gas

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Sunday, April 16, 2006 12:19 PM

FLORALBUNNY

Whoops wrote:
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Only problem i think you could have is that you dont watch at least one episode in a month thats when you start getting withdrawrel symptons lol.
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Month? *month?* MONTH?
In whose outmoded form of time measurement?

Oh, and I'm now reminded that during the series' TV run there were "previously"s recorded by some of the BDHs to get viewers up to speed. Someone knew how to get these, but I don't.

How would they count as steps? Baby steps? Ah, too much chocolate here.

bun
-- bastards singed my turtle --
----- why's the rum gone? -----

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Sunday, April 16, 2006 12:26 PM

NEEDY

The road to Hel is paved with good intentions

Sorry, but that subject title alone got me laughing my ass off

I've never seen brokeback mountain, but i've seen enough spoofs of it to know a quote when I see it

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Sunday, April 16, 2006 12:58 PM

20THCENTFOXHATER

There is absolutely no problem with being addicted to Firefly/Serenity. If someone tells you that you have a problem, either convert them too, or go Reaver on them.

Personally, I think I have seen the series a total of six times (or something like that) and the movie about 8 times. Given, I am in university, and I just became a fan in October. I have also read the comics 3 times.

I can hardly wait until the Serenity di-cast 12 inch model

from Dark Horse Comics comes out in a few months...... me want now.......

And what's this about an "unfilmed episode"??? Am I out of the loop on this

??? Somebody fill me in please.

"I aim to misbehave."
"Can't do something smart, do something right".

HOMER: "Oh Lisa, you and your stories; Bart is a vampire, beer kills brain cells. Now lets go back to that... building thingy... where our beds and T.V.... is".

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Sunday, April 16, 2006 1:00 PM

KRIGAN

Quote:
Originally posted by Whisper:
Don't forget the River Tam Sessions and the extended Firefly gag-reel

Want Firefly/ Serenity/ BtVS/ Angel desktop wallpapers? Take a look at the ones I've created at:
http://www.whispergraphics.net
Now hosting the Firefly Extended Gagreel
I have added a forum to my site and now I need some members!

Actually I have seen the River Tam sessions. Is there only five of these? When did they come out and what for? Was it promotion for the film?
I have a comic shop and my distributor is out of the trade paperback of the comics now. It will be back in stock in a few weeks and I will be ordering one for me and a few for the shop. I had the original comics when they came out but had not seen the series yet so I did not read them and they sold out fast anyway.
I ordered the figures and plan to start stocking the series & movie. I pre-ordered the trading cards that come out soon. I also want a good source for the soundtracks, I have already had requests from folks hearing them in my shop. of course anything else I can find visual companion, books etc. will be added to the lot. Basically I will have a small firefly shrine when I am all done. Yeah I definetly have a problem.

P.S. Needy, I started to think no one was gonna get that. I have'nt seen the film either (not that there's anything wrong with that) but I heard that line used on letterman and other comedy shows. For extra points I just used another quote, what's it from?

"Yeah but she's our witch so cut her the hell down"

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Sunday, April 16, 2006 1:21 PM

DONCOAT

Seinfeld, of course.

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I don't disagree on any particular point.

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Sunday, April 16, 2006 2:46 PM

MALICIOUS

Quote:
Originally posted by Krigan:
Is there a 12 step program or something?

Krigan,

I wrote this about 2 or so years ago, right after we found out there was going to be a BDM. I think it was even before they started filming. Anyway, hope it helps!

Firefly: a 12 step program for withdrawal

step 1: Admitted you were powerless over decisions made by Fox executives.

step 2: Came to believe that Joss could restore our faith in mass media. Or at least get a movie out to us. AND have a reeaalllly long gag reel on the Serenity DVD when it comes out.

step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of Joss as we understood him.

step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of the tv listings.

step 5: Admitted to God, ourselves and everyone on FFF.net the exact nature of Fox's wrongs.

step 6: Were entirely ready to have Joss remove the defects (if any) of the movie during editing and post production.

step 7: Humbly asked Joss to let Mal be nekkid at least once in the BDM.

step 8: Made a list of all persons who have not seen Firefly and became willing to tie them up if need be to..."introduce" them to the show.

step 9: Made direct converts of such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. And maybe even then, if necessary.

step 10: Continued to do guerilla marketing techniques in Best Buy, Borders Books, Circuit City and assorted video rental outlets, and when the DVD was hidden away, promptly displayed it at eye level.

step 11: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our freakish knowledge of every iota of each episode so as to win the Firefly trivia contests at each shindig.

step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry The Message (and all the other episodes) to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. While simultaneously attempting to actually live a life, work and pay bills when possible.

Mal-licious

I'm going to add cursing and the hurling about of things to my repertoire.

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Sunday, April 16, 2006 2:52 PM

EMBERS

Quote:
Originally posted by Krigan:
Actually I have seen the River Tam sessions. Is there only five of these? When did they come out and what for? Was it promotion for the film?

yeah...it was an idea of Joss' to promote the film...
Joss wrote & directed & played the role of the doctor and got Summer Glau to come in quick, before she ran off to start another project, to make the five videos...
then they released the first one at ifilms without an explanation....
and the rest followed about a week or two apart after that (by first one, I mean # 416 (2nd excerpt) came out first...
followed by # 1
then # 22
next # 165
and then finally we saw # 416 (1st excerpt)

very freaky and heartbreaking....

Quote:

I have a comic shop and my distributor is out of the trade paperback of the comics now. It will be back in stock in a few weeks and I will be ordering one for me and a few for the shop. I had the original comics when they came out but had not seen the series yet so I did not read them and they sold out fast anyway.
I ordered the figures and plan to start stocking the series & movie. I pre-ordered the trading cards that come out soon. I also want a good source for the soundtracks, I have already had requests from folks hearing them in my shop. of course anything else I can find visual companion, books etc. will be added to the lot. Basically I will have a small firefly shrine when I am all done. Yeah I definetly have a problem.

it sounds like my kinda comic book store!
I'm glad you are getting everything...
the comics are really fun, and help to bridge the gap between 'Firefly' and 'Serenity' (but you know that)

Quote:

P.S. Needy, I started to think no one was gonna get that. I have'nt seen the film either (not that there's anything wrong with that) but I heard that line used on letterman and other comedy shows. For extra points I just used another quote, what's it from?

well I DID see 'Brokeback Mountain' and I liked the reference... I also got the Seinfeld reference.... Popular culture references are a Joss Whedon staple so they always go down well around here (JW being one of the few people I've ever known to slip in 'Watership Down' lines along with Plato...)

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Sunday, April 16, 2006 3:04 PM

BLUEDECEPTION

Hm, yes. A problem indeed. However, I have the same problem. I just solidified it with tattoos though. I reason it's all for the good.

Augusta

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Sunday, April 16, 2006 3:18 PM

CAUSAL

Quote:
Originally posted by Krigan:
Firefly, I wish I knew how to quit you.

So, wait...you're having a gay love affair with Firefly?

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I wish I had a magical wish-granting plank.

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Sunday, April 16, 2006 4:35 PM

KRIGAN

LOL Pretty funny causal

"Yeah but she's our witch so cut her the hell down"

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Sunday, April 16, 2006 5:21 PM

FLORALBUNNY

FoxHater,

Click and read:

http://fireflyfans.net/feature.asp?f=45

I know it's posted upthread, but we're so URL-rich that it's hard to sort it out from the rest.

Enjoy!

bun
-- bastards singed my turtle --
----- why's the rum gone? -----

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