Has Firefly helped you in a way? by jlin13

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Has Firefly helped you in a way?

POSTED BY: JLIN13
UPDATED: Friday, January 12, 2007 06:43
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Monday, January 8, 2007 3:28 PM

If any, has Firefly helped you out somehow.

For me it has. Ive had a scifi idea in my head for quite some time and never really thought anything of it(im lucky its stayed in my head). After I watched the series and the movie i was very intrigued to start getting this idea on paper. I got two pages typed of some backstory and thats all ive done the last couple weeks. Im really wanting to finish it up and show it to some friends but i know it will be a long process.

also a question for someone who knows their stuff about our solar system. do you think that Jupiters four natural moons would be able to be terraformed and have enough sunlight to grow things? or at the very least be able to be terraformed? it relates to my movie script idea

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Monday, January 8, 2007 4:00 PM

REGINAROADIE

I was going to post a long winded post about what it has inspired in me to write and make. But I'll just say that it has inspired in my two student films that have nothing to do with sci-fi, and a dream movie that is my passion project.

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Tuesday, January 9, 2007 4:16 PM

TRAVELER

I have met some wonderful people.

Traveler

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Tuesday, January 9, 2007 4:32 PM

KAREL

Flying on duct tape and a damaged registry.

I found this site, this fandom, and a lot of new friends.

--Karel.

"Wondrous is our great blue ship that sails around the mighty sun and joy to everyone that rides along." -- Jeff Lynne, Electric Light Orchestra.

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Tuesday, January 9, 2007 4:52 PM

OUT2THEBLACK

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Originally posted by jlin13:
If any, has Firefly helped you out somehow.

...I got two pages typed of some backstory and thats all ive done the last couple weeks. Im really wanting to finish it up and show it to some friends but i know it will be a long process.

also a question for someone who knows their stuff about our solar system. do you think that Jupiters four natural moons would be able to be terraformed and have enough sunlight to grow things? or at the very least be able to be terraformed? it relates to my movie script idea

In every way...ye-ah Firefly helps...those folk are family...Got my back...

Callisto , Europa , Io , Ganymede... the Galilean moons...but there are a total of 61 !
Terra-formin' ...Jupiter's a good place to go for raw material , but the radiation environment's a little rough...

Ni Hao ! , jlin13 , do a fic anyway !

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Tuesday, January 9, 2007 7:26 PM

NAUGHTYMAN

Yeah Firefly has helped me. It showed me how to lighten up a bit about the crappier parts of life.I think it was Joss himself who said,"I like a hard world,but I like a hard world that molds good people and people with a sense of humor about the world they're in".That pretty much sums it up for me.
As for Jupiter's moons being terraformed;I think they'd be far better candidates than Jupiter itself would be,I dare say.

"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all"

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Tuesday, January 9, 2007 8:43 PM

RIVER6213

Yes.
In this here 'verse you are really alone and the only blue line that you have is the people you trust.

-River

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 4:06 AM

JLIN13

thanks for the responses about the moons, its just i have to have 11 planets in my script and i cant find many other places, any help? places that are in this solar system and are close enough to the sun to keep life

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 4:33 AM

MINNESOTARYAN

Yeah firefly helped.
It regain me the faith, that there are people out there, who can tell a hell of a story!

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 4:51 AM

SISTER

For me, Firefly reignited a passion that I had lost; and the courage to try and do something different. I don't know why, I just know it did.

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 5:32 AM

OUT2THEBLACK

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Originally posted by jlin13:
thanks for the responses about the moons, its just i have to have 11 planets in my script and i cant find many other places, any help? places that are in this solar system and are close enough to the sun to keep life

Well , if those are the criteria , then you could go with some terraformed asteroids , placed in regular orbits by some mass-driving spacecraft attached by the miners...

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 6:07 AM

MSG

Firefly led me here and that's been the best thing that's happened in a while:)...I now return you to your serious scientific discussion

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."- Albright

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 6:43 AM

SHINYED

I think I had gotten very bored or disappointed with most of the sci-fi genre for a long time....too dark & gritty, too damn serious, too high tech, too hackneyed, too filled with characters I could care less about...dead/alive..whatevers, too blah blah blah!

Honestly, Galaxy Quest actually re-kindled my love for the genre...the humor, the fun, the story, & the action.

Firefly took my expectations of sci-fi to an entirely new dimension...totally satsifying, totally fun, totally ADULT, totally not insulting to my intelligence ( be it as it may)..

Thank God for Joss!

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 7:52 AM

OUT2THEBLACK

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Originally posted by ShinyEd:
I think I had gotten very bored or disappointed with most of the sci-fi genre for a long time....too dark & gritty, too damn serious, too high tech, too hackneyed, too filled with characters I could care less about...dead/alive..whatevers, too blah blah blah!

Firefly took my expectations of sci-fi to an entirely new dimension...totally satsifying, totally fun, totally ADULT, totally not insulting to my intelligence ( be it as it may)..

Thank God for Joss!

Well said , ShinyED . Had more than a little poetry to it , Sir !

That's definitely something I've gained from Firefly , and the folk here...Perspective .

There's always someone to affirm what I've been thinkin' .

Then there are the folk from other schools of thought...

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:57 AM

JWHEDONADDICT

Helped? Not sure I can think of anything at the moment. Besides adding to my Joss addiction, of course...and giving me someone else to crush on(Nathan)!

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:09 AM

JWHEDONADDICT

Okay, just read someone else's answer and am now out of the "Fire bad, tree pretty" moment (otherwise known as BUFFY #2 cover art...which is still consuming my mind).

BUFFY, ANGEL, FIREFLY & SERENITY and everything else Joss does has always been able to pull me out of every funk I seem to be in at any given time. They're what I use when I'm sad, mad, happy, bored, confused, in need of guidance, etc. Of course, they (and he) have also driven me to some of those same emotions, too!

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 10:11 AM

JLIN13

again, thanks for the posts about my delema, and i may just do that whole terraformed asteroids thing so i can have my 11 planets. ive had alot of ideas for my thing that i havent written down yet(id do it in school if i werent so sucure with my writings)

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:00 PM

MARTIANWAY

I'll think of something less lameish than this to post in a while, but the first thing I figure Firefly did was show me there are some good people in the 'verse. Not many, Lord knows, but there's enough. Put things in a bit of perspective, too, which was nice, since I was going through a bit of a difficult time. Also got me here (good people in verse!), and got me off a bit of writers block I was havin' way back when (I'm writing a screenplay for a class right now, and I've got a Mal character, a Zoe character, and a sorta-River character---not a nutter, but someone who's always spouting crazy-forshadowing shit that everyone kinda ignores).

Also, for terraforming planets/moons (asteroids, being non-atmospheric, tend to knock into each other a lot; also, the radiation exposure you'd get living on one of those things might not be so good for the brain in the long run) I'd take dibs on Enceledus. The atmosphere's got a fair amount of CO2 (good for plants) and a bit of oxygen (which would grow exponentially with the terraforming process and the introduction of plants...right now, most of the stuff burns in the upper atmosphere and turns into H20) but is mostly water vapor (a bit foggy, yeah, but O2 can be extracted from it--and hydrogen, too, if you want that for power--and it protects from radiation like nothing else). The moon's mostly water-ice; terraforming would probably start on the South Pole, which is warmer than the rest of the moon (tidal stresses) and has liquid water under the ice crust. South pole's also got geysers, which are fun. Check it out.

"Woman, you are completely off your nut."

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:07 PM

DEEPGIRL187

Besides giving me faith in good TV again, I think the biggest way it's helped me is by discovering the fandom. I'm not a very social person online (or in real life, for that matter), and coming on this site as well as others has helped me branch out a lot.

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:10 PM

JONGSSTRAW

Ya know....reading all the posts here and other places...well I could almost frikkin' cry ( but I won't..I'm a man dammit!)...but you guys totally validate my thoughts and feelings! I feel very, very special to be amongst your warm company. Thank you all so much!

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:18 PM

JLIN13

thanks to all who helped me with my terraformed question. i have just found a site that shows 8 planets/moons that could possibly be habital for life on so im going with those 8 and adding 3 asteroid planets to my movies. thanks to all and im glad im not the only one this show hasnt helped

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:49 PM

JONGSSTRAW

JLIN...I haven't been here at FFF that long...about 4 months, but I just wanted to tell you that out of the many 100's of threads and topics I've read & responded to...well I think your simple question has been one of the very best!

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 4:14 PM

CEDRIC

How has Firefly helped me? After years of my guitar player saying that I ought to be able to write songs, I finally got inspired to write some about Firefly. So then that led me into fandom, which led me into getting to go as a guest to a bunch of conventions all around the country, which led me into meeting all kinds of shiny people . . .

But best of all, my guitar player no longer bugs me to write songs.

"Some things stay with you, 'til the day you die."
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 5:39 PM

ASORTAFAIRYTALE

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Originally posted by Karel:
I found this site, this fandom, and a lot of new friends.

I think that most of us find this one of the more important things! You all are the best people you could find on a fan community site! Or on other places for that matter.

Also, Firefly is just such a great show...I've never seen one before that I've been this attached to!

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Friday, January 12, 2007 3:26 AM

LATTELADY6

This last summer I was very ill. I was off work for almost five months.

At first I didn't feel up to doing much of anything, but after the first month I needed someting to keep from going crazy.

I watched...at times it was only listened to... Firefly and Serenity. I watched every episode, and the movie with and without commentary a number of times.

The Last month and a-half I wrote Firefly, post-Miranda.

There was never a question if I would live or die, just if I wanted too, LOL. Joss's verse saved my sanity.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
"Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it." - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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Friday, January 12, 2007 6:43 AM

IWEN

It gave me something else to have in common with friends and family. There is something in Firefly that for everybody.

Iwen

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