I'm a convert. by ChocoboJoe

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I'm a convert.

POSTED BY: CHOCOBOJOE
UPDATED: Saturday, September 15, 2007 23:26
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 6:56 AM

Hey everyone! I'm new here, but a dedicated browncoat. Just got into Firefly (actually going to watch Serenity tonight), and boy am I hooked. It's possible that with only 14 episodes, it has become my favorite show ever, dethroning the one that was there since I was a kid. I've never been so addicted to a TV show. I want more episodes! This story cannot remain untold!

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*pant pant* Sorry about that... just wanted to say hello! :)

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 7:01 AM

SISTER

Hey Chocobojoe! Welcome to our collective obsession! I 'lurked' for months before I posted so good for you - jumping in and saying hello. This is a marvelous site...lots of wonderful folk with the same wish you have...MORE FIREFLY!! I will warn you, tho...this site is highly addictive..and it may have you doing things you never thought you'd do!! (me, for instance... I vote every hour for Firefly as the best TV show ever...just check the vote thread for details.. AND I have joined the "76th Independent Army" and Marched in COSTUME in the DragonCon Parade...things I'd never, ever see myself doing.. Join us if you'd like...we have lots of fun)..so warnings aside..I shall let others greet you and provide you with all kinds of goodies!

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 7:07 AM

AVERYFINECOMPANION

Hey there! Welcome to our site! And sister is right, this place is dangerously addictive.

Enjoy your stay!

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 7:12 AM

HOBBLEIT

Hello there and welcome to the site.

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Now with letters after my name.
http://www.myspace.com/muddy_waters

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 9:48 AM

WYTCHCROFT

welcome aboard!

stay shiny - have fun here - and contribute!

"I want more episodes! This story cannot remain untold!" get writing!

make someone a browncoat today - don't drive nobody away

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 9:53 AM

MSG

Hi and welcome!!! Glad to have you here and there's always room for more so don't hesitate to drag your family, friends, people you see in the street, random strangers into watching and joining.

"I'm not all that interested in the mental health of people who want to kill me. "- Leroy Jethro Gibbs

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 11:16 AM

SIRTHOMAS

Welcome choco, i like to abrevate, to the board. We all share the same feelings on bringing Firefly back.

The best way to do this unfortunately is through our wallets. The more that we buy, such as the new CE of Serenty buy as many as you can, give them away, turn new people on to Firefly. Get others to buy the movie and the series.

In doing this then networks will have to see that this series which WAS canceled back in 2002 is still making a profit.

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:51 PM

FLORALBUNNY

Welcome home, CJ! You're #28126 to sign on aboard this, surely the shiniest ship ever launched.

You'll look great in the virtual browncoat when the virtual browncoat fitter comes along.

Meanwhile, stash your stuff and sit down over here by the big bowl of berries and the row of earthen jugs which contain the very best of Mudder's Milk. It's our way of welcoming you.

Later there'll be more food, and tale-telling, and job-planning, and games and whatnot in the galley.

If you happen to see ShipsCat, could you please deliver her to the bridge?

bun
Frisky Browncoat
Capt. Mal's birthday is Sept. 20th
I planted a cake...
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Save the fireflies! Minimize outdoor lighting so the boys can find the girls!!

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 4:20 PM

THEQUICKBROWNFOX

Welcome and a shiny hello, i'm sorta new too and i'm already seriously addicted to this site. Just gotta have my firefly fix at least once a day. I turned a friend into a browncoat (CMB) and we have a lot of fun in this verse. So spread the word...

thequickbrownfox

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 5:57 PM

CHOCOBOJOE

So... I just watched Serenity.

And though I feel somewhat better... I have to say it was a huge letdown.

Not that I'm no longer a fan or anything. Far from it.

The movie just felt so... contrived.

It was as if (probably was, honestly) they took all the story arcs that they had really just opened with the series, and snuffed them out to give them a sense of completion. All of these things (Mal and Inara, Kaylee and Simon, Shepherd Book, River, and Wash? What was that about?) that could have been developed and drawn out... were just wrapped up real quick-like. Beyond that, because it was a theatrical release, we lost the "I'm part of the crew" film style of the series that made it so great.

Sigh. I'm disappointed. Not because the movie was bad. By itself it was a great movie. But in comparison to the series, and what the series could have been... man. Can we just pretend all that never happened and get on with the series?

CURSE YOU, FOX!!! CURSE YOU AND YOUR SUDDEN BUT INEVITABLE BETRAYAL!!!

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 6:27 PM

CHOCOBOJOE

As a side note - I don't know what to believe anywhere I read it, and I thought some of you might know better than me. Now, I know I'm hoping against hope here, but is it true that Fox loses the TV rights to Firefly soon?

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 6:38 PM

BROOKLYNBROWNCOAT

welcome to the site, take it easy on getting addicted to Firefly; it's not like crack, but it comes pretty close

"Take my love, take my land,
Take my crack stem from my hand,
I don't care, I'm still free,
My fingers stink of feces

Take me out, buy some crack,
Tell your mom I'll be right back,
Burn the land boil the sea,
You can't take this high from me

There's no place I can be
since I started smoking trees

You can't take my crack from me"

all time classics from beneath the bridge:
Enjoyed by over 2,500 Firefly Fans:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=15&t=21727#497424

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Thursday, September 13, 2007 2:32 AM

BROWNCOAT1

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

Welcome ChocoboJoe! Glad to have you here. Make yourself at home.

Now you must go forth and spread the word, bringing Firefly / Serenity to all those as needs it told.

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Holding the line since December '02!

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Richmond, VA & surrounding area Firefly Fans:

http://www.richmondbrowncoats.org

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http://76thbattalion.homestead.com/index.html

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Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:17 AM

DONCOAT

Welcome, CJ!

I had to Google to figure out what "Chocobo" was all about. Now I know that.

Better avoid ShipsCat, though -- she's got a thing about birds.

(I thought maybe Chocobo was related to "jockamo", as in "Jockamo fee na-ne" (creole patios used in the song "Iko Iko"). But no.

Anyhow, hope you enjoy the good ship FireflyFans.

Here's my take on the Serenity vs. Firefly controversy. First of all, you're not alone. A lot of Firefly fans had similar feelings to yours, especially at first.

What you need to understand is that the theatrical movie is a very different medium than television. Joss was faced with a huge challenge in trying to reintroduce the Firefly 'verse AND nine regular characters AND a new antagonist, AND tell a compelling story all within a 2-hour time window. (Hey, it took a 2-hour pilot and several episodes to do that in the series!) In that light, I think he did amazingly well.

I think you'll find, though, that on repeated viewings the movie will grow on you, and will come to seem more in the spirit of the series, even if very different in pacing and level of detail.

You might also want to get hold of the comic/graphic novel "Serenity - Those Left Behind", which fills in some of the discontinuities between the series and movie.

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I'm pointin' right at it!

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Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:40 AM

TRAEVYNN

Yea. What DonCoat said....

Welcome Choco and QBF to the shiniest board in the 'Verse!

Have a mug of Mudder's Milk for now and later the shimmer wine will start to flow then all the pretty lights on the console.......
**tries to catch invisible butterflies**

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

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Thursday, September 13, 2007 6:26 AM

CHOCOBOJOE

Yeah, I read Those Left Behind before watching the movie, so some things made more sense.
As far as the movie goes, I understand what he had to work with. I'm not downing it at all... I guess what I was really trying to say was that it was not Joss' fault that I was disappointed. It was FOX's fault for canceling it and forcing it to be brought back in a movie format, instead of a TV series which it was supposed to be. I dunno. I just would have liked to have seen all those story arcs be developed and fully fleshed out, instead of really quickly wrapped up. Does anyone still hold out hope that it could come back as a TV series, and pick up where we left off?

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Thursday, September 13, 2007 6:28 AM

CHOCOBOJOE

Haha! So I'm still working out how to use these boards. So my previous note was actually a response to DonCoat. :)

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Thursday, September 13, 2007 6:31 AM

FIREFLYPASSENGER

Yep its possible.

Welcome home.

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Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:39 PM

THEQUICKBROWNFOX

Hello again, i'd like to point out that all the browncoats feel that the series should be brought back. So much so that some browncoats are trying their best to make their own FanFilms. Two in progress are Bellflower and Into the Black. More power to them. :)

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Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:27 PM

CHOCOBOJOE

Well yeah... I know everyone thinks it should, but do you think it will? *hopes*

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Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:51 PM

WHIMSICALNBRAINPAN

Welcome to our shiny site ChocoboJoe!

"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle." http://whimsicalnbrainpan.blogspot.com/

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Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:55 PM

FLORALBUNNY

CJoe,
I preferred the series, too.
A whole bunch.
Though I own the lot and have watched them nearly into rubble.
But I understood where Whedon was when suddenly faced with a chance to make a film -- and then had to introduce the whole 'Verse to new people.
Thinking about it just makes me sad.

Get a continuation of the series? Probably not in series form. But I am old and cynical and have seen a lot of Hollywood under the bridge. Space operas are expensive and need to promise at least a tee-ninesy profit under most circumstances.

What I hope for is more TV episodes with as much of the original cast as can be scraped together. A lot of the FF charm came from the ensemble cast plus Joss, Tim, and other off-camera personnel.

Maybe, maybe, if we can wait long enough...

bun
Frisky Browncoat
Capt. Mal's birthday is Sept. 20th
I planted a cake...
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Save the fireflies! Minimize outdoor lighting so the boys can find the girls!!

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Saturday, September 15, 2007 11:26 PM

ANONYMOUS1

Welcome New Browncoats!

Post needs pic of the Hope for more Firefly/Serenity rests with the Serenity Collector's Edition DVD (Release date: 8/21/2007)

And the cast commentary is very shiny!

http://serenitymovie.com

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