I'm a Missionary, Converting the Unconverted by Schism

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I'm a Missionary, Converting the Unconverted

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UPDATED: Sunday, February 8, 2009 20:58
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Sunday, February 8, 2009 6:20 PM

I got a co-worker into Firefly.
No big triumph.
He, however, got his girlfriend into it.
Her favourite movie is "Legaly Blonde", so we take that as a victory.
My wife loves Merchant Ivory films (A Room with a View, etc...).
It took a bit of convincing to get her to watch FF, cos she insisted she didn't like sci-fi, but once she started, we burned through all discs in one week.
We just watched the film tonight.
I didn't warn her about the deaths.
She was sad.

My latest convert.....me mum!
My classical music lovin', book readin', PBS watchin' mum.
She was surprised at my wife's interest, so decided to give it a peek.
She finished disc one in one evening and asked for the next lot.

:)

It's not quantity but quality - converting those that you wouldn't expect to convert.

Any other such stories?

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Sunday, February 8, 2009 8:58 PM

BIGRICHARD

Well good on you! Quality is good, but you've got quantity there too, so that's brilliant.

A few of my convertees:

My friend, who is very 'anti-geek' and likes to think he's the 'king of cool' (meaning he doesn't like Sci-Fi, comics, reading or anything like that) would always dismiss Firefly when I told him about it (the DVD cover isn't a great selling point, I won't lie). I did I trade. If he watched the pilot, Serenity, I'd watch anything he wanted me to. (I'm not a big fan of some of the comedy stuff he watches). I had to sit through 3 episodes of some show, can't remember what. He sat through Serenity. Said "oh, well, I don't have to go home for another few hours, and I can't be bothered getting something else, so shove on another." By the end of it I had him admiting his love for the series, saying 'shiny' and 'gorammit' and now he's reading the comics. HUZZAH!

Got my dad into it too, although he's a science-fiction, western and film lover, so that wasn't too difficult, although he has now told his friends about it, some of whom are retired and sit around learning classical guitar and watching the history channel (not that there is anything wrong with that). I've heard that at least one of them has seen it all, and loved it. I'll count that as another of mine :P

Am currently working on a friend of mine who doesn't watch much TV or films, but is very much into more real-life situations, lots of those romance films that are very solidly grounded in 'reality'. I reckon she'll like it more than she thinks.

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