Just how much does the Firefly 'verse mean to ya? by chrisisall

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Just how much does the Firefly 'verse mean to ya?

POSTED BY: CHRISISALL
UPDATED: Thursday, November 20, 2008 00:14
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Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:10 AM

In my Media Arts class we were asked to compile images important to us to define ourselves, and the first one after picking shots of my Wife & Son was a big ole Serenity right behind me floating in the ocean.

Our next assignment was to scan loose 'stuff' to make multiple images exploring colour, arrangement and the like; I brought in my Son's Legos which included our Lego Serenity...

The newest one is taking text that is important to us and making it the subject of the art...and with all the quotes from Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Neil Armstrong, and James Kirk, what keeps goin' through my mind are quotes from Mal...it's what I'm most like to pick...

I guess I'd say that the 'verse is pretty much front-burner stuff for me, even after all this time.

Anyone else got recent stories of obsession?

What was thatisall

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Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:14 AM

CHARLIEBZ

Obsessed?

I started writing fanfiction. Something it never occurred to me I would ever do.

I bought a blu-ray player just to buy the new dvds.

I periodically fall into a state of depression thinking we will have no more of this 'verse.

After two years of constant Firefly bombardment, I'm still not tired of it.

So, yeah, obsessed. But happily so!

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Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:35 PM

ZEEK

It's on my list of "who I am" things. I'm a browncoat through and through and I don't see that changing.

Strangely I don't know if that would be the case if the show had a regular TV run. I liked Buffy and Angel a lot when they were on, but they didn't define me. I didn't join message boards. I didn't discuss everything about the shows.

With Firefly the fight to get it back was a huge part of bringing the community together. The community itself is full of great people though. I think that's what keeps me here now.

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Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:58 PM

MSA

Well it gave me a great show, a nifty idea for curriculum, a lot of joy....oh and a chance to meet and fall in love with the best man I have ever known... so I'd say it means a fair bit:)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Thursday, November 13, 2008 1:01 PM

ZEEK

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
oh and a chance to meet and fall in love with the best man I have ever known

awww shucks. *blushes*

j/k

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Thursday, November 13, 2008 1:03 PM

CHRISISALL

So, you two are related, I take it?

Chrisisall, resenting being defined by Joss...but not overly so

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Thursday, November 13, 2008 1:24 PM

MSA

ROTFLMAO... HUGS Zeek you rock!!

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Thursday, November 13, 2008 2:53 PM

ECGORDON

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

I am surrounded by Firefly/Serenity memorabilia all through my house. The movie poster and comics are framed and on my walls, the Serenity ornament flies just above me as I sit at my computer, and the Mal, Jayne and River pvc figures sit atop my computer tower. I listen to the series and movie soundtracks frequently, along with the Bedlam Bards' cd "On the Drift." I think about the verse constantly, at home, at work, while driving.

I am as obsessed with it as I have ever been with anything in my life. There have been precious few days in the last five years that I have not visited this site and others at least twice a day. The verse is as real to me as anything, and I ain't giving up hope that our boat will fly again.

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

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Thursday, November 13, 2008 4:27 PM

NCBROWNCOAT

I think obsessed is a weak word for what I feel about the 'Verse.

I've spent obscene amounts of money on Firefly stuff. Mal, Jayne and River guard my wireless modem along with 2 Wash type dinos. I have several posters, the ornament, signed comics and a whole notebook filled with Firefly/Serenity/KNTR things. Multiple copies of the BDS and BDM for both watching and lending.

And now I write and I write fan fic! I've always dreamed about writing and this 'Verse let me put pen to paper (or more rightly, pixels on a screen).

I've made lots of friends due to Firefly, both online and in real life. The list is too numerous to list them separately but they are all soooo shiny!

One online friend helped me get a photo with both Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk (and indirectly also with Jewel Staite and Moreana Baccarin) at Dragon Con this year. And met all the great folks at the Shindig at D*C (and yes, I'm going next year. I already have hotel reservations...just waiting for airfares to come down to book a flight).

I've joined in on both the Raleigh CSTS planning and KNTR. In fact, both wouldn't exist with out Firefly.

The best thing I ever did was go to a screening of Serenity in October of 2005. My life hasn't been the same since.

http://fireflyfaninnc.livejournal.com/

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Thursday, November 13, 2008 4:39 PM

FLORALBUNNY

good topic, chrisisall, in the year 2008,
another circuit of our blue marble around
our Sun past that one magic season.

I play my DVDs and hope they won't wear
out.

The wallpaper on my machine is that golden
photo of Serenity's galley which appears on
the home page of FFF.net.

I follow the alumni of our departed show and
compare characters and performances.

I wish I could go to Cons and dress up.

I try to spread the FF love.

I caption, however poorly (!) if only to keep
the caption threads up where folk can enjoy them.

I fic, too, mostly in my mind, and catch myself
wondering if we hoominbeans will find those new
worlds in time. When I hear news such as we did
tonight, that extrasolar planets have been
*directly observed* rather than interpolated from
other observations, I am overwhelmed with the
excitement of knowing that we are on the verge
of finding potentially inhabitable extrasolar
planets. Tonight's planets wouldn't even be
terraformable (allow word coinage?) but there
will be some. I know it.

bun
Frisky Browncoat
cockeyed optimist

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Friday, November 14, 2008 3:55 AM

ARTCAT81

Who would have thought that one day, a cancelled television show would be counted among the things that define me?

Two years now, I have made the journey from Houston, TX to Atlanta, GA for DragonCon. I go for the browncoats, my adopted family, and dear friends. The convention is merely a backdrop for the family reunion.

I have met some of the nicest, smartest, and genuine friends through the browncoats that I could ever hope to meet.

Browncoats are the shiniest folks in the 'verse
www.texasartcat.com/bluesun.html <--my bluesunshop

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Friday, November 14, 2008 9:25 AM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by ncbrowncoat:
Mal, Jayne and River guard my wireless modem along with 2 Wash type dinos.

Do you call it "this wireless"?

Chrisisall

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Friday, November 14, 2008 11:12 AM

MSA

OK that may have been the best laugh I have had all week ...HUGS Chrisisall

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Friday, November 14, 2008 1:13 PM

NCBROWNCOAT

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:
Originally posted by ncbrowncoat:
Mal, Jayne and River guard my wireless modem along with 2 Wash type dinos.

Do you call it "this wireless"?

Chrisisall
]

*huge giggle* That's sooooo funny!

http://fireflyfaninnc.livejournal.com/

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:55 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

I am beginning to wonder how many new blu-ray players will be sold solely for watching Firefly/Serenity.
Wiould this be a possible marketing program? Letting retailers know why this bluray player is being sold?
I am still considering it. Hate Sony, but loves Firefly. (or obsesses). I wasn't really a Trekkie, but I'm beginning to feel the vibe of it.

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:35 PM

SHINYGOODGUY

There are few shows that, throughout the years, have had an impact on me. Some, like M.A.S.H. or Space: A&B, were pure enjoyment having a laugh or a good story, and others that make you think and reflect upon life (Quantum Leap).

But with Firefly I got all the best of what a show can give. Sci-fi being my fav genre (it's the kid in me) and mixing that with western themes (tell me would you have thought of putting cowboys in space?) OMG - as the Scarecrow would say after getting his "brains" from the Wizard - "Oh Joy and rapture."

To an admitted sci-fi junkie with cowboy tendecies (I grew up with Roy Rogers, Zorro, Lone Ranger and Cisco Kid) this has been like releasing Cookie Monster into the Keebler Elf forest. And for me it's always been the story that hooks me. Sure, I loves me some contraptions, space shuttles, epic space battles and ray guns, etc., then throw in an element of "magic" with the secret that River carried as a human-type of Superhero with special powers, OVERDOSE, TOO MANY FANTASTICAL CHILDHOOD DREAMS COMING TO FRUITION.

But, in the end, it was the storytelling. Joss wove and spun a great story that captured some of the fantasy adventures that dwelled in my imagination. Space and cowboys - could it get any better. The Matrix movies came close, as did the early Star Wars (Eps. 4,5,6) but this journey we were allowed to share with the crew, well...... was special.

I just don't understand how this phenomenon - the browncoats - and how much this show is beloved has not translated to either several sequels or a TV comeback. I have never been a part of something this unique. Six years. Dammit, six years after, more fans than ever. Millions around the world, literally. Whenever I get a little down I just pull out my BDH or the BDM and it actually helps.

Thanks for letting me vent!

"When your miracle comes, just press this button"

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 8:26 PM

JRNYFAN

Words can not describe nor can mere prose do justice to the adoration and love I have for all things Firefly.

I was your typical 23 yr. old male when I first saw the TV show right after the movie came out. I had a nice girlfriend, played some computer games from time to time and generally kept to myself on most things. I watched the movie and was enthralled. Then a buddy said this was based on a TV Show and I was gifted a copy of the BDS and my world has never been the same. I watched the series and when Tracey says: "When you can't run, you crawl. And when you can't crawl, when you can't do that…" and then Zoe said the line that caused me to break down in tears for the first time in years: "… you find someone to carry you." I honestly can not say that I have been more deeply moved than I was at that moment AND IT WAS A FREAKING TV SHOW...and somehow there was poetic justice in that for me.

To make a very long story shorter, I finished the series and have been professing my browncoatness ever since.

To all who know and love this 'verse, I offer the most simple of phrases that very eloquently sums up my feelings and the feelings of many thousands out there in the black:

You can't stop the signal.

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Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:14 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

A bit ironic, that the last words ever boradcast on Fox from BDS: "We're still flying" was the opposite of truth.

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