It totally negates your post---in CRAXYLAND.
Angel: Lorne, you're— Lorne: Reliable as a cheap fortune cookie? Angel: I was gonna say a guy with good contacts…
'Shells'
Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
Scrappy - Oct 10, 2005 8:34:50 pm PDT #6281 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Allyson - Oct 10, 2005 8:47:00 pm PDT #6282 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
In fairness, I said that things like buying tickets for strangers and papering cars in parking lots crossed a line into prostelytizing that made me feel uncomfortable.
Some compared that to street teaming, which I suppose is fair, except I don't understand the need for street teaming when there's a large, funded marketing campaign from which I cannot escape on television.
I also said some Browncoats have gone off the deepend into religious fanatacism that I found creepy. I could copy and paste posts, but find that to be bad form, so I didn't. But you can sift through handfuls of posts at the Serenity board and feel fully creeped out.
Tamara - Oct 10, 2005 9:05:37 pm PDT #6283 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Don't go to the Serenity board. That way lies madness.
Allyson - Oct 10, 2005 9:09:53 pm PDT #6284 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
It's not madness! They're just having fun! It's a free country! Who are you to say what people should or shouldn't do with their time?
You're just part of the backlash! You're not a team player! IFWEDONTGETASEQUELITISALLYOURFAULTHIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
tianxiaode - Oct 10, 2005 9:12:43 pm PDT #6285 of 10001
Adrian Pasdar: bringing hot (and ambiguously gay) to a new level since Top Gun.
Has this been linked here yet? [link]
Tamara - Oct 10, 2005 9:13:06 pm PDT #6286 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Yes. I am a bad Browncoat. I have only seen the movie 13 times and I shirk in my duties.
The craxies are abundunt and give those of us who wish for a sequel a bad taint. *shrug*
If we get a sequel I will be estatic, if not I will be content.
And the drink offered at Whedonesque still stands, Allyson.
manzo - Oct 11, 2005 1:28:10 am PDT #6287 of 10001
If we're really lucky, they'll do it in that order...
To be honest, I personally would never even describe myself as a Browncoat, even though I'm sure I've got enough of the boxes ticked to "qualify". I'm not denigrating any who does, it's just not my bag. If anyone asks what I did at the weekend, I'll mention seeing Serenity, and I'll tell them to go see it, but I draw the line at the level of evangelising that some have gone to.
So, I agree with pretty much most of what Allyson and the CHUD dude wrote (though I'd say that the CHUD dude was wrong: Firefly was as good as Freaks and Geeks).
I really don't get the people who have been buying tickets to leave at the box office, or when they aren't even going themselves. If only for the simple financial reason that it won't make a damn difference to whether there is a sequel or not. Think about it: If 1000 people buy ten tickets each, that's around $700k. I can't believe that the sequel will not get made for the lack of that amount of money.
Go see the film multiple times because you want to see it, not because you think that you need to help keep the box office numbers up.
Er, I've kinda lost the point of why I started this post. Move along now people, there's nothing to see here...
Calli - Oct 11, 2005 4:35:21 am PDT #6288 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I liked the movie. Saw it twice. I'll probably buy the DVD the day it comes out. That said, the craxy side of fandom leaves me shaking my head. If the movie doesn't do well enough to merit a sequel, then it doesn't do well enough. Joss put together a movie that I liked a lot. If enough other folks didn't agree, well, that's how it goes. I saw plenty of ads for the movie. I don't think any one with a fondness for SF movies could have been near a computer, TV, or cineplex for the past few months without hearing about the movie. So if it doesn't do well enough to make the studio cough up the bucks for Serenity 2: Who Can We Kill Off Next? I think that means that fairly well informed folks looked at Serenity, looked at the other movie offerings (or tv, or the book they just bought) and chose something else.
It's not a religious failing. It's not a betrayal of The Master. It's just life.
And if we do get Serenity 2: Yeah, Simon's Straight, Really and We're Proving It With Maximum Skin Exposure I will be there opening night.
sumi - Oct 11, 2005 4:36:35 am PDT #6289 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Well, I am happy that the browncoat board is such a pita to negotiate -- I've been ignoring it and now I have even more reason to do so. (Apparently, based on things said here.)
lisah - Oct 11, 2005 4:52:44 am PDT #6290 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
If anyone asks what I did at the weekend, I'll mention seeing Serenity, and I'll tell them to go see it, but I draw the line at the level of evangelising that some have gone to.
Yeah I've mentioned the movie to people I think will like it. I'm just happy that a bunch of people I've talked to who never saw Firefly LOVED the movie. I'm all, "Go get the DVDs. The series was so much better!"