That's too bad, askye. My own father is a born-again (crossing over from habitual Catholicism) and even he adored Firefly and I can't remember him batting an eyelash at Inara. But he also adores astronomy and somehow manages to compartmentalize creationism and scientific fact in a peaceable manner.
I'm still incredibly saddened that Jane Espensen's ep took the Inara story in the generic direction, instead of the more interesting "Yeah, we actually are a spiritual organisation that uses sex as one of our tools. Okay, so some of us are really glorified mistresses spinning a publicity yarn, but Inara believes it" and just made her a silly whore.
I wasn't even thinking about the episode where Inara has a female client No way would Dad be okay with that. or heart of Gold.
My Dad's a Christian, but I can't really say born again since he was raised up a Southern Baptist (although he attends a different denomination now).
My friend David at work is now planning to check out Buffy through Netflix because of Firefly.
My friend David at work is now planning to check out Buffy through Netflix because of Firefly.
That's basically what happened with me. A co-worker dragged me to the movie. I was like "I never heard of the tv show, and I really don't want to watch the movie if I didn't watch the TV show" So glad he did. Then, for New Years Eve, we had a Firefly marathon party. Talk about mainlining a show! whoa! Loved. every. minute. After that, I started borrowing Buffy and Angel DVD's from folks (mostly ND & KT). I'm finished with Buffy, and about half so with Angel. Apparently I caught "an episode" of buffy on late night once, and saw it as a very stupid thing. Valley Girl with a stake. Turns out, I caught part of the original movie. TV show MUCH better!
Anyhow, Firefly has a special corner of my heart! LOVE IT! So much so, the Serenity movie poster is the wallpaper on my iPhone (the logo with the date).
I have a colleague who has asked to borrow Buffy DVDs based on her love of Firefly.
And Juliebird, I totally get the grandfather analogy. One thing that I really appreciate about the kerfuffle, although kerfuffle seems like the wrong word, is that it seems to have really energized the thread. I'm sorry that some feel bad about this, but I'm so happy with this discussion and so looking forward to the upcoming watch'n'post.
I'm sorry that some feel bad about this, but I'm so happy with this discussion and so looking forward to the upcoming watch'n'post.
Bizactly, as my brother would say. The renewed interest is IMHO what matters the most. The shiney new thread is a very very close fucking second.
Amen! I was thinking that this morning. You don't know what you got till it's (almost) gone. Glad it stayed alive. Sad that it was such a close vote. But then again, I have that naive mentality of "can't we all just get along"
I always want to understand where people are coming from. I wish I could get the pov of those who voted to close the thread. Did anyone ever answer your question about resources, Omnis? The best I could get was "it's sad, sitting there not being used" which, OK then, don't subscribe, you know?
nope. No answer on the resources question.
My understanding from discussions about other proposed threads is that resources were not an issue for this thread. I could be wrong, but that's my understanding.
