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.
I think it's an issue of community splintering, not of this particular thread. If there are lots of threads where only 5 or 6 people post, we run the risk of becoming WC, and people really want to be vigilant about that. Having Buffistas be a community where we are all bumping into each other and chatting is the whole point we created it and donate money and all of that, so people are concerned about setting things up so we are all often in the same "rooms." Really, Iit's not just this thread, any thread that only gets a little traffic is going to be looked at seriously when it comes up for renewal.
that makes a lot of sense, Robin. thank you.
Wow, Juliebird, that grandpa analogy is stunningly brilliant. (and, apropos of nothing in particular, reminding me off all the dreams I've had where my grandfather (who died in '02) is alive and I'm the only one puzzled by that. I've decided that those dreams are him saying Hi.)
Every time I come here now I just want to hug the thread, and all y'all. I completely appreciate wanting to keep the community from fragmenting, and that's one of the nifty things about this board to me: its community. But I'm one of the shy people at the edge of the cool kids' crowd: there's no way I could keep up with Natter.
