Yes, this site went quiet again. This time around, it's because I was procrastinating on posting new commentaries, and then when transferring my email from my old laptop to the new, I lost them all. So, if you've submitted anything to this site at any point since December 2006, please resubmit it, and I apologize for the inconvinence.
Obviously, I let this site lapse into dormancy some months ago. Well, more than half a year ago, to be slightly more precise about it.
Several people have submitted commentary listings in the last couple of weeks. They, and you, may notice they have not been posted.
As of today, Big Damn Commentaries has reached the milestone of having at least one fan-recorded audio commentary for each and every Firefly episode, for Serenity, and for the R. Tam Sessions. All told, the site now has twenty-four such commentaries listed and available for download.
Big Damn Commentaries received its first (to our knowledge) press mention this week, in a Tampa Bay Times article on podcast audio commentaries for television shows.
One of the tricky things about submitting commentaries for listing here is that if you don't have a place to host the mp3 so it can be directly linked, our podcast-enabled RSS feed won't pick it up.
Over on the official Versal boards, in a comment on our re-announcement of this site's existence, a fellow Browncoat expresses some skepticism about the concept of fan-recorded commentaries.
We'll be posting the first commentary submission either later tonight or sometime tomorrow. In advance of that there are a few quick things work mentioning, because there no doubt will be some kinks to work out along the early going here.
Just a quick note to welcome any visitors coming thanks to the brief mention in Firefly Talk #4, this week's edition of that particular podcast. You'll note, perhaps with some confusion, that there isn't anything posted here other than site news. Two reasons for this.
First of all, Amazon now is taking pre-orders on the Serenity DVD, complete with the monstrously-bad box art which has been causing something of a ruckus today. So, with pre-orders underway for the December 20 release, now is the time to begin contemplating what you'll do for those Browncoat-recorded audio commentary tracks you're all salivating to do.
As it says over at the top of the sidebar on the main index, Big Damn Commentaries will be a clearinghouse of audio commentary tracks recorded by Browncoats for episodes of the Joss Whedon television series Firefly and its major motion picture follow-up Serenity.