Newbie Question for The Veteran Browncoats of 2002

POSTED BY: Nellie
UPDATED: Friday, February 24, 2006 16:17
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CHINDI

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 9:18 PM

hmmm now now nellie.. welcome to our little corner of the black... I am not a browncoat from 2002 but I am thoroughly browncoat through and through...

FollowMal picked up the honor/duty of handing out coats and that is just fine with me... first of all no one else was doing it.. and it was a job that needed to be done.. also those die hards from 02 are deserving of a little R&R time.. they have held the line all this time.. they "done"the impossible and we are all in theit debt.. they deserve some rack time while we newer folks hold the line.

so as far as this browncoat is concerned... it's all good and everyone is welcome.. except of course Kaele who always burns the rice... sheesh...

Chindi

FOLLOWMAL

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 9:43 PM

Did she burn the rice again? I wondered what that smell was... thought perhaps there'd been another explosion!

Well, mor'n likely she got the chicken right... we're still in for a feast.

Just don't let her near my storeroom anymore!

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

DAKARN

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 10:10 PM

Originally, I never even knew Firefly existed. I first found out about Serenity!! (Imagine that.) I had gone to see a movie, (Alexander, I believe) and saw the trailer for the BDM. After it was through, my friends and I all looked at each other and said "Oh..my..god! We HAVE to go see that!" I finally found out that the movie was based off a TV series and started looking for it. Nobody ever told me it had already been cancelled. (Those ! )

Eventually, I saw Firefly in the line-up on the SciFi channel. First was a teaser in the SciFi Friday line-up, just before SG-1. Right then, I made plans to either have Friday off of work, or set the recorder at work so that I could watch it after the store closed. "Screw Stargate, seen it before!"

I never missed an episode.

Then, I saw the movie on opening day. Then I went and saw it again. Bought the DVD the day it came out, but still wanted more. So! I went and bought the FF Boxset from Target, and hooked my father. My mother hates me now.

Can't stop the signal!! We will get a sequel, or another TV series... Or BOTH! Just can't give up. Or, in the words of another SciFi show:

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"Never give up! Never surrender!"

MIRAMEL

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 10:26 PM

im relatively new, i did infact become aware of/fall in love with firefly befoer serenity, but only just. my first interaction with this 'verse, actually, was demo-ing the serenity RPG at gen con w/ a whole bunch of what were obviously browncoats. like someone earlier said, you DO fall hard- i got home from g-con, rented firefly, and did my best in the month or so befoer the bdm to make up for lost time (not that i of course got anywhere near enough, one cant catch up three years of time in one month, or many, for that matter, it just can't be done. all we can do let our anger at missing the first 3 years drive us even harder.) its a mark of how truly unique firefly is, i think, that it turns even those who are usually casual fans in to fanatical devotee's. as for those of us who are normally fanatical, well, we've come to redefine the word ;) theres a quote of joss's floating around, im usre most of you know it, that ends something like "in my world, they're called browncoats", which is the closest anyones come (to my knowledge) of defining what a browncoat is, and i think it does a really good job of it, because while it implies some of the qualitys many browncoats pride themselves on (fanatacism, stoubourness, etc.) it still leaves it fairly wide open, kinda suggeting that anyone who considers themself a browncoat is a browncoat. i can't begin to thank or say how much i respect the original 'coats, except to say that i'll spend the rest of my time in this 'verse trying to make up for those first three years (wont actually happen, but hey, ya gotta try).

GELASSENHEIT

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 1:31 AM

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I've been a Browncoat (though I didn't know that word then) since the show first aired on Fox. I didn't join the online community until the runup to Serenity's release, but I've been doing my recruiting duty all along.

Same here. I lurked the boards, signed the petitions, but as nothing happened, I thought everything was going to nothing. Figured everyone was moving on. Didn't know that when Mal said "hold" there was these Browncoats who did just that. Thanks for those who stuck around.

Gelassenheit means Serenity

MADMAN007

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 2:43 AM

The way I introduced myself to Firefly was very slow to begin with. I was a Buffy fan since ep 1 to ep 144 (I still have ALL the eps on tape as I recorded the original airings). I kinda liked Angel (only with Buffy crossovers). Then I heard about Firefly and the new genre "space western". I watched Train Job and to tell the truth, I thought it was trite and cliche. So, not a good ep to start with. I blame Fox for that, too. If they had shown the 2 hour pilot, I believe more people would have watched. Unfortunately, I never caught on to it when it originally aired. When baseball preempted the show, I actually didn't care. I'm a baseball fanatic.
So, fast forward a few years when I heard Joss was making a movie of Firefly and directing it himself. I thought that was brave. It wasn't until last year when I read enough about the story of the movie to spark my interest. I planned on seeing the movie but I wanted to see the show first. Payday came the week before the movie came out and I just went to Best Buy and bought it. Just like that. I spent that week watching all the eps in order. Like it has been said here before, I fell hard. By weeks end, I could not wait to see the movie.
After that, I went into Browncoat recruitment mode. I let my coworkers borrow the DVDs and they all got hooked. One coworker's wife hates me a little because Firefly is all she loves now.
I even made a T-shirt of my own with the Serenity logo. I tell people who ask about my shirt to go see it. It IS better than the last Star Wars movie, and this coming from a lifelong Jedi.
I agree that once you understand Firefly's story and love it, it will stay in your bloodstream forever. The original Star Wars had that same quality. All the prequels fell short because good old George chose visual effects over characterization. He lost that in the prequels. Joss bled rich characters back into the story. And THATS why we love them so much. There's a mystery to each character. We want to know more. So, here's to having more.
LONG LIVE BROWNCOATS!

"No.....THIS is what going mad feels like.

NELLIE

Thursday, February 23, 2006 5:37 AM

Well thanks to everybody for replying, especially the 2002 veterans MSCKAREN and MOOSE. I hope their leader HAKEN will have some kind of anniversary celebration on April 1, 2006 to honor the veterans who have kept the faith all these years.

SHINY

Thursday, February 23, 2006 6:35 AM

If you love Firefly/Serenity and do what you can to spread the word and share the love, then you're a browncoat. Don't matter none who's handing 'em out or when you got yours.

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I don't need a gorram back-spaceship driver!!!

NELLIE

Thursday, February 23, 2006 1:05 PM

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Originally posted by Shiny:
If you love Firefly/Serenity and do what you can to spread the word and share the love, then you're a browncoat. Don't matter none who's handing 'em out or when you got yours.

I didn't mean to upset Chindi or Followmal or interfere with the girls having fun---I only thought we should pay our respects to those who have fought the battle for so long before us. Please forgive me if I upset anyone, OK?

And Shiny, you just summed it all up better than anybody---my hat is off to you, honorable veteran!

FOLLOWMAL

Thursday, February 23, 2006 1:26 PM

Didn't upset anyone, Nellie, we just wanted to make sure we weren't doing anything we shouldn't do. We don't want to be disrespectful. I for one, have been very interested in what this thread conjured up in thought. I wanted to be sure that even in fun, I was being appropriate.

I have the utmost respect for the folks that started this... I hold them as honorable. Even when I'm having slapstick fun, my heart means to make this place home for the new folks coming in.
I want them to know that that love they felt the instant they fell in love with Firefly is here too. And that we can all make a difference together. I think the folks that started this and were here made me feel that way instantly, I'm just doing it too. In my own way. Which is one of the things I like most about this place. We let each other be ourselves.

If one of the original Browncoats were to ask me to quit being so silly, I would do it out of respect for them...in an instant.

I hope as well that there could be some celebration of the fact that they fought so hard and won the BDM. I just also think that there is more fightin' to do and that there is more to come. We just have to hold. They gave us the example to follow. I'm going to do that.

There's nothing to forgive... we're all Browncoats together. This is home.

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

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