How long you reckon upon being a browncoat?
POSTED BY: agirlyman
UPDATED: Thursday, October 19, 2006 23:44
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I love you JBW, and I too hope we are all here posting and talking 20 years from now.
And I'm really envious of your tatoo!
Post pics please, when it's done?
" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal
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see that piece of hell over there all frozen over?? well long past that!
LOL
I think you just are one.. end.of.story.
So as FollowMal and JBW said... til the end of my time on this mortal coil..
Chindi
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Good to see ya FM - love ya too *hugs*!!
The tat i was hoping would happen this week, won't. Who knew tattoo parlours were so busy!! it's small local shop in my neighbourhood and they don't have an opennig till End of April...I'll be sure to post a pic or two! After all, it is serenity!
JBW
PS - I almost streaked though your appeciatin' nathan thread the other night, screaming *ADAM IS A HOTTIE!* but didn't know how you'd all react....
I'll be in Jaynes bunk
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You know it gets exhausting always being on the losing side. The things I'm most drawn to seem to be dying from lack of interest by the 'verse at large. Had never heard of Firefly but Serenity got great reviews in Chicago and wanted to see it in the theater. Missed it. Waited for it to be on DVD - always out at the video store. Rented it and got giddy. Went to work still giddy and couldn't stop talking about it - discovered a browncoat sympathizer. Next day his set of DVDs were on my chair. Home to watch as many as possible. Dreamed about the show, the characters. Found this website. Bought my own copies.
This a familiar tale, oft' repeated. But it is a happy happy place here. And as a shy reader of other people's postings for the past month, I've really enjoyed other people's stories. So I worked up the courage to say hello.
I do think that if Firefly hadn't been axed so soon and if it wasn't such an underdog, it wouldn't be so special (not in anyway discounting how really excellent it is script-wise, cast-wise, etc.). I'm a sucker for lost causes. But for the first time ever - the cause isn't really lost. Because all you guys are here, too.
Thanks.
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Until the whitecoats take me away and tie my sleeves behind my back.
-Stay Shiny
"The people who made the show, and the people who saw the show, which is roughly the same number of people, fell in love with it, a little bit too much to let it go, too much to lay down arms when when the battle looked pretty much lost. In Hollywood, people like that are called unrealistic, quixotic, obsessive... In my world, they're called Browncoats."
-Joss Whedon
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Heh... I am a recently converted Browncoat and while I don't forsee myself dressing in costume or going to conventions, I find my love of the show comes from the images and ideas behind it, the idea of independence and freedom and fighting for what is right - not just in terms of true justice, but what is right for you and yours.
Firefly was a modern fairy tale without being cut in black and white... it was colored in shades of grey and brown and, if you study it hard enough, shows conflicts within humankind. Laugh if you want, because the gods know that overanalyzing television shows brings to mind the Comic Book Guy on the Simpsons, but Joss really did tap into some overarching mytharcs of the human experience.
What does that mean? It means that I am a Browncoat now and probably will be forever because the story captured my imagination and made me think and wonder and question and dream.
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Love keeps her in the air when she ought to fall down... tells you she's hurting before she keels.
Makes her a home.
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When I found Serenity/Firefly last October, it was just what I was looking for at that point in my life. I just started university, and was having a difficult time adjusting
, i broke up with my first ever girlfriend (only for a month though, but it was still a big deal), and I was having a hard time at home with my parents.
Firefly gave me something to look forward to every night after studying. It had the laughs, the friendship, the longing to be free, and the dedication of the people in it. Despite being a work of fiction, it feels more real than most "real" things in the world do. Firefly/Serenity has heart.
I was a HUGE Star Wars fan when i was younger, which lasted about 6 years of my life. Looking back on that, I know that I would choose Firefly & Serenity ANY DAY over anything else in the entertainment medium. If I were stranded on a desert island with nothing but Firefly and Serenity, I would be one happy fellow.
I will forever be a Browncoat, and I'm damn proud of it. I don't care what anyone says.
Stay Shiny and Keep Flyin'.
"Coulda, shoulda, woulda".
"I aim to misbehave."
"Can't do something smart, do something right".
HOMER: "Oh Lisa, you and your stories; Bart is a vampire, beer kills brain cells. Now lets go back to that... building thingy... where our beds and T.V.... is".
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Until I'm takin' that dirt nap with baby Jesus.
Amen.
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I'm kinda new around here, and haven't read many posts. You see, for a long time I participated in the Star Wars fandom (see my name). But that group of people in general have turned into some of the sourest and unpleasant people to discuss things with... that it was unbearable for me anymore. But the level of friendly discussion and general comradery present in the posts I've read on this site has quickly shown me how enjoyable and level-headed the FF fandom is. I shed a tear when reading this thread; seeing the friendship that a television show can bring. I think I've found a new home. 
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