New Browncoats here, please
POSTED BY: rklenseth
UPDATED: Thursday, May 4, 2006 19:22
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I'm not entirely sure I haven't already introduced myself (to be honest what time is spent on the computer is usually my "winding down" time - ie by the time I get off this machine I'm a bit tipsy)
So, here's how it is...
About four months ago my third ex-fiance (who I hadn't seen in 12 years and just recently reestablished a tentative friendship), introduced me to the movie Serenity. He'd already seen it, but told me it was one of those movies he could watch over and over (my standards being a bit different from his made me think otherwise. Fortunately I was proven wrong).
Two weeks later a classmate and I were talking about the movie and he mentioned he had all the episodes on DVD and would I like to borrow them. Um, hell yes?
Then I went out and bought my own damn copy of the movie - I want to watch this as many times as I feel like watching it. Thing is, when I buy a movie I like on DVD, I watch all the extras... including watching it with closed captioning (to make sure I get all the lines) and with the commentary on. Hook, line, sinker.
Then I realized that geez, there must be quite a few fans to get a movie off the ground... and figured there would be sites for fans. I bounced around a few of them, enjoying most of what I saw. Then I stumbled on this one. Fell in LOVE with some of the fanfic (JanaFae being the one that really tagged me.. "naughty?" "girl, that is downright dirty" - YUM). Then I started reading the threads... I absolutely love some of the theories floating around and some of the threads were a lot of fun to read. So I figure, what the hell... I'll get myself registered and see what else is around. lol, that and about a week ago I became taken with a storyline of my own and started writing it down. I'm hoping someday/oneday it'll be something I'd want to share with others.
So! That's it in a nutshell. Really enjoying this website and getting to read all the tasty ideas floating around. 
ECAmber
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Hi all. I just have started watching the series via Netflix. The 4th disc and Serenity should arrive tommorrow. Basically, I'm experiencing it all for the 1st time and lovin' it! Can't believe this was only one season long, it's just so good! *gush, gush*
Anyway I'm from New York and looking forward to getting to know you all. 
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I want to say to everyone here "Welcome Aboard"
I'm glad to see all the noobs here and as a matter of fact I'm pretty new myself.
Something I find odd and maybe other browncoats can help me out. For every Firefly fan here. Or for that matter every FF fan site on the internet, there must be 30 or maybe even 100 fans that are not members.
I understand that the Joss/verse didn't find a nitch the first time around but can't them rutting tv exects see the following it has generated now. Theres money to be made on them there outer rim planets. Heck t-shirt sales alone could bankroll a small country.
When folks are wanting to toss a bucket of cash on you "It just don't make no sense" as Jayne would say, to turn around and walk away.
Oh well, enough ranting. Glad to see everyone on the boat. Enjoy.
Z
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Checking in again to be sure to welcome all the new 'coats and to let you know the buffet in the galley has been completely refreshed and is ready for questioning. Mangos, hot cheese, strawberries, all the very best for our crew.
Must confess a little envy when I read that someone hasn't finished watching the series yet. My DVDs are wearing thin from viewing.
If you really love the show, introduce your next of kin, your classmates, your co-workers to this lovely 'Verse and perhaps we'll get another season or two or three or.....
Mystifies me it does that Star Trek is about to get a "prequel" and we're out here on the drift.
6/23 is 2 months away.
bun
-- bastards singed my turtle --
----- why's the rum gone? -----
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I'm in Arkansas. Got the DVD set at a PX while I was on active duty in the military. Watched a few episodes in Iraq before I got hurt.Like what I saw. Hope to hear from others.
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Hi all, I'm an American expat living in Hong Kong (guess I'm experiencing Sino-American fusion firsthand....)
Never caught the show on TV (thanks FOX...) but I saw the Firefly DVD for sale in Best Buy a couple of weeks ago and some fuzzy corner of my limited brain dredged up some (seemingly) useless info about this DVD set having such longevity and success on Amzaon's tracker. So I bought it and needless to say I haven't looked back!
I was on a British Airways flight from HK to London last month and they offered Serenity as one of the movies on your personal screen. Naturally I unbuckled my seatbelt, reached into the overhead compartment, put on my Browncoat and settled in. The great thing was that in my sub-divided cabin there were about 40 seats; at least half the people were watching Serenity because everyone started cracking up the first time we actually see the ship (Mal: What was that!?, Wash: Did you see that!? etc, etc....) So hopefully we picked up some international recruits!
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Thank you for your service, Crajon. Are you another of those lucky people who hasn't seen the whole series yet?
When you're done, there's an unfilmed episode in script form at
http://www.fireflyfans.net/feature.asp?f=45
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HongKongBrowncoat, what was your fellow passengers' reaction to seeing a certain character take a Reaver harpoon? To the River "hero shot?" To the emergence of the Reaver ships from the ion cloud?
Would have liked to be a fly on the plane (a tiny, unnoticeable one not to be swatted) to watch reactions.
bun
-- bastards singed my turtle --
----- why's the rum gone? -----
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FloralBunny, people jumped when Character X got turned into shish kabob; I was too busy watching the movie to really see anything else but i was talking to the guy in the seat next to me and he loved River's bar fight.
I'll echo Floral's comments too Crajon, thanks sercing your country and I wish you the best while you recover.
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Hi everyone, I'm a newbie, originally from Jolly old England and been in NYC for . . . dear gods 13 years now, Scary!
Looking forward to Serenity day and the showing in NYC.
Trying to get the word out.
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Hello all, this is my first post. I watched Firefly when it first came out, and was sad to see it get canceled. I'm looking forward to Serenity Day, and thinking of throwing a Shindig of my own for a couple of friends.
One day.
One plan.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
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