Why be a Brown coat?
POSTED BY: ekidd79
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 00:25
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I didn't choose to be a Browncoat. I chose to rent Disc 1 of the series when we finished watching a bunch of other DVDs we were following (The Sopranos, The Shield, The Wire) and promptly fell all over myself, laughing (or gasping, as appropriate) at the dialogue, singing along to the Ballad of Serenity, noticing all the little details, musing about the 'Verse, caring about the characters, falling in love with Mal...
The series ended and I didn't know what to do with myself. A friend mentioned that there are fan websites out there and I found myself obsessively reading them and contributing them... and now I'm writing fanfic, goddess help me...
And then I bought the series DVDs... my first DVD purchases ever...
I don't know how it happened, but Joss and co. made me care intensely about the Serenity crew, and I'm not ready to let them go. So here I am.
Indigo S.
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"and I'm not ready to let them go. So here I am."
That sums it up exactly for me. I am just not ready. Don't think I ever will.
One day.
One mission.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave!
Nathan doesn't know it yet, but I am his one true love! Is that weird? 
(he will believe, he will believe)
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To watch Inara bathe
Time for some thrilling heroics.
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all these people have take my little response to greater hights in a way I never could have done myself. I have never been prouder to call a group of people my freinds *wipes a tear from his eye* well I hope we have answered your question, and if we haven't I'm sure some more people will be along soon.
One Day.
One Mission
One Army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, We Aim To Misbehave.
www.SerenityJune23rd.com
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Thanks for all the comments so far, you're all fab people for helping with my research project.
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I first knew I was a Browncoat when I saw someone online refer to them. And I thought, "Yeah, that's me."
Because the dialogue is exactly what real-life dialogue is if people bother to say what's on their minds.
Mal: "Do you want to run this ship?"
Jayne: "Yeah, I do."
Mal: "Well...you can't."
There is something endearing about that kind of talk.
Also, Firefly just FEELS like home. I grew up in Georgia, and that's a lot like how we talk down here. I spent a lot of time learning how not to speak that way, but then seeing Mal and the others do it with such pinache, it made me proud to be who I've always been.
Because Firefly is about loyalty to your family, taking care of your crew. It's about simple desires, like simply keepin' it flyin'. It's about keeping your sense of humor when times are tough and realizing you'll make it through the storm. This one, and every other. It's about taking care of business in the present even when the past is eating at you. It's about freedom, and keeping one step ahead of the Alliance.
Besides, I just like brown.
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Everybody already gave answers that are exactly what I would write if I was that clever/insightful/brilliant.
However, I can add one more aspect of Firefly's appeal: timelessness. I've enjoyed several TV shows throughout my life and there are many of them that I could never watch again now because they'd seem outdated or boring after the first time I saw them. Yet I watch "Firefly" over and over because it never gets old and there's always something new to discover in each episode. I think when I watch it again in ten years, and twenty years, and fifty years, I'll feel the same way. (Not that I won't be watching it again before then!) 
One day.
One mission.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23, we aim to misbehave.
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Originally posted by DashboardDino:
Also, Firefly just FEELS like home. I grew up in Georgia, and that's a lot like how we talk down here. I spent a lot of time learning how not to speak that way, but then seeing Mal and the others do it with such pinache, it made me proud to be who I've always been.
Firefly feels like home to me too and I'm in Maine, and when I listen to them talk it feels like what I'd hear around here.
In a more general sense I love the way the talk like real people. I've never met anyone who would talk like the people on Star Trek (nothinmg against the show mind you), I have met people who would say, "We may experiance slight turbulance and then explode." I have met people who would say something like, "I need that in captain dummy talk." I expect the phrase, "In ernest," to come from the same person who said, "If I'd wanted schooling I'd have gone to school."
But on most shows I won't get that. People never seem to say what they would say in real life.
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Because Firefly is about loyalty to your family, taking care of your crew. It's about simple desires, like simply keepin' it flyin'. It's about keeping your sense of humor when times are tough and realizing you'll make it through the storm. This one, and every other. It's about taking care of business in the present even when the past is eating at you.
There's another way to say that: It's about life. And I agree.
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Yep. Exactly. Siiiiiiigh.
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