Have you EARNED a Browncoat??? Do you need a new one?

POSTED BY: Chindi
UPDATED: Monday, July 24, 2006 06:23
VIEWED: 17864
PAGE 6 of 9

PREV PAGE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NEXT PAGE

FOLLOWMAL

Saturday, July 22, 2006 4:35 AM

PR.. you don't have a browncoat? Our very own PR?!

That's terrible.

*hands PR a browncoat of her very own*

There, now enjoy how happy your smiley's will be. I love you guys smileys.

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

Click here www.fireflyfans.net for info about the Serenity Summer Campaign and how you can help!

PHOENIXROSE

Saturday, July 22, 2006 4:43 AM

Sqeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

**********************************

**********************************

SPASSJUNGE

Saturday, July 22, 2006 4:51 AM

I would have to say I'm about as new to the 'verse as one could be. I had never heard of Firefly, since Fox isn't on my usual list of channels to watch (network TV tends to blow hard IMO), and I have been in Europe for a while, so I was never exposed to Serenity. A couple weeks back, a buddy of mine who knows my interests and has similar ones, lent me the Firefly DVDs, describing it just as a sci-fi western, but he said he thought I would like it. I started watching Serenity a couple days later and had watched all 14 episodes within 3 days. I've probably watched them all at least twice now. I bought Serenity a couple days ago and watched it once, then again with Joss' commentary. Part of this is 'cuz I have a lot of time on my hands, but it is also a bit of an obsession now. Best dialogue in a TV show since the first few seasons of West Wing, and the action is great, I can't say enough about the show. Anyway, that's my story.

That's my first post BTW...haven't been a board whore in a while.

TRAVELER

Saturday, July 22, 2006 5:02 AM

I'm one of those channel surfers and accidently came across a show with Ron Glass on a spaceship. Seemed pretty good. But as usual a didn't pay any attention to what network I was watching or what night. Since I don't get a sunday paper or TV Guide I had no clue as to where to find this mysterious show again. I typically don't have a clue. But I never forget a movie or TV show I've seen even if I don't remember its name. So I'm assuming it went off the air before I could find it again. About a year ago I was at Best Buys looking for movies or anything that might enterain me and I saw the cover of the TV series Firefly and recognized the characters from the scene I watched years before. Being a science fiction nut and knowing that I enjoyed the short portion of the program I grabed the set and bought it. I really didn't know what to expect because I had seen so little of it before. As you all know it was a pleasant surprize. I have watched the series several times since I bought it and continue to enjoy how refreshingly different it is over other space travel type shows I've seen. When I saw Wash playing with dinosaurs and talking to himself I was sold. And every scene after that just drew me in more and more. I just sit back and wait for a Jayneism to make my day. Can you imagine any of the captains in a Star Trek series running up to their engineers and proclaiming "Were there space monkeys"? No. Heaven forbid if anybody on the Enterprize had a personality. Firefly is original. The people are real. They're just trying to earn their daily bread like the rest of us. That's what I enjoy the most. Makes them one of us. Mal wanted to get away from everyone after the war, so he bought a rundown old pile of junk and Zoe followed him. I think Zoe and Mal must of shared a lot of rations during the war. But look at the crew now. Mal didn't escape. He has, or until the movie, had eight people on his ship. Some drive him nuts, but what are families for but to drive each other crazy. Now you got me all weepy. I'm going to need a coat to use the sleaves to wipe off my tears. Preferably brown in color. A little worn. I like my clothes broken in. Buy a lot a stuff from secondhand stores. Oh I'm not done yet. This site is really great. I've been apart of this site for about three or four months and have read your thoughts and insites about Firefly. When I return to the series I watch for these new realizations and they make the show new again as I discover what all of you have shared on this fansite. So thank you for making Firefly even more special for me. And those limericks. God it takes me hours to come up with one. I don't know how some of you create such great ones. I nearly split a gut reading them.

Thanks again for a great site;
Traveler

PEULSAR5

Saturday, July 22, 2006 5:51 AM

I still have the browncoat Followmal gave me six months ago. It has gotten so comfortable I just can't see replacing it!

HEIGHTSRAIDER

Saturday, July 22, 2006 6:33 AM

I was channel surfing one Friday night, waiting for the wife to get ready, as we were going out for drinks with some friends. Saw the opening sequence of the Train Job, and it caught my eye.

I was a fan of Star Trek, and Trek TNG, and Battlestar Galactica from way back (was a kid when the original BSG was on tv), and have read Scifi/Fantasy for as long back as I can remember. So I was already set up emotionally as a fan of this type of show. Let's just say I have no problem suspending disbelief!

I had never seen Buffy or Angel, and had never heard of Joss Whedon before, so I had no preconcieved notions about what this show would be like.

I was hooked immediately. I remember distinctly saying, "Wow, what a cool show!" to my wife as she finally put her shoes on to go out as the credits rolled. I knew that I would be watching this show for a long time.

I caught every episode aired by fox, and then couldn't find it anymore. I was shocked. I couldn't believe this show wasn't on anymore.

But, life goes on.

Not so long after that, I noticed in my Amazon recomendations the DVD box set for Firefly. I immediately put it in my cart to buy, but as I usually buy about 15-20 hardback books at a time, it sat in my cart for a while. And then other books came out that I needed to buy, and since my cart was running at about $300, I needed to trim some of the fat. Unfortunately, some of that fat was FireFly.

So it was again forgotten for a while. Well, not forgotten, but it took a back seat to some of my other passions.

Then, while watching BSG on Sci-fi, I saw that they were going to re-run the series in a run-up to the BDM. Movie? Cool, they are going to release a movie, and I get to watch the series again! So I DVRed the series, and watched, loving every minute of them, and swearing to myself that I was going to see the BDM in the theater the weekend it came out.

But as the wife and I are sporadic movie goers, and it was her turn to pick the movie, I missed it.

I bought the movie on DVD for myself for Christmas, and as I had been given a gift certificate, I finally bought the series on DVD.

Yet, they sat, languishing on my TV, waiting to be watched....

A month or two goes by, and, after the wife had gone to bed (she goes to bed early, as she has to be up a lot early than me) I popped in the first episode, wanting to watch them all again before seeing the BDM. I was up until 2 am for about 3 nights watching the shows.

And finally I get to watch Serenity. And while I enjoyed it thoroughly, I was a tad disappointed. My characters (I have always felt like they were MINE, even though I know they are not my creation) didn't have the same feel, didn't have the same comraderie. In other words, it didn't feel like the SHOW.

I don't know how I found out about FFF.net. I must have done a google search on Firefly and found it. I lurked here for many months, and FollowMal gave me my coat after finally declaring myself, and posting my letter to Sci-fi after the last Frefly Marathon.

A luker no more.

SERYN

Saturday, July 22, 2006 6:41 AM

yup, er Hodgins and Zack if i remember the names properly.

I meant to change it actually, kept hearing great lines in Dr Who, and now can't remember any of them.

We all know Firefly eps of by heart now, and I like surprisin folks.

Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.
http://www.myspace.com/seryndippyt

SHINYALORA

Saturday, July 22, 2006 7:56 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Jigman:

I walked out of that theatre feeling...insane. I wanted to do something, draw something, work out, scream on top of of my dorm roof. Anything to keep this feeling inside me. It was unbelievable.

That's the exact feeling i've just never been able to put it into words right. I still feel it even now anytime I so much as think about firefly or serenity. LOVE it with a passion and an obsession that I think sometimes scares my friends but I just cant seem to let it go. Hopefully I wont scare too many of them away.

Anyway heres my conversion story:

I'm a big tnt and usa junkie and most times its just easier to leave my tv on those chanels. So, unfortunately that meant that I missed even hearing about firefly when it was on fox originally (and we didnt have sci-fi till bout a month ago).

My boyfriend at the time was over hanging out one day and had heard about the movie and we decided to check out the website. It was extremely well done and by the end of looking around at all of it I was sure that I wanted to see the movie and that I'd like it. We went a little while later and I absolutely fell in love with it. To this day I can name many reasons that I love the movie but I still can't pinpoint exactly what it is that got me hooked for life, but the feeling is there and its impossible to ignore.

He got the series and we started watching it in order and I was just continually more hooked as we went along. I now tell people about it all the time, listen to the signal podcast, play the text based rpg leaf on the wind, and turn on serenity and replay it over and over. And while I don't own the series yet I borrow from a friend disk by disk and am working on getting it once I have money. Went to the screening here in arizona and took my sis along who I've now converted. And soon I will be GMing Serenity and adding it to the roster of RPGs that my friends and I play and will hopefully turn them into full and obsessive browncoats or convert the newbies.

I love this 'verse, and us browncoats are absolutely amazing, and very very mighty. I love our community and our spirit and am glad to be a part of such a fine group.

stay shiny, and by all means keep flying,
love ya browncoats,
aubrey (aka alora)

(Ps sorry it was so long, after reading all the wonderfull stories i was kinda gushing lol)

CAPTURE

Saturday, July 22, 2006 2:39 PM

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

*giggles*

I am extra happy now!!!!

Capture me if you dare.

MICJWELCH

Saturday, July 22, 2006 2:40 PM

I guess I never actually introduced myself when I joined this site... So I never got one either. Does my idea for the letter writing campaign earn me one? I have a nice black coat (from Equilibrium), but a brown one would be so nice...

"We may experience some slight turbulence, and then... explode."

PREV PAGE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NEXT PAGE