What are Brown Coats to do?
POSTED BY: Hixie129
UPDATED: Sunday, January 6, 2008 00:36
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Our General, the Fearless Leader, the Head Brown Coat, the Creator has gone over to the Alliance!
He is on the FOX payroll and an employee of FOX, a loyal Alliance solider. The General is now back with the people who I thought were the enemy for the last few years. Who are the Brown Coats fighting, when was the formal surrender? Where was the address to the troops?
Surely the General should address the troops and thank them for the fight all these years, thank them for their time and MONEY and emotional support. Shouldn’t the General say something to the troops that it’s OVER! The General has surrendered, the General has switched sides and is now wearing the Alliance uniform…. Shouldn’t he tell the troops to go home and get on with their lives and raise their families? The General has moved on, he is Alliance now, what are Brown Coats to do?
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We follow Joss, of course. There are new people in the programming department at FOX, at least Joss says so, and he says he's happy to be working with them.
wo men ren ran zai fei xing.
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I agree we shouldn't be so hard on this fact. Fox was afterall the network that gave birth to the verse in the first place... gave it a chance. Sure some short-sighted morons cancelled the show but, if the creator of the stories that we all love so much is working with them again, I don't think we oughta go picking fights.
I think the best thing for us to do is to continue to show our love and support for Joss and all of his new projects. It's kinda hard for execs to miss that we're still die hard for Firefly and ya never know what the future might hold.
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So then, there is no more Alliance and we should forgive FOX for canceling Firefly even though we will never see the show again?
And all the letter writing, the buying of DVDs and tee shirts.. all of that was so that Joss can get another job creating a different show with the people HE told us were responsible for killing Firefly?..
I thought Brown Coats are about the verse not Dollhouse.. So I ask the question again What do Brown Coats Do? Should there be a formal surrender?
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I think you have to separate the people from the entity. 'FOX' didn't cancel Firefly. A person did. It serves no real purpose to blame the entity for the shortsightedness of a single individual.
Think of it this way. If you eat at a restaurant, and the food stinks, but a few years later, the place is under new management with a new chef. Would you give the restaurant another chance? I probably would. Looks like Joss would too...
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I'd venture to say that Joss is far from an idiot. So I'm with him.
As far as the hole dollhouse thing I say this... if his new project works out, then who's to say he doesn't get a greenlight for something else that HE wants to do? I think dollhouse should get the same love that his past projects get from the browncoats. I didn't watch a single episode of Buffy... just not my deal. But I don't have anything bad to say about it. Just think of how many people that are Buffy fans might not have given this show a second thought if it weren't for Joss's name? But tons of them are now firefly fans.
If dollhouse does well, that's just more people to add to the firefly pot. More people equals more money, more money equals cha-ching for a network willing to bring back our favorite show!
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Apparently you didn't actually read my reply. Why should we be mad at current executives at FOX who want to give Joss another show, when those executives are not the ones who canceled Firefly? There is constant turnover at all of the networks, just like there is at all the movie studios. We shouldn't be angry at those who had no say in how Firefly was treated.
wo men ren ran zai fei xing.
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ANd of the corporate mentality? A bit of proof would go along way for me. Say, a Firefly miniseries? I think that would do it.
"Doc did good, coming up with this
job. Don't mean I like him any
better... but nothing buys bygones
quicker'n cash."
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Hey! I hadn't ever considered a mini-series! That's a great idea!
Bad_karma
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Joss isn't a General.
Joss is Boss. Nathan (Our Captain) Fillion said so on the Serenity Collector's Edition DVD extras.
And Joss is on strike right now so he ain't getting paid.
Tactics! It is all about Tactics!
Step 1. All the Big Darn Heroes keep working and building their fan bases. Nathan's got 39839 friends. The more people see of our Big Darn Heroes, the more people want to see of our Big Darn Heroes...which leads them back to Firefly/Serenity.
Step 2. Joss and Tim work on another show together and expand their fan base...which leads people back to Firefly/Serenity.
Step 3. We keep introducing Firefly/Serenity where we can. We keep buying/promoting Firefly/Serenity Official Merchandise.
Someday, Universal or another studio will realize there is more money to be made in the 'verse.
Joss and the actors love the 'verse. Just listen to the cast commentary. They love working together.
Serenity sequel, sequel, Serenity set we can tour/have weddings/have shindigs at Universal Studios and where Firefly like episodes could be filmed for Straight to DVD and SciFi or USA Channel. Got my QMX Official Serenity Blueprints and lottery tickets.
We hold til Mal gets back.
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