Searching for Australian Browncoats

POSTED BY: YoungSpirit
UPDATED: Tuesday, February 6, 2007 02:30
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You folks in Melbourne know of "Minotaur"? (Sci-fi, fantasy etc shop in CBD) I went in today and asked if they had the DVD Box set: the assisstant told me they had four and that if I came back at the end of the day there *might* be one left. This show sells itself.

*Come on up and Testify* time: I think it's telling that I'm quite possibly the newest FF fan here. I was one of the Dark Angel fans who heard a lot of "Firefly caused the end of Dark Angel" on forums and consequently saw lots of notes that went something like, "I'm boycotting FOX/Firefly, who's with me?"

I never really thought about it, especially considering that it never came to TV here in Aus., although when I heard about Firefly's cancellation I knew it would cause more uproar: imagine, the sheer irony (if that *is* the proper word to use here...) of a show that is held responsible (by certain TV viewers) for the cancellation of another show being cancelled so quickly itself.

But a friend saw Firefly (she got the Region 1 box set) and suggested I watch it. When it finally came out here on August 4th I snapped it up... and watched spellbound. Around uni classes, tutorials and sleep I managed to watch the entire series within 24 hours.

That I'm here and communicating with so many people in such a short amount of time goes to show, I think, what a treasure this show is and how it affects people.

Well, now that I've spilled my guts, I think I'll go to bed... actually get some sleep... and hope that the various people I've got my discs lent out to at the moment are as spellbound by the show as I was. Yay! More Browncoats! I seriously doubt that there will ever be too many...

Yes... this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "this land".' 'I think we should call it your grave.' 'Ah! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!'

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As they say here, "BUMP"!

Um, not meaning to be pushy, but would any of the Melbourne people be keen on a get-together sometime mid-September? (After consulting my maddeningly full calender of deadlines...) How does the weekend of September 18th sound to everyone? (by that I mean, somewhere between the night of Friday 17th and Sunday 19th).

Please post and let me know what you think... after all, why should we let these opportunities pass us by?

Yes... this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "this land".' 'I think we should call it your grave.' 'Ah! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!'

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I followed the bread crumbs too from a Dark Angel board, I lurked only though, too many trolls.

Funnily enough, going through the same thing with the new BSG series, trolls abound at the skiffy board.

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Originally posted by YoungSpirit:

Does anyone know addresses we could write to asking about the show? Considering Channel Seven's treatment of (the last season, at least) of Buffy and Angel, perhaps they aren't the station we should be aiming at (Unless of course they've already bought it and, as suggested, sre holding back). Does anyone here have any industry contacts (film/television) that we would be able to *ahem* entice into helping some sort of campaign to bring Firefly to free-to-air TV?

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Hi YoungSpirit,
As I mentioned in my post earlier a Channel Seven Exec spoke at a Buffy Symposium in Adelaide in July 2003 and said that (as someone else has pointed out) that Seven have the rights to Firefly and plan to air it. His name is David Franken and he is the Director of Programming in Brisbane. He's a huge Buffy/Angel/Firefly fan and would be a good place to start for information. He also said we could email him any time with questions, but unfortunately I havent a clue what his email address is. Still, I hope this helps!
Have a great day,
PB

Ooh! Mangoes!

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Thanks for that info, PB! The short news is, David Franken is no longer there. The longer news: I called Channel Seven this morning and they couldn't 'find' him in the system, so they put me onto a program manager in Brisbane who I spoke to for about a minute before he said he was out of the office, could I call him back on Monday. I waited through 7 minutes worth of "Please hold the line" on a long-distance phone call for that! I dispair!

The DoP in Melbourne is called Tony Martinovich (sp?). When I called I didn't get to speak to him (he was out of the office too), but the lady on the switchboard told me that while she couldn't find an email address for either feedback or programming questions, they do have a fax number: 9697-7789. If you decide to send them a fax, and you live outside Victoria, don't forget to include the (03) area code.

I can't believe how difficult it seems to get to find these people, let alone make contact with them! But, come Monday, I'll give it another shot and let you know what I find out (if I find out anything!). (Sorry about the longish post, but I had to get my frustrations out somewhere!)

'Yes... this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "this land".' 'I think we should call it your grave.' 'Ah! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!'

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Hey again YoungSpirit,
Wow! You've been busy! What a bugger that David Franken is not at 7 any more. Im sorry about the incurred long distance charges too - Perhaps we should set up an expenses fund? The "YoungSpirit-vs-Channel-7-air-Firefly-in-Oz-or-else" fund? On the aus.tv newsgroup there has been a recent discussion about Firefly, and one of the posters seemed to think that it was sceduled to be shown on 7 later this year in a late night time slot. I'll reply to that post and see where he got that information. We'll get some answers eventually YoungSpirit - no power in the verse can stop us! Please post again on Monday and let us know how you're going.
Xxx
Princess Bijou

Oooh! Mangoes!

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Hey People. I'm a Browncoat from Perth.

Already have a whole series of tshirts made from the images HellsKitten made. Unfortunately she had to take them down since someone was stealing them and claiming them as their own, but I still have them, so if anyone wants them message me and I can send them to you.

Any Perthians: Please join firefly.meetup.com! There are only a few of us registered there at the moment, and the minimum number of people for a meetup is 5, so we're not getting very far.
It would be shiny to be able to meet people for definate in real life, instead of checking everyones tshirts and eavesdropping on conversations for use of Firefly slang. Not that I would...

On the conversion front, I have *counts* six, so far, just bought two more copies as presents (that'll make 8) and I met a guy at uni the other day that just got the box set and is obsessed, and he's gonna set about converting people, so seems things are going well.

Wow my sentences just get longer and longer. I shall stop now. Good luck with the harrasment of Ch 7. I was thinking they wouldn't bother showing it now the box sets are out, but if people want to be optimistic I'm all for it. Stopping now. Really.

Keep flying!

Can we start getting sexed already?[/i\

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