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The Browncoats Rise Again

Posted by Zonk on from the since-i-found-serenity dept.

The Original, One and Only, Hippy of Death writes "There's an interesting read posted on The Weekly Standard website talking about Joss Whedon and the unusual marketing campaign he is waging for the upcoming Serenity/Firefly movie." From the article: "It was ignored and abandoned, and the story should end there--but it doesn't. Because the people who made the show and the people who saw the show--which is, roughly, the same number of people--fell in love with it a little bit. Too much to let it go. . . . In Hollywood, people like that are called unrealistic, quixotic, obsessive. In my world, they're called Browncoats."

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  1. Re:Brownstains? by toopc · · Score: 3, Funny
    From what I've seen, I wasn't impressed at all, not even a little. Maybe It was the worst of the entire series, short lived as it was. I'll even admit there is 1 B5 episode out there, that if it was the first I had seen, well, it would have been the last.

    Would that "1 B5 episode" be the entire first season?

  2. Rise again? by pedantic+bore · · Score: 2, Funny
    Rise again?

    From the article, this sounds like the first time they've "risen". If this was the second Firefly movie, then that would be "again".

    However, I have to admit the "Brownshirts rise again" has a better ring to it than "Movie studios realize that nerds are a profitable target demographic."

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  3. Re:Saw the movie *minor spoilers* by hyfe · · Score: 3, Funny
    American movie in being extremely good until the last 5 minutes shocker!

    Seriously, I'll never understand what's up with you and super-happy cliche endings.

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  4. Re:Here is my question by Neoncow · · Score: 2, Funny
    Redundant? Whay is this redundant?

    Oh by the way, don't mod me insightful.

  5. Best. Quote. Ever... by billdar · · Score: 3, Funny
    Think of it as Star Wars, if Han Solo were the main character, and he still shot Greedo first.

    This should be on the movie poster... Almost feels like a quote from a Kevin Smith movie.

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  6. Re:I saw the show by An+Onerous+Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sure you're trying to be fair in your analysis, Mr. Lucas. But are you sure some of this just isn't sour grapes? I mean, you lost a lot of nerd cred, making Greedo shoot first like that.

    Yeah, it must be hard watching some vampire-happy upstart steal some of your thunder like that. We understand.

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