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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. Brownshirts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Damn. And I thought this was about the brownshirts rising again - this time in the service of GWB.

    While we're on the topic, Occult History of the Third Reich is a must see! Download it with eMule! NOW! Unbelievable!

    1. Re:Brownshirts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      righ,t I will just leave a comment here and wait for the guys to say something useful

    2. Re:Brownshirts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I heard somewhere that Napoleon dressed his army in red so that if the soldier got shot, you couldn't see the bloodstains on the shirt. Similarly, the officers of the Soviet army (and also the Brownshirts and Browncoats) were dressed in brown so that you couldn't see the shit dripping...

  2. The true question is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Browncoats Rise Again, eh? Could this open some eyes and increase interest in alternative (Linux, Mac) offerings?

  3. do77 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you can. When th3 and has instead