Australian Browncoats! by Miagi

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Australian Browncoats!

POSTED BY: MIAGI
UPDATED: Monday, March 19, 2007 00:01
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Monday, January 30, 2006 6:07 AM

I live in Western Australia, and I only know two other people who are browncoats... they are the ones who got me into Firefly. There must be many more out there, I know it, and so I want to talk to you all.

Even possibly organise a Shindig sometime!

If you use MSN, just add me:

mistermiagi@gmail.com

And also reply to this post!

Oh, and don't forget to vote for Serenity in the ABC At The Movies poll! :
http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/viewerspoll/
Postcode: 6082

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Monday, January 30, 2006 4:57 PM

MIAGI

bump.

Come on, it's 10:53 - you should be up and posting by now, you Aussies

I know you don't need to work... just stay at home and watch Firefly! And reply!

bump.

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Monday, January 30, 2006 5:12 PM

NOVASTARCLOUD

I'm sorry i'm not from Australia, but I didn't want you to be lonely and thought you could use the 'bump'.

I hail from Virginia Beach, Virginia.

I hope you hear from your fellow Aussies soon.

*waives* and a *smile*

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Monday, January 30, 2006 5:13 PM

MIAGI

Quote:
Originally posted by NovaStarCloud:
I'm sorry i'm not from Australia, but I didn't want you to be lonely and thought you could use the 'bump'.

I hail from Virginia Beach, Virginia.

I hope you hear from your fellow Aussies soon.

*waives* and a *smile*

Heheh. Thanks!
*waves and smiles back*

I'm sure some will turn up, they're all just lazy sods!

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Sunday, February 12, 2006 6:00 PM

ARCHANGEL18646

We really are a lazy lot, although I signed up just to reply to your post lol. I'm from Melbourne myself, quite a ways from WA. I only know a few other Browncoats, but I'm very grateful I do because I'd never have heard of Firefly or Serenity if it wasn't for them. Now I'm trying to convert everyone I know.

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Sunday, February 12, 2006 6:22 PM

JACQUI

I'm from Melbourne.

The only browncoats I know around here are the ones I converted myself. And there are a few of those.

But we have to be out there, the DVDs are selling like hotcakes and, last year, with the advance screenings of Serenity, those things sold out in a matter of HOURS.

We're subversive like that.

Yesterday, when I checked, Serenity was the #1 top selling DVD at JB HiFi. Yay us.

*~*~*
"He's hurting a woman, he really *is* a bad guy... and I wouldn't call him a gentleman."
- Kyle, 9, watching 'Serenity'.

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Sunday, February 12, 2006 6:37 PM

MIAGI

Awesome. At least a few people have finally replied. Hahahahaha.

add me to MSN if you have it, I am offline now - but i'll be on at some stage, and it would be interesting to chat.

See you guys later...

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Sunday, February 12, 2006 7:09 PM

MISSMADRASSA

It's kinda funny to see so few responses to your original message, miagi. Typical Australians...

And I don't exclude myself I'm afraid. I'm from Hobart and I know there are a few browncoats down here (could not get a single copy of Serenity on the day of release for love nor money, ditto copies of the Serenity VC- sold out constantly) but do you think we've formed a club? No. I think we're all repressed. My husband is the only one who knows that I'm obsessed with this show and likes to keep it that way.

Good on ya anyway. Me, personally prefer the closet- it's nice and cozy in here. But one day it would be nice to go on a trip to the States for a fan convention, see what true fanaticism is all about.

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Sunday, February 12, 2006 7:16 PM

JOSS18THANGEL

Hey Aussies.....don't know if you guys would count me in this thread considering I'm across the ditch from you guys in 'peter Jackson land' AKA New Zealand... But I am a brown coat....and I feel kind of alone since I'm the only Browncoat I know about in the country so I thought I'd just say hi....

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Sunday, February 12, 2006 7:28 PM

JACQUI

'Course you're included 18thAngel!!

Hell, if we can claim Russel Crowe, we can claim you too!

*~*~*
"He's hurting a woman, he really *is* a bad guy... and I wouldn't call him a gentleman."
- Kyle, 9, watching 'Serenity'.

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Sunday, February 12, 2006 7:31 PM

BITTERBIERCE

Apropos of nothing, I just thought I'd mention that the Ozzarian Browncoats seem to be a real cool bunch o' folks. I've yet to meet one I didn't like, which is odd because I can usually find all KINDS of things not to like in people.

So a right-big Texas "Howdy" to all 'coats down yonderly. From one big place with a desert in the middle to another...

"Brevity is the soul of lingerie" -Dorothy Parker

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Sunday, February 12, 2006 7:33 PM

THEPLAGUE

http://www.serenitymovie.com.au

---> forums

-------------------------------
Are these our lives? NNNOOOOOO!!!

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Sunday, February 12, 2006 9:33 PM

EPECKMIO

Hey everyone ...

I'm from Melbourne ... I just got my copy of serenity from JB Hifi (got the o-ring bonus) and the person behind the counter said to another staff, something like: this serenity sure is selling. hehehe, so there sure are are plenty of browncoats over here.

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Sunday, February 12, 2006 9:52 PM

KHALOR

Though I hesitate to throw my lot in with the Aussies (on no fault of your own - it's a rugby thing

), I'll jump into this crowd. I too am from "Peter Jackson Land." And though we may be Middle-Earth, we are yet to have a Flanvention of any kind, a Joss Whedon visit, a BDH tour...

Grr. Argh.

Though, there is someone down there driving round with a "FIRFLY" number plate, with "SERENITY" labelled underneath. That someone on here?

Whoah. Off topic.

Anyway... g'day mate. We're all browncoats, and in this together.

"We want to put you in a safehouse, where you'll be safe."
-- Ryan Templer, Graduate Massacre

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Sunday, February 12, 2006 10:21 PM

CDINCBR

I think I turned into a browncoat over the weekend. We only watched Firefly on DVD while Serenity was leaving the theatres. We bought the movie the instant it was released here (last week) and watched it Friday night. I then started watching Firefly over again. NOW I WANT MORE!!!!

Sigh. Why do I find these things after corporate America has killed them?

I live in Canberra.

Carol in Canberra

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Sunday, February 12, 2006 10:55 PM

CANDLELIGHT

I'm in Adelaide, which is a bit closer, but not by much...

I've been lurking here for a while and have only recently come out. I'm the only browncoat I know in Adelaide, but like the others here, I know there are others out there...we're just very laid back

My family find my obsession hi-larious and I while I don't advertise the colour of my coat at work, I am doing my best to convert more to our cause. One new person at a time

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Monday, February 13, 2006 12:15 AM

ANOBJECTINSPACE

I am a Browncoat in Adelaide. Oo same as the person above, Shiny.

Either way I know no other Borwncoats in Adelaide although I am working on people at school and my friends.

Otherwise a lot of my family has become inerested in FireFly, yay my RAvings have worked.

.....
"It's just an Object"

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Monday, February 13, 2006 1:27 AM

MINIME

Any of you Melbourne Browncoats get to see Joss Whedon in Melbourne before the BDM? If you can believe it - shame if you don't, cause it's true - I was out of the country and about 500km from the nearest internet access at the time, so I didn't even know til now that he had come. Grr. (I did get back in time to see Serenity at the movies, though).

Oh, yeah - I'm from Melbourne.

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Monday, February 13, 2006 1:44 AM

FIREFLYNUTTER

I'm a WA browncoat there's heaps of us, most just don't visit this site... of the top of my head i noe of at least 20 or 30 people who are WA browncoats

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Monday, February 13, 2006 3:23 AM

BLACKBEANIE

Hi, I live near Sydney, just got Serenity on DVD, and I only know two other Browncoats. One is my mum I'm working on more, but their tough to break

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Monday, February 13, 2006 3:23 AM

BLACKBEANIE

Hi, I live near Sydney, just got Serenity on DVD, and I only know two other Browncoats. One is my mum. I'm working on more, but their tough to break

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Monday, February 13, 2006 3:39 AM

MIAGI

Hey, what do you know, we are finally getting some posts here!

Awesome. I am in Perth tomorrow (for valentine's day), and I am getting my paws on one of those slipcover JB HiFi editions if I can

YAY!

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Monday, February 13, 2006 3:53 AM

MIAGI

http://serenitymovie.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=2339

If you're interested, I started a threat in the Community forum over at Serenity Oz to garner some interest in a Perth Firefly shindig of some kind in the city.

Head on over and check it out, and reply, so the post gets bumped or whatever.

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 3:57 AM

JYNNANTONNYX

I'm an Adelaidian too, though I only just moved here from Mount Gambier (a little country hole). I like going into JBHiFi just to see all the pretty Serenity DVDs and smiling. They were playing it on the tv screens on the 8th and when ... hang on this would be a spoiler... the bad thing happens with the red screen and the sadness...I cried right in the middle of the shop. Damn you Joss!!!

I bought my shiny copy from EzyDVD and got a collectors tin but only noticed the other day that JB sell them with LIMITED EDITION SLIP CASES SIGNED BY JOSS!!! I nearly cried. Does anybody know if they are still available?

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:05 AM

LUCASHARPER

Brisbanite here.. and Summer is coming to Bris in April! I'm gonna meet her!

Squeeeeeeeeeeee!

Always wanted to squee...

I write fanfic. It's what I do.

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 2:18 AM

JYNNANTONNYX

...Brisbane is so far away

Damn this big country.

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 3:11 AM

JACQUI

Quote:
Originally posted by JynnanTonnyx:
I bought my shiny copy from EzyDVD and got a collectors tin but only noticed the other day that JB sell them with LIMITED EDITION SLIP CASES SIGNED BY JOSS!!! I nearly cried. Does anybody know if they are still available?

They are over here in Melbourne (oh, dear lord, and they're so PRETTY). If you can't find them, you can order them online.

Go here--> http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/dvds

You'll see that SERENITY is the top selling DVD in JB HiFi right now... and you can see the slip cover. It's just *SO PRETTY*.

*~*~*
"He's hurting a woman, he really *is* a bad guy... and I wouldn't call him a gentleman."
- Kyle, 9, watching 'Serenity'.

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Thursday, February 16, 2006 12:03 AM

JYNNANTONNYX

Oh God

I've got a dilemma - pay the phone bill or get the signed copy of Serenity, even though I already have the tinned version

...

Bah, Telstra be damned!

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Thursday, February 16, 2006 12:11 AM

ANOBJECTINSPACE

Quote:
Originally posted by JynnanTonnyx:
I'm an Adelaidian too, though I only just moved here from Mount Gambier (a little country hole).

Lol thats So cool, I did that what 14 or so years ago. Once my dad got a Job in Adelaide. ALthough I was 2 at the time. But still Very cool.

That Poll link that the OP posted. Serenity was Voted top for the Best Movie of 2005.

.....
"It's just an Object"

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Thursday, February 16, 2006 12:20 AM

HOLYTESTICLETUESDAY

Hey Miagi, I'm in Perth so the only browncoats I know are people I've taken to the movie. I will add u to messenger as soon as my compy is working right.

"If wishes were horses we'd all be eating steak"

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Thursday, February 16, 2006 12:41 AM

WARPEDBEAUTY

I'm from melbourne, brand new browncoat. When I went to Minotaur in the city, the woman who works there said that Serenity/Firefly fans are absolutely rabid, and that she hasn't seen anything like it in all her time through the startrek/buffy/etc phases of sci fi/fantasy. So there must be a stack of us here.

And I tend to agree with the other poster about aussie repression. It's deep in our culture that we don't get excessively passionate about things and hassle people with them. However I have made it my mission to annoy as many people as possible about firefly/serenity now!

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Thursday, February 16, 2006 1:59 AM

CALHOUN

Hi guys,

This thread has been done and done over the years but i'll play again anyway :)

I'm from Newcastle and I was the first Australian to ever see Firefly! Really! It was proven in other threads way back when.. I cant really prove it but I did watch Firefly on its very first run in the US so the chances are pretty damn good i'd reckon. Sheesh.. how long has it been.. something like 4 years now. Its painful to see all these newcomers saying lets get more Firefly happening, i've just about given up all hope except possibly for more movies, the timeframe with movies is just so damn painful.

It is good to see lots of people joining the Browncoat ranks but I cant help but wish they all joined the cause back in the beginning..

Pheew.. that turned out to be a bit of a rant didnt it.. Sorry bout that.

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Thursday, February 16, 2006 2:05 AM

MIAGI

Haha, yes, I know what you mean.

All the posts like "right, this is enough - let's actually get a new series". People going through the same pain we all went through...

Perhaps there is some hope, I don't know. It sure seems unlikely though.

We can but hope...

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Thursday, February 16, 2006 3:45 AM

BOOKADDICT

1492 kilometers from Brisbane(I had to look it up for someone today) in Tropical North Qld. And I actually have a fellow Browncoat at work! In a workplace of three! Not bad for a small town.

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Thursday, February 16, 2006 2:52 PM

METABOT

Hello from Bendigo Victoria! :D

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Thursday, February 16, 2006 3:25 PM

WILLIAMSSS

From Melbourne.......

It is good to see lots of people joining the Browncoat ranks but I cant help but wish they all joined the cause back in the beginning..

Not our fault really ('tho I feel your pain). Never really aired in Australia, outside of cable this year. No one I know knows about it

Only started watching it when accidentally saw promo for Serenity on Fox (*spits*) Barely any advertising...all word of mouth.

We're doing our bit now. My kids and I rave about it to everyone who'll listen.

Williams

Who know the difference between CPR and Necrophilia

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Thursday, February 16, 2006 3:38 PM

DOGGIE

Browncoat from Wollongong here. 50km or so from Sydney. Goods news yesterday, tried to order the series (another copy wouldn't hurt, would it?) from the local video store, bugger me, they had sold out (lets out a cheer for his fellow browncoats)felt damn good. Good to see that you are finally getting plenty of posts.

you hold now, hold 'til Mal gets back.

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Thursday, February 16, 2006 4:38 PM

CALHOUN

Quote:
Williamsss wrote:
Thursday, February 16, 2006 15:25

Not our fault really ('tho I feel your pain). Never really aired in Australia, outside of cable this year. No one I know knows about it

Yeah I know.. I was lucky, about 5 years ago I saw a bit on "Entertainment Tonight" about a new Sci Fi show being made which they said was akin to Han Solo and the Millenium Falcon in the old west so needless to say I watched for it eagerly.

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Thursday, February 16, 2006 5:22 PM

SHADOWJO

Brissy browncoat here just signing in to say hello there to all.
Hanging out for April when Summer comes to visit for Supanova yeah.

If there isn't any chocolate in heaven, then I ain't going

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Thursday, February 16, 2006 10:50 PM

RUSHTON75

Brisbane girl, gotta love firefly!! My uncle and his friends got me into the movie and the show followed. I've got lots of Buffy friends who I persuaded to watch Firefly, all love it.

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Friday, February 17, 2006 1:13 AM

CANTONHEROINE

As far as I know, I'm the only Browncoat in my area - Queenstown, on the wild West Coast of Tasmania.

I'm moving to Hobart soon, so maybe I'll meet more Firefly folk there.

-----
"Now somethin' about that is just downright unsettlin'."

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Friday, February 17, 2006 3:13 AM

WILLIAMSSS

Quote:
Originally posted by Calhoun:
Quote:
Williamsss wrote:
Thursday, February 16, 2006 15:25

Yeah I know.. I was lucky, about 5 years ago I saw a bit on "Entertainment Tonight" about a new Sci Fi show being made which they said was akin to Han Solo and the Millenium Falcon in the old west so needless to say I watched for it eagerly.

And doesn't this make us specialler.......sort of? Not Buffy/Angel Fans or just viewers with a spare night. But people who stumbled upon something and found a connection. Or am I stretching?

Williamsss
Who knows the difference between CPR and Necrophilia

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Friday, February 17, 2006 6:19 AM

MIAGI

I read Harry Potter before it was cool! I read it the week it was launched in England!

Hahahahaha.

I am so alone...

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Friday, February 17, 2006 9:00 PM

HOLYTESTICLETUESDAY

Oh, and did everyone see that Serenity came #1 on the At the Movies poll? Hooray, we are victorious!

The JBs I went to when I got the DVD didn't have the slip-cases, however they were giving away big damn movie posters with every purchase which I was very pleased with, I love the Australian movie poster.

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Friday, February 17, 2006 10:11 PM

JYNNANTONNYX

Quote:
Originally posted by HolyTesticleTuesday:
The JBs I went to when I got the DVD didn't have the slip-cases, however they were giving away big damn movie posters with every purchase which I was very pleased with, I love the Australian movie poster.

Holy hell!! Now I really have to get it. What was the poster of? Just the DVD art? Can't say I think much about it but it beats the bejeesus out of the American cover *shudder*

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Thursday, March 2, 2006 11:00 PM

BERAKETA

My allegiances lie with the Browncoats and I'm in Perth.

Just went to the Viewers Poll to Vote and though it was closed it was good to see Serenity finished on top

Quote:
Originally posted by Miagi:
I live in Western Australia, and I only know two other people who are browncoats... they are the ones who got me into Firefly. There must be many more out there, I know it, and so I want to talk to you all.

Even possibly organise a Shindig sometime!

If you use MSN, just add me:

mistermiagi@gmail.com

And also reply to this post!

Oh, and don't forget to vote for Serenity in the ABC At The Movies poll! :
http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/viewerspoll/
Postcode: 6082

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Friday, March 3, 2006 3:37 AM

SIXSHOOTER

Sorry, Snake Eyes was on.

Hey folks.

Yep, I come from a land down under,
Where the beer does flow and the men chunder.
Well, Melbourne more specifically.

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Friday, March 3, 2006 5:18 PM

AUSSAY

Heya

Im a recent convert to Firefly from near Sydney

Good to see you guys here! I dont know many Browncoats but I know its popular here, like previously said, with all the DVD sales

"Shake your head boy, your eyes are stuck"

www.fireflyfans.net
http://www.browncoatsriseagain.com/

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Saturday, March 4, 2006 3:45 PM

SHADOWJO

Unfortunatley an Aussie browncoat ( Chocolate) has passed away yesterday.
He was well loved to all aussie browncoats on SOZ and will be sorely missed
God bless and god speed Chocky

If there isn't any chocolate in heaven, then I ain't going

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Sunday, March 18, 2007 11:45 PM

OPERATOR

Hey guys, sorry I'm late, I'm a new Browncoat, am up Wollongong way, near Syd for uni...... What'd I miss?

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