It's just a backlash.

I think those are weak too, for the record.

If the comments were all about "My GOD those fucking annoying Browncoats!" I could see the PoV with more respect. But it's the "My GOD those fucking annoying losers who're changing my behaviour!" that I roll my eye at.

I can see how if you were on the fence or lukewarm about something and you felt constantly barraged by a group of people saying, "This is the greatest movie EVAH. You must see it. It will change your life," it might push you from lukewarm to ice cold. It's just a backlash.

I totally get that.

But I'm not sure I get how the Browncoats are so unavoidable, or how they'd be apparent at all to people who weren't already attached in some way to fandom.

But I'm not sure I get how the Browncoats are so unavoidable, or how they'd be apparent at all to people who weren't already attached in some way to fandom.

Heh. True, that.

It's like you're in a VM thread talking about VM and hotness of Logan. And then someone pops their head to say, "Hey! You guys need to see Serenity." You ignore them because, hi, Logan is HOTT. Five minutes later, someone else pops in and says, "Serenity rocks! Go see it this weekend!"

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Okay. The article itself is hilarious all alone. Fans on the internet annoy me and that's why the box office wasn't bigger.

And this is on the faux-Tim site.

No one would have given a shit, in fact, I bet this was a record day for CHUD, because the piece got Whedonesqued so everyone could be collectively outraged while saying they've never read CHUD, before. Whedon sees it, because he lurks at Whedonesque, and comments.

CHUD shoots back.

Record day for CHUD.

I think in my book, I will add two additional chapters talking about how Farscape was canceled because the fans smell of poo, and that Wonderfalls was canceled because Tim is a dumb one-syllable name.

And it will fly off the shelves. That dude's piece would have had less traffic than my last Livejournal entry about having a "fat" day if not for the hysteria placed on it.

The dude is a tool, the article wasn't even funny. At least be funny.

I'm sorry, but I find the whole kerfuffle hilarious. It just is.

Browncoats are starting to scare me. The handwringing over the box office is making me nuts. A. Movie. Got. Made. And. Released. From this canceled television show. But that's not enough. There must be sequels and legos and collectible cups at burger king, or we've all failed Joss. It could be a small contingency that seems louder and bigger to me because I'm so close to the fire, and check Whedonesque daily.

It's become like religion that people take soooo seriously that it feels like there's no joy in it.

But that's not enough. There must be sequels and legos and collectible cups at burger king, or we've all failed Joss.

There already are Legos.

Fan-made ones, anyway.

It could be a small contingency that seems louder and bigger to me because I'm so close to the fire, and check Whedonesque daily.

It probably is, but the noise pollution from the small contingency makes me grit my teeth something fierce.

It's become like religion that people take soooo seriously that it feels like there's no joy in it.

And there's this. Again, still probably a small contingency of people acting that way, but still... loud.

I think it's a triumph that we even got DVDs. That a movie got made, got decent reviews, and met expectations at the box office seems like bonus.

and the thing I kept returning to in my head is that the “Browncoats” are seen, by many other genre fans, as overzealous.

So fans of Firefly are keeping Trekkies from seeing "Serenity"? Anime fans are so put off by the Browncoats that they're staying home and watching Cowboy Bebop?

If a movie -- any movie, but let's go with "Serenity" -- were relying solely on genre fans turning out to see it in order to make big box office, I'd say that movie is screwed from the start.

That quote at the beginning of my post implies that "Serenity" will fail if other genre fans stay away. And I'm thinking the CHUD guy who wrote that is missing the part where fandom makes up a teeeeeeeeny tiny part of the moviegoing public.

Browncoats are starting to scare me. The handwringing over the box office is making me nuts. A. Movie. Got. Made. And. Released. From this canceled television show. But that's not enough. There must be sequels and legos and collectible cups at burger king, or we've all failed Joss.

Who's going to see the sequels? I've read so. damn. many. posts about how Joss BETRAYED the fans by killing Wash -- why would they go see a sequel? I don't get it.

I've read so. damn. many. posts about how Joss BETRAYED the fans by killing Wash -- why would they go see a sequel?

Is that a prevailing Browncoat opinion? I live in a cave, it seems, because the Browncoat hysteria, while perfectly predictable, seems to have passed me by. But I was guessing that they were loving on the movie and hard. Just because.

Is that a prevailing Browncoat opinion?

To be fair, I have no idea what makes someone qualify as a Browncoat. I just know that in LJ, for instance, my Friends' Friends list is full of people who are feeling betrayed by Joss, and they sound cranky.