Oh, you knew it was only a matter of time before this little shrine was made. And what a fun place it will grow to be. Join me fellow Browncoats and inquiring minds! and welcome to what might be the best fandom ever.
Summary:
Five hundred years in the future, Mal Reynolds ends up on the losing side of a war. He escapes with little more than his own skin, one trusted friend, and his ship, the Firefly-class freighter Serenity.
Every day since then, his mission has been a simple one: Hire a crew; find a job; and just keep on flyin'.
Then, one day, he takes on a couple of mysterious passengers — and his life gets a whole lot more complicated.
So far the story and characters of the show can be found in:
+ Firefly (TV show)
+ Better Days (Comic)
+ Those Left Behind (Comic)
+ Serenity (Movie)
History:
Firefly is an American science fiction television series created by writer/director Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, under his Mutant Enemy Productions. Its naturalistic future setting, modeled after traditional Western movie motifs, presents an atypical science fiction backdrop for the narrative.
Firefly premiered in the United States and Canada on the FOX network on September 20, 2002. It was canceled after only eleven of the fourteen produced episodes were aired. Despite the series' relatively short life span, it received strong sales when it was released on DVD, and has an extremely loyal fanbase. In 2003 the show won an Emmy for "Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series" and in its short existence highly influenced the television science fiction genre both in style and characterization.
Thanks to rabid fan support, Universal Pictures produced a film based on the series, titled Serenity, on Sept. 30, 2005. The film gained critical success as well as relatively impressive box office results for being a motion picture based on a 'failed' television show.
News:
A MMORPG game based on the Firefly Verse is in production. You can gather updates, news, theories, and rumors on the project here.
Fun Stuff:
Done the Impossible is a documentary of the rise and fall and rebirth of the Firefly 'verse
as told from the perspective of the fans who helped save it.
Serenity Stuff at TFAW.com - quite an impressive amount of fun things to buy.
Firefly Flik:
Filk is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction/fantasy fandoms and has been an active pastime of fanbased nerds since the early 1950s.
Firefly Filk are songs written about and inspired by the show Firefly (and Serenity) by fans. Obviously. Firefly has a pretty impressive Filk catalouge; holding its own against Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Star Trek Filk. Here are some places to find Firefly Filk:
Sing a Song of Saffron was a contest to create a song about the ever name and husband changing' 'Saffron'.
Dan Sehane wrote and preforms the popular "I'm Gonna See Serenity"
The Bedlam Bards are most certainly the most well known of Firefly Filkers, with "Ode to Joss," "Big Damn Trilogy," and "On the Drift" being their most popular songs.
River and the Reavers is a fanmade Firefly band.
Firefly Music Project is where fans create and post their own songs about Firefly and Serenity.
The Signal is _the_ Firefly podcast and have compiled a rather lengthy list of filk they have used and created for past episodes of the show.
Browncoats:
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Browncoat is a slang term from the space western TV series Firefly (and its big-screen "sequel", Serenity) for a member of the Independent Faction, which lost to the Alliance in the Unification War. It is also a nickname for fans of the series.
Browncoats are hardcore. There are not many fanbases that can rival Firefly in the intense amount of devotion that fans have towards the show. Browncoat factions have popped up all across the US as well as internationally, the most dominate being the San Francisco Browncoats.
To find a complete list of Browncoat groups, check here at The Big Damn Bored. If you live in or near a major city more then likely you have an active Browncoat faction near you.
