If ever anyone ever needed to give it up, it’s Joss Whedon’s frighteningly obsessive, completely nuts Browncoats. Browncoats are a group of people devoted to Joss Whedon’s ‘Firefly’ television show and its subsequent movie spin-off Serenity. And when I say obsessive, I mean really obsessive. These are the kinds of people who sent death threats to critics who didn’t give Serenity positive enough reviews. That’s right, I said positive enough. They even attacked people who liked it, unwilling to settle for anything less than a public acknowledgement of the film as the greatest thing since sliced bread. For their efforts, they were rewarded with one of Hollywood’s all time biggest flops. Put simply, they irritated people right out of seeing the movie.
Now, two years after Serenity’s complete and utter failure, creator Joss Whedon has moved on, but apparently they still haven’t. The science fiction website SFX recently conducted an online poll to determine which movie its readers deemed to be the greatest of all time. Did Star Wars win? Blade Runner? The Matrix? Nope. According to SFX, Serenity is the favorite Sci Fi film of all time, according to their completely useless poll.
What’s interesting to me isn’t their poll, which is mostly meaningless junk, but that this signifies those lunatic Browncoats are still out there pushing a long dead agenda. Clearly, they mobilized their crazed fanboy mass and corrupted the poll by dragging everyone they knew over to SFX to vote for Serenity in it. I mean after all, this is a movie that barely anyone has even seen. Kind of hard for a film no one has watched to be the top anything, let alone beat out something like Star Wars.
Seriously, someone get these people a counseling session. Give it up Browncoats. Serenity was great, but no one saw it, no one will ever see it, and the more you try to shove it down everyone’s throats the less they’re going to want to. You have accomplished exactly nothing.
