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Firefly's Browncoats + 15 more sci-fi freedom fighting forces
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| 07/03/12
| Trent Moore
Posted on 07/03/2012 3:37:50 PM PDT by KevinDavis
With Independence Day nearly upon us, it's a great time to remember all the freedom fighters who battled (fictional) baddies in sci-fi movies and on TV. From battles against aliens to foreign forces, the quest for freedom has been a part of sci-fi for decades.
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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: scifi
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Don't know why Red Dawn is there... My favorites are:
1. The Browncoats
2. The 2nd Mass
3. The Resistance in both versions of V
4. Jericho Rangers
5. Free Jaffa Nation
6. New Caprica Rebellion
What is yours???
To: Aevery_Freeman; ShadowAce; Jack Hydrazine; Altariel; nuancey; Thorliveshere; skinkinthegrass; ...
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posted on
07/03/2012 3:39:58 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Radical Islam is a bigger threat than the LDS...)
To: KevinDavis
1) No one who respects the genre EVER refers to SF as “sci fi” (this is to the author of the article)
2) No B5?
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posted on
07/03/2012 3:43:11 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Guns Walked -- People Died -- Holder Lied -- Obama Golfed (thanks, Secret Agent Man))
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
07/03/2012 3:44:16 PM PDT
by
brivette
To: KevinDavis
Freedom is out. The new heros are borg.
To: brivette
In Blade Runner, the “skin jobs” were the rebels.
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posted on
07/03/2012 3:45:42 PM PDT
by
delapaz
To: brivette
In Blade Runner, the “skin jobs” were the rebels.
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posted on
07/03/2012 3:45:57 PM PDT
by
delapaz
To: KevinDavis
The secretive, unnamed Government organisation, possibly funded by the Vatican, who fight ‘Code Vs’ in the cult classic “Ultraviolet”.
Even less episodes than Firefly, dang it.
To: KevinDavis
Let us not forget Ash, Housewares who saved the kingdom from the Deadites in “Army of Darkness”!
;)
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posted on
07/03/2012 3:47:12 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
To: KevinDavis
No
Babylon 5 = Massive oversight
Why is Harry Potter, which is fantasy, listed on an SF list?
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posted on
07/03/2012 3:50:49 PM PDT
by
GreenLanternCorps
("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
To: delapaz
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posted on
07/03/2012 3:50:49 PM PDT
by
brivette
To: dynachrome
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posted on
07/03/2012 3:52:34 PM PDT
by
brivette
To: agere_contra
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posted on
07/03/2012 3:54:30 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
To: GreenLanternCorps; All
I’m trying to figure out why Red Dawn is on the list.
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posted on
07/03/2012 3:55:32 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Radical Islam is a bigger threat than the LDS...)
To: KevinDavis
Can’t forget the crew of the NSEA Protector!
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posted on
07/03/2012 3:56:37 PM PDT
by
papertyger
("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
To: brivette
It was on again last nite and I had to watch it again. “Klaatu Barada ‘cough’”
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posted on
07/03/2012 3:57:52 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
To: KevinDavis
"May have been the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one."
"WOLVERINES!"
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posted on
07/03/2012 3:58:30 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: KevinDavis
Todd from 'Solider'(1998)
'Snake' Plissken From 'Escape from New York' (1981)
Jack Burton from 'Big Trouble in Little China'(1986)
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posted on
07/03/2012 4:10:58 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: KevinDavis
I don’t do 15 pages of ads to see a list. Were the Wildcards (Fighting 58th) or the Freemen in the list?
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posted on
07/03/2012 4:13:27 PM PDT
by
Ingtar
("As the light begins to fade in the city on the hill")
To: KevinDavis
Where's The Rebellion? As in the Star Wars Rebels fighting the evil Empire?
Disclaimer: I did not go click through the 1-item-from-the-list-per-page website to see if it was there.
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