How did you FIRST discover Firefly?

POSTED BY: Caite
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CAITE

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 10:40 PM

There may have previously been a thread like this a long time ago, but I am very interested to hear how people got introduced to Firefly and what drew them to it.

As for me, I was introduced by my Mom back when it was first on t.v. I would come home from college for the weekend, and she'd be watching it. A few times I sat and watched with her, and I thought it was entertaining and definately different from everything else on t.v. I was confused about the relationship between everyone because 1) I hadn't been watching from the beginning, and 2) As I learned later, Fox showed them in a bad order. At any rate, later, I bought her the DVDs for Christmas, and she lent me each disk after she watched it. Well, needless to say, I immediately decided to buy my own set!

Please, post your own stories!

GETBUFFED

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 10:50 PM

I love everything Joss Whedon. Being an enormous fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel (both extremely well written and produced), I decided to look at Whedon's work outside the Buffyverse and I liked it. I never caught ever episode. I actually saw the first show they aired. Then I saw Jaynestown and the pilot and I was mad that it was cancelled. Two years later, I've picked up the episodes and I'm watching them in order. The more I watch, the less reason I see for cancellation. I can't wait for Serenity, it's going to be insane.

EST120

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 10:51 PM

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Originally posted by Caite:
There may have previously been a thread like this a long time ago, but I am very interested to hear how people got introduced to Firefly and what drew them to it.

As for me, I was introduced by my Mom back when it was first on t.v. I would come home from college for the weekend, and she'd be watching it. A few times I sat and watched with her, and I thought it was entertaining and definately different from everything else on t.v. I was confused about the relationship between everyone because 1) I hadn't been watching from the beginning, and 2) As I learned later, Fox showed them in a bad order. At any rate, later, I bought her the DVDs for Christmas, and she lent me each disk after she watched it. Well, needless to say, I immediately decided to buy my own set!

Please, post your own stories!

i think this was posted before, but it is fun to revisit.

i saw "out of gas" when it aired on fox and thought it was pretty cool. after the show was canceled, a co-worker lent me VCDs of all the episodes that aired which he had downloaded via bit-torrent or whatever that thing is called. i watched "the train job" first and i was hooked! i spent almost all of my christmas vacation watching the episodes on my computer. it was the ONLY reason i brought my computer on vacation with me!

needless to say, after christmas i went out and bought the DVDs. the discs cycle in and out of my DVD player on a regular basis.

CAITE

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 10:53 PM

I don't see ANY reason for the cancellation either!

SHINY

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:04 PM

I think I actually first heard about it in a slashdot posting before the show aired. I was intrigued so I searched around and landed here (and the OB) and the rest is history...well, mildly historical for one fandom...er, a footnote? Yep, the rest is definitely a moderately-long footnote in the annals of fandom history.

Jayne, your mouth is talkin. Might want to look into that.

VETERAN

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:38 PM

A couple of things happend. First, I saw the write up in the paper and noticed that Gina Torres was in it. I liked her from Hercules The Legendary Journeys and Cleopatra 2525. And then I broke my wrist, which completely changed my plans for Friday nights. So as the song goes... It was Friday night and I had nothing to do so I turned on ..."

CAITE

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:40 PM

Ohhh, I loved Hercules too!

MALICIOUS

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:41 PM

I started watching BtVS when I was flat on my back for the 3 months prior to spinal surgery in 2002. I had promised myself not to get hooked on the soaps while I was off of work and what did I do? I started watching Buffy on FX, 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the evening. I got hooked on a Whedon-opera instead.

Then, curious as to what the heck Buffy was doing whenever she went to LA, I started watching Angel. Long story short, I now own all 7 seasons of Buffy, all 4 (soon to be 5!) of Angel.

I was still new to the Whedon-verse but already totally hooked on Buffy and Angel when ads for Firefly started coming on. It didn't look all that intriguiging (sp?) but out of loyalty to Joss, I taped it while I watched "Hack." Needless to say, the next week I was watching FF AND taping it as well. Screw "Hack!" I was also watching "John Doe" and "Haunted" and missed them when they were cancelled, but not near as much as I yearned to be back amongst my Firefly guys.

Can you tell I was pretty lonely for the 6 months I was out of commission?

Mal-licious

Co-Holder of the Red Bell from Hell

DROPPYMCCOOL

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:55 PM

I remeber wanting to check out Firefly, but not really making the time for it. I think I tuned in for the intro one week, the Mrs. Reynolds episode I think, saw the horse and wagon and said to myself "Self, I thought we were going to watch us some science fiction." turned off the tv and likely headed out for some mexican food. The next week however, I tuned in and was hooked. Thankfully I rarely learn from my mistakes the first time or else I would have written it off. Also with my then girlfriend now wife on deployment, entertainement was scarce. Unfortunately shortly after I was hooked I headed out to sea for a couple months and when I came back it was gone. And there was the familiar feeling of disapointment at tv people, same as when the cancelled Bakersfield P.D.

Droppy

"We gotta go to the crappy town where I'm a hero."

KAYLEE4SIMON

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:56 PM

I didn't watch it when it was on fox, even though I love Joss's work I was still mad at them for cancelling Dark Angel. I went to D*C this past summer and met the cast, they were really nice, so I decided to get the DVDs for x-mas and give the show a try. I spent a whole day locked in my room watching them. And now i'm hooked and wishing for more episodes.

Keep shiny!

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