How did you FIRST discover Firefly?

POSTED BY: Caite
UPDATED: Wednesday, February 2, 2005 05:56
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DROPPYMCCOOL

Thursday, January 27, 2005 12:02 AM

I know all about watching too much tv while laid up with back problems. Secondhand though. My wife just had back surgery after being almost helpless for most of last year. We watched the entire run of Dawson's Creek in syndication like twice (I don't know why but that show always makes me feel like a creepy old guy and I'm just 28), along with soaps and Firefly (cause she bought it for me for one of the too frequent occasions on which we exchange gifts.. to be fair it was one of the best gifts ever).

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

DIETCOKE

Thursday, January 27, 2005 12:11 AM

I was channel surfing and saw Lorne singing on Angel and couldn't change the channel. Then I saw Angel do Barry Manellow and, well, I thought the show was hi-larious! I was telling my brother-in-law about the show and then he told me about Buffy. Turned out it was on 4 hours ever day! So I started watching it and caught up real fast.

I started in the middle of Buffy and it was clear I was missing stuff, so I started reading the transcripts to catch up on the back stories.

Any way, a read on a board about another Joss show called Firefly. Found the transcripts for the episodes that were aired and read them all. Well I was hooked! Got on line with Amazon and bought the set.

JEWEL

Thursday, January 27, 2005 12:42 AM

A friend from work told me about Firefly right after it started airing. I managed to remember to watch it one Friday night (Safe) and liked it. At the time I wasn't free much on Friday's so I pretty much missed the rest of it's short run and I forgot about it. At the time I had never watched BtVS or Angel so I really had no idea what I had been missing all these years.

Anyway, when Firefly came out on DVD, a different friend brought his copy over to our house and we watched "Serenity" and "The Train Job" and I was immediatly hooked and ordered myself a copy. A couple days after that I ordered another copy to loan out to people in an effort to get others hooked.

After seeing the sheer quality of Firefly I decided to check out BtVS and Angel and got way hooked on those as well and now own them all on DVD, too. I am now a Joss Whedon junkie.

AURAPTOR

Thursday, January 27, 2005 12:52 AM

This might sound as heresy to some, but it's just how it was. I got hooked big time on John Doe initially, and since Firefly was the lead in for J.D. , I would watch it just because.

Then there were the ads for Firefly on FOX ( There weren't many, I know ). From the creator of Buffy/Angel - Joss Whedon's Firefly . I wasn't overly into either B or A, untill the last seasons for each. A friend of mine was WAY into B/A , and I figured that since she had such discriminating standards, that Firefly might be worth a go. As for the ads, it was kinda unclear just what it was that FOX had up its sleeve, but I'll never forget the early teasers w/ Mal and Inara.
Mal- How's business?
Inara- none of yours.
Hee hee. And the shot of a nekkid River in a box was enough to intrigue me as well.

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

SHEZZ

Thursday, January 27, 2005 1:01 AM

Well, considering that in Australia, Firefly is being aired after midnight (but thankfully in the right order, due to the many viewers who wrote to the network), that's not how I first came across the show.

Coz we get everything after the USA, I'd heard rave reviews from people on other p'boards about the show for months before the dvds were released... most other aussies I know bought the dvds without knowing if the show was ever gonna be aired here. For most of us, it was a leap of faith based on other's opinions. And now we have to wait until November 10th for Serenity!

So first contact with firefly was seeing the dvds in a store, and going, "Oh, that's Joss' show" and buying them to see what the dealio was.

*Proud to be a Flan*

CAGEYBEE

Thursday, January 27, 2005 1:11 AM

Hey, I think I started a thread like this way back before my disappearance. Just goes to show, good ideas never die. *crosses fingers*

Anyway, back in the day, I was a Roswell addict. And sometimes Buffy would be on following Roswell. I started watching Buffy about halfway through the 5th season, and not expecting much after the movie, was immediately shocked and intrigued. I watched (and taped) the shows when they were on FX. Of course, at the end of the 5th season, Buffy moved to UPN, which wasn't shown in my area. So I would stay up late Sunday nights to catch the new eps as they were broadcast on the ABC affiliate. Because Angel was still on the WB with Roswell, I watched that as well. My love for all things Joss quickly squished any notion I had that I would pledge my undying love to Roswell. And as soon as I heard Joss had another show coming out, I couldn't wait. I taped it from the beginning. I stayed home Friday nights my freshman year of college to watch. (Of course, I would go out right after.) Like Mal-licious, I am the proud owner of every episode of anything Joss-created, except season 5 of Angel, which I will soon obtain and love.

So the short answer is, I watched it from the beginning on Fox and loved every second.

me

~Mal- "how drunk was i last night?"
~Jayne- "i don't know. i passed out."

MANOFSTEEL25

Thursday, January 27, 2005 2:12 AM

Hmm. Well I had vaguely heard of it when it came on. I have a friend I swap tapes of shows with on a regular basis who is religious about following a lot of current TV, trying all the new shows and being pretty obsessive about the cult stuff. He and I differ on some (He loves Smallville, while I being the Superman purist, hate it) but we agree on a lot of classic shows and he did get me hooked on the Dead Zone so hey...

Anyway He kept raving about Firefly. I was skeptical as I was never a Angel or Buffy fan. They looked too typical WB 'teen' for me. At his request I watched it and ended up seeing Out of Gas. I recall him making a lot of parallels to Firefly and anothe rof our mutually be,loved Scifi shows: Blake's 7. And I could see some of what he was talking about. I loved the style of the ship and the lived-in look it had and I especially liked Mal's character.

A little lost but a little intrigued, I tuned in a week or two later to catch most of Safe which, while entertaining, didn't impress me that much. The overt Western stuff threw me. But I'm horrible about catching shows live on-air anymore so I waited for him to send me tapes which in the midst of other stuff we swapped he NEVER sent me. So I forgot about it (after I heard it was canceled).

Flash foward to September of 2004: then upon seeing the DVDs in the stores one day I ordered them on my netflix cue. I watched discs 1 and 4 (yeah I know netflix botched it a bit) and I found Fox dropped the ball on a seriously good thing and I was kicking myself for not being on the bandwagon eariler. I promptly bought myself a DVD set and have converted countless others by either making them tapes or buying them the DVD sets straight out. And no here I am eagerly awaiting Serenity....

DAG

Thursday, January 27, 2005 2:49 AM

Well I seen a commercial for it. Then I read something about it being a Joss Whedon show and went about cancelling anything that would be going on during that hour.

CAITE

Thursday, January 27, 2005 3:24 AM

I'm so excited to read all of your stories! Thanks everyone for contributing! Keep them coming

UNCHARTEDOUTLAW

Thursday, January 27, 2005 3:45 AM

The boyfriend of my wife's best friend borrowed it from his friend and brought it over one Saturday night last summer for us to watch. Dayum! I was hooked within the first five minutes. Bought the box for my birthday and it all just snowballed from there. :)

-Taylor

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