How did you FIRST discover Firefly?

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

Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:31 PM

Buffy is the reason for my love of Firefly. I remember seeing the commercial for FF(all the scenes were from the pilot Serenity) on Fox, and it mentioned it was from the creator of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. That was all I needed. I knew I would watch it from the first episode. I was actually upset at the time, becuase I thought Joss was abandoning Buffy never to return, but soon realized that he can multitask bigtime.
After watching the Train Job, I liked it, but wasn't sure I would like it as well as Buffy. By the time Jaynestown aired, Firefly was my favorite show. I looked forward to every Friday at 8:00. I was really upset when Fox cancelled it. When I heard Universal pushed the theatrical release back to the end of September, I was once again bummed. Why do all of us Firefly fans have to suffer? I swear it's some type of torture.

ERICAMARSH

Friday, January 28, 2005 2:56 PM

I love Buffy and Angel, but never really linked Joss Whedon until I signed up for a popular culture class in Joss Whedon at my university. Over the holiday break, I watched the season and fell hopelessly in love. By the time I saw The Message, tears were freely flowing. I'm now a lifer!
Erica, MA Student

ERICAMARSH

Friday, January 28, 2005 3:04 PM

I agree, we Firefly fans suffer, and I'm only a recent convert to the BrownCoat Society. Joss not only is excellent at multi-tasking, he is excellent about ispiring thos around him to see his vision ans support it. Once a writer/director glimpses that vision of genius that is Joss Whedon, they are forever enamored with the need to please the premise of the show. He is amazing. Candace Havens did a fairly okay biography of Joss, outlining Buffy, Angel, Firefly, and Fray (not to mention his disappointments as a sciprtdoctor) in _Joss Whedon: The Genius Behind Buffy_. It's worth the read if you're interested.

FREMDFIRMA

Friday, January 28, 2005 11:01 PM

I had quit watching TV somewhat before then, but my girl was watching the 'evil mind destroying box' and one of the rare few promo commercials for Firefly came on, which caught my attention immediately cause it was a genre that's been tried twice, and failed twice, on television, and is a genre I happen to LIKE dammit, heh.

Space Rangers bombed (CBS aired it against Bab5 and DS9,I suppose you could call it suicide)
And another show involving a Fleet Light Corvette never even got past the promo pilot, although they did air that.. but when the TV Guide says "Pilot, 2hrs", most folks give it a miss.

So with a little poking around, I got the addy of the F*X official site, and it looked good, once I got the sample clip from "The Train Job" to work, I was like "oh yeaaah", so I planted myself in front of the evilbox and was pleasantly surprised... and yes, crow being kicked through the engine was "the hook moment" for most of us.

Ironically I didn't even realize it was a Whedon thing until like, 3rd or 4th ep, and then only cause my girl is a Buffy fan.

Here's a haunting thought of the day for ya.
Old,Bad Spike (as opposed to nicer fluffier spike) and Jayne on a drinking binge at YOUR local bar... now that's bad.

-F

EMZ

Friday, January 28, 2005 11:01 PM

Hey there fellow Browncoats! Thought this would be a good start for my first post.

Living in the UK, I had heard about Firefly long before seeing it. Being a major Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan, I was intrigued by the fact that it was created by Joss but never gave much thought to the show until it became available on DVD in the US. I like genre/fantasy shows but am not really into sci-fi so I really didn’t know whether I’d like Firefly. Having read many reviews, all positive, I bought a copy of the DVD on Region 1 the day it was released.

The show was so different from what I had expected and was instantly hooked. I was surprised I could love a show so much considering there are only 14 episodes. I still watch episodes on a regular basis and Firefly remains my most watched DVD.

It’s such a shame Firefly was cancelled but I’m eagerly anticipating the release of Serenity.

HJERMSTED

Saturday, January 29, 2005 1:10 AM

I discovered Firefly on the telly (on a Fox Friday night). "Train Job" was the episode. Those were heady days... on Cartoon Network the hour before Firefly Justice League ran back-to-back with Samurai Jack. Those three shows became the Friday night 7-9pm ritual of mine and a couple of my friends.

I can think of only one weekly TV ritual that was more fun: The two seasons when Angel and Buffy ran back-to-back on WB.

Anyway, I loved Firefly immediately and am still po'd that we didn't even get a full season of that fine show.

mattro

REAVERINA1985RIVIERA

Saturday, January 29, 2005 1:58 AM

First time I heard of it, I was watching the Simpsons. I caught the last 2 seconds of a trailer, a spaceship spooking a heard of horses. I wanted to see the whole trailer so badly, I watched all 30 minutes of Malcome in the Middle (and I ing HATE that show) to see the whole thing and find out when it was on.

Basically, I've been a Browncoat from minute 1.

Arguing with a Reaver is not smart.

PUMAMANREDUX

Saturday, January 29, 2005 3:24 AM

I was on a Role Playing Game publisher's forum. Folks were discussing the series coming to DVD. I forgot about the series until Xmas of 2003 when I saw it for sale at Wal*Mart.

I bought the series and I started to watch the episodes a week or so later.

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CAITE

Saturday, January 29, 2005 4:59 AM

Welcome Emz! So good to meet another fellow browncoat!

FREDIKAYLLOW

Saturday, January 29, 2005 5:45 AM

well.
living in australia, we never even got it on tv until very recently, and not in my town. but, fortunately for me, both myself and my sister are huge buffy and angel fanatics (you have no idea how obsessed we are). therefore, when my sister learnt about firefly, she was outraged that we didn't get it. so, herself and her friend went and bought it from the internet. needless to say they were hooked. every time i would speak to my sister she would be like rambling on about how it wasn't fair it was cancelled and how it was sucha great show. at this stage i still hadn't seen it, and was getting mightily sick of hearing this every time i spoke to her. but then she bought me the dvd's for my birthday, and was ever so adamant that she be on the phone with me when i opened it. so of course i had to act excited and shocked by this 'shiny' present. then she gave a list of commands, such as i must watch them all in order, and watch all episodes before i listen to any commentaries and blah blah blah. so, one day after school i sat down with my homework and put on the two hour pilot. needless to say my homework never got done. after that exact moment i was hooked. i've seen each episode at least four times, not to mention certain episodes i have seen over fifteen times. the more i get invested in this show, the more i can't wait for the movie. why do we have to wait so gorram long!!

No power in the 'Verse can stop me!!!

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