One chance - where should you start?

POSTED BY: KittyKat
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KITTYKAT

Wednesday, February 2, 2005 10:57 AM

Spreading the Firefly news is good and we all know that if we can just get people in front of that TV with the DVDs on, then they can't help but fall in love with it. It's getting them there that's the problem.

I have three housemates, one I managed to get onto Firefly because she was willing to do anything to avoid work. Of course, she loved it and quickly converted her boyfriend who is my second housemate - he didn't have a chance. My third housemate has been incredibly resistant and extremely dubious and finally managing to corner him last night into watching whe he was tired and his resistance low, I knew I only had one chance to get him addicted. So we put on 'Shindig'.

While I think Firefly's good from the beginning, I think it's excellent, must-see viewing from about 'Shindig' onwards. So my question is this, what episode would you start someone off on, knowing you've only got one chance?

- Kati

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GROUNDED

Wednesday, February 2, 2005 11:43 AM

I hate not seeing stuff in order...but I'd say Our Mrs. Reynolds would be a better choice than Shindig.

SERGEANTX

Wednesday, February 2, 2005 11:51 AM

I'm always tempted to say Out of Gas, but I think you almost need the weight of knowing the characters a bit to really appreciate it.

Our Mrs. Reynolds sounds like a really good choice. I remember that's when the series really starts to shine, and it just gets better from there. If they like it I'd still encourage them to go back and watch them all in order, but OMR will give them a good feel for what's great about Firefly. If they don't like it, they probably won't like the rest of the episodes.

SergeantX

"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock

MRSKBORG

Wednesday, February 2, 2005 9:20 PM

Normally I'd say go with OMR or Shindig, but oddly enough for one person it was OOG and then I didn't see my dvds for 3 weeks!

"This movie may be a beautiful butterfly, but I loved that damn caterpillar." Joss Whedon.

CONNORFLYNN

Wednesday, February 2, 2005 9:37 PM

Out of Gas is by far my favorite episode..though I love them all.

MANIACNUMBERONE

Wednesday, February 2, 2005 9:38 PM

I was shown War Stories first... and afterwards I was shown them out of chronological order, but it didn't eventually matter to me because I got to know all the episodes so well. I would say, if you think that these are the type of folks who would watch the series more than once, it's fine to try and hook them with a specific ep. I wish now though that I had been shown them in order.

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Inara: Who's winning?
Simon: I can't really tell, they don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.
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MINIME

Wednesday, February 2, 2005 9:52 PM

still reckon the pilot is the way to go. it got me hooked. (of course that was after i had already bought the dvds, but still...)

MISGUIDED BY VOICES

Wednesday, February 2, 2005 10:41 PM

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Originally posted by minime:
still reckon the pilot is the way to go. it got me hooked. (of course that was after i had already bought the dvds, but still...)

Totally agree. Begin at the beginning, its a very good place to start as Julie Andrews once trilled.

Serenity is designed to hook people - the later episodes are as well, but there is a certain art to the pilot episode - kind of screws up when you show it out of gorram order!

Looking at recent pilots (I've yet to see Lost), Firefly has one of the best examples I can think of as the perfect pilot/first episode.

"I threw up on your bed"

CLAUDIUS

Thursday, February 3, 2005 2:13 AM

Shindig got me hooked. The pilot would be good for chronology but I would be tempted to go with Ariel....But heck there all good. I'll bet you could convert someone with the second half of any of'em.

Book: I am a shepherd. Folks like a man of God.
Mal: No, they don't. Men of God make everyone feel guilty and judged.

Wash: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
Zoe: We live in a space ship, dear.

KITTYKAT

Thursday, February 3, 2005 11:18 AM

Mmm... Out of Gas is probably my favourite too, although Objects in Space comes close and I do consider myself lucky to have got to watch it from the beginning. I just don't think Serenity works well enough to make someone who's not overly keen to try it to begin with to make them want to keep watching.

The housemate said he enjoyed Shindig ("it's funnier than I thought it would be") and he did say he wanted to watch more. Mind you, I haven't seen him since so maybe he was just saying that so I wouldn't bludgeon him with the remote control.

- Kati

Pretties! http://funkydory.hostocket.com/firefly.htm

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