How did you discover Firefly?

POSTED BY: danharlow
UPDATED: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 04:08
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DANHARLOW

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 5:17 PM

Hello

I am sure many of the people on this board were fans of the show when it was on air so I feel bad that I was not a part of Firefly from the beginning. I had heard of the show when it was being broadcast, but just barely. I think I remember reading somewhere on some back page of some magazine or newspaper that Firefly was an excellent show but it never really got my attention. Of course part of me is glad I did not have to endure the pain of cancellation but events like that do bring communities together and great things can happen.

The real shame is that the studio did such a poor job of pushing the show. With so much talent that Joss was able to muster and his own credibility riding high from Buffy one would think the studio would have tried harder to get the word out to people like me who do not normally watch television.

Alas, the show came and went and I was unaware of pretty much the entire series. Until ...

A friend of my roommate owns the DVD set and has loaned it out to everyone who is even remotly interested in the show. We decided to take him up on the offer after seeing the trailer for Serenity. That trailer really caught my eye because they seemed to be focusing more on character and story then on action. I have worked in movie theaters for years as a projectionist and have seen literally thousands of trailers so I know what to look for in them. Serenity for me just stood out for all the right reasons and it looked like it was not your standard "action, sci-fi fluff".

A few weeks later we got ahold of the DVD set and planned to spend a few weeks watching a few episodes at a time just like we did with the original Battlestar Galactica series. Well two days later we were done with the DVD set and we were both hooked. I love this show and am very excited for the film.

I was lucky to have a friend who owned this DVD set and I am buying it as well so that not only can I watch it over and over again but so I can loan it out to my friends for them to discover as well.

What a great experience! I am so glad I found something to really get caught up in and I am glad there is such a great community out here to discuss the show and to be part of something special.

I don't know if there are any older threads pertaining to how anyone else discovered the show, if there are I apoligize, there's just alot of threads to read through :) but I am interested in learning how any of you found the show since, in my opinion, the studio did such a terrible job promoting the series to the general public.

ODDNESS2HER

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 5:36 PM

It's been covered before, but what the heck:

Already being a Joss Whedon fan, I had heard the buzz about his upcoming show. I was one of those who watched every episode Fox aired, for all the good it did.

BROWNCOAT1

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 6:33 PM

I caught the show from the beginning, though I must admit that the "Train Job" left me trying to figure out who was who & why they were on the ship on the first place. Of course we have Fox to thank for that don't we?

When Mal kicked Crow through Serenity's port engine I burst out laughing and was hooked from that point on.

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INDIANABANZAI

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 6:34 PM

Saw the commercials, caught the first episode after a baseball game on FOX (Giants/Cardinals, I think), liked what I saw, watched the next couple of episodes and I was hooked.

So yeah, Browncoat since the premiere.

AUROTER

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 6:50 PM

Recent browncoat. As in, this year. Someone mentioned it to me, but they didn't have time to go into details. I heard the word "Cancelled" and figured it wasn't really all that great. I was new to Buffy and Angel at the time, having only seen a couple of random episodes which I wasn't terribly exited about it.

Anyway, my girlfriend forced me into it and I've loved it ever since. It was of course followed up with Buffy and Angel and Joss Whedon has become God.

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AURAPTOR

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 7:06 PM

Because one friend of mine in particular was a huge Buffy/Angel fan, I couldn't escape hearing about Joss Whedon. When I heard of this thing called FIREFLY he had coming up in the fall, I figured it was worthy. I mean, space hookers? C'mon! I freely admit, it didn't completely grab me at first ( thanks for airing the Train Job first, Fox ), but I stuck with it. Through the baseball playoffs and everything, I became totally hooked.

Right away, I knew it was different than anything I had seen before. A show set in the future, w/ out green alien babes, tribbles or light sabers had no hope of being any good, right? It was far better than 'good', it was phenominal!

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

STILLSHINY

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 7:08 PM

Allow me to testify! *waving white hanky tent-meeting style*

My conversion story is kinda basic. I watched the show from the first episode. I was actually hooked by "The Train Job" It's funny I've heard this episode catch so much flack, I loved it. I actually liked the fact that Mal & crew were not "Heroes in white hats." They were just plain thieves, I didn't care why. But then to see the development of character & conscience by the end of the episode really drew me in. I kept watching till the show was ripped from the air.

Months later I was at a friends house & he was showing me episodes of Farscape on his computer. I asked him if he could try to find Firefly for me. It became a steady occurance. We'd meet up at church, say our typical greetings and then he would hook me up with a CD of my next Firefly episode.

My wife & I would sit infront of our old archaic PC and watch them. This system was so slow that the audio sync was about 5 seconds off. It was more like watching a slide-show with dialog. Still we loved the show. I then became a regular here on FFF.net. And bought the DVD's as soon as they hit the shelves. I tell everyone about Firefly & Serenity.

I love Fireflyfans.net. I'm here daily. I love this community of folk.This is my second home.

The greatest influence of Firefly on my life has been the phrase Find a crew, find a job, keep flying. When life gets difficult I fall back on this thought. My wife is the greatest crew a captain could ask for. I've got a job. It may not be the greatest but it's a job, and I do my best. And finally, no matter what happens you just keep moving forward, You don't give up, you don't quit. You keep flying. It may not sound like much, but it's enough.

"We had ties that could not be broken, except by the passing of time. Like a rock. A broken time rock. And you're very special to me, my broken time rock people." - Nathan Fillion

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SHORNY

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 7:16 PM

Firefly Saved my Life

Ok not really but during Firefly’s run, I was working 11 hours a day 6 days a week at a job I hated. It was a really bad time for me and Firefly was the one hour of joy in my otherwise tragic life (ok I did have Buffy, but it's just not the same).

My first episode was “The Train Job”, but I only saw the second half of it. When Mal Kicked Crow throw the engine I knew this was a great show. I spend the next year kicking myself that I missed the pilot because I was lost as to who everyone was on the ship and why River was crazy. I kept seeing Fox’s advertisements with “a girl in a box” so I just assumed that everyone else in the world had seen the pilot and I was the only idiot that missed it. I never heard it was canceled and would hurry though my work every Friday hoping Firefly would be on (I’m getting a little misty now just thinking about it). It was not until the DVD came out that I found out that I was not the idiot- Fox was.

HJERMSTED

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 7:31 PM

Thanks to Buffy and Angel I was already a rabid Whedonite (Whedonist, perhaps?) when Joss started talking about his new show on Fox.

This here website sprang forth from Haken's loins and thus I began tracking the pre-production of Firefly. When The Train Job finally aired, any doubts I had about the show or the premise itself were quickly squandered. The characters resonated with me immediately and I even loved the story of that very rushed first-to-be aired episode.

Honestly, when Shindig and Safe originally aired I found them a little disappointing (though now I love them both of course!) but then the show did something odd.. it kept getting better and better! Each episode amazed me and then blew away the previous episode (which had also amazed me). There were no lulls for the rest of the show's broadcast life (for eight or nine eps in a row... not even my previous all-time fave shows ST:TNG and Twin Peaks could make such a consistency claim).

Next: I salivated like Pavlov's dog at the thought of a possible Firefly DVD set. Yes there was a time when we didn't know for sure that a DVD set would happen! What ulcerous times those were.

Now: I salivate like the aforementioned Pavlovian pooch at the thought of Serenity (which I have NOT been fortunate enough to see yet) and the rest of the trilogy which will most certainly follow.

All in all... a lot of glandular exercise. Thanks Joss!

Stay gold!

Matt

BARNSTORMER

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 8:16 PM

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Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
I caught the show from the beginning, though I must admit that the "Train Job" left me trying to figure out who was who & why they were on the ship on the first place. Of course we have Fox to thank for that don't we?

When Mal kicked Crow through Serenity's port engine I burst out laughing and was hooked from that point on.

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That was exactly how it was for me. I'm always hoping for a decent SciFi show to come around thats got some "Grit" to it. I was'nt at all sure about Firefly while watching "the train job" until Mal made Crow into pate'. I saw that and after the shock wore off, said, "Yep, I'll tune in next week". It was just to good.

Am I a Lion?... No, I think I'ma tellin' the truth.

BarnStormer

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