How did you discover Firefly?

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UPDATED: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 04:08
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STAKETHELURK

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 8:52 PM

This looks like a good place to finally de-lurk and join the conversation.

I caught the FOX adverts back in the summer of 2002 and was morbidly intrigued, especially since it was “from the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” I’d seen some Buffy (in fact, it turns out I’d seen much of the second and third seasons in Spanish while I was out of the country), but was surprised that they’d make a big deal about it. So I tuned into “The Train Job.” I was hooked by the trailer, but the show didn’t go from ‘good’ to ‘brilliant’ until Mal kicked Crow. Sheer genre-subverting genius.

I didn’t know the show was in trouble until I read a blurb lamenting its cancellation in a newspaper. More than a year later, after I became a big Buffy/Angel fan, I was researching Whedon online and found this place. I also simultaneously heard about the movie and about Angel’s cancellation. That was an unusual day…

Been lurking here ever since.

VISITINGMYINTENTIONS

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 9:19 PM

Confession: the first time I saw Firefly, I walked away half through the episode.

It was last fall when I first heard of Firefly: "Joss Whedon's canceled space-western". Now, the "Joss Whedon" was a strong incentive for me to see the show. I loved Buffy and after seeing OMWF, I knew Joss was a genius. ...Still, "canceled" made me slightly hesitant: if it was canceled because it was bad, then why see it, and if it was good, did I want the heartbreak of knowing it was so abbreviated? I wasn't sure that few episodes would be enough to develope the characters or plot. TV. I knew, had a tendency to be bad (the only other show I watched up to that point was Buffy, and I hadn't been a fan until it came out on DVD), and even Joss could screw up. In any case, the folks who had the Firefly popped it in and started watching Jaynestown. I disliked it immediately (for some reasons which I still believe are valid), and even when it came to the River/Book scene, which I could tell was supposed to be funny, I didn't have any background on the characters, so I was just slightly confused. To this day, partially as a result of that experience, I'm slightly put off by Jaynestown.

It wasn't until half a year later that Firefly came up again. My boyfriend had had it leant and recommended to him by a friend of his, so we sat down to watch it. Twue wuv, as they say. The moment I knew I'd never escape again was the dinosaurs. After having proselytized a bit, I have found that if they don't fall head over heels for that scene, they are unlikely to feel strongly about the show.

Poor Buffy. She's never got the same attention from me since.

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DIEGO

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 9:42 PM

I don't watch t.v. regularly, but I fortunately have a television filtering device in my father. He compulsively records all sci-fi (regardless of quality) and saves the tapes up for when I come to visit him. To humor him, I usually watch a few tapes even though I'd rather not spend my whole visit catching up on a season or more of some show I might not even have heard of. I tried Firefly when I was down for Thanksgiving during their one season, and was immediately hooked. I then brought the tapes back home to infect all my friends.

CALLYGAL

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 9:43 PM

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The moment I knew I'd never escape again was the dinosaurs.

Me too! Rented the first disc of the boxset because I loved Buffy and Angel but missed Firefly on UK Sci-Fi Channel. And as I collapsed into giggles (and heard my Dad laugh beside me) as the camera moved out from Wash's face onto the dinos, I knew it was love. Think I've come onto ff.net every day I've been able since then!

I'm not nice. I'm just highly susceptible to guilt

PSYCHICRIVER

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 9:44 PM

Hey there! Well, Firefly was recommended to me by a good friend that I met in a Buffy forum. She kept telling me how good it was. I was a big Whedon fan...so one day in November, I bought the set!

And a few episodes in, I was in love! And I registered here! I finished the set in just over 2 days...then I was excited for the film...then it was delayed.

I've converted 8 people since...and between them, they've all converted at least one themselves. So thats 16 more browncoats (and 16 more bums on seats in theatres for at least one showing of the bdm) from one persons recommendation. And if you add me in, that 17, and about 10 more showings!

PsychicRiver

"Two by two, hands of blue."
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"I swallowed a bug."

Summer Glau to me - "You are so photogenic."

Me -

SERENITYPUNK

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 9:50 PM

I went to starfury fusion last year, and had no idea what firefly was or who was in it

so im stood in the queue for nick and emma photos and there is this guy on the stage doing his Q&A, and he was hilariously funny and really cute, this was nathan fillion.

i just though oooh caleb

so went to his and some girls auto sessions for the hell of it, turned out to be jewel, summer and nathan.

I got told in no uncertain terms to go buy the boxset and educate myself to the verse

thank you mr fillion, you made me see the error of my ways!!

have been a fan ever since

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Pirate Steve defines the word cool.....
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R1Z

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 9:56 PM

I saw one of the few promos that Fox aired prior to airing the series.

Saw The Train Job and loved it (figured I'd figure out all the relationships as I went along.) I remember watching Safe, Shindig, Out of Gas, and War Stories. It was really hard because the local paper is not good at keeping up with pre-empts in the tv schedule. Often it would say Firefly would air, and what would be on would be baseball.

I distinctly remember thinking, "The way Fox is jerking this one around, it's never gonna last. They'll cancel it." And I was right.

Finally wised up and taped the pilot when it did air. Watched it when the mood took me, commercials and all, for about 18 months. (Good on slow winter Sunday afternoons.)

One day I had a flash and decided to check and see if it had ever been released on DVD, and thus discovered the whole "phenomenon".

I've tried to make up for the lost interval ever since, by passing my dvds around, donating a second set to the local library, etc.

To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. --Robt. Heinlein

LADYSHELLEY

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:52 PM

I'm a very recent convert, like in the last month. I am probably the only person in the 'verse that has never seen an episode of Buffy, so the name Joss Whedon meant nothing to me.

I had had whispers in other fandoms about this new, cool sci-fi show, but when I tried to find it, no love.

A friend though was a huge fan of the show and kept after me to see the DVD's and I finally broke down and stuck them in my NetFlix list. Watched the first disc, fell in love, went out and bought the DVD's that weekend.

Lady Shelley
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R1Z

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 11:22 PM

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I'm a very recent convert, like in the last month. I am probably the only person in the 'verse that has never seen an episode of Buffy, so the name Joss Whedon meant nothing to me.

OK, True Confessions time.

I STILL have never seen an episode of Buffy, or Angel. Vampires just do nothing for me.

And (ducking) I had never heard of Joss until I really started looking into Firefly/Serenity.

Do I get any points for being a diehard sci-fi and Brisco County Jr. fan?

To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. --Robt. Heinlein

JACQUI

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 11:53 PM

To be honest, I was never that interested in 'Firefly' when it first came out. I think the words 'space cowboys' scared the living daylights out of me.

I was (am) a die hard Buffy/Angel fan and I was really kind of bitter that he had passed on these shows to spend so much time on another one.

I have a friend in the US who'd send me the new eps of Buffy/Angel and just happened to send me Firefly with it, 'cause he thought I might like it.

The 'verse was against me: the video quality from NTSC to PAL was poor, grainy and hard to follow, the episodes (I now realise) were out of order and confusing. I gave up on it.

I write the episode guides at a little website and having nearly completed Buffy/Angel I figured I *should* do Firefly, I mean - just 'cause I don't like it, doesn't mean other people don't right? So I was waiting for the DVDs to go on sale.

Skip ahead to this year and my birthday, my fiance wanted to know what his friends can get me and I had no idea. Eventually I just told him the Firefly DVDs and be done with it.

I watched Serenity (hey, this isn't too bad, it's kinda quirky), The Train Job, Bushwhacked (oooh, I think I like this show), but it wasn't until Shindig (Hey! You can't be mean to Kaylee! You made her SAD!) that I knew I loved it.

I watched it in one weekend, forced my fiance to watch it and then my mother and then my friends - that's four times over two weeks. I've become the Firefly dealer for my inner circle. I'm currently converting my sister.

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