When did you fall in love w/ Firefly?
POSTED BY: dianaspr
UPDATED: Saturday, November 19, 2005 20:30
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Originally posted by dianaspr:
Ok so Id like to know when was the exact point when you decided you loved this show?
When I bought the DVD set I just remembered really liking the couple of first run episiodes I'd seen (Bushwacked, Out of Gas).
But the moment I decided I loved the show happened sometime while watching the first ten minutes of Serenity (the Pilot, not the movie, although the first ten minutes of the movie confirmed the love I found in the pilot, go figure) on DVD.
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I started watching Fall 2002 when Fox started airing the series...
I found 'Train Job' to be fun, but not enthrawling;
too many characters introduced too fast for me.
But of course I was already a Joss fan, so I hung in there...
Fox airing the shows out of order didn't help.
Having the show pre-empted for Baseball didn't help
(I would be up in the middle of the night phoning the Fox affiliate: "but will you air it AFTER the 'Friends' rerun that follows the news that will start after the baseball game is finally over???)
Then cam 'Jayne's Town' and I was blown away, I knew I loved this show more than Buffy or Angel...
I knew that 'Firefly' was dealing with more interesting themes in a deeper way,
and I was in love.
And then my heart was torn out when it was canceled soon afterwards. 
But actually? I treasure the long road back,
when the DVDs came out, when the movie was announced,
getting to go to the Advanced Screenings,
picking up on the guerilla marketing....
I love this 'verse. And I'm going to keep right on loving it for many more years to come!
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watch the R. Tam Session vids: http://www.hittarivertam.nu/
and buy the 'Serenity' comics published by Dark Horse,
and have you joined the Browncoats yet?
http://browncoats.serenitymovie.com/serenity/?fuseaction=tools.invlink
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Originally posted by DonCoat:
Lucky Lim, getting to watch the series in the proper order the first time!
I liked your story about leaping out of your chair at the unexpected rescue. It's always something extraordinary to be there at the very instant something is happening. Even if you find out later that J & co had to pull an all-weekender to come up with that ep and replace the original idea. That moment when Mal is outside the bar in the dust and you see the two huge moons behind his head, it made me gasp, even though it's been done a hundred times. Joss does an amazing job of genre weaving with this story, constantly moving between the American past, present and the future frontier, with the civil war thrown in for good measure. He tricks me into forgetting something for an instant, and then it roars up from behind the cliff.
Thanks to viral marketing...SERENITY: reopening soon in a theater near you.
Shiny Trees! Yavanna made Shiny Trees!
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I'd say that the attraction/flirtation started with "The Train Job" back in 2002.
I knew I fell in love with the show while watching "Out of Gas" when Mal asked if the crew would be there when he woke up. I was actually choked up at that point.
And in that final scene in the used spaceship lot, when Mal looked over toward Serenity, I knew *exactly* how he felt.
"Tell you what. You buy this ship, treat her proper, she'll be with ya for the rest of your life. Son? Hey, son? You hear a word I been sayin'?"
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I had known about the show since it first aired. Sadly, I was a victim of Fox's awful ad campaign, and had no interest whatsoever.
I didn't get to see the show proper until this past May (thanks to Dracos). When the BDM got pushed back to September, I finally had a chance to get acquainted with the show. I devoured the show over the course of a week, and was hooked immediately.
This past summer, I worked at a movie theater. One with one of those big tv screens showing movie trailers. I got to see the Serenity trailer every 20 minutes. That was the final nail in the coffin. I was in love.
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I fell in love with "Firefly" on 9/20/02, from the very first frame of "The Train Job" until the very last frame of "Serenity" the movie!
P.s. not to sound like a complete dipstick but to quote Inara " It's just Serenity."
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Desktop Hippie converted me about a year ago with Our Mrs. Reynolds she had bought the dvd and loaned it to mewith instructions to watch that ep first, and as you can see... it worked 
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Liu koushui de biaozi he houzi de ben erzi.
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Being a Buffy/Angel fan I knew of Firefly in advance of its UK SciFi channel airings. Watched the proper pilot episode and liked it a lot but knowing that it had been cancelled I wasn't willing to invest in the show.
The following week I found myself watching Train Job. Another good 'un but still planned on giving up.
Then I saw Bushwacked and for some reason I still don't know the show grabbed me by the balls and I was hooked.
After Jaynestown aired and I had stopped laughing I promptly started selling the series virtues to everyone around me.
That's my story.
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When I saw Kaylee with her parasol in the pilot episode.That was the moment I realised this was going to be a unique sci-fi show. Living in the UK I hadn't seen the show until I decided to buy the dvd boxed set (based on nothing more than the fact it was by Joss Whedon) I had even held off buying it for about a year (the cover didn't inspire me.) It's hard to describe how impressed I was by the end of the first episode, it just seems that everything about it is perfect but I think the actors need to be singled out because that has to be THE dream cast of any show. I've just watched the final episode (wow!) and although I'm thankful for the film I pray it will be revived as a tv series. Hello to fellow Firefly fans around the World!
mnslater
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Isn't it frustrating when you know something is the greatest thing ever and that it will change peoples lives if only they'd give it a chance and they dismiss it without a thought. I struggled to get my friends to watch a film called Baraka (I more or less forced it on them in the end) and sure enough they loved it! I've converted one friend to Firefly and hopefully if we could all do that there may be another series!!!
mnslater
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