When did you fall in love w/ Firefly?
POSTED BY: dianaspr
UPDATED: Saturday, November 19, 2005 20:30
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Quote:Yep. That was it for me, also.
Originally posted by DonCoat:
For me it was the Friday night in 2002 when "The Train Job" first aired. I swallowed the hook almost immediately and watched the whole episode with great enjoyment.
Then Mal kicked Crow through the engine. I jumped out of my chair, yelling. Good thing I don't have a cat, or it would've had a cow. At that moment, the hook was set, and it hasn't worked loose yet.
My wife was a little miffed by the whole jumping and yelling thing, but she's used to me doing weird stuff...
Rabit
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The EW ( I belive it was EW, might have been StarLong or similar mag) article on Firefly a few months before "Train Job" aired. It seemed at the time (and is evident now) a good take on the future and I was impressed by the characters talked about. Mal, Wash, Book, Zoe and Jayne were touched on in the article if I remember right.
"I aim to misbehave"
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I saw Firefly first on SciFi, and fell in love, instantly!
Got the DVD's and watched them, and when I got to the closing scenes of "Out of Gas" I was a gone goslin'!
Mal leaves me breathless, I love Serenity and would love to call her home if that was possible. Silly I know, but I love this 'verse, and I think I'm so addicted I'll just never leave, thank you.
Let me also say thank you to all the first Browncoats for being here and doing what it took to get us all the BDM!!!! We new fans owe you such a debt of gratitude.
"It's just an object. It doesn't
mean what you think." -River Tam
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Unlike a lot of people, I never got to watch the show when it first aired on Fox. Little backstory: I had just gotten into BtVS that summer 2002 and so on FX watching reruns, I'd seen the preview for Firefly a couple times. It looked interesting, but it being on Friday nights, I never got to sit down and watch it. This was back when I had a life on Friday nights. But when the show was cancelled, I remember hearing about it and hearing how devistated Joss was about it.
So fast-forward to Spring 2004, when Angel was airing its last few eps. I kept hearing on this forum I used to belong to about Adam Baldwin's character, that they would not call him Hamilton, they'd call him Jayne. This made me more interested in checking out Firefly.
October 2004, I finally decided to get this DVD set, to finally see what everyone else was talking about with this show. Picked it up, popped in the first disc, and the magic started. I was hooked by the time Simon started telling the crew about him and River in the pilot.
The hook is still here and its never coming out.
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"Yeah, well its LA. The evil is just probably stuck in traffic" -Cordelia
"There were about 100 people at Shellie's party - ninety-eight of them would walk over my corpse for a piece of free gum." ~ Veronica Mars 
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the first episode and i fell in love i think i realy annoyed my friends talking about it everything was awsome for me. I havent seen the move yet though
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I got interested in the show around the time of it's appearance on FOX, but it dissappeared before I could actually watch it. The movie rekindled my interest and I tried to get a marathon of it on Sci-Fi a few days before the movie came out.
"I'm thinking you weren't burdened with an overabundance of schoolin', so why don't we just ignore each other 'til we go away"-Mal
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You know, its interesting: I don't remember the exact point I went from liking Firefly to loving it. I didn't realize I loved it when I saw it on TV but I guess I must have, because when I first saw the DVD set you would've thought I'd just found the Holy Grail. My reaction was just total joy and a feeling that I'd just found something really special. So I guess I loved it before I knew I did.
"Gorramit Mal... I've forgotten my line."
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I loved Firefly from the first moment of the first commercial I saw on Fox. I actually did that sharp intake of breath thing. And I'm not even sure why...it just struck me instantly as different and SMART and incredibly thoughtful (as in very thought-out).
Thanks to Fox, I only saw a handful of the episodes because I was always out swing dancing on Friday nights. I never did quite figure out what was going on. But I was in love....sigh. :)
I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that I had not heard of Joss Wheadon before Firefly. Afterwards, of course, I became addicted to Buffy and Angel.
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Much like the time I was given a 1st edition boxed set of the LOTR - and returned it because I "wasn't into fantasy," I saw the previews on Fox & thought "ugh. diluting pristine sci-fi w/ hokey western. no thanks." Took years in both cases for me to wish for a time machine to go back & kick my own ass! Had a girlfriend in '03/04 who was a Buffy fanatic tho, & she introduced me to Joss, so when another friend later recommended and lent me disk 1 of the series, I watched them in order, hounded him for the rest of the disks, then bought my own set asap. I'd become a fan, as in fanatic. I later talked that same (now ex-) girlfriend out of a preview ticket she'd promised someone else, left my fiancee home, & saw Serenity on 8/30 w/ my ex-girlfriend & four other friends (it wasn't that perilous, my fiancee & my ex are friends, and my fiancee didn't finally become a browncoat until last wknd, when I finally got her to watch the pilot - she spent the whole holiday wknd in bed watching the series btw). So yeah, I missed the original airing, and I've never had SciFi on cable so I missed the reruns too. But on the bright side I've never watched an episode w/ commercials, nor had my Friday spoiled by a pre-emption. My only regret, other than the tenuous future of the 'verse, is that I've only seen the BDM once. 33 days. . .
"Maybe I'm Santa Claus, come down the chimney with presents for all the good girls and boys. But maybe not; maybe I've always been here."
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When did I fall in love?
First, you have to understand that I hated it. I'd never seen more than 20 seconds of the pilot episode when it aired on Fox. (In my own defense, there were extenuating circumstances regarding an ex-boyfriends girlfriend etc etc.)
Then the DVDs came out and my boyfriend was all "You gotta see this! No! You gotta see this." He left the dvds with me for a week. I didn't watch them. He got offended.
Then Serenity came out. "You gotta see this! You GOTTA see this."
FINE! FINE! Take me to see the stupid movie.
I was grouchy. I hated it already. Didn't care at all.
And then...omigod, you cannot understand...and then Wash said,
"Oh god, oh god, we're all gonna die?"
and Mal got on the intercom and told everyone they were most likely gonna explode. !
And THEN Jayne, may he blessed, said, "We're gonna explode? I don't wanna explode!"
And Zoe said, "We crashin' again?"
And Mal said, "Talk to your husband."
And I knew.
I had found Serenity, and I was never gonna leave.
Unfortunately, theaters frown on that. Especially when they're trying to take the film out of the reel and you're trying to put it back in. They tend to get techy about that. Go figure.
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