What turned you onto Firefly?
POSTED BY: MtnScott
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 01:43
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I loved Buffy and Angel so when I heard Joss was doing a SF series I was excited. We watched up until Jaynestown when we lost track due to various Fox pre-emptions and real world schedules.
The next thing I knew it had been cancelled. I grabbed the DVD set and quickly realized that this was an even better show than I remembered and the rest, as they say, is history.
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Welcome.
I was a big Joss fan, I loved Buffy and Angel, but I avoided Firefly like the plague. I guess I was bitter, 'cause it was taking so much of his time away from Buffy and Angel and, also, the words "space cowboys" scared the living beejeesus outta me. I avoided it for years.
But I wrote the guides for Buffy/Angel over at a website, where some members were Firefly fans and I figured I couldn't avoid writing Firefly guides forever. Cut to May this year when I finally caved and got the DVDs. I mean, hell, it was only fourteen episodes, even if it sucked, right?
I watched it and promptly fell in love. Then I came online and found that there was gonna be a movie later this year. I was hooked. I don't think I've watched Buffy or Angel since May. Which is a scary thought.
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Only had a vague awareness of the show when it came out on FOX but I work evenings and based on the lame adds, I couldn't be bothered to try to tape it...
Now I have a ReplayTV (like TiVo) so when I heard about it being on Sci-Fi I recorded Heart of Gold. I thought it was prety good.
The following week I recorded Objects In Space. When I finished watching that, I found and orded the DVD set within the next 20 minutes or so.
Box set arrived on the following Tuesday. Watched it from Tuesday-Friday night. Pre-orded the movie Friday night and then saw it Saturday afternoon at a local 3rd run theater ($2 matinee).
Found out about the comic series and RPG game and now have those as well. Have orderd most of the other Firefly related books and stuff at Amazon and pre-orded the Australian Serenity DVD yesterday (has 2nd disk with extra content in that release).
Also got an awesome Serenity sticker from Artcat that is now on the back of my truck. She has a website with smaller stickers but only sells the big one I got on Ebay as far as I can tell.
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I've always been a Sci-Fi fan. Read Heinlen and Asimov as a kid, watched the "original re-runs" of Star Trek in the late 60's and animated version on TV in the early 70's, loved Star Wars. I came to Buffy rather late, because I actually liked the delightfully cheesy movie, and thought the series would be a poor rip-off. Then I read an article in Newsweek about the show, it's depth and cult following, and I decided to give it a try (it was Oz's character that really hooked me at first). Angel, later, I didn't really get into as much, but I have seen since every episode of Buffy (I believe) thanks to re-runs on FX.
Then I heard about a new show from the creator of Buffy. Had guns, spaceships and humour, so even though the ads made it sound like an attempt to be a kooky, zany "Animal House In Spaaaaace!!" I thought I'd watch. Three years later, I still watch at least one episode a week between the SciFi re-runs and the Sunday V-Shindigs on AIM.
And welcome MtnScott! Alway room for another browncoat!
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Like many above, I am also a science fiction fan. First in print, Asimov, Clark, EE Doc Smith, etc, since I was pre-teen. I also make it a habit of trying to watch the first episode of any new series that might have the slightest chance of being interesting, Sci-fi or not.
I watched Firefly from the get-go. I loved it. They cancelled it. I was pissed and then forgot about it. I watched Buffy and Angel, but I'm not sure I was actively aware that Firefly was done by the same guy. Then, as my wife and I were out Christmas shopping last year (2004) I noticed the boxed set. I turned to her and told her "I want that for Christmas". I still had no idea there was a movie being made. I suppose I'm actualy a closet browncoat, although my duster is black.
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What a cool thread!
We were lent the Firefly DVD set from some friends who have previously lent us Ultraviolet and Casanova - a couple of british productions that we loved.
Neither of us had watched Buffy or Angel, and we don't watch much US sci-fi.
We loved it immediately. 
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Originally posted by dc4bs:
pre-orded the Australian Serenity DVD yesterday (has 2nd disk with extra content in that release).
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Where did you buy the australian dvd, if you don't mind me asking?
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I don't consider myself a sci-fi fan. Hate star wars, star trek, ect..
I am a BTVS/Angel fan and have been since Buffy first aired. When I heard Joss was doing another show I was excited until I heard it was sci-fi and a western (another genre which i don't care for overmuch). Once i heard what the show was supposed to be I no longer had any interest in watching it and hadn't thought of it since.
That was until last November (2004) when a coworker mentioned that she was a fan of the show. She highly recommended it to me, especially since I had enjoyed Joss's other works. I took her word for it and Netflixed it. After watching the first disc i was hooked and ran out to buy the series.
The rest is, as they say, history.
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