What was the exact moment?

POSTED BY: Ginger08
UPDATED: Friday, February 17, 2006 14:48
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SCOUSERATHEART

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 5:05 PM

For me, I saw the pilot first. The exact moment that hooked me was when Mal tells Simon that Kaylee was dead (I thought, what a shame I really liked that character - guess she was just a red-coat ensign). He goes running through the ship to find Kaylee just fine - cut to - Mal, Zoe, Jayne, and Wash laughing.

Brilliant. I was hooked.

FORDAITH

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 6:04 PM

I saw Serenity before I saw Firefly, so I guess...

She had me "...Oh my god we're all gonna die!

SAMEERTIA

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 6:12 PM

I saw "Serenity" before I saw the shoe.
You cannot understand! Well...maybe you can, 'cause, well, most of you saw it first. I was set to hate the film- I was only seeing it because my boyfriend loved it.

And then... Wash said, "Oh god, oh god. We're all gonna die?"
And Mal grabbed the intercom and said they were gonna explode!
AND THEN There was this big guy covered in guns saying "I don't wanna explode!"
Mal was yelling "Kaylee! What in the sphincter of hell..." and there was the cutest little thing with tools in her hand and grease on her face....

Yah... it was magic. I was in love with every second from that moment on.

MOHRSTOUTBEARD

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 6:17 PM

The moment you cite, Ginger08, is one of the moments that I, too, can really point to and say, "There. That made me a believer."

I really dug the show up until that point, but that was, perhaps, the spot where I realized that it was totally different from any other show out there. When Dobson grabs River, you think, "Oh, there's going to be a tense stand-off!" Then Mal just strides in and offs him like nothing. Hell yeah.

The fact that Firefly was always there to break the cliché really resounded for me. Actually. . .

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. . .that's one of my main gripes with the Serenity comic: Dobson comes back. After totally breaking through cliché, it just winds up back in its dreaded grip.

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CLIOMUSE

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 7:02 PM

I am with RPLACKETT and DUG. I saw the show it in its first run on FOX and was hooked when Crow went through the engine. I liked the dialog and the acting from minute one, but up 'til that moment my husband and I were a little worried that Crow chasing them through the Universe was going to be the arc of the show, and that cliche killing twist got us both. I didn't become truly, painfully addicted until Out of Gas. I wish I'd seen Serenity the Pilot first, because I would have appreciated some of the characters even more during the initial run. Watching it in order makes a HUGE difference.

ALTA

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 7:24 PM

Crow getting kicked into the engine sealed the deal, but little things thru out the episode had me, also. Jayne asking “What month is this?” was hi-larious.

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There's no place I can be
Since I found Serenity

SERENITYVALLEY

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 7:48 PM

I have to admit, I was a little skeptical at first, but as soon as the Wash said, "Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?" that was the hook.

http://www.simple-assault.com/Firefly.htm

ITSBROKEN

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 8:05 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by nuclearday:
I remembered the title song being... different from a ways back, and at first I didn't really like it. It sold the whole western in space thing, but... it kind of bugged me at first. It wasn't until maybe the third time I heard that it somehow sunk in.

Next thing I know I'm singing right along, popping in disk after disk. Lot of times when I'm watching a series on DVD I'll skip right through the opening credits. Not once have I done that with Firefly. I'll watch that title scene all through every time. Heck I'll even put a disk in just to hear that song every once in awhile.

After that there was no going back...

LOL i know exactly what you're talking about. I thought that i was the only one. When my family hears it, they think im so weird for watching a scifi western.

I'd say that the moment that turned me was during the BDM (i saw the BDM in the theater before i became a fireflymaniac) when Simon got shot by the reavers and was talking to River, and then she starts to tear the place up.

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***someone should make a MMORPG based on the 'verse!***

Geeze i want Firefly to come back!

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CAPELLA

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 8:25 PM

Hi,

I had never heard of the show until last December (yeah, I know, I must have been deaf and blind and everything, but since it was never on TV in Germany, I somehow missed it). Then I saw one of LithiumDoll's FanVids for it and thought "Wow, that looks interesting, who are all those people and why do they fly spaceships and ride horses in the same show?" And then suddenly the name appeared everywhere, in every writer's blog I was reading, in every forum etc. And they all agreed: this is a great show. So I bought the DVD set and gave it a try. (I have never done that before, spending almost 50 bucks on a TV series I did not even know).

And then I watched the pilot and fell in love step by step. I was confused by the teaser, because I could not really figure out what was going on there, but then there was the opening music. I love folk music and this really got to me right away. Then there was Wash playing with his dinosaurs "and they called it -- this land" I loved Kaylee from the start, too, her being so cheerful and everything. It took me a little longer to fall for Mal, but then I did fall hard and fast. I love it how protective he is of his crew, how upset he gets when Kaylee is shot down, I love his reaction when he finds River and thinks Simon is going to sell her as a slave or something. I love it when he decides to go to see Patience and the others ask "Didn't she shoot you last time" one after the other and he says "Everybody is making a fuss" and so on. From somewhere around there onward I was totally and completely taken by the show.

Keep flyin',
Capella

EST120

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 8:31 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by nuclearday:
Heck I'll even put a disk in just to hear that song every once in awhile.

If you want to satisfy your thirst for the Firefly theme:

http://www.wavsite.com/sounds.asp?ID=130

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