What was the exact moment?

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UPDATED: Friday, February 17, 2006 14:48
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IMALEAF

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 8:37 PM

The first episode when Mal is standing in Serenity Valley and the guy next to him is shot dead. Yeah it was pretty early but I just thouhgt it was soooo funny. Can't get enough ever since.

~~River: Bible's broken. Contradictions, false logics. Doesn't make sense.~~

HERA

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 8:47 PM

I came at the show completely b-ass-ackwards, in that I caught two reruns on SciFi that convinced me to go see the movie. The first episode I saw was Heart of Gold. The "it" moment was when Kaylee said "Look, they got boy whores. Isn't that thoughtful?"

It just cracked me up. I couldn't stop laughing. That's all it took.

The greatest pleasure I've had in recent memory was getting the DVD set, sitting down and watching the episodes in proper order, properly letter-boxed, with no extra-added stupid sound effects. It was sooo much fun. Wot that I could wipe my brain and enjoy them for the first time again. Sigh.

To this day, everytime I think about the show I start chuckling.

"Wanna?" – Mal to Kaylee, Out of Gas

VIVACE

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 8:49 PM

For me, I was in the theater, ready to watch Batman Begins for the second time. The teaser for Serenity came up and I thought ("Wow, so this is kinda like the Sixth Element, boy was I wrong) I laughed out loud when the Operative said he was unarmed and then Mal was like "Good." and shot him. At that moment I said "We have GOT to see that movie."

Time passed and the movie came and went without me even noticing. I heard some blogs mentioning it and stuff but beyond that I just forgot.

Then one day, one fateful day, I was watching SciFi for a little SG-1 and then saw the preview for Firefly come up. I then remembered everything, the teaser, the blogs and then I told myself. "I have got to see this show!" I wasn't able to catch it on Friday for three weeks so I decided to get the DVDs. Plug in the first epp. and I figured out what Gold this is.

The thing that hooked me was the innovation in Book's and Inara's relationship. Never before could I recall a Christian in a scifi show and Mal, don't get me started on him. He was the most awesome thing in the world.

I'm a scifi junkie so I'll let me tell you that for us scifi junkies, FIREFLY ROCKS!

ASARIAN

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 10:23 PM

Would saying "From the first moment" be too corny? Well, I saw Serenity first; so, everything thereafter was just a 'must-have'. And I usually never buy things, especially not box-sets, that I've never seen. And it didn't even come in 5.1 sound, lol. :) It was my best buy ever, though, next to Serenity, of course.

Would saying "The moment I saw River" be too corny? It probably would; so I will not do that. :)

"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam.oul

GARBAGECANMUSIC

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 10:39 PM

Well...I rented the TV series one disc at a time to see if the movie was going to be worth my time. My girlfriend and I just loved the show more and more with each episode, but when the love turned into complete and total obsession was the very end of Out of Gas when Mal is looking at Serenity with complete love, I was speechless.

I just sat there after the show ended and kept thinking to myself,
"Jesus H. Christ....this is the best damned show ever."

And let me say that I can be quite fanboyish when it comes to my entertainment, but I've never been obsessed like this with anything. And I do mean obsessed.

How much is that little Geisha in the window?

THEOPERATIVE2005

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 10:46 PM

My brother had gotten the DVD's for XMas 2003 and started watching them. I was busy on the computer, half paying attention to the show. Then Out of Gas came on and they show the ship, all empty like. Then you see Mal fall, then he and Zoe walk in... then back to Mal and below the crate with the blood dripping.

BAM!

Hooked.

I was like, you can't do that to a main character!

"Do you know what your sin is?"
~The Operative

DC4BS

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 11:35 PM

Like someone mentioned above, My first taste was Heart of Gold on SciFi.

I thought it was a very good show and decided to watch the following week.

W: "Were I not wed, I would take you in a manly fashion."
K: "Because I'm prety?"
W: "Because you're prety."

That was probably the the moment, right there.

The following week, Out of Gas was one of the best shows I had ever seen on TV. Period.

Within 10 minutes of Out of Gas ending, I was on the computer and had orded the DVD set from Amazon. It arrived Tuesday morning.

I then watched the whole series (including rewatcing all the episodes with commentary on) by that same Friday. I preorderd the BDM Friday night and THEN went out and caught the movie at a third run theater on saturday ($2 matinee).

First run through the series, at least one thing in most episodes stood out as "WOW, I've never seen anyone DO that in a TV show before." Like Mal shooting Dobson or kicking Crow into the engine...

Doesn't matter if it's right or wrong, you just don't see the "hero" DO that on a TV show. EVER. Untill now.

Go Joss!

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VIOLETRIX

Thursday, February 2, 2006 12:05 AM

i know exactly what it was that did it for me.
in "OMR", when jayne says:
"that's why i never kiss 'em on the mouth."

and i thought, "where exactly does he kiss 'em?" which is when i decided: well, he could kiss me anywhere he wanted.

oh yeah, and the show is really good! i'm sure that had something to do with me likin' it!

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if i ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.

GUTTERBALL

Thursday, February 2, 2006 1:27 AM

I also came into the Firefly world bass-ackwards. I watched the BDM at the theater, and I had absolutely NO idea what to expect. The friends just said I'd love it.

I hate being predictable, but they were right.

I took the bait when this nameless futuristic and well-spoken fellow started talking about ancient civilized cultures throwing themselves upon their own swords after failing so completely...and then actually producing a sword when the smart-ass doctor guy said he'd forgotten his.

However, the hook was fully set when a piece of ship went flying off and the captain jerked like he'd been shot, demanding, "What was that? Was that the primary buffer panel? Did the primary buffer panel just fall off my gorram ship??"

And then the bait, the hook, and the whole damn fishing pole went down my gullet when Jayne came out all gun-bedecked saying, "Well what you plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar" and looking positively dismayed when told to leave behind the grenades.

Yeah, that's love, baby.

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REGINAROADIE

Thursday, February 2, 2006 2:01 AM

I caught FIREFLY when it initially aired back in 02, and it was kind of a big deal for me.

See, up until the previous year, I only had access to farmer vision, which is three channels that the antennae picked up. None of which were WB affilliates, so I missed out on BUFFY and ANGEL the first time around. Yet I kept hearing about how great of a show they both were and how Joss is a genius.

So when I heard that he was creating a new show that would actually be on one of the channels I had, I tuned in to see what the deal was. It was, of course, THE TRAIN JOB. And already, I was actually impressed.

But what really got me hooked, the moment that made me want to come back every week, was the final scene, where we meet the Hands of Blue. That was what did it for me.

But I have to admit that when it met its first demise, I was a bit peeved at it not continuing on, but I just moved onto the next thing. 24 was in the middle of it's second day, and one of the best in my opinion, and there was also BOOMTOWN for me to get behind, which became another genre busting show that got cancelled prematurely. So FIREFLY actually left my consciousness for a while. But when my brother played the theme song to me a year later, I remembered it. And when I heard they were filming SERENITY, I picked up the DVD set, put it on, and I've been a hardcore Browncoat ever since.

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