What was the exact moment?

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MPHILLIPS

Thursday, February 9, 2006 12:33 PM

Saw the scenes to it at another movie and said "hey, I seem to remember something like this being on a couple of years ago...looks ok."

Went to see it and sat through the opening ten minutes with a let's wait and see where this goes attitude....the the screen goes black the title comes up..we pull back to the first view of "our" ship blasting into the planet..and I start grinning like a ten year old.. and I'm hooked totaly fan boy..star trek didn't do it, star wars didn't do it, raiders didn't do it...but Whedon and his crew did.....

mphillips

ZOOT

Thursday, February 9, 2006 12:53 PM

Dunno why but,

"Cry baby Cry"
"Make your momma sigh"

And I was totally obsessed ...

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Okay, I'm lost, I'm angry, and I'm
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JONUS

Thursday, February 9, 2006 1:56 PM

Well, first I became a fan of the 'verse about 10 minutes into Serenity. I had never seen the show nor barely ever heard of it before I saw the movie. The movie left me wanting more so I bought Firefly literally right after I got out of the theater (Best Buy's right near it.) So you could say I was a fan of the show even before I saw it.

Mal would kick Han Solo's ass.

JAYTEE

Thursday, February 9, 2006 2:24 PM

I was already getting hooked about halfway through the pilot but what sealed the deal is when they land on Whitefall and are checking out the area of the rendezvous with Patience, Jayne goes, "Testing, testing Capn. can you hear me?" and Mal goes, "Jayne, I'm standing right here" to which Jayne replies "You're comin in loud and clear" and Mal says "That's cuz I'm standin right here!" almost pissed myself over that one and I was hooked from then on. I am 51 years old and NO OTHER TELEVISION SHOW has affected me the way Firefly has. Fox execs, are you listening you bunch of inbred morons? You really screwed yourselves passing on this opportunity!

Jaytee

NCBROWNCOAT

Friday, February 10, 2006 1:12 AM

Got taken to the BDM by my 16 year old daughter. We're movie buddies and I went along thinking "Kelly 's told me this movie has had good reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, I like SciFi, having grown up on Star Trek and Star Wars, but sometimes her taste and mine don't exactly click-she being 16 and loving Anime and me being a middle aged woman."

Well, the movie started, I thought it was a decent Sci Fi movie and then the buffer panel fell off and I was hooked. Still couldn't figure out what Inara's profession was and how she got all those gorgeous clothes packed in a box and why did she leave such a good looking guy?

Daughter then told me about the series, ordered it from Amazon.. I saw the pilot and as soon as Mal shot Dobson I go-"Oh, Raiders of the Lost Ark go Star Wars, go western and into space-cool." (remember when Harrison Ford gets disgusted with the sword wielding (or was it a whip-I forget)guy showing off in Raiders and just pulls out his pistol and shoots him?") Instant Browncoat.

And yes, Nathan does remind me of Harrison Ford except Nathan is the whole ball of wax-he can do pain, comedy, action, romantic lead all in the space of a minute.

ELOISA

Friday, February 10, 2006 1:35 AM

I came into the 'verse via the movie. I'd only heard of it in the vaguest of terms before; the BBC had marketed it as a subversive SF story of exactly the kind I like (and kind of like the ones I write), so I was very hopeful.

The moment I got truly hooked was the first time the camera panned into Serenity's bridge, just after the Operative asks River's hologram where she's hiding, when Wash is fighting to stop Serenity crashing and Mal's demanding to know what's wrong with his ship. Saying that, I don't want to give the impression that the dialogue itself was the thing that grabbed me - it was the whole scene, the cinematography as much as the words, and the way the actors were so comfortable with themselves and their roles, and the way the ship was battered and falling to bits...

...OK, stopping now.

So, yeah, I liked it. A lot. Then I saw the series. Unreconstructed Browncoat ever since.

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SAVEWASH

Friday, February 10, 2006 2:26 AM

Wow, that's a tough one. As everybody has said, there are so many great moments. I have to start with "Buffy," because that's how sneaky Joss got into my head. I watched snippets of Buffy during the news because that was the only channel that didn't have commercials when I was surfing. Little by little, I started to watch Buffy more than the news (great writing, characters, etc.). Then I heard that Joss was going to have a sci-fi show and I thought, "I can't miss this!" Yes, I'm one of the five people (give or take) in the world who saw the show when it was first aired on Fox. I loved it, loved it, loved it! The humor, the action, the whole "Western in Space" idea were all just what I wanted but had never expected to find on TV.

Then, of course, it got cancelled. I was sad, but that happens to most of the great shows I like on TV so I didn't think much about it.

Fast forward to spring 2005 when I'm checking out a few movie trailers on a site. I saw the name "Serenity" and wondered what kind of boring movie that would be. Something about Buddhists? Thank goodness I checked it out, because about three seconds after the trailer started I was screaming, "They made a movie from 'Firefly'!!" I recognized it right away.

And now I'm hooked all over again! Yea! Thank you, Joss Whedon.

JDUBASHI

Friday, February 10, 2006 2:30 AM

it was the movie that got me hooked. I didn't want to fork over $40 for the DVD's, so I rented Serenity and watched it. As soon as I heard the line "Its okay to leave them to die", I was hooked

CANTONHEROINE

Friday, February 10, 2006 3:44 AM

The Train Job was the first episode that aired on my regional station (followed by Serenity Parts 1 & 2 - go figure). What hooked me was after the bar-fight when they're standing on the edge of the cliff and the ship just LOOMS up behind them, all big and heroic.

WASH: Every man there go back inside, or we'll blow a new crater in this little moon.

THAT was the moment.
'Course, it didn't hurt that everyone was so pretty.

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"Now somethin' about that is just downright unsettlin'."

TEETHGRINDER

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 12:14 AM

And yes, Nathan does remind me of Harrison Ford except Nathan is the whole ball of wax-he can do pain, comedy, action, romantic lead all in the space of a minute.
---NCBROWNCOAT
Yes yes yes!!!!
Mal was it for me. The first few minutes of watching the BDM and I was just hooked. As Mal was talking over the intercom and telling his crew about their "interesting" landing and then running off to our cute little Kaylee and saying something like.... "If we crash... You crashed her!!" I was telling myself what a trip this captain was gonna be and from then on.... the amazement and addiction just got stronger and stronger. The intensity climaxed at Out of Gas. This episode just blew me away in ways that I have never thought possible. The emotion I was going through while the entire crew was listening to Mal's four per shuttle solution was beyond words. You can almost tell the exact moment when his crew realizes how perfect of a Captain they have and are about to loose. At that moment... Mal earned their absolute respect and trust as well as mine. He is my Captain.

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