What was the exact moment?
POSTED BY: Ginger08
UPDATED: Friday, February 17, 2006 14:48
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I came to know the 'verse through the movie.
I watched Jonathan Ross' review on Film 2005 and loved the idea of a movie that was a visually and emotionally exciting as the original Star Wars films. (I saw my first at the cinema when I was 5 - so it will always have a special place in my heart).
I was blown away at the cinema! It was fan-ruttin'-tastic!!!
Then I got Firefly on DVD and loved it from the pilot. I adore Sci-Fi and Westerns and US history, so I was a perfect combination for me. Classic Western speech, Western style predicaments, Characters etc....... And Joss and Adam's obvious love of Westerns...... It was like a kinda loving modern tribute to this very American phenomenon...... all mixed up in space of the future.........
To pinpoint when I fell in love with the 'verse...
In the movie: after Mal tells Jayne "No grenades" and then they need them on the job and Jayne says "Boy, sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think?"
In the Pilot: when Janye waits anxiously outside the infirmary as Simon treats Kaylee's gun wound, showing us that he does care for her, and his remarks to Kaylee in front of Simon were just as case of a boy pulling a girl's pigtails because he likes her!!! And also later when Jayne interrogates Dobson..
JAYNE "Don't they teach you how to, you know, withstand interrogation? Can't even tell a damn lie."
DOBSON "Okay. I can see you're not an idiot."
JAYNE "Wish I could say the same, Laurence, but this is disappointing as hell."
Basically, I love any part with Jayne in it. *sigh*
Jayne - the way Adam plays him - melts this girl's heart!!
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A few weeks before Serenity the movie came out I decided to go rent the series so I would be up to speed on the story since a lot of people I knew had gone to one of the previews and said, "You have to go see this movie." So I go down to the nearest impersonal corporate chain store that shall remain nameless (it starts with a blockbuster) but they didn't have FF in stock. Now this was my first real clue that I might really enjoy this. The general rule being that BB never has a movie I actually want to watch. So I hem and haw a bit and decide, "You know lots of people who have similar tastes to mine have talked about this I'll take a chance and buy it." So I take the L down to my kinda favorite book/music/video store and by it.
I L back and slip the first disk in. I watch Serenity (the episode) and think, "This is kinda good. I may not have wasted my money after all." and then I go to sleep because after running arround picking up the DVDs and then watching the two parter it's pretty late and work sadly must be gone to in the morning. So I go to work and I'm kinda thinking about Firefly all day untill when I finally get home and I put on the second episode.
The Train Job. This was it. From the opening barfight through to the Blue Hands Group this was just wonderfull, great, fantastic stuff. Like somebody had done a scan of my brain and determined just what exactly would be the perfect television show for me and then they made it.
Anyway there it was. The bar fight hooked me. And the engine intake reeled me in. I was convinced I had spent my $40 wisely.
David
You wanna go, Little Man?
Only if it's someplace with candle light.
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It only took me a few seconds to come up with when I first knew I would love the show. I had seen the movie and really liked it, and asked a friend if I could borrow Firefly.
The scene that got me hooked was in the very beginning at the war in Serenity Valley. At the end of the battle, when everyone was pulling out and giving up, that look on Mal's face got me. Immediately a memory of mine surfaced I thought was forgotten. I won't say what happened exactly, but I could relate to how Mal would have felt at that particular moment. That particular shot was done so well and you can see that that was the changing point of his character for the series.
Since then Mal has always been my favorite character, and Book very close behind. After the Pilot episode though I watched the other 2 episodes on the disc, and ended up finishing all the episodes in 3 or 4 days. Considering that I work pretty close to full time and go to school full time that is saying quite a bit.
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