How Did you get hooked?

POSTED BY: Razenshard
UPDATED: Saturday, April 1, 2006 21:30
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RAZENSHARD

Thursday, March 30, 2006 3:29 AM

Hello everyone. I don't know if this has been done before, but I would like to have a thread where people shared their stories on how they got hooked and brought into the 'verse.

My personal story is as follows...

The renaissance festival i work at got rained out one day about a week or two ago (probably 3). We went over to one of the guy's houses and had a party. Everyone there was a browncoat and there I was sitting and having no clue as to what Serenity or Firefly was at all. The host of the party brought out serenity to show the blooper reel and it was mentioned that I had never seen Serenity. I believe the general concensus then was "OMG!!! We MUST remedy this!!" and they then proceeded to show both serenity and then the Piolet episode of Firefly.

About a week later another friend of mine gave me a copy of Firefly and I watched the rest of it in the span of 2 days.

So. I got sufficiently hooked and am now one of you.

NCBROWNCOAT

Thursday, March 30, 2006 3:37 AM

My daughter is my movie buddy and she bugged me about seeing Serenity for about a week or so before it came out. She had seen a lot of good reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. We saw it and I was hooked.

I was intrigued about the series, ordered it from Amazon, watched it about 3 episodes at a time and couldn't get enough of it. The writing and characterizations were so good and so much better than 98% of what is on TV now.

Even treked to Raleigh (2 hours away) to see Serenity again at the $2 dollar theatre.

Now I own 2 copies of the movie and series. One to keep and one to lend out. I got the jitters the time I lent out my only copy.

I have the Visual Companion, the novelization, Finding Serenity, graphic novel, the Serenity RPG book and recently got the Firefly Episode Guide.

CIOCCOLATA

Thursday, March 30, 2006 3:47 AM

Mine is no great heroic tail or of great awe or driving miles and miles.
I was hooked the second I seen the first tv ad for the tv series.
I waited and waited till if finally aired and watched it from day one.
sorry for the boring story, but when you see a good show, you are hooked and it didn't take much too get me hooked on Firefly.

NCBROWNCOAT

Thursday, March 30, 2006 3:51 AM

I have to admit that I had gone to Raleigh to shop with my daughter that weekend and knew that Serenity was playing nearby so we combined that trip

ROLAND19

Thursday, March 30, 2006 5:25 AM

I was a fan of Buffy, and about a month before the movie came out I read online that Joss was making a space movie. So I downloaded the trailer, and read that it used to be a tv show. I looked it up, and found out that it was pretty much loved by everyone but Fox execs.

Against my better judgement I went out a day or two later and bought the Firefly DVD. I'd say by "Bushwacked" I was in love.

I saw the movie with my brother the first day it was out, and dragged a couple of my friends to see it a couple of days later.

To this day, having recomended the movie to countless people, not one of them has come back to me saying it was anything short of great.

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The hardest thing in this world is to live in it. - Buffy

SARGEANTREYNOLDS

Thursday, March 30, 2006 5:38 AM

Well, I went out to buy a few new DVD's one day and came across Serenity. A friend of mine told me it was a great movie so I made the purchase (only paid 15 for it at WalMart during the first week it was out ). After seeing the movie, I was obsessed. Working one day, I came across the Firefly series and noticed that every one of the characters on the cover, I had seen in Serenity. I was sold right away and snatched it up for 20 gold. I watched the whole series in about 3 days and now I need MORE.

"If anything happens to her, anything at all, I will get very choked up. Honestly, there could be tears."

UNREGISTEREDCOMPANION

Thursday, March 30, 2006 4:03 PM

I also saw the Sci-Fi ad and was intruiged. When the first episode started, I knew within seconds I would watch again. Then, when Cpt. Reynolds kicked Crow into the engine at the end of the episode, I was totally and completely hooked.

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"Funny and sexy. You have no idea. And you never will."

GRIZWALD

Thursday, March 30, 2006 4:13 PM

"Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die?" That's what did it for me.

I saw the movie first. I was intrigued about it based on reviews but (woman's intuition kicking in here) knew better than to make a big fuss to my hubby. Friday nights we try to watch a movie with the kids and that week it was Serenity's turn, and nobody in the family but me had heard of it.

As soon as Wash said that line, I knew. This is good.

We put the series in our Netflix queue the next day but ended up buying our own copy before we got through the whole thing. Actually the series DVD set is my little boy's; he asked for it for his 12th birthday and I raced right out to get it. For him. Not me. Of course. Right?

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They could not take the sky from them -
Our Big Damn Heroes made a film!
I'm gonna see Serenity then
go back the next morning and see it again.
Cuz no one at Fox knew this show had no equal
C'mon Universal, and greenlight the sequel!

Click on my profile for my Annoyingly Long List of Firefly Links.

NYTEGAUNT

Thursday, March 30, 2006 4:34 PM

A great friend loaned me the box set and the movie about three weeks ago. I am completely hooked. Things that I used to think were good now seem not as good and I find I must have a daily fix of the 'verse. Ironically the same guy who loaned me the dvds also suggested that I try smoking 24 years ago. Today I still smoke and now have taken to using "shiny" in everyday conversation and am considering learning some Mandarin.

Great .. just great .....

Nyte

SOFI

Thursday, March 30, 2006 6:39 PM

my boyfriend literally dragged me to see the movie because hed seen the series and it was "really great!" i was somewhat skeptical. afterwards i was like "wow! that was a great film!" but didnt think much more of it.

then my friend offered to lend me the series on dvd. i watched the whole series in a matter of days and have been a browncoat since.

watched serenity again recently and cried for about half an hour at the end. why??

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