How Did you get hooked?

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

Thursday, March 30, 2006 6:59 PM

Nothing too exciting. I saw previews for it on FOX and saw a review in Entertainment Weekly that said that, The Adventure of Brisco County Jr, fans should tune in, so I did and I was hooked right away. Was completely obsessed with the show and then completely devastated when it was cancelled. Then the DVDs came out but I didn't have enough money to get them at the time. By the time I actually had enough spare money the obsession had waned a bit and honestly I didn't by the box set until it started playing again on the Sci-Fi channel. Once I got the set I couldn't stop watching it, and still can't.

I was always a Browncoat, my coat just got a little faded for a while in there, but now it's a deep rich brown again.

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"You will keep a civil tongue in that mouth or I will sew it shut."
~Mal to Jayne

KHAZARA

Friday, March 31, 2006 12:03 AM

The year was 2002. A new sci-fi series was going to be airing this fall, said TV Guide's fall preview, and it was called Firefly. Lots of hope for this one, that Buffy & Angel guy is behind it. Not knowing Buffy OR Angel, I was just going be sure to check this show out. Hell it's a new Sci-Fi show! Be sure to tape it too, so that I have all the episodes in case it turns out to be really good! The Train Job aired first. Hmm, I thought, very interesting. Not sure about that holographic window at the bar, but neat effect. Blow a crater in your little moon? Ha! Locals don't even know a cargo ship don't got any guns, said Jayne. I must tune into another episode! Sold.

Moved at the end of September; drove down the West Coast from the Canadian border to almost the Mexican one, over the weekend. Was sure to pack the VCR with me so that I could tape the Friday episode when checked into the 1st hotel.

A few weeks later... even the behind-the-scenes info on the official website showed signs of worry. "SAVE FIREFLY! SAVE FIREFLY!" rallied the fans. It wasn't gone yet, but rumours were circulating. "Fan-designed postcards... everybody send one to the execs at Fox!" I did. I loved this show. I have never participated in any fan-uprising to save a tv show. I felt like "this is how the original Trekkies must have felt back in 1968." This show was different, and special, and it needed my support to survive.

My postcard didn't help. Serenity, the 2-hr "pilot" that never aired---aired. The end. Or was it?

DVDs came out in Dec 2003. 3 unaired episodes? Hell yeah! Bought a set right away. Didn't matter that it was just before Xmas. I had to have it.

And that was what it was like to be a flan in the beginning... as we all know now, the DVDs were a success, and we got our big damn movie.

LADYSERENITY

Friday, March 31, 2006 12:21 AM

I only recently joined the noble ranks of Browncoats. Last fall before the movie came out the Sci-Fi channel ran a Firefly marathon for like a week showing all the episodes in originally conceived order even the ones never aired. So My brother and my mom stumble across this and got hooked. Then they passed the first tape onto me with eight episodes in a row on it. I watched them by myself in my little cable-less apartment and that was that. I watched that tape three times in as many days until my brother gave me the other tape. Then I went out and bought the DVDs on Amazon, all the while wondering why I had never heard of this show in 2002! I would have been a Browncoat already.Then we caught the behind the scenes special on Serenity hosted by Jayne, I mean Adam. Then we all watched the DVDs over until Serenity came out and we all went together. It was Shiny. Our little family all into something none of our friends have heard of sitting in a theater with the crew of Serenity on the big screen! Ohhhh it was soo Shiny!

Lady Serenity

IHEARTFIREFLY

Friday, March 31, 2006 12:38 AM

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Originally posted by UnregisteredCompanion:
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.

That was totallly a "hooked" moment for me too! From that moment on, I couldn't stop watching.

But actually, I saw the movie first. My brother said it had gotten good reviews and it was the only thing out that looked decent so I pretty reluctantly went to see it...Oh, if I had only known. :)

The moment in Serenity when Mal is going to "rescue" Inara and he's talking to Zoe and Wash and he says something like, "If I'm not back in [blank # of] minutes...you take the ship in there and you come and you rescue me."
That just cracked me the heck up because you thought he was gonna say the same old cliched Captainy "Save yourselves" thing they always say.

At that moment, I knew this was something special.

"Can't take the sky..."

SLIP

Friday, March 31, 2006 2:24 AM

I saw Serenity two weeks ago, having rented it for a movie night, and I fell in love. I didn't get much sleep the next few days as I was too busy watching Firefly... it's something special.

RAZENSHARD

Saturday, April 1, 2006 5:26 AM

cool guys Although, Im starting to feel very young... (19) *chuckles* (Note to all: Im not calling anyone in this thread who replied old, not at all. Im just young. and it happens that everyone who replied was in 20's or thirties from what i gather from the replies) (interesting note as well. Everyone who was responsible for getting me hooked was at least 5 years older than me as well.)

*edit* actually not true. there was one who was two years older :P anyways, I do not mean to tease with this post. Just stating an random fact I noticed.

FIREFLYCV63

Saturday, April 1, 2006 6:54 AM

I got hooked after watching the marathon on the
sci-fi channel. I was about to take my wife out
to eat and I caught the "war stories" episode
before we left. After th WS episode I became a
firefly junkie. I regret not watching it while it
was on the air. I bet that if people like me
and I'm sure there are alot of us, would have
supported the show while it was on air it may
still be on. We browncoats are too pretty to die
so keep fighting.

WHATWASTHAT

Saturday, April 1, 2006 8:35 AM

Against my better judgement, I let my son drag me to a "made for movies TV show."

The characters in Serenity drew me in immediately and I fell in love with the ship and crew.

Due to an illness and subsequent death in my family, I was too busy to watch TV when Firefly originally aired. Since I had never seen the show, I purchased the DVDs after seeing the Serenity movie. I watched all the shows the first weekend I puchassed the DVDs. I was permanently and hopelessly hooked.

I was given the Serenity movie for Christmas. Before I had ever seen the show, the death of Wash and Book seemed unfortunate. After having watched the series their deaths seemed unbelieveably tragic. I cried my eyes out.

I don't usually watch Joss Whedon shows -- too many teen age heroes, but this show is great.

REAVERMAN

Saturday, April 1, 2006 10:00 AM

I first saw the previews on the sci-fi channel. I thought 'hmm, that looks cool', and proceeded to forget about it until I noticed that I'd missed the pilot episode(later, I found it ironic that they finally played it in the right order and the first episode I saw was "The Train Job" anyway). I then made damn sure that I watched "The Train Job". I was hooked from the moment Mal kicked Crow into the engine. When Crow threatened him, I was expecting Mal to say something like "Well, I'll live with that then". Instead it was "darn" and a loud crunch as Crow went through the engine. I was so surprised, I didn't even laugh right away. After that, I didn't get much sleep until the BDM came out. I saw it the day it was released, and sat next to two guys in long brown trenchcoats. After that, I ran out and bought the DVD set at Target for 30 dollars(I could have gotten it for 20 at walmart, but I was too impatient to drive the extra three miles). I got the Serenity DVD the day it came out also. Now, I've lent my DVD set to a friend who is taking WAAAAY too long to watch it. She's probably watched it twenty times by now, and just doesn't want to give it back. I need it back! I think I'm having withdrawl symptoms (sweating, nervousness, rambling on and on and on...)! Anyway... that's how I became a browncoat.

You're welcome on my boat. God ain't.

REAVERINA1985RIVIERA

Saturday, April 1, 2006 12:45 PM

I was hooked before the show even aired. I saw a preview during the Simpsons, of a odd looking ship spooking a heard of horses. I wanted to see it again, so I forced myself to sit through an episode of malcom in the middle (with the sound off). The second preview was even cooler than the frist one, "A Girl In A Box? Cool.", then they showed Morena for 2 seconds and I was instantly, completely, totaly, a die-hard Browncoat (before the term was even created).

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How many Jaynes does it take to change a light bulb?

Two. One to try to put it in and another to find a bigger hammer.

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