How did you come to love Firefly?

POSTED BY: serenitylass
UPDATED: Friday, April 7, 2006 17:28
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SERENITYLASS

Friday, April 7, 2006 4:55 AM

Forgive me if someone has posted this before but I am new on this site and I really would love to hear how everyone found Firefly.
My own ,I guess you'd call it an obsession, began when the movie Serenity was released in Australia. I saw the shorts for it and then heard that it was part of a TV series. At that stage I wasn't that interested but then late one night I was switching channels and just happened to catch the first episode of Firefly, and that was it, I was hooked. I stayed up late every week for my fix and then came the devestating news, all to soon I was watching the series final, there was no more! It was then I knew that I would have to buy everything Firefly and find a bunch of likeminded people who share my obsession.
Looking forward to hearing all your stories...........

KINROEDARKSTONE

Friday, April 7, 2006 5:49 AM

A friend of mine called me one day and spoke about FF and how he had taped the 8 episodes that aired on Scifi channel marathon. So, my wife and I invvited him and his girlfriend, plus another mutual friend, over for a FF marathon.

He gave us a brief background about the series and away we went. It was a gorram wolly time from the start. Mal had us bent over, ROFLOL, at his "Hungh!",(the end of Serenity part 1).

We had to stop the tape while we recovered.

Ever since the first episode, I was hooked, and so were we all. Now I can't get enough. I'm on here more than I check my e-mails. At least here, I got a Shiny browncoat!

Wash: Closing in.
Zoe: Planet's coming up a might fast.
Wash: That's just 'cause I'm goin' down too quick. Likely crash and kill us all.
Mal: Well, if that happens, let me know.

MECTURTLE

Friday, April 7, 2006 6:14 AM

I started out as a big Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan long before I found Firefly (which was very recently - I'm actually a totaly newbie, having just gotten on this site a day or two ago).
When Firefly came out, I had a alittle bit of interest cause it was a Joss Whedon show, but I work evenings and was in college. I figured I'd just check out the show later. (Big mistake, obviously).
Anyway, fast forward to Serenity. I saw the trailers and just from the tiny snippets of dialogue there, I knew I had to see the movie. Unfortunately, I live in New Orleans, and was all preoccupied with being a storm refugee during Serenity's theater run.
I'm just getting back into the swing of life and decided to check Firefly and the BDM out on Netflix. By the time I had watched the first disc of the series, I was hooked. I went out and bought the series and movie and have been watching them pretty much constantly ever since - and lurking around here to feed my obsession when not in front of the TV :)

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WASH: Psychic though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
ZOE: You live on a spaceship dear.
WASH: So?

KAZE

Friday, April 7, 2006 6:41 AM

I was desperately bored flipping through channels and i came upon the scene from Shindig where Mal and Kaylee arrive at the party. I changed channels back and forth a few times Then i caught the part where Mal punched Ath and that kinda caught my interest. At that point though i still was assuming it was just another cheesy show mildly more interesting than all the other crap i watch when nothing is on. then came the sword fight and by the end of that i thought "this is one of the coolest shows ever".

Somewhere there exists a note i made to myself of what time it was on and really cool show but as with most random notes i make for myself i lost it. Never knew what show it was. I knew of Firefly as i was a Joss Whedon fan but i never thought much of it and i had no idea that was what i watched until many years later when my fiancee made me buy the series on dvd. It was really cool when we watched Shindig and i realized what it was. So yeah Firefly is great

FROMTHEDARK

Friday, April 7, 2006 7:04 AM

Hey all,
Im from Australia too. Anyways I was 'discouraged' by a friend not to see serenity so i waited a while then was flippin thru the new releases at a vidio store and it was my first choice..so yeah and then i saw the firefly dvd's for sale and bought them all. Aint it amazing how one thing can cause an obsession.
Oh and the friend who told me not to see serenity...well lets just say he is nagging me for the rest of the Fire Fly series...

~~~~~~~ Kaylee, grab the kid dirt sleepin with baby jesus, we need a hood ornament

STDOUBT

Friday, April 7, 2006 8:00 AM

By chance I saw maybe 8 seconds of the trailer
on TV (I don't watch TV unless trapped at someones
house). Saw River running... and I knew this
was special. Googled it, found out it was a former
TV series, bought the DVDs and watched them in 3
days. Then saw Serenity on the second day after its
release. Then saw it again, and again. 8x on the
big-screen. Latecomer yes. Lifer? Definately.

MAGHAFFAR

Friday, April 7, 2006 8:47 AM

Well, I didn't have a TV back in 2002 when the series aired, plus I was never a Buffy or Angel fan, so the name Joss Whedon didn't mean anything to me. I loved Sci-Fi and had caught a few episodes of Andromeda, so when my brother [who lives in another state] started telling me about this cool Sci-Fi show with this large cast, one being a mercenary type, I thought he was talking about Andromeda. No, he tells me, it's called Firefly. Honestly couldn't tell him I'd seen it -- maybe I had, maybe was confusing it with Andromeda.

Anyway, this was just around when the BDM was going to come out, and I saw a TV ad for the release date. Went and saw Serenity "cold" without knowing anything about FF, and loved the movie. Especially liked the way the people talked -- Mal's line: "You can collect your onions and be on your merry." I thought was just the coolest -- peopl;e actually having a different way of speaking, cutting off their endings cuz they were understood / inferred. Hearing the Chinese was cool, cuz I took two years in college and was all into the Chinese language, culture, martial arts thing.

What struck me right off was what I conjured was a distinct Civil War influence -- not just a simple Western thing. Then of course I immediately rented the series from Netflix and the music was even more Civil War inspired, I thought, and when you look at Mal's character as being essentially a Southern Gentleman who isn't racist but is bound by his sense of honor and doing what's right, it was a powerful thing to watch.

So now, I'm just like y'all -- bantering dialog back and forth with my [only other so far] fellow Browncoat friend, getting back into my Chinese so I can swear with the proper intonations, devoting my time to composing Filks, doing Photoshop stuff and hopefully soon, some FanFic, and of course, scouring Thrift stores and Army Surplus stores for my very own Browncoat, all the while trying to infect as many others with my FF malady as I can. Try showing Firefly to a Bengali Muslim {friend of mine] who has zero cultural awareness of Sci-Fi and anything on the sophistication of Firefly and you can see the task ahead of me. Plus there are certain episodes [Jaynestown for example with its Lesbian scene] that are just way beyond the sensibilities of your average non-Americanized Muslim. (The word "Haram!" comes to mind, actually...)
But what can I say -- I'm a convert, so there's a lot [especially since I grew up in Las Vegas] that doesn't shock me.

So here I am -- on the raggedy edge with all you fellow FF crazies out there.
Can't stop the Signal -- especially when you got a DVD player...
-- Jonathan M.A.Ghaffar
ex-Taosist-turned-Ahmadi Muslim Browncoat
and proud of it. Plus I can swear correctly in Mandarin.

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ROLANDREYNOLDS

Friday, April 7, 2006 8:48 AM

A friend of mine has an older sister who we've learned has impeccable taste in entertainment. One summer the Firefly DVDs were lent to us so we sat down on said sister's recommendation that we watch it. We watched the pilot first (as it was meant to be!) and the hook was in. We didn't stop there, however. We watched a few more episodes that evening, and eventually every episode, in order, right through to the end. Then we got together periodically and watched them again. My friend's dad (whose house we were at watching all the time) eventually got to coming into the living room and asking "What are you guys watching *looks at the screen* AW NOT THIS -AGAIN!?!?!-". Hilariously, I was told that after he was dragged to the movie he was heard saying "Oh they better bring this back to TV!" So ironic, so funny... shiny :D

As for that first watch-through, Serenity was super solid, but I think the lot of us were fully immersed by Our Mrs. Reynolds. The fact that it just remained golden after that point sent our admiration into pure bliss at having found this one-of-a-kind work. Much cursing FOX happened during that summer, and the crazy excitement when we heard a movie was being made is burned into my memory forever.

WHOOPS

Friday, April 7, 2006 9:06 AM

I fell in love with it entirely by chance i saw the film and then saw the box set in my MVC while looking for a film, noticed that it had the same cast and a picture of Serenity on the front so i went home and checked it up on the internet and found out it was a series they made before the film and so decided to get it. Now im trying not to watch it over and over again because when i first got it, it took me two days to get through it all. AND NOW I LOVE IT!!!!

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"Love, you know all the math in the verse but if you take a boat in the air, you dont love she'll shake you up sure as turn of the worlds" Mal

ARYA

Friday, April 7, 2006 9:25 AM

Well, this is an entirely new thing for me... joining a discussion group on the net.
But Firefly made me do it!
Anyway, the series aired here in Belgium a few weeks ago and me and my husband were amazed!
This was the first time we ever stayed home to watch a series.
We love it!
Then we started searching the net and found out there was a movie... but not available here in Belgium (being a very small country and all..).
So we went to the UK to purchase it.
After seing the 'introduction by Joss Whedon' I was really moved. I didn't know the show was cancelled (how could they do that! ) and I did't know there was such a large group of fans!
So now, I'm doing my part in warming up my friends to watch the show and the movie. I hope that someday 'Firefly' will have it's second season but until then, I'll do my best to spread the word

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