Who among you watched Firefly when it originally aired?

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UPDATED: Friday, April 21, 2006 05:30
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PDCHARLES

Friday, April 21, 2006 12:31 AM

Flipping through the channels and stopped on Mal and the crew heading out of Serenity in the pilot.

Literally thinking "what is this crap" after the ninja dudes and others. I knew nothing of Firefly coming out or that Joss had anything to do with it.

When the meeting with Badger happened I was hooked. ...and after it was over I remember thinking this is how Sci-fi should be. Then I got all excited about it, only to find out it was not coming back. I thought it was a mini-series or something.

Forgot about it over the years until the movie hype. Then found this site around the movie DVD release.

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DARKJESTER

Friday, April 21, 2006 1:54 AM

I was there for "Train Job", recording Firefly and John Doe every Friday night (that they were on! Stupid baseball!!)

But on week, my son wanted to take me out for my birthday (him being 9 meant McDonalds, but I can handle that). I set the VCR and went out for a night on the town. Came home, rewound the tape, and realized that I had set the VCR wrong! It didn't tape. And suddenly, I was dizzy and could barely breathe. That's the moment I realized how much I loved the show. I calmed myself down, and told myself I'd have to look out for that episode on re-runs. Then, again suddenly, I was fighting back tears. Because I KNEW, down in my bones, that there would be no re-runs.

I watched those tapes through all the episodes at least once a month.

But I never did see "Ariel" until the DVDs came out.

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

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SQUISH

Friday, April 21, 2006 2:27 AM

Okay, so I watched it from the beginning (had never heard of Joss Whedon, I know, I know, don't kill me; and I thought the name was a weird choice for a sci-fi show, but the commercials looked good, so...). First episode, like others I thought I'd somehow missed the pilot. Watched every episode aired, then it was gone. I didn't think much more about it except that it was too bad.

Then, about a year ago, I was thinking how so many shows were coming out on DVD and I wondered if there was any chance that little show I used to like would be out. I figured there was no way (I mean a cancelled show!). I had no idea of the internet presence of the fan base. I just randomly did an internet search. First site was Amazon with the DVD (I ordered it immediately). Then another site said something about a movie, but it was dated '04, so I thought there's no way. They don't make movies about cancelled tv shows. Another site confirmed it and I found this community and others. I couldn't believe it. I've since been through the addiction stage to the obsessed stage and here we are today.

Whew! Sorry that was so long, guess I've been wanting to share that for a while.

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THATDUDE90210

Friday, April 21, 2006 3:57 AM

I caught half of an episode of "Our Mrs Reynolds" when it first aired. Since I didn't see the whole episode, I didn't get it.

Over that time, I kept seeing glowing mentions of it at various computer gaming discussion forums... so in preparation for the movie, I started watching it fridays on Scifi. It took a few episodes but then I got hooked.

AZTECHROME

Friday, April 21, 2006 4:08 AM

I saw everything that FOX let me see.
Having a girlfriend means that you can actually be home on Friday nights.

I was overjoyed to find out there were unaired episodes, despite the cancellation.

It was a time of reliable happiness at a troubled time in life.

"Where is the difference between work and love? Show me..." (JLG Passion)

CANTONHEROINE

Friday, April 21, 2006 4:27 AM

I'm going to say I did, even though it didn't air here in Tasmania until early-2005.

I was a huge Buffy and Angel fan, and it was through lurking on those fansites that I'd heard of the show. There was no promotion for it here. It just started airing one Tuesday night at about 12:30pm. It just so happened that I spotted the name in the TV Guide and recognized it. I taped them all. They showed every episode, too, and almost in the correct order - starting with The Train Job and then Serenity 1 & 2.

It was only when promotion started for the BDM that I purchased the DVDs and fell into full-blown Browncoathood.

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CALHOUN

Friday, April 21, 2006 4:34 AM

Yes I viewed the very first run(gotta be 4 years or so ago now?). In fact I am officially the very first Australian to have seen Firefly! Prove me wrong. Heh

SERGEANTX

Friday, April 21, 2006 4:41 AM

I didn't even know they had an Australian translation of Firefly yet.

SergeantX

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CALHOUN

Friday, April 21, 2006 5:30 AM

Quote:
SergeantX wrote:
Thursday, April 20, 2006 18:41
I didn't even know they had an Australian translation of Firefly yet.

Muahahha. Thats clever.

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