The IT Moment

POSTED BY: chels580
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CHELS580

Friday, May 26, 2006 3:01 AM

I'm wondering if any of you remember the moment when you were watching Firefly and the epiphy-whats-it hit you and you said "This is a GOOD show!"

Might be harder for you old-timers--to whom newbies like me owe the world (or at least one half-decent terraformed moon) for your part in getting Serenity. Credit where its due, props all around! Right where was I...but if you remember, I'd like to hear it

In the time honored tradition of starting a thread with a question, I'll answer first.

For me, it was at the end of the two-parter "Serenity" when Mal and Jayne walked Up the Ramp to dump the lawman's body. Something about that moment was so dynamic, so anti-Star Trek, it stunned me. (Understand, I have loved Trek in the past--Save us, JJ Abrams. You are our only hope.) That's when my eyes were openned and it wasn't just entertaining, or just funny...it was a GOOD show. Wierd, huh?

My mouth is talking, I better see to it.

'Night All.

SHADOWFLY

Friday, May 26, 2006 3:05 AM

This may seem odd, but what did it for me was all the deleted scenes. It made me go back and rewatch all of Firefly.

KWICKO

Friday, May 26, 2006 3:23 AM

I think what did it for me was in "The Train Job", when Mal kicked one of Niska's men through one of Serenity's engines. I had to back up and watch it again, to make sure I'd just seen what I thought I'd seen. My reaction was along the lines of "Now there's something you don't see every day!" At that point, I realized this was more than just a space opera with horses. :)

Don't get me wrong; I liked the two-part "Serenity" pilot, but (and I may be a bit slow) it wasn't until about halfway through The Train Job that I realized that this was a Western. Now, I generally like good sci-fi, and I generally like a good Western, but I was leery of mixing the two genres, so my reaction to that realization was something like, "Awww, man, this is a freaking WESTERN, only in space." I wasn't at all sure that it was going to be to my liking, and I was ready to hate it. Mal dispelled my uncertainty quickly, with one good swift kick to Niska's henchman. I knew at that point that I was in for something that definitely wasn't going to be like anything I'd seen before!

Mike

"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right."
- Laurens van der Post

SHADOWFLY

Friday, May 26, 2006 3:43 AM

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
I think what did it for me was in "The Train Job", when Mal kicked one of Niska's men through one of Serenity's engines. I had to back up and watch it again.

That seen caught me off guard as well. I was mighty surprised.

MONOLYCUS

Friday, May 26, 2006 4:09 AM

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
I think what did it for me was in "The Train Job", when Mal kicked one of Niska's men through one of Serenity's engines.

I was prepared not to hate Firefly so much as not to let myself get too attached to it. I don't watch me a whole lot of TV and shortly before Firefly premiered, I had caught another show that I thought was clever (and almost nobody else got)and it also only ran a few episodes and then mysteriously disappeared without a peep.

That show was called "Maximum Bob" and I might be the only soul left on this planet to remember it. There weren't no notice of its cancellation; like Firefly, I just showed up at the TV during the slot where it used to be and waited. One week'd go by and nothing. Two weeks later, they'd show an episode and then nothing. Felt like watching the heart monitor of a dying patient and knowing the sporadic beeps you see will eventually quit coming.

So I was bitter when "The Train Job" showed up. I was convinced that if I liked this show overly much, it would die. So I kept myself as detached from it as I could all through that episode... right up until Mal planted his foot into Crow and sent him into that engine.

And at that moment I knew. I knew this wasn't going to be the candy covered, black and white tripe I've come to hate bein' force fed. I knew that this was something different... something special. I knew that I would love this show and it would mysteriously disappear after a few weeks.
I decided (grudgingly... I'm near embarrassed by it now) that I would just enjoy this thing while it lasted.

I was wrong on one particular point, though. What happened to Firefly on Fox fell right into a pattern of what happens to rare and special things on television and I expected it. But what happened after Fox... well...

Here we are. Sometimes bad things happen and the worlds don't stop spinnin' after all.

SINGATE

Friday, May 26, 2006 4:34 AM

My moment occured not while watching an episode but instead seeing a commercial promoting Firefly on Sci-Fi. During the middle of last year they started running promos a couple of months before Serenity hit theaters tying Firefly to the upcoming movie. The commercial I saw had the line from Mal, "If anyone tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back." I immediately said to myself, "What the hell was that? What did he just say?" Watched the marathon, that aired I believe in June, and have been hooked ever since.

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SAMEERTIA

Friday, May 26, 2006 4:44 AM

I saw the movie first.
Wash had me at "Oh god oh god, we're all gonna die?"

For the series, it was in the pilot ep when Mal kicks off the lid of River's cryochamber, leans over and so elequently says, "Huh."

WASHME

Friday, May 26, 2006 5:09 AM

I'm a total newbie to firefly, but i've finished watching the series on DVD (did it all in what little spare time i had in a week) and haven't seen Serenity yet (to be rectified this weekend :P),
but my IT moment, was when Mal told the Doc that Kaylee was dead, and he rushed down all dramatic, and there she was waving at him..

The cut to the crew laughing about it in the cabin made me sure that this was something insanely great and special.

ZZETTA13

Friday, May 26, 2006 5:41 AM

Well for the wife and I we saw Serenity first as a rental. It was worth seeing several times so we bought the dvd. Rented the Firefly series from Net-Flicks and began enjoying the verse more and more with each eps.

The "IT" moment really came for me with two words from Saffron. "Night sweetie." that caught me completly off my guard. For a while there I thought the show was going to be about how Mal was going to get rid of this cute but totally unworldly girl, and there may be some laughs along the way. When it turned out she was playing the whole crew, I though gorram what a cleaver, crafty, evil girl. I love her.
Firefly became a baby of mine after that.

Z

VOLK564

Friday, May 26, 2006 6:16 AM

For me, it was def. Jaynestown. Before, I was just watching the DVD's cuz I was sick and had nothing better to do, and I liked the movie. But then comes along this episode, where you get your role of a fairly stereotypical, predictible character, the macho, big-guns-little-brain merc, completley reversed. You can see that this character who used to be so 2-dimensional had so much soul that it just totally threw me out of whack. The scene where he pushes over the statue of himself kinda got me going "Hey...that's something I wasn't expecting," but the "It don't make no sense" scene really did it for me. Adam does such a good job of portraying the idea that Jayne has all these different moral and ethical issues running through his head at the same time, and that's just all he says, because that's what Jayne does - just kinda bottles stuff up inside when it hurts. That made me just sit back and grin and go "This show is GOOD!"

-Volk

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