What moment first made you fall in love with the show?

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ELOISA

Thursday, June 15, 2006 7:49 PM

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Originally posted by Rosa:
Hi, Im from Holland and new on this site. I never knew firefly because it didn't air in Holland. My boyfriend bought the Serenity DVD because he had heard that it would be a good movie. We watched it and it began as a well shot but ordinairy scifi movie. Then Nathan Fillion showed up - wich was the moment I fell in love with Serenity - and we knew this wasn't an ordinary movie it was great. I went on the internet that very night and bought the firefly dvd's and two weeks later I was in heaven. I actually cried when we saw the last one.

Hi, Rosa! Have a strawberry! Grown on my very own sunny kitchen windowsill, too...

My hook moment was exactly the same as yours, when the camera pans in to Nathan and Alan on the bridge. My little brother had the benefit of seeing the series first and maintains that though the Mal shooting Dobson bit was his initial hook, the whole of Shindig was crucial for turning him from an avid watcher into a Browncoat.

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LADYSERENITY

Thursday, June 15, 2006 8:28 PM

I first saw the original pilot episode Sernity part 1 and 2 when SciFi channel aired the series to prep for the BDM's release in theaters. There were several moments that hooked me.
FIrst the look on Mal's face when he sees that it is not his angels coming in for a landing in the valley for that much needed backup. THe disbelief and shock on his oh so fine and pretty face really said something to me. Then it was Wash and his dinosaurs "Yes, everything looks good from here...we shall rule over this land and call it...this Land. I think we should call it your grave! Ah curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal..." Yep, it had me crying from laughing so much. Next came that moment when we see why Serenity is a Firefly and that fantastic musical cue that goes with it. That was it and I was hooked and this was something special.

Then it was that little moment where we see Jayne and Mal bring in the cargo and Kaylee is all excited about passengers. Mal says if she can every stop being cheerful and how they could duct tape her mouth and throw her in the hold. She leans over and kisses Mal's cheek. "I love my captain" she says and Mal gives her this sweet smile. She loves her captain and so do I.

I watched this with my brother and my mom who had taped the first run of eps shown on the SciFi channel. When the first part was over I turned with this huge grin and said "okay..now where is the next one! You gotta put it in." My brother likes to take credit for getting me into it becasue he taped them first. Well if I had had cable I would have found them too. Oh well credit where credit is due I suppose.

I also love the part when Kaylee is shot and the reaction we get from Mal. I love Kaylee and Mal's relationship. And the scene where Mal tells Simon Kaylee's dead, the way it was filmed and the look on his face and then showing the rest of the BDM's on the bridge laughing thier butts off. And Kaylee's converstion with Mal. "you just gotta have faith in people..."

Beautiful. And now the rest is history and I am one of many who wear that dusty Brown coat with pride and who wish to sail in a Firefly.

"Once you've been in Serenity you never leave. You find a way to live in it."

TRAVELER

Friday, June 23, 2006 11:42 PM

The very first scene when you realize these aren't Federation or Space Ranger goverment sanctioned do gooders, but freelance, lets make a buck when and where we can kind of people. The kitchen table that looks like it belongs at Goodwill with all its chairs that don't match. Wash playing with toy dinosaurs while waiting for the rest to finish the job. "Cry baby cry." I knew there wasn't going to be a well groomed captain saying "Make it so", every episode. In other words Joss lets you know immediately this is not outerspace but an adventure and welcome aboard. So you see I did not see the show orgibally on FOX. I bought the DVD's and got the opportunity to see them as in the sequence they were meant to be shown. This was a great benefit. It is just one of those days that felt like Christmas when I placed that DVD in my drive. I hope you all got that same feeling.

Thanks for this site. I know you have had problems the last week, but your back and well appreciated.

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CLIOMUSE

Friday, June 23, 2006 11:53 PM

Crow through the engine kept me watching. Mal's blood dripping through the grate in OoG made me fall in love. Head over heals in love. Art? On television?

J6NGO1977

Saturday, June 24, 2006 12:10 AM

I have told this story so many times..... I was in work on my lunch. We had a TV with Cable. I don't own cable. I don't watch much TV :) There was something on the SCi/Fi channel that attracted me. I asked my friend what is this???? he told me 'FIrefly' and it was The Train Job. Ever since ...here I am. He bought the series on DVD after me :D

MIRAXTERRIK

Saturday, June 24, 2006 1:03 AM

I have to say I fell in love with Firefly when "The Train Job" aired the first time around,too.

The scene that did it for me was at the beginning at the cliff:

Lund: I'm thinking someone should put
you down, dog. What do you think?

Mal: I'm thinking we'll rise again.

And then Serenity rises up behind them. Then I just had to keep watching.

JOSSISAGOD

Saturday, June 24, 2006 1:40 AM

For me, (I saw The Train Job first, when FOX aired the episodes out of order,) it was when the Belly-dancer came across the screen and handed the piece of paper to Mal. From then on I knew I wanted to see what adventures Our Crew would go on. Then FOX screwed me over by airing the episodes out of the order they were meant to be seen!

JOSSIS(Most Definitely)AGOD

Self appointed Forsaken! Been on the list for a while now!

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ROMANCEGURU

Saturday, June 24, 2006 1:59 AM

I was a late bloomer, so initially it was River’s character in the BDM. When I first watched Firefly, it had to be the part when Mal tells Simon that Kaylee is dead, and then it cuts to all of them laughing their heads off. It was so wrong, yet so funny. I knew from then on that this was the show for me!

MAL: This is my first mate, Zoe. I'll
introduce you to the rest in a bit.
They're good folk.
JAYNE : Can I start getting sexed already?
MAL: Well, that one's kind of horrific.

CHANNAIN

Saturday, June 24, 2006 3:42 AM

Mine is far less obvious than some, like kicking someone into an engine, or shooting them cold in the cargo bay... although those were good too.

"Our Mrs. Reynolds"
In the teaser (that's the first five minutes) when Saffron tells Mal.

"Sir, I'm your wife."

And Nathan Fillion gapes at her, then *blinks* like that will just make it go away.

*waving at Veteran*

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DEUSEXMACHINA

Saturday, June 24, 2006 5:08 AM

In the pilot episode (Serenity), when Serenity Valley is bombarded and it zooms in on Mal's face. Everything he ever believed in, he ever valued, is gone in the blink of an eye and you see him lose it and his face completely captures his disillusion.

We're all indifferent in our own way

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