What moment first made you fall in love with the show?
POSTED BY: Geni
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 05:33
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First, I will admit that I'm a new recruit and saw the shows in order on the box set. And then saw the BDM.
There are 10 hooks a show. By the time Wash was playing with his dinosaurs, I thought it was special. By Mal's incredible double take at, "Sir, I'm your wife," it was in my top 5 TV shows ever. By War Stories, it was number one. "O.k. I'm right here. I'm angry. And I'm armed."
But love? That wasn't until the closing scene of The Message. The scorer admits that the music contains all of his emotion at the end of the show. Silently, they all reveal their worry for each other and their need to connect. Jayne breaks down. Then Mal looks out at the whole group that he's carrying and who are carrying what's left of him....
Sigh.
And quibble: I wish they'd had time to include Mal closing Tracey's eyes.
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Of course there are other schools of thought.
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In all fairness I'm not an "original" Browncoat and I never even heard of Firefly when it was on Fox. In fact, when I went to see Serenity with my friends. One of my friends (who was a Browncoat) I think was secretly trying to convert all of us in one swoop and boy did it work. Thanks Parker6097. It wasn't until after the movie he told me that Serenity was based on a tv series called Firefly.
Shortly after that he lent me the series and of course I was instantly hooked, more specifically when Mal shoots Dobson in the head at the end of the pilot. I always love a bold hero, and Mal is also a kind of anti-hero and I always love a good anti-hero.
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The Bible's a bit fuzzy on the subject of kneecaps.
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Gorramit I've already responded! I get forgetful sometimes.
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Okay, are we talkin' about where I got hooked, or where I got absofrickinlutely obsessed with the show?
I got sufficiently interested to watch another episode after Jayne goes crazy and falls asleep.
I got sufficiently obsessed to watch the rest of the season, by the movie, and become a browncoat after Our Mrs. Reynolds. Many scenes: Book's "Special hell", Inara tring to convince everybody that she "tripped", Jayne's little comment on kissing, and Mal thinking that Inara kissed YoSaffBridge.
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I think it was the "you don't even like me"/"you're on my crew" exchange in "Safe," and how it reflected on Gabriel Tam's "I won't come for you again." The contrast perfectly illustrated what makes a family, and yet the writers respected us enough to just drop the two lines in there, several scenes apart, without comment.
To me, that was all kinds of shiny.
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Oh, I was in love from the moment I saw toy dinosaurs on what looked like a pink toy lake on the dashboard and then hearing OMG! a Beatles lyric, but what made me decide I would totally sleep with Firefly on the first date and then wake up early to shower, put on a little makeup, and make breakfast was when Mal, upon returning from the squirmish with Patience's crew, in one ultra-cool smooth move, strides up the ramp and puts a bullet in Dobson's head without one single pause or break in stride.
(Longest run-on sentence EVER)
That was THE COOLEST move I've seen since I can't remember, to me on the same psychic plane as the continuous/not-one-edit 'Copacabana' scene in Goodfellas. I believe I even let out a small groan of pleasure. I know I rewound it half a dozen times. And it was then that I decided I would summon every bit of will power to NOT watch every single episode in once sitting.
Walk tall, or don't walk at all...
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Quote:Well, no, not even close to the longest. James Joyce, anyone?
Originally posted by CarolJude:
Oh, I was in love from the moment I saw toy dinosaurs on what looked like a pink toy lake on the dashboard and then hearing OMG! a Beatles lyric, but what made me decide I would totally sleep with Firefly on the first date and then wake up early to shower, put on a little makeup, and make breakfast was when Mal, upon returning from the squirmish with Patience's crew, in one ultra-cool smooth move, strides up the ramp and puts a bullet in Dobson's head without one single pause or break in stride.
(Longest run-on sentence EVER)
Possibly the best, though. Loved the first-date thing. (About halfway through, if anybody forgot it by the end.) Not sure if you misspelled 'skirmish' on purpose, but if so it was a nice touch.
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I'm pointin' right at it!
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Right after the crazy Ivan:
Kaylee: "That's my girl. That's my good girl.."
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Zoe: "Sir, I'd like you to take the helm please. I need this man to tear all my clothes off."
Wash: "Work, work, work..."
Kaylee totally makes the show for me.
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My journey to the 'verse
turned to scifi channel right as i was leaving for a scout meeting, saw the end of some firefly episode and thought "those are cool doors..." An art teacher told me to check out this new movie called "Serenity". Never heard of it, maybe a commercial once or twice. she said it was from some scifi western called firefly. I dont usually go see movies so I diddnt look into it. then I started a scifi club and my friends wanted to watch serenity. i saw it and thought it was okay but diddnt really understand the characters, dont really remember what i thought. I was taping stargate and caught "out of gas" by mistake and watched it out of curiosity, same as serenity, I diddnt understand how the characters interacted. the way mal had to get on to everyone just to do their job. all semester a friend of mine talked about teh show and showed me the serenity visual companion and so i started looking up more stuff. I was just reading a 'verse timeline and thought "this is interesting, i should see this" so I asked another friend to borrow the DVDs, started watching them with my family, bought my own st along with serenity on serenity day, and the more I see the more i love, and now want to get my hands on everything firefly.
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I caught all of the Firefly episodes when they aired on Fox. I knew I liked the show a lot when I saw Mal push Crow into the engine in The Train Job. Fox aired that instead of what was meant to be the pilot (Serenity) first. I didn't know if you knew that or not. If you did, I beg your pardon if I insulted your intelligence.
I liked Bushwhacked, the second episode aired. The reavers intrigued me.
I knew I absolutely loved the show when I saw Mal beat Atherton in the duel and he did his whole mark of a great man speech. After he gave Atherton that last stab and said "Well, I'm all right." I fell head over heels in love and knew I was watching one of the greatest shows ever made.
"Well, here I am." http://whimsicalnbrainpan.blogspot.com/
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