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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i actually watched the movie before the series, because i didnt know that the movie was based off of a series. the opening scenes were interesting, but what really got me hooked and make me think to myself "i have to find out more about this series" was when the serenity is flying into the world for the bank heist, and the panel flies off the ship and mal goes "what was that?"
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Mal: What was that? Did the primary buffer panel just fall off my ship for no gorram reason?
Wash: This landing is gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting."
Wash: Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die?
Mal: Just get us on the ground.
Wash: That part'll happen pretty definitely.
I was hooked from there. I had never seen Firefly, and I missed Serenity in the theater, though I'd greatly wanted to go. When I finally rented the movie and saw that opening scene, I knew I'd found a universe for me. I love finding different ways of saying the same old thing, and the Firefly/Serenity 'verse does just that. The relationships between the characters are fantastic, whether they are positive or otherwise.
Rob
"...and she was all... articulate!"
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What moment FIRST made me fall in love with the show? Well, the first episode I ever saw was about 85% of 'Our Mrs. Reynolds'. Caught it by accident, as I was meant to be in bed. Firefly showed at 12:30am Monday night/Tuesday mronings in Australia... I was 15...
I knew I LIKED this show. I knew I wanted more.
Bought Firefly on DVD as soon as I found it at the wonderful JB-HIFI. By the end of 'Serenity' (the ep.) I was in love. But no singular moment did it for me. Lots and lots of little ones.
When Mal, Jayne and Zoe are walking back from Badgers, there is a street vendor at a barbeque. The sign reads 'Real Dogs'. I paused it right then and stared at it for a good 5 minutes.
Kaylee's "Your comin' with us" to Book.
Kaylee eating the strawberry.
Everything revolving around Kaylee getting shot.
That crane shot of River in the cryo box.
Jaynes dissapointment as he says "I was gonna get me an ear too.."
Wash and his Dino's!
Mal:"Well, we may not have parted on best terms. I realize certain words were exchanged, also certain bullets."
Mal: "One of those will feed a family for a month. Longer if they don't like their kids too well.". The funny (or not...) thing is, he is sorta serious about it....
I won't keep goin, if I do I'll never stop.
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I'm one of those people who didn't get to see Firefly until it was on DVD, more specifically, internet download before I bought my first Firefly DVD.
It was the opening theme that did it for me, I feel in love with it instantly.
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I'm one of those who saw the movie, unaware there was a series, then saw the series (then cried inside when I knew there was no more to be had.)
Keep in mind I didn't know what the movie was when I saw it. I got it as part of a two-pack with Chronicles of Riddick. (FWIW, the blurb on the back of the movie case didn't really do justice to the movie... I thought it was going to be a SF space opera hack flick. BOY I WAS WRONG!)
So was there "a moment"? Yes and no. There were things that drew me. The fact that they were short on cash and down on luck helped. It was an every person's movie. (Hey, I'd take a crew slot on Firefly any day!) The fact that the captain bawls out his engineer and she reminds him she'd asked for new parts six months ago and he'd forgotten. (I'm an engineer of sorts, and can relate.)
If I had to pick a moment when the hook set and the barb took, it had to be when the crew was getting into the Mule (the floaty Mule). Two lines just got me:
Mal: If anything should happen to her, anything at all, I swear to you - I will get very choked up. Honestly. There might even be tears.
Simon to River: It's ok to leave these people to die.
Even so it was a gradual thing... that took all of about fifteen minutes. By the end of the movie I was thoroughly hooked and needing more. By the end of the special features I'd placed my Amazon order for the series DVDs. By the end of the series...
>Sigh<
Take me out to the black.
Tell them I'm not coming back.
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Originally posted by ediblespread:
I dont like Jayne so far though.
Oh, and now I want to be something that doesnt even exist as a job :( I want to be a firefly engineer or design a star-ship engine as pretty as that one. Is there any canon to what it actually runs on?
Jayne gets MUCH better as the series goes on. As for the cannon engine, Check Twiztv.com for the Firefly shooting scripts, the person who wrote the scripts for the site says that they are the original scripts unchanged.
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I actually didn't start the obsession with the movie like so many of you guys, in fact the first episode I saw was Out Of Gas a few months back. I don't know what it was exactly about it that made me think "Wow this show RULES!!" But that was pretty much my initial reaction. I ended up watching the entire series and the movi in less than two months. And yeah, I realize that that wasn't really a great story.... 
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My first post! Not really sure how these things work....
It was all about Wash and the dinos for me. Specifically "oh God, why,God."
After that it was just one moment after another.
"It is my very favorite gun."
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Originally posted by Vicomte:
For me, it was about two minutes into my first experience with Firefly. In The Train Job, after Mal and Lund have their exchange, when Lund says, 'Now what are you going to do about it?' and Mal replies, 'Nothin'. I just wanted you to face me so she could get behind you.'
That's when I realized that these were my kind o' people.
I distinctly remember watching this scene for the first time almost two years ago and thinking, "Wait, did the Captain just set him up for the Woman to knock him out? - Awesome."
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Mal:We're still flying.
Simon: That's not much.
Mal: It's enough.
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