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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Well, a little backstory about how I even started watching Firefly. Like a few others here, I came to Firefly very late in the game. I had a friend who kept bugging me about this show called "Buffy....". I mean BUGGING me! It got to the point where it was almost intervention time! lol Anyways, I caught an episode of Buffy somewhere in the 6th season and thought, "Why is this redheaded girl's hair now black?!?!" Then, a little while later, I catch a 3rd season episode of Angel and think, "Who the heck is this Gunn character and why is that girl named Fred?!?!" Well that was it, I just knew these shows were stupid! What was I thinking? ppfffttt!!!
Well, suffice it to say, I gave Buffy another chance. I actually rented the only (it seemed) VHS tapes of Buffy I could find. I liked what I saw so I bought the 1st season of Buffy on DVD. With every boxset I bought (both Buffy and Angel) it just got better and better. It was like a frickin' drug!! I couldn't stop myself.
Then a good friend of mine (who I had met through an Angel website) started suggesting that I watch this "Firefly" show as well. ("You've GOT to get the DVD's! They are just awesome!") Well, by this time, money was tight and I really couldn't justify buying them right then. Thank the gods for the Sci-Fi channel! I found out they would be showing the episodes and I was so freakin' happy!
So, to make a long story even longer, the scene that really reeled me into this show was the same scene that was showed over and over again in the Sci-Fi promos....from "War Stories"....when Mal is being choked by Niska's henchman and Zoe says something like, "This is something the cap'n has to do for himself." Through Mal's muffled throat comes the pathetic cry, "No it isn't....no it isn't!"
Ya just can't write stuff like that! (Oh wait a minute, yes you can!!) 
"Well ya know, we studied bludgeoning in the academy first year but by the time you graduate, you just forget everything. I'm a bad cop." ----Laurence Dobson
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I missed the series on Fox being self-employed in Las Vegas, then Serenity came out while I was in Iraq (talk about bad gorramn timing).
I saw Serenity on HBO, but kept only seing snippets dur to time and when I would find it. Because of this though, by the time I caught the movie at it's beginning I had seen it in parts something like 15 times.
I started talking about it and my friend offered to let me borrow his DVDs of the series since I was going to be an invalid for a couple of months.
I was 'officially' hooked when I saw Wash play with his dinosaurs for the first time.
"...let's not ruin an otherwise pleasant day with unnecessary bloodshed..."
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I saw Serenity first and really liked it. I borrowed Firefly from my best friend's little bro (he got it for Christmas). I scurried back to my house (yes, I scurried - I was excited), popped it in the DVD player and sat back and watched. I barely left the couch for the next 3 days. I can honnestly say I fell in love with the show within the first minute of watching Serenity. That opening action sequence made me go "Wow!" And then the moment where Mal's standing and watching the Alliance ships land... Yeah, that did it for me. Made me love and understand Serenity all the more.
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Everyone has their moment love at first sight or it just sneaks up on ya before ya know it sons of katie elder, dirty dozen, planet of the apes, top gun, and 007 have to go in the closet. You just have eyes for firefly. I liked the pilot show serenity the scene where their galluping on horseback as cowboys back to the spaceship or gettaway car. I thought this is cool. But in the episode Ariel when Jayne is figured out to be a double crosser and old Mal is ready to let him get sucked out the ship I knew their was no denying it anymore this is the one. I got totally addicted to it like a dirty married woman when Shepherd Derrial Book shoots out a kneecap like a ninja assassin in the episode war stories. I remember as a little boy how cool the western Alias Smith and Jones was firefly reminds of it ironic both were short lived. I guess its a western bladerunner.
Its alittle fuzzy about kneecaps.
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I'm a late comer to this show too. First saw the movie, then the series. I saw the Serenity movie last October, and the moment that really hooked me was when Mal was telling a worried Simon that he was taking River under his protection and that if anything happens to her, "I will get very choked up. Honestly, there could be tears." The way he delivered it was just so darned funny. 
Annie
You can't take the sky from me.
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The pilot episode was my first.Oddly enough I sat down one friday and and turned on the boob tube and the channel happened to be set to fox and the rest is history.The precise moment I fell in love with the show was just before Jayne interrogates Dobson.The captain tells Jayne to just scare him and Jayne replies "pain is scary".Perfection!
"I like to smack 'em!"
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Serenity. (the movie)
I never watched Firefly when it was on. I am single and in my 20's. Last place I was going to be on a Friday night was at home. Any other night of the week and I would have been hooked.
The difinitive moment in the pilot was when Mal shoots the undercover FED as soon as he walks on board.
Good Stuff.
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Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?
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The second I fell in love with the show was in the Train Job. When Mal walked down the stairs with Kaylee, saw Jayne slumped there. Kaylee said about trying to move him to the infirmary, but he was just heavy. Mal's reaction of just shrugging and stepping over Jayne made me love the show and I realised then that I'd never miss an episode.
I don't care what you believe in, just believe in it.
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I came into the 'Verse all backwards, never seeing an episode of Firefly before seeing the BDM, but after watching the film, I knew I had to see the series, and there were so many moments in "Serenity" (the pilot) that set their hooks in, but the clincher had to be at the end when Mal, Jayne, and Zoe return from dealing with Patience, and Mal walks onto the ship, shoots Dobson in the face, and tosses the body overboard.
Or it could have been the very end of the episode, with the whole dialog between Simon and Mal - just because I know what it's like to only have one thing in life going right, but that one thing is the most important one.[/img]
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Had seen Serenity once, half-asleep and unimpressed.
Months afterward, I had a disc of all 14 eps shoved at me by a friend, insisting I 'had to' watch them.
Popped in the pilot at some point just to see what the brouhaha was about. Stayed tuned because of the awesome dialog("The only fluid I see here is the puddle of piss who won't pay us our fee!". Oh, people don't talk like that? Hear that silence? Yeah, that's me caring)
Magic moment? Kaylee getting shot. I've elaborated elsewhere, but the fact is, when you've been praying for something to happen and it does.... well, it grabs you. But that entire scene was perfect, from Mal's ruthlessness to Simon's COMPLETE checkmating of him on the spot.
By the end of Simon's awesome monologue about River, I was hooked.
Mind you, by the standards of the documentary I saw on y'all, I'm no Browncoat(you are all CRAZY. I hope you realize that.... ), but I did become a big fan.
If there's no Serenity II, I will get very choked up. There may even be tears.
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