When did you know you were hooked on Firefly?

POSTED BY: Tallgrrl
UPDATED: Thursday, February 19, 2004 00:23
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TALLGRRL

Thursday, February 12, 2004 9:42 PM

Me? It was the first episode aired: "The Train Job".
I knew I was watching something special when Mal walks up to the bar and orders his drink in Chinese.
I said to myself "WTF? Was he speaking Chinese? I don't see a bunch of Chinese people in there...No...that wasn't Chinese."
Then when he and Zoe are about to get into a fight, he does it again and I knew.
Damn. It's a sci-fi show, that's got a frontier feel, and they're speaking Chinese. Which means that something happened and the U.S. and the Chinese must have...Oh.My.Gawd. This is gonna be really interesting."
It was the realization that some really deep and interesting thinking had gone into this show, and that it was something that you were going to have to really WATCH instead of just sit there all brain dead and have it wash over you.
It's because though I like TV, and I can dig some Spongebob like anyone else, I like to be engaged in what I'm watching. I like my TV shows to make me have to watch and listen.
So, that's my story.
What's yours?

"Take me, sir. Take me hard."

STATIC

Thursday, February 12, 2004 9:47 PM

I had only had the opportunity to see one or two episodes when it ran on TV because of my schedule. I liked what I saw, but I didn't get HOOKED until I bought the DVD set and watched them IN ORDER as Joss intended.

The 'hook' came at the end of "Serenity".

"We're still flyin'"

"That's not much."

"It's enough."

That summed up so many things for me, and made me decide that I was in love with this show.

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"Wash. . .we got some local color happening. A grand entrance would not go amiss."

KALATHENA

Thursday, February 12, 2004 9:53 PM

I was hooked when Mal kicked Crow into the engine exhaust port the first time I saw "The Train Job".

I became obsessed when I finally got to see "War Stories". Coulda, shoulda, woulda...

--Kala

GUNSLINGINBROWNCOAT

Thursday, February 12, 2004 9:57 PM

Probably when I found myself frantically trying to download Jaynestown after I missed it when it aired. I guess I realized I was definitely hooked then, but I really liked it from the start (of course.)

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"It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these tourture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is."
-All Quiet on the Western Front

KNIBBLET

Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:12 PM

I knew it was going to be smart, funny, ironic and possibly scarier than hell.

I knew it was going to be well-written and excellently played. I knew it would be in all ways, "Mutant Enemy Excellent".

There was the train job. My husband heard me squeal as soon as the belly dancer appeared - and she actually knew how to dance.

Before the theme song played, I was hooked. Handsome captain, gorgeous mate, another gorgeous mate... punches thrown, jokes exchanged, chairs smashed ... ship coming up over the cliff ... finding out there were no guns.

I was hooked. "Mutant Enemy Excellent Indeed!"

Every moment after that, that hook became more deeply inbedded in my gullet. When Mal said that he had no choice but to return the medicine, I fell in love.

I'm a former aircraft mechanic and spent 10 years being very certain to stay a safe distance from the sucking hell of a jet engine intake. When Mal kicked the brute-squad right into it, I fell in love all over again.

Firefly is simply one of the finest shows I've seen in all my born days.

"Just keep walkin, preacher man."

LINDLEY

Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:26 PM

My comment upon finishing "Train Job" was "eh, good enough to catch a few more eps."

After "Bushwacked", I felt it had real potential.

I missed OMR the first time around.

I liked "Jaynestown", a lot.

I missed "Out of Gas".

I thought "Shindig" and "Safe" were decent enough, with some good moments.

However, I didn't realize I was utterly and irrevocably hooked until one particular scene....."You turn on any of my crew, YOU TURN ON ME!"

STIZO

Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:36 PM

The first time I saw Firefly, was when it aired; I was playing games on the computer and only half paying attention, when it got to the part where it goes,

MAL:Now this is all the money Niska gave us in advance. You bring it back to him let him know the job didn't work out. We're not thieves...well, we are theives, the point is we're not taking what's his. Now we'll stay out of his way best we can here on in. You explain that's best for everyone. Okay?

CROW:Keep the money, use it to buy a funeral. It doesnt matter where you go, or how far you fly; I will hunt you down. The last thing you see will be my blade.

In my head I thought: "let me guess, he takes the money back to Niska, but Niska goes after them anyway. The series boils down to them running, Niska chasing after them each episode. Just another predictable Sci-Fi show."
At this point Mal says "Darn" and boots Crow into the engines, turns to the other guy: "Now this is all the money...."
At this point I was like: "WTF just happened? That was awesome!"
That made me realize that this was not your average sci-fi...never missed an episodes afterwards.

Keep flyin

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Conquering the galaxy with terrifying space monkeys, one ship at a time...

KNIBBLET

Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:39 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Stizo:
Conquering the galaxy with terrifying space monkeys, one ship at a time...

I laughed out loud at your signature line. Laughed so hard and loud, my boss came out of his office to see what the heck was up in my office.

Thanks for the silly grin for the drive home. tee hee hee *snerk*

"Just keep walkin, preacher man."

SNIPER

Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:45 PM

When the Serenity detached from the wreck in Serenity, glowing with the fusion engine. I said to myself, this is going to be fun.

FREMDFIRMA

Friday, February 13, 2004 1:09 AM

Yep, when Crow went into the engine, I was hooked, anti-cliche!

Between Queen of Wands, Final Fantasy X2, and the "monkeys" line from Firefly....

I got my girl a large, green stuffed monkey - her very own "terrifying space monkey", he has his own chair at her workplace.

Irony is that it's also (by chinese calender) the year of the Green Wood Monkey, ain't that wack?

-frem
diefuxdie

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