When did you know you were hooked on Firefly?
POSTED BY: Tallgrrl
UPDATED: Thursday, February 19, 2004 00:23
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The idea that there weren't any particular *rules* to the show. When Mal kicks the moron into the intake I almost fell out of my seat. Actually I stood up in my living room and said "holy Sh*t"!
Mal isn't bad, and he isn't good either, but he IS loyal. It was so... human to me, and the poke at the large, squeaky clean massive government is a well taken one. Screw the Federation, er, Alliance.
Any show that elicits such surprise and fine fits of wonder did it for me. I do not watch television. My TV is for movies only that arrive in DVD form. If this show were to become syndicated again, I would pay money for cable so I could watch it. Period.
"Could you be more specific"?
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Well, unlike most of you, the first show I saw was the pilot.
I've tried to imagine what my impression might have been if the first ep I saw was "Train Job", and my sense is that I wouldn't have been as immediately hooked, not because Train Job isn't good, but because the pilot is just a better intro to the show. In fact, I think it would have messed up my overall impression of the series, because not knowing about the doctor and River and such would have made a lot of things in the series just weird and inexplicable.
Anyway though, the friend who introduced me to the show (via the DVD set) didn't have time to show me the whole series, but he showed me the pilot, Jaynestown and Ariel, and by then I was totally, totally hooked.
But the actual *moment* that I knew I was hooked was in the pilot - right after the opening scene of the battle for Serenity Valley - when the Firefly logo burned through the screen, and the opening theme song played. Seeing the rest of the episode then just confirmed what I already knew. :)
Del Rio
"10 percent of nothing is...let me do the math. Nothing, and nothing, carry the nothing..."
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Originally posted by delrio:
But the actual *moment* that I knew I was hooked was in the pilot - right after the opening scene of the battle for Serenity Valley - when the Firefly logo burned through the screen, and the opening theme song played.
See, the theme tune grew on me, but the point for me, and I can ascribe no scientific reason for this, was this moment -
"Cry Baby Cry..."
"Make your mother sigh."
"I threw up on your bed"
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"Cry Baby Cry..."
"Make your mother sigh."
I think that's so cool. Kinda like my friend and I. We know what to say.
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