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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Originally I watched Firefly as FOX aired the episodes. I think the moment that really did it for me was in "Our Mrs. Reynolds", when Mal gives Kaylee a kiss of approval. After that, I knew I couldn't stay away.
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I knew I'd get hooked on Firefly after the scene in the pilot when Mal blew away Dobson without blinking or breaking stride.
I fell in love with Firefly during the last flashback scene in "Out of Gas", when Mal gazed upon Serenity for the first time...it was pure magic.
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Unfortunately, I began my journey long after the show had been canceled, having never heard of it before. I saw a trailer for the movie and being a sci-fi buff, was instantly intrigued.
Looking back, I remember reading a review by someone, critical of the movie, after I had already seen it the first time, and their chief complaint was that they were lost in the -exposition to dream to escape to hologram- portion of the movie. I.E. Right from the start. I remember wondering how a moron could become a film critic so easily. What, couldn't they see the screen past their popcorn? He went on to state that it was probably that only fans of the show could figure out what was going on. Which, was quite the opposite of where I was coming from.
In any event, I think the love affair was already beginning, just from that opening sequence and how it flowed. Then I was introduced to the cast and their interaction and I was hooked.
When I fell in love with the show itself was about half way through the pilot, after I bought the DVD set, when I realized that it was everything the movie was and then some. For I had already been hooked by that. It was the first movie I actually paid to go see more than twice, rather than simply waiting for video release, since Empire Strikes Back, when I was like eight and before video releases were common.
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I have two moments.
"Whoa...good ____" and "I'll/We'll be in my bunk".
I love when a series cracks a joke, and then references that joke later. It makes you feel like you're in on the joke. Like you're one of the crew.
When a show can pull that off successfully, you know you have something special.
I lied, though. I have three moments. The third is actually the first, and that's when I saw Kaylee for the first time. 
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At "cry baby cry..."
"make your mother sigh."
or maybe. The dinosaur thing. That whole thing just got me hooked.
"When you can't run, you crawl. When you can't crawl, when you can't do that...You find someone to carry you."
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We saw the movie first -- on DVD -- we don't have cable where we live and almost never watch TV anyway. But I'd seen the trailer for "Serenity" and was intrigued, missed it in the theater, kept looking for it to come out on DVD and when it did, we rented it.
I think I was pretty well hooked by the point where Mal tells his crew "we may experience some turbulence, and then explode". Hooked enough, anyway, to want to watch the series.
And it just so happened right about then Amazon had a special on the series. We're not in the habit of buying boxed sets of DVDs but I figured the price was right and we could probably make back most of it by reselling the set after watching it, if we didn't want to keep it.
Probably around the point in the pilot where Mal unpacks River, Simon says "She's my sister", and Mal says, "Huh" was where I began to think we weren't going to resell those DVDs.
I wasn't really in love yet. I think the pilot is amazingly good, but I didn't decide that until the second viewing; the first time I merely liked it a lot. The next couple episodes are not my favorites. But then we got to "Our Mrs Reynolds"... and the moment where Mal passes out and Saffron says "Goodnight, sweetie"... hey, I'm a sucker for surprises like that. Reminded me of several decades back, seeing the Star Trek episode "The Enterprise Incident". And of "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels".
Then "Jaynestown", which was good, but "Out of Gas", I think, was what really did it for me. That episode is just so wonderfully constructed. Others have mentioned the teaser where Mal falls bleeding, but it just goes on from there, the way they integrate the three different time periods -- beautiful, beautiful segues from one to the other. The Jayne recruiting scene I consider one of the very funniest scenes in the series. Just a great episode -- and followed immediately by another great one, "Ariel". Jayne's interesting in that episode, and the scene with Jayne and Mal at the end is wonderful, but what really intrigued me was Simon's character, as he coolly jumps with both feet into the role of criminal mastermind (motivated by the need to help River, of course). And the scene where he steps in to save a patient... magnificently written.
It was hard to get any more impressed than that, but maybe "Objects in Space" did it. Creepy episode, not easy to watch, but unlike any TV episode I've ever seen; and when the "disembodied" River starts talking... beautiful.
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for me it was Our Mrs. Reynolds, for two different parts:
1st: When Jayne ask if he can get to know YoSafBrig
2nd: Book's line right after telling Mal about special hell when he runs back and yells "Special Hell!!!" to Mal, i lost it long enough to have to go back and watch what i missed
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Just finished reading this thread.
Whoa, good thread.
For me it has to be Train Job since that is my first ep when aired on Fox. A combination of Niska's Tiffany lamp (I have always wanted a Tiffany lamp)Zoe telling Mal he has a problem with his brain being missung, Jayne talking about the chain of command. But truly in love was when Mal says, "don't believ he does." Then later kicks crow in the engine and show our Captain is tough too.
Kaylee: Wash tell me I'm pretty.
Wash: Were I unwed I would take you in a manly fashion.
Kaylee: Because I'm pretty?
Wash: Because you are pretty.
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I was sleeping on the couch when my brother was watching Firefly. I woke up seeing Saffron's beautiful face on the big screen and I was in love. I didn't care what he was watching. I had to see more of her.
I was disappointed that she wasn't on every episode, but I got a hell of a great show out of the deal anyhow.
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Quote:I don't find this surprising at all. Most movies are made for morons anyway, so what could be a better qualification for a reviewer?
Originally posted by KevinGrey:
I remember reading a review by someone, critical of the movie, after I had already seen it the first time, and their chief complaint was that they were lost in the -exposition to dream to escape to hologram- portion of the movie. I.E. Right from the start. I remember wondering how a moron could become a film critic so easily.
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