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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"That's Chinese for petty"
The first episode I ever saw was Trash, which was not ideal, as it opens with naked Mal (okay for some folk, but not my cup of tea), followed by the scene with Mal, Yo-Saff-Bridge, and Monty, which is quite mistifying if you don't know the backstory.
But it soon got to that fantastic bit of dialog between Mal and Inara in her shuttle - what great chemistry. And the above line was the absolute clincher. I was hooked.
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"Kaylee's dead."
- slo-mo Simon drama -
"I'm a bad man."
I like this character...I like this ship.
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Originally posted by Channain:
Mine is far less obvious than some, like kicking someone into an engine, or shooting them cold in the cargo bay... although those were good too.
"Our Mrs. Reynolds"
In the teaser (that's the first five minutes) when Saffron tells Mal.
"Sir, I'm your wife."
And Nathan Fillion gapes at her, then *blinks* like that will just make it go away.
Oh, my god yes!
The first thing I saw that wasn't a commercial for it was The Train Job when SciFi began airing the series to promote the BDM. And I thought, hey, this is pretty amusing, I think I'll keep watching. I missed it for a couple weeks, coming in at the end of Shindig I think, but I didn't really get to see much of the ending. But then I watched the next week, caught the whole episode from the beginning for a change and...
...like you said, "Sir, I'm your wife"
Nathan's expression is just utterly priceless in that scene.
Or should say, expressions, because he actually reacts a second time on top of the first and that's the one that had me laughing. By the end of the episode, I was delighted with the thing (am I the only person who on the first viewing did not realize Saffron was a total fraud until she gave Mal the Goodnight Kiss? Took me by surprise! And to follow that with the scene with Inara was just awesomeness "You're good!" "So are you!" "Who ARE you?" "Malcolm Reynolds' widow!" *punch!*), and so of course I was like "OK. I am SO buying this on DVD", and did. Our Mrs. Reynolds holds a special place in my heart because of that. :D And then of course this was compounded by the statue scene in Jaynestown (with them all looking in perplexed amusement and confusion at it), which was maybe the next or second-next episode I saw, I could almost swear it. I was a haphazzard watcher at first. :P
Oh and of course, I fell back in love all over again (or is it just deeper, I wonder?) after seeing the BDM for the first time in theaters, having gone into it completely unspoiled and having seen all or most the series by then (and thus, attached to the characters quite a bit). Killing you know who off was just such a ballsy, genius move - the way it tricked my mind into completely forgetting I was watching a movie (thus scaring the bejezus out of me, because I honestly forgot to remember certain characters "obviously" couldn't die, because, well, who expected him to!?)... well, it still has me in mild awe to this day, because the whole thing was just heightened by it so MUCH. I came out just with this feeling of having one of the most incredible experiences of my entire movie-goig life. LOVE, baby. It's called love.
...but the first moment, definitely Our Mrs. Reynolds.
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i saw the BDM before i had even heard of the series, so my moment was:
Operative "...freeze frame."
:::and his eyes walk through Rivers:::
I must have been holding my breath through that ENTIRE escape scene. I knew it was a Joss Whedon...(LOVE Buffy and Angel) but it still didnt prepare me for the power of that opening sequence. I could not believe what i had just seen.
I was standing (or sitting on my couch actually) before some of the greatest storytelling EVER.
i watched it 2 more times that day and found out it was a series from the special features...and well, the rest is history.
yes...it was immediate. fell real hard.
dukusukker
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"noah's ark is a problem..."
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I came to the BDM first as well, and didn't actually fall in love with the movie, though certainly found it interesting enough to watch the series. Oddly, the moment that grabbed me was when Mal opens River's box in the Serenity pilot. I already knew quite a bit about the characters from the movie and knew that she was in there, but that scene where she's upset and Simon is comforting her, and then his explanation, gripped me and wouldn't let go.
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I came to the BDM first as well, and didn't actually fall in love with the movie, though certainly found it interesting enough to watch the series. Oddly, the moment that grabbed me was when Mal opens River's box in the Serenity pilot. I already knew quite a bit about the characters from the movie and knew that she was in there, but that scene where she's upset and Simon is comforting her, and then his explanation, gripped me and wouldn't let go.
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I came to the BDM first as well, and didn't actually fall in love with the movie, though certainly found it interesting enough to watch the series. Oddly, the moment that grabbed me was when Mal opens River's box in the Serenity pilot. I already knew quite a bit about the characters from the movie and knew that she was in there, but that scene where she's upset and Simon is comforting her, and then his explanation, gripped me and wouldn't let go.
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I came to the BDM first as well, and didn't actually fall in love with the movie, though certainly found it interesting enough to watch the series. Oddly, the moment that grabbed me was when Mal opens River's box in the Serenity pilot. I already knew quite a bit about the characters from the movie and knew that she was in there, but that scene where she's upset and Simon is comforting her, and then his explanation, gripped me and wouldn't let go.
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DonCoat wrote:
Sunday, January 07, 2007 12:11
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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.
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?
Good GOD yes. I am starting to think 80% or so of current film critics should just retire and write books about the "good old days" when entertainment wasn't filled with such pesky things as narrative complexity or foreign influence or unusual camera angles. So that kids fresh out of Journalism or Film school, who are the real targets for this stuff and grew UP on complex entertainment anyway, can write reviews instead. (If you don't believe me that my generation grew up with "more complex" entertainment, I heartily suggest reading Everything Bad Is Good For You by Stephen Johnson, where he points out that the number of "complex" films that expect you to be mentally adept - he doesn't name Serenity, but it would definitely be one of them - and the number of things in other entertainment such as TV and games which require more mental exercise, and hell, the complexity even of children's entertainment like Finding Nemo, have all increased dramatically and consistently over the past half-century or so. And argues it beautifully, I might add). There is a local film critic whose review of that new Satoshi Kon anime film (Paprika) I read recently. The moron actually claimed that the fact that the film was subtitled from the original Japanese was a negative aspect of, basically, the film. Nevermind that this is a decision of the company that's translating and distributing it and of the one local theatre that was showing it, and not the filmmaker who was merely working in his own native language, or that subs are usually the closest you'll get to watching a foreign-language film as originaly intended without learning the language it's in; what kind of idiot film critic is so uneducated that subtitles are a negative thing? I should note this idiot also gave the third Mission:Impossible movie a four out of five stars review. The only positive thing I can say about him is that with domestic animation or many live-action films, he's more open-minded, and his review of Serenity was reasonably balanced (he did say the lingo was a little overenthusiastically future-Western-slangy or whatever, but basically his review of it boiled down to "it's a fun, good little SF movie based on a cult hit TV series ala Star Trek, but grittier and earthier than Trek which is sorta refreshing, it's well made and better than most SF flicks are these days with characters almost improbably witty as most Joss Whedon characters are, but it's still a whole lot better if you're already a fan of the show it's based on" - as I recall, anyway, but that's definitely a huge, huge paraphrase there. Aside from the language complaint though, it was suprisingly fair, since it's definitely much better if you've gotten into the show first... which makes me think that he's probably seen the TV series and enjoyed it, whether or not he's a full-fledged Browncoat).
All of which is horribly convoluted and says about 16 different things at once, but yeah. IMO, sometimes the criteria for being a movie reviewer or "film critic" as some publications laughably call them, seems to basically be "can write a somewhat coherent English sentence, can complain really loud in text without resorting to caps locks of rage, and knows how to use spellcheck". It's rather telling that almost all of the places I actually read reviews and take them into consideration, are all websites or movie blogs, I suppose. Have you
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Also, a REALLY big factor for me is the score.
I have never experienced a movie, much a less TV series, that paid so much attention to the music cues.
BTW - I found it funny that a lot of consumer reviews of the Serenity soundtrack complained that the "songs" were incomplete, or full of loud banging sound effects and they were screaming at the producers "dont you understand that we want to hear all the music."
BUT - that is ALL the music. Every single note on that soundtrack has a home in the movie.
Anyway...I really really appreciate the attention to every minute detail in the use of the score to heighten (already great) storytelling.
...from the "achingly beautiful, but broken" piano of River's theme in our BDM...
...to the arrogant but sexy guitar solo for any of our BDH's sudden entrances...
...the moaning strings in Out Of Gas that cut out when Mal falls through the frame...
...and that violin that so gently lifts right when River says, "I will be your bounty, Jubal Early".
So many many many more moments and each one more moving than the other...
it just makes my heart stop - i cant imagine the series or the movie without any of it.
If the ship is the 10th character and River's feet are the 11th...then the music must be the 12th.
Fell hard in love pretty quickly in the beginning of my experience...but so many things (music being a big one) that send me gasping...and wanting more...
dukusukker
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"noah's ark is a problem..."
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