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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ZEKAPEKA

Monday, January 8, 2007 6:34 PM

Well. I watched the serenety movie prior to the series. Wasnt really interested in the show before, I mean I heard about it, but when I saw the title...from the creator of buffy and angel...i was sceptical, cause i think that buffy is total crap. Then I whatched the movie and I sad -> i must see the show from the begining. The first moment in the movie was the actual first scene of the serenetys landing when Mal announced the crashing on the planet. But in the actual show the scene when Mal pushed Crow into the engine is very strong.

REVERENDDUCK

Monday, January 8, 2007 10:04 PM

Being that I live in Sweden, I never got to catch Firefly on TV—in fact, I barely knew anything about it when my older brother suggested we rent Serenity.

To me, the movie started out so-so. Mal seemed a bit too much of a Han Solo clone to be all that interesting, and I felt like I was missing out on a lot of the story since I hadn't seen Firefly on TV. In the second half of the movie, though, that suddenly changed. When Serenity sneaked through the Reaver fleet and blasted its way out of the debris field, meeting the Alliance war machine head-on, I knew this was something unique.

I ended up buying the series, knowing that I would love it. There are so many moments that I remember that just make Firefly so awesome in my eyes, but it all started with that epic space battle (or escapade, from Serenity's point of view). I haven't gotten through all of the series yet (I'm watching one episode per week to prolong the enjoyment), but I was hooked on it after the very first episode.

Awesome thread, by the way. It inspired me to register.

CORNBREAD

Wednesday, January 10, 2007 4:21 AM

The opening scene. The writing, acting, and cinematogrophy of it all. The "Joss-ness" of it all. "Because we are so very pretty." Taking the badge from the dead officer. Mal rallying the troops, and the crushing look on his face when he sees that the sound of those engines are not friendlies. And finally, the weak cowardly soldier getting hit in the chest, just barely missing our protagonist. It was poetic and I don't think I have seen many scenes that could hold a flame to it.

That or the undying devotion of all of the fans of the series. Just hearing about the deovted following the cancelled show aquired was enough to make me feel a sense of pride. I didn't have anything to do with it, but I respected it.

MISTERSOLIDUS

Wednesday, January 10, 2007 1:42 PM

The gunfight near the end of the pilot. Gotta love cowboy shootouts ^_^

CLJOHNSTON108

Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:24 AM

I hadn't watched TV since Babylon 5 ended in '98, but I'd watched Seasons 2 & 3 of Buffy, and loved 'em.

I'd only heard a radio spot for Firefly when it first aired, which went...

Quote:
"We're not thieves!"
"What are we doing?"
"Crime!"
"Well... we are thieves..."

...and that had me laughing!

When the trailer for Serenity hit the 'Net in April '05, it triggered some'n ("Hey! Isn't that...?), so I went poking around for more info, and found a site that had the episodes archived in RealPlayer, and downloaded the first four hours worth. (Good that I'd looked to see what the correct order was, because the site had 'em in Fox order!)

It wasn't long before I was running to Amoeba < http://www.amoeba.com> to get the DVDs!

Funny thing — the first disc wouldn't run on my iMac (unless I played another Fox DVD first, apparently) — but I didn't return the set right away because those were the same four hours I'd already downloaded!

Having said all that, the moment that made me fall in love with the show? That's easy. Three words...

"Mine's the nicest!"

CLJOHNSTON108

Thursday, January 11, 2007 1:18 AM

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Originally posted by DonCoat:
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Originally posted by CarolJude:
Oh, I was in love from the moment I saw toy dinosaurs on what looked like a pink toy lake on the dashboard and then hearing OMG! a Beatles lyric, but what made me decide I would totally sleep with Firefly on the first date and then wake up early to shower, put on a little makeup, and make breakfast was when Mal, upon returning from the squirmish with Patience's crew, in one ultra-cool smooth move, strides up the ramp and puts a bullet in Dobson's head without one single pause or break in stride.

(Longest run-on sentence EVER)
Well, no, not even close to the longest. James Joyce, anyone?

How about Bucky Fuller?

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from Earth, Inc.
What I Am Trying To Do

Acutely aware of our beings’ limitations and acknowledging the infinite mystery of the a priori universe into which we are born, but nevertheless searching for a conscious means of hopefully competent participation by humanity in its own evolutionary trending while employing only the unique advantages inhering exclusively to the individual who takes and maintains the economic initiative in the face of the formidable physical capital and credit advantages of the massive corporations and political states and deliberately avoiding political ties and tactics while endeavoring by experiments and explorations to excite individuals’ awareness and realization of humanity’s higher potentials I seek through Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science and its reductions to physical practices to reform the environment instead of trying to reform men being intent thereby to accomplish prototyped capabilities of doing more with less whereby in turn the wealth augmenting prospects of such design science regenerations will induce their spontaneous and economically successful industrial proliferation by world around services’ managements all of which chain reaction provoking events will both permit and induce all humanity to realize full lasting economic and physical success plus enjoyment of all the Earth without one individual interfering with or being advantaged at the expense of another.

R. Buckmninster Fuller

"...to reform the environment instead of trying to reform men..."
Too bad the Alliance didn't take heed!

Bucky would've been so sad to see our Spaceship Earth(-that-was) get used up.

Now returning you to the posted topic...

CORNBREAD

Thursday, January 11, 2007 6:46 AM

"Mine's the nicest!" was a good hook.

B1GDAMNH3R0

Wednesday, January 17, 2007 8:02 PM

"did the primary bummper panel just fall of my ship!?!" yeah i sat down and watched after that

"When does it stop being CPR and start being necrophilia?"

JWHEDONADDICT

Wednesday, January 17, 2007 8:16 PM

I can think of the exact moment for BUFFY (the introduction of Willow and Xander, and Buffy's line at the end when she tricked Luke the vamp into thinking it was daylight when she busted the window "It's in about nine hours, Moron." in ep.1, "Welcome to the Hellmouth" and "The Harvest") and ANGEL (I think it was when Angel said "When nothing else matters, all that matters is what you do" in "Epiphany"), but I can not for the life of me think of "the" moment for FIREFLY. Except when I got them on DVD and was finally able to see all eps in the order Joss intended. Does that count? 'Cuz by then, I was in love!!

ARCLIGHT

Wednesday, January 17, 2007 8:59 PM

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Also the pilot. The moment Mal shot Dobson I knew I had to watch this show!

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One day.
One mission.
One army of Browncoats.

On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave!
http://serenityjune23rd.com/

I agree GENI, when Mal draws his pistol & shoots Dobson in the head without breaking his stride, I was hooked. Jean Luc would have talked to and tried to reason with Dobson. Mal saw that Dobson needed killin' and thats what he gave him.

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