How did you get hooked?

POSTED BY: JadeNite
UPDATED: Monday, November 27, 2006 07:42
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FLATTOP

Tuesday, November 21, 2006 12:19 PM

Posted it before, but it's still true, and you asked.
Surfing one evening, and caught Kaylee & Mal walking into The Party during Shindig. Westerny, Kaylee doesn't quite fit with Mal (as a couple), Ohhh she works for him. How does he know the stunner dancing with the jerk? Have to watch this...
I was never much into Mr. Whedon's other work. Saw less than a handful of Buffy episodes, and even fewer of his other show. Firefly just hooked me, and never dissapointed.

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Aww hell, I'm a big fan of all seven.

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ZZETTA13

Tuesday, November 21, 2006 1:28 PM

Well it started when the wife and I rented he BDM. The visual effects were great. I really felt there was something different about the show when Wash brings Serenity up over the hill while the MULE is be chased by reavers. The image of Serenity hovering there with the big moon behind in broad daylight really got to me.

Then we rented the BDS. During the pilot eps when Kaylee bites the BDS (big damn strawberry)the wife and I lol. The show has such a great sence of humor and makes fun of itself all the time. Yepper we are FF fans for life.

Z

"...don't stand for that. Somebody tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back." Mal

MRT

Tuesday, November 21, 2006 1:51 PM

I never liked Buffy or Angel much and didn't even know who this 'whedon' guy was... then saw an ad in the newspaper showing a cracker of a girl holding a sword and an axe and thought 'she looks good and thank god, at last a new sci-fi movie that isn't based on a tv series!'... enjoyed the BDM and then a colleague told me there was a series... I bought it, my wife was away, so I spent three very long and very happy evenings discovering the 'Verse and forgetting to eat.

Took me six months to get the Mrs to watch FF (helped by her friends at work telling her it was great) now we are both hooked (me more though!)

TPAGE

Tuesday, November 21, 2006 2:21 PM

Okay my turn. I was channel surfing on SciFi when I came across an episode (I cannot remember for the life of me which one). I loved it, saw at least one more (Heart of Gold).

However, I have a history of being too busy to pay attention and catch any tv show, as well I have a history of liking tv shows that get cancelled (like Harsh Realm). Thus I thought nothing more of it.

Then I heard about Serenity and it all came back! Well, what few episodes I had seen. Admittedly, I didn't like the movie as much as the series but good nonetheless.

Finally this past summer it came up while talking to my friend. He said he owned the series! I had to see the rest of the series.

Then I got the job I have now (though it is temporary, I leave in one week because it is with Canada World Youth an exchange program; like the Peace Corps of Canada). With this job I do not have a lot to do, but I have the internet. I started searching Firefly and BAM! Here I am. Still flying, still holding.

And if someday on some little piss-ant moon/My hand is a little too slow, or my aim a little bit off/At least I’ll go down fighting, not lying abed surrounded by quacks - "Sir Warrick" by Geezer

MANTRA101

Wednesday, November 22, 2006 3:55 AM

Lets just put it this way I was eatting dinner one night and my mom had the DirectTv on some channel and it was Serenity where they head to Miranda where river stats to freak out..I thought she was lovely...it was crush at first sight haha umm then couple of weeks later there were giving a marath. on scifi and there it happen I only got to see two ep. but that's all I needed. I went out and bought the Dvd set and the Movie and now i'm here...but let me quote tool when I saw all of them and the movie

I can't breathe right now!

You believe me, don't you?
Please believe what I've just said!
See the Dead ain't touring
And this wasn't all in my head.
See, they took me by the hand
And invited me right in.
Then they showed me something
I don't even know where to begin.

STOWEAWAY

Thursday, November 23, 2006 5:50 AM

My husband saw the ads for the show when it first came on. He was stoked about it -- I couldn't care less. Then I realized that Nathan Fillion was in it. So I watched -- every single episode. It's the first time I had ever made an effort to watch TV on a Friday night.

CALLEY

Thursday, November 23, 2006 1:22 PM

I saw the trailers for Serenity and wanted to see the movie, believing it couldn't be better than the earlier released Star Wars. Boy, was I wrong. I loved Serenity. A week later I'm in NYC and going to Spamalot and see Alan in the play. So after the show I made my friends hang around the stage door for autographs and Pictures. I was so excited and my friends "didn't get it." Wanted to see the movie again but it was out of the theaters.....
Got the DVD, watched the extras and discovered this fan base and there was a TV Show. WOW! Bought the Firefly DVD and realized I did see a couple of the episodes and did like the series but again it was gone. Since then been reading everything and anything on the internet about Joss, Browncoats and of course the BDH. I've never been more passionite about a TV show/Movie like I have with this.

Everybodies makin' a fuss.

JOSSISAGOD

Thursday, November 23, 2006 2:15 PM

I was hooked by the belly-dancer gyrating across the screen, back when that network of ID10TS aired the episodes out of order and pre-empted them with Baseball.

Fe'nos Tol
JOSSIS(Most Definitely)AGOD

Self appointed Forsaken! Been on the list for a while now!
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"Look at me, I'm STUPID!" The Doctor.

CLEMENTINE

Thursday, November 23, 2006 2:48 PM

Friends, who knew that I liked Buffy, watched the BDM and then the series and told me I should do it right. I bought both (they had pirated versions and I do not hold with that) and waited for my husband to take the kids on vacation so I'd be able to devote time.

Meanwhile, another friend was telling me that I had to watch this series Firefly.

Meanwhile off on vacation, my husband saw Serenity on the Space channel and had another friend show him Serenity, the pilot.

A perfect storm of "You have to watch this."
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Did it get really hot in here?

CLEMENTINE

Thursday, November 23, 2006 2:51 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by PirateCat:
Well Alias Smith and Jones when I was little reminds of this show. Another short lived due to the death of Pete Duel but the cult following was big at the time brought hippies back to westerns.

Alias Smith and Jones! OMG, PirateCat, I loved that show. I didn't realize that was why it was cancelled. I still remember them eating around a campfire and one saying, "Did you shoot this chicken or just run it to death?"

And of course, Barney Miller is now #2 on my list. Wanna know what's #1?
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Holding.

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