When Did You Know . . .
POSTED BY: Delia
UPDATED: Sunday, May 2, 2004 01:27
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Before the show started airing I never thought for a moment that Firefly would make it.
I can honestly say that I didnt like the look of the show before I watched it and never would have if Sci-fi hadnt pushed Farscape back an extra hour that season (which ironically helped kill that too).
I basically caught "The Train Job" by chance. I had hated the preveiws for the show, the title sounded goofy, and I quite frankly didnt have the time to get hooked on another show. I had an hour to kill though and turned it on hoping at the very least that it would give me the opportunity to make more than a couple of good wisecracks.
I had no idea what I was in for.
-Dracos: Impromptu Authoritarian Dark Tower Geek-
Dont ask me silly questions.
I wont play silly games.
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Somebody tries to kill you you go ahead and try to kill them right on back!
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I agree with Neroli - it was when the show was being pre-empted for the Monarch Butterfly Mating Season Special or some such 
But when it really hit home was when I missed "Ariel" AND had forgotten to set my VCR to tape it (My son took me out for my birthday {to McD's - he was 9}). When I got home and realized that I hadn't taped it, I almost cried, because I KNEW I would never see the episode in a re-run. I assumed I would NEVER see it. That's when it finally broke out of my sub-conscious mind, and I realized that Firefly was doomed.
MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."
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Delia:
Look up clueless in a dictionary and you'll find a picture of me alongside the definition. I skipped all over, following it around Fox' World Series coverage. Then after watching OiS, Fox announced that there would be a special 2-hour episode the next week. "Cool!", I thought (being the big dumb animal I am).
After the 2-hour ep, which I looooved, I very clearly remember thinking, "I love this show! This is the best series television in history." I ranted and raved to all my friends. I forced my children to watch on Fridays before Farscape. I could hardly wait until what I perceived as a midseason break was over (figured it had to do with rescheduling for NFL playoffs). After a couple of weeks, I went to Fox' website to see if maybe they had moved it to another day. Y'all know the rest.
I wanted to just go ahead and curl up for the Big Dirt Nap. And I'm still not over it. As Mal says in OoG, "I'm never leaving Serenity."
Thanks for digging a spoon into that wound for me... ;)
Respectfully,
zoid
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(Of River) "Little Sis? I could see big things for her all along. Her and her brother both. I always knew they'd be worth something, y'know?"
- Jayne Cobb, Game Warden and co-proprietor, "Cretaceous Park", Hera; from A Child Shall Lead Them: A History of the Second War of Independence Wilkins, Richard
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It must be a regional thing because on my Fox station they showed lots of Firefly commercials, they were always the same one before the season started, but i saw them quite often, they started here maybe 2 months before the show even premiered.
I didn't even know it was cancelled until my mom looked on the internet and found one of the many petitions made for saving the show. When she told me i was very very sad.... 
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