How did you FIRST discover Firefly?

POSTED BY: Caite
UPDATED: Wednesday, February 2, 2005 05:56
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CAPTAINCDC

Thursday, January 27, 2005 5:04 PM

I was a huge fan of Buffy and Angel. When I heard that Joss was working on a new show called Firefly, I awaited it with baited breath. I was there from the beginning trying to get other people to watch it until Fox broke my heart (the first of many times).

The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason!

NYTSHAD

Thursday, January 27, 2005 6:09 PM

ooo oo, my turn:
My sister Mary bugged me about borrowing her DVD set so I could join the ranks of the nobel Browncoats, but I was all, like, "noOoo. I don't have time. I've got to go to my "job"." She even went so far as to force me to watch the dinosaur scene and the xmas party vid and a few fan music vids, but I was still all "ha ha that's funny, maybe I'll borrow it for the honeymoon". And then I got all stressed working full time in a video game store during GTA: san Andreas release AND planning my wedding AND trying to find a better job, so I burning out and needed something funny so I borrowed disk1 just for kicks. The next day , I demanded disk 2, and took all the rest as well. While cleaning my wallet after my honeymoon I came across a B+N giftcard from the previous xmas that I had never used so I went and bought myself a box set guilt free (as it was almost xmas and I had other presents to buy). Now I'm sitting on pins and needles for Serenity because I NEED more Firefly. I don't like it when things I need are cancelled.
Ya see, I'm a Reboot fan. And all other Reboot fans know we got cut off at a horrible cliffhanger in the final season cuz Cartoon Network was being Fox-y and decided to cancel the contract midseason. Like Firefly, there is a strong fanbase begging for the ending (in any form), but the team gave up and split up. THANK YOU JOSS WHEDON FOR NOT LETTING US DOWN!!!!!

anywho, that's my rant for the day.

"Shall my tiny replica do battle with your tiny replica?"

CAITE

Thursday, January 27, 2005 6:48 PM

I think Joss should feel honored that so many of you started watching Firefly because you love his work. We Browncoats are sure a loyal bunch, aren't we?!

PBI

Thursday, January 27, 2005 8:11 PM

I saw the commercials leading up to the new TV season and thought that the show certainly looked like it would be worth watching, billed as it was as as adult, non-Star Trek sci-fi. I avidly waited for the premier and watched it. And felt kind of odd, as I was not prepared for the western-ish feel. I did like the writing and the acting, though, so I gave it another shot (how many people loved X-Files from the get-go? Not me, but I ended up watching it through season 5) and by the 2nd or 3rd ep had fallen in love with the show. I even remember thinking that this show is a lot like how I'd imagined the Traveller RPG would be if it made it to TV/the big screen :)

Luckily for me, I never really noticed that Joss was behind the show until I'd already been hooked; I couldn't stand Buffy or Angel and had I seen one of the commercials that touted Joss as a seling point, most likely I would have missed out on Firefly :)

If you can survive death, you can probably survive almost anything.

ZEEK

Thursday, January 27, 2005 8:26 PM

My story isn't too exciting so I'll go on a tangent in a bit. I'm basically the standard Buffy & Angel (so therefore Joss) fan who decided to watch for that reason. Being in college I wasn't exactly the best at catching shows on TV. I think I may have seen one or two when the actually aired. Though I was smart enough to download all the episodes as they became available.

The downloading part is a better story. So, back in Angel when Conner got taken to Kortoth (sp?) there was a long down time before the next episode. The day that episode was supposed to air stupid basketball was shown instead. I was devistated so I set out on a quest to find someone in internet land with the episode. I eventually discovered a good place to download it and got the episode. This was beneficial when Buffy went to UPN and the night of the season premier I discovered I didn't get UPN at school. Right back to online downloading I went. While I was there I picked up Firefly. I too was confused by The Train Job. I had seen the terrible commercials with the girl in the box and such. I felt like I was missing something but when mal kicked Crow through the engine I decided it was worthy of watching. Later I found the unaired pilot online and I was all caught up. I was ticked when the show got cancelled. Got my dvds the first christmas they were out. Sent my VCDs off to one of my friends to get him hooked and I've been converting anyone I can ever since.

JUDYSC

Thursday, January 27, 2005 9:00 PM

I was waiting for a ride to go play triv (NTN) and just channel surfing when I recognized Joey from OLTL so I tuned in for a minute, loved the toss out the "window" during the bar fight then the whole space ship/horses/western thing all flowed together for me and I was hooked from the early minutes of The Train Job. Now, like so many others I'm waiting oh-so-impatiently for September and Serenity...

KISSTHESTRAWBERRYLOVERMRTAM

Thursday, January 27, 2005 9:19 PM

My friend and I were huge Buffy and Angel fans and heard that Joss had a new show through SFX Magazine. The magazine staff raved about it, the people who wrote in raved about it so trusting Joss (though it wasnt much of a risk because anything he does is magnificent) my friend bought the series. However we didnt watch the DVD set until about two months later after our A Levels. And it was a good thing we waited because we were addicted straight away and cared nothing for the outside world until we had seen every episode. Love at first sight.

Oh and then of course i bought my own DVD box set.

Sarah and my friend (michelle)

THEDARKSHAPE

Thursday, January 27, 2005 9:53 PM

I was always a huge Buffy and Angel fan (Angel moreso). My work schedule was really busy when Firefly originally aired, so I missed out. Heard good things of course. But one day while walking through a used DVD shop, I saw the box set for $19. Of course I'm going to pick that up!

The show started out slowly, but by the time of Shindig I was so completely hooked. At this point I think I'm addicted, and I really, really could use another fix.

THEREAVER

Thursday, January 27, 2005 10:35 PM

I was watching Tremors on Sci Fi (yeah, the film about giant worms) and in the advert break there was an advert for a new show called Firefly. The advert looked really good so I watched it and taped it. First day they showed Serenity and then they showed the rest of the episodes in twos. I saw it up to Jaynestown and somehow I missed the rest. First chance I got, I bought the DVD set. I remember walking into HMV, £35 in hand, walking straight past the Bride from Kill Bill and buying Firefly. Everyone was buying Kill bill except me.

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I'll eat your flesh.
I'll sew your skin into my clothes.
If you're very very lucky, I'll do it in that order - TheReaver

INDIGO

Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:01 PM

I might call myself "little ms. behind the curve girl" 'cause I didn't clue into Firefly until my brother & sister-in-law practically forced thier copies of the dvd set in our hands about six months ago.
My husband and I were/are big Farscape fans, and having run out of series to sate us we thought oh hey, well why not, maybe it's not too bad?
(Here's where I get to make the high-pitched happy noise... *yieieieie!* normally not noticed except by dogs and flans) -- yep, 'twas hooked, totally cool!
Odd thing, we've only seen them that once but they are indelibly burned into my brain.

And this is from someone who does not own a t.v. (Yep, I used to stream in "squinty-vision" episodes of Stargate to my dial-up computer while living in a small Greek village with one public phone -- what a way to kill four hours!)

Indigo

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