The IT Moment by chels580

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The IT Moment

POSTED BY: CHELS580
UPDATED: Wednesday, June 7, 2006 11:56
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Monday, May 29, 2006 8:26 AM

The IT moment for me was when Mal kicked open the box that River was in and you see River for the first time, just laying in the fetal position, buck naked. I remember thinking "Oooook. Naked girl in a cooler." Complete silence in the ep and then the "Huh." from Mal and I just bust out laughing. An answer not quite I was expecting.

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People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think, don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome.

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Monday, May 29, 2006 8:44 AM

SAVEWASH

Now I am learning about scary.

There were so many great moments, I knew this was a great show from the first episode (The Train Job) I saw. Joss just kept surprising me, which doesn't happen often in a TV show, and the characters were strong week after week.

I think my real "it" moment was probably 'Out of Gas,' though. I was so wrapped up in that episode that I didn't even realize I was watching three stories at once because they all fit so well together. I'll never forget the ending, though, when we hear the salesman talking up the ship and expect to see Serenity, but instead we see an ugly hunk of metal. Then Mal turns around and the look on his face is something I'll never forget as long as I live. He was looking at Serenity, which sort of looked like another pile of junk at the moment, but just looking at Mal's face, I could see the possibilities as well as he could. That scene made me realize what an actor Nathan Fillion is (he completely sold me on the love) and what a great show it was to end on a moment like that: not sappy, just truly moving.

After that, I looked at the show like Mal looked at the ship: not many people would see the possibilities there, but those who saw them were in for a terrific ride.

"We need to keep our heads so we can ... keep our heads."

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Monday, May 29, 2006 11:37 AM

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

I must admit - I'm a sucker for TV shows, and if I'm gonna get obsessed - I do it quickly. I was watching the pilot at a friend's house, and that was all it took.

More specifically, it was the look on Mal's face when he realises that the Browncoats aren't coming for him. That expression of complete desolation just made me fall in love. For me - that was it. I had to buy the boxset and I did so the very next day. Anything that can make me cry in an expression, can't be bad TV.

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20 conversions and counting!!!

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Monday, May 29, 2006 6:18 PM

FXSTB02

To be honest, I don't recollect exactly when I became hooked. I watched the original show on Fox. I think it took me a few episodes to become seriously hooked. Firefly was/is sooo very different from other sci/fi shows and I was a huge fan of Star Trek. It took a bit to wrap my mind around a completely different version of sci/fi; no aliens, the good guys are really kind of bad guys (stealing, smuggling, whoring, etc.), guns with bullets, horses, etc. And the music. I think the music is what really grabbed me, so very different from anything else out there. The visual effects were outstanding and again so different than anything else out there.

It has a name, I call it Vera.

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Monday, May 29, 2006 6:30 PM

RIVERGODDESS

I can actually tell you the date and probably the time of day I became hooked on the show. October 27, 2005, 10:45-ish, I dragged my dad on a thursday night, a school night, to see some space-western called Serenity I had only seen in an online preview. I became hooked, full-blown fanatic that week, but the moment it hit me was when right after the words Serenity came onto the screen, and we see her begin to land. The music alone gave me the chills, and when they panned to all the characters, I knew this was for me. I'm still in shock I was able to find something I love so much, and it's been what, 7 months? *runs off to profess her love of Firefly to anyone with ears*

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Summer's response to Nathan getting his very own action figure:
"I tried to pull his head off."

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Wednesday, June 7, 2006 8:37 AM

MRSU

For me it was the pilot. The whole ride which started when Mal realizes that Dobson is targeting Doctor and not him, Kaylee gets shot, Simon seems an a*hole, then River comes out of the box and we have complete trunaround on his character, and his monologue about River - this whole sequence was WOW and hooked me up.

But actually I got a smaller WOW before that: when it turned out that the misterious box which Book presented to Kaylee contained strawberry! And how she was eating it... That certainly perked me up for more.

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Wednesday, June 7, 2006 9:59 AM

IMALEAF

It was when the solider standing next to Mal was shot in the pilot. Hehehe....just thinking about makes me laugh.

~~River: Bible's broken. Contradictions, false logics. Doesn't make sense.~~

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Wednesday, June 7, 2006 11:56 AM

MERC2K

I had seen the film first, but when I watched the series on DVD, I really enjoyed the end of the savage scene in the pilot. The combination of the ship "burning" out, the music and the lack of sound in space (finally!) came together as a "wow" moment for me.

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