When did you know you were hooked on Firefly? by Tallgrrl

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When did you know you were hooked on Firefly?

POSTED BY: TALLGRRL
UPDATED: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 14:23
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Sunday, February 15, 2004 6:58 AM

I was in with the first ad I saw on Fox. Never have I seen an ad that caught my attention the way that one did. I think it was the combination of a Western-Sci Fi that included a whore and a girl-in-a-box.

Of course, it just got better from there. ;)

http://dryope.typepad.com/superfly/

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Sunday, February 15, 2004 8:38 AM

FELIX41

Shindig. A man fighting for the honor of a woman. That's a good thing. When Inara ties to teach Mal how to fence...classic. The end when the two of them are talking...and the pan to the cows.

I said, 'Ahh, these two are adults'.

And that's when I knew I was hooked.

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Sunday, February 15, 2004 7:34 PM

MANIACNUMBERONE

Quote:
Originally posted by sneaker98:
You know you're hooked when you start saying "gorram" instead of "god damn".

*Raises hand*
Guilty as charged.

"I do the job... and then I get paid. Go run your little world."
-Malcolm Reynolds

That is exactly what I thought.... and exactly when I knew. Gorramit, I love this show so much. I want it back so much. Please let it come back. Please. Isn't there anything I can do? Isn't there any for sure positive solution?

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Inara: Who's winning?
Simon: I can't really tell, they don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.
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Monday, February 16, 2004 12:13 AM

FLAMETREE

why ?

safe

the girls' a witch and she must die;

yes but she our witch and we want her back;

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Monday, February 16, 2004 4:55 AM

TEELABROWN

Quote:
Originally posted by flametree:
why ?

safe

the girls' a witch and she must die;

yes but she our witch and we want her back;

My sister's favorite line from that one. "Yes, but she's our witch and we want her back." I love when River dances.

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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 makes 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Teela Brown, keeper of bad typing.
"No one reads these things any way."- Bart on Blackboard

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Monday, February 16, 2004 6:27 AM

SNEAKER98

Ah i love that episode. My favourite lines are:

"Well look at this. Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us?"

"Big damn heroes, sir."

"Aint we just."

"I do the job... and then I get paid. Go run your little world."
-Malcolm Reynolds

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Monday, February 16, 2004 9:41 AM

POPEBOB

Quote:
Originally posted by TeelaBrown:
Quote:
Originally posted by flametree:
why ?

safe

the girls' a witch and she must die;

yes but she our witch and we want her back;

My sister's favorite line from that one. "Yes, but she's our witch and we want her back." I love when River dances.

I have to say that my favorite dialogue from safe was:
Mal: Looks like we showed up just in the nick of time. Whats that make us?
Zoe: Big damn heroes sir.
Mal: Aint we just.

just watched it again last night. i so wanna know what's up with Book.

this one's for FOX & the WB ->

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Monday, February 16, 2004 9:43 AM

POPEBOB

Gorramnit Sneaker.. i should have scrolled down first :)

Ahhhh.. Curse you sudden but inevitable betrayal!!

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Monday, February 16, 2004 7:16 PM

TOOMANYMEMORIES

I started watching the show from the beginning, but I wasn't hooked on it. I actually missed one of the episodes, and it didn't bother me that much. It was one of those shows that I watched, but didn't really pay much attention to. I would be doing other things while it was on, only half-way paying attention.

But then I saw "Safe", and I was obsessed ever after. It was the part where River is dancing. She was just so graceful and happy and free. It was a beautiful scene, and River became my favorite character. I wanted to find out what the alliance had done to her, I wanted to know what she was capable of, and I wanted to see her get better.

Then I really started to pay attention to the rest of the show, and I realized how friggin' great it was. Far better than anything else on tv. So, of course, Fox goes and cancels it. They really can't seem to deal with quality programming on that network. But it will return, I know it. The movie will be an amazing success, and then they'll bring back the show. Oh yes, it will happen. Just think happy thoughts.

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Tuesday, February 17, 2004 5:39 AM

DAVEY

i loved the show from the start, but i guess i knew i was hooked when i jumped off my chair shouting "LOOK! LOOK! theres serenity!"when she flys overhead in battlestar galactica. which i then proceeded to rewind and watch several times, much to the disgust of my other half

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Tuesday, February 17, 2004 6:20 AM

KUGELBLITZ

The idea that there weren't any particular *rules* to the show. When Mal kicks the moron into the intake I almost fell out of my seat. Actually I stood up in my living room and said "holy Sh*t"!

Mal isn't bad, and he isn't good either, but he IS loyal. It was so... human to me, and the poke at the large, squeaky clean massive government is a well taken one. Screw the Federation, er, Alliance.

Any show that elicits such surprise and fine fits of wonder did it for me. I do not watch television. My TV is for movies only that arrive in DVD form. If this show were to become syndicated again, I would pay money for cable so I could watch it. Period.

"Could you be more specific"?

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Tuesday, February 17, 2004 6:26 AM

DELRIO

Well, unlike most of you, the first show I saw was the pilot.

I've tried to imagine what my impression might have been if the first ep I saw was "Train Job", and my sense is that I wouldn't have been as immediately hooked, not because Train Job isn't good, but because the pilot is just a better intro to the show. In fact, I think it would have messed up my overall impression of the series, because not knowing about the doctor and River and such would have made a lot of things in the series just weird and inexplicable.

Anyway though, the friend who introduced me to the show (via the DVD set) didn't have time to show me the whole series, but he showed me the pilot, Jaynestown and Ariel, and by then I was totally, totally hooked.

But the actual *moment* that I knew I was hooked was in the pilot - right after the opening scene of the battle for Serenity Valley - when the Firefly logo burned through the screen, and the opening theme song played. Seeing the rest of the episode then just confirmed what I already knew. :)

Del Rio
"10 percent of nothing is...let me do the math. Nothing, and nothing, carry the nothing..."

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Wednesday, February 18, 2004 1:02 PM

MISGUIDED BY VOICES

Quote:
Originally posted by delrio:
But the actual *moment* that I knew I was hooked was in the pilot - right after the opening scene of the battle for Serenity Valley - when the Firefly logo burned through the screen, and the opening theme song played.

See, the theme tune grew on me, but the point for me, and I can ascribe no scientific reason for this, was this moment -

"Cry Baby Cry..."
"Make your mother sigh."

"I threw up on your bed"

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Wednesday, February 18, 2004 1:52 PM

TEELABROWN

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"Cry Baby Cry..."
"Make your mother sigh."

I think that's so cool. Kinda like my friend and I. We know what to say.

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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 makes 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Teela Brown, keeper of bad typing.
"No one reads these things any way."- Bart on Blackboard

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Wednesday, February 18, 2004 2:23 PM

SHINY

I only have one thing to add, proudly stolen from some fellow browncoat's sig:

"They cancelled our show, but we're still here. What does that make us?"

"BIG DAMN JUNKIES, Sir!"

"Ain't we just."

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