March 5, 2002 was the first day of filming for Firefly. Ten years later, CSTS is celebrating! To commemorate this momentous occasion, we’re having a contest. Tell us, in at least 100 words, what your first memory of Firefly is.
Send your entry to info@cantstoptheserenity.com and a randomly selected entry will win a copy of Firefly: The Official Companion Vol.1 .
Be sure to include your name (real or online), an email address where you can be reached and where you are from.
All entries may be published, the winning one will certainly be!
Deadline March 15th, 2012.
The MUSIC – OMGawds the music … … the ship was cool too!
The opening scene with the overview music orchestrating in the background captured my attention. I was at a friend’s house and it happened as I was walking past the tv while the premiere episode’s hook sequence was playing. I stopped in my tracks and asked, “What is this???” They gave me a quizzical look and said, “Firefly. It’s new.” I was hooked from that day onward. I own the series now and the movie. Best way I can describe it? “Firefly and it’s follow on movie Serenity?? A Lovely cinemagraphic innovation that was groundbreaking while being musically enchanting. It’s legacy is enduring past it’s glorious demise.”
Nice! Now send that in to info@cantstoptheserenity.com to be entered in the contest..
I was recommended Firefly by a friend, and I was skeptical at first. But when I saw the DVD boxset on sale I couldn’t resist the chance to try it out. In the unaired pilot, when the crew is trying to get off a salvage operation, Wash launches “cry babies” to distract the Alliance, to the tune of “Cry Baby Cry” by the Beatles. From that moment on Firefly had my heart, and with each episode through the Serenity movie, I’ve loved it even more.
I got the series for Christmas, from friends in the States (I’m in England). I thought, “I’ll just watch the first episode…” and spent the rest of the day watching the whole series, and waited breathlessly until my husband copied off Serenity so we could watch it. It’s quite frankly, the sort of series “They don’t make any more…”. No, they never made them this good, ever.
The theme song! At first, I hated it! But after three episodes or so I was hooked and still can’t get it out of my head. Man, I’m singing it now!
I can’t believe hose morons at FOX Networks cancelled that show!
I saw Firefly on DVD the first time. I had no idea it was out there. But a wonderful woman, Caroline, was dating my boyfriend Brian, and she decided we needed time to bond and get comfortable with each other. So she brought Firefly and I cooked dinner, and we snuggled up on our King Sized bed, just the three of us. After just one episode I was completely hooked–but she was holding out. She allowed only one episode at a time, one gathering a week, until we had seen every episode. She even held out the extras! But after all those weeks, we were so close, we didn’t want to stop. So we went back, and watched it all again with the commentary. I long ago dropped the boy (as did she) and we moved to separate states. But I still think Caroline is a genius, and excellent girlfriend, and that Firefly is one of those epic shows that bring people together.
My first memory of Firefly was a friend of mine doing a Cosplay of Kaylee at a local Sci-fi con. I had no idea who she was supposed to be and when I asked her about it I swear she threatened to hit me with a wrench! I was then told by her, and all my fellow con goers who were horrified that I didn’t know Firefly that I must see it or else! So I bought it.
I watched the series with my daughter and a good friend and all three of us were hooked. When we watched the final episode we were so sad that there was not more.
Firefly just becomes part of you, and once you have seen it, it is always in your heart.
I read an article about the movie on a plane to London and got curious about it. Then I saw the movie (before the series) and it blow me away, I was hooked.
Why?
It’s that feeling. A ragtag bunch of misfits who got together because they believe in freedom. I totally want to live on that ship. And think about it, the man named his ship ‘Serenity’.
I saw the series afterwards, which just made me want to get my own ship and put my own crew together.
The ship – the characters – the story – the talk – the jokes – the music.
Like many, I was hooked at the first episode. Always thought this show was a mirror for what it would be like here if the War of 1812 had turned out differantly. Guess that is why I have alwasy felt like, and remain today, a browncoat in my heart.
I grew up in the 60s/70’s so I identified with Torres’ Charecter (Zoe). Spent most of my young adult life fighting for women’s rights and showing I can do most anything a man can do.
The everyday wisdom of Captain Mal is timelessly accurate. This makes him sexy even if he wasn’t so good lookin’. Jane…well Jane is just that silly hunk of a man, that makes many women hot to jump; the “Bad Boy” scenario!!!
Josh did himself proud with this show and left us wanting more every week. Whenever I need a cleansing from today’s “me first” world, I turn to an episode of Firefly. ‘Captain Mal’s Wisdom page reminds me that there are still many of us out there that understand the value of friendship; know what makes a family; appreciates that no matter what you do in life, you are of value and you don’t have to be educated to be smart.
I unfortunately have never heard of the show when it was first aired. Otherwise I would have done everything in my power to get people to watch this show. But my first memory of this show was about 4-5 years ago. My friends had mentioned it and i didn’t know what they were talking about. They instantly looked at me with wide, astonished eyes. They told me I had to watch it. Almost immediately we went to their apartment and we watched the first episode. I was enjoying it greatly. The first episode is fantastic dramatic, witty, sad and hilarious. Everything you would want a TV show to have was in that pilot episode. But then when it came to the seen where the Federal agent was holding a gun to River’s head; and Mal comes in with a look on his face as if he had seen enough crap today; Mal just shoots him in the head mid-sentence just to shut him up. That is the moment I absolutely fell in love with this series. That was a fantastic moment.
I saw the teasers on Fox in the Springtime before the show aired and was intrigued that a new SF show was going to air in the Fall. So, I marked the premiere on my calendar and I set my VCR to tape Farscape, which ran in the same time slot on the SciFi Channel, and tuned in to the first episode. I was immediately impressed with the writing, the pacing of the show and the attention to detail in production design. I was fascinated by the complex characters and the non-formulaic storyline. I also thought that it was great to see what happened to people who didn’t fit ‘in’ in a potentially utopian future -that there was an underbelly of good people trying to get by. And the whole general grey areas of morality when faced with trying to survive. Anyway, I kept tuning in, and writing letters. It’s really tragic how it all turned out. The ship and her crew deserved better than what Fox handed them.
These are wonderful but none of them count towards the contest unless you send them in to info@cantstoptheserenity.com! But if you just want to reminisce, go right ahead!
I had been away from TV and internet for a year or so previously and while visiting friends was showing them the extended cut of LOTR. Halfway through (at the change of the DVDs) they all announced that we were pausing to watch Firefly.
I had no idea what it was, but couldn’t believe it was better than Peter Jackson’s extended edit. That night I saw the long-form pilot episode and fell in love. Then I was informed that that was the end and it had been cancelled. The rest of the way through ‘Fellowship Of The Ring’ all I could think about was Firefly.
I am single-handedly responsible for killing Serenity, or at least I feel that way. I have a sort of curse… killing shows I love. Firefly, I killed before I even saw. My darling husband tried to make me watch it and I shrugged it off. Because I am an idiot, that’s why. Because I hadn’t been crazy about Westerns since I killed The Big Valley. I don’t let go easily, do I? So, years went by with me too stupid to even mourn Firefly. Then dear husband dragged me to Serenity even though I was not in the mood for explosions. Within, oh, 30 seconds I was intrigued by River, and with Wash’s “oh god, oh god, we’re all gonna die” I was hopelessly, utterly infatuated. By the time 2 hours had flown by, blowing a trail of space-cowboy-pixie-nuclear-glow-dust into my face, it was true love. I bear abiding affection for the ship and her crew, and all 14 precious episodes, and especially for Joss Whedon who brought them into our hearts.
The worst thing: Many of my friends are witty, passionate people who like to dress up, talk funny, look at stars, and/or shoot at things. IF I HAD KNOWN. IF I HAD TOLD THEM. THINGS WOULD BE DIFFERENT. Regret is a terrible thing. The good news? My husband gets to enjoy that most dulcet of phrases from time to time….”you were right, and I was wrong. So wrong.” I make amends however I can – bought the blu-ray series, read the comic books, keep up on cast & crew… but I want more. I want more. And I’m so sorry I killed Firefly. It won’t happen again.
Zany Puppies
Until 2002 I did not watch ANY TV and rented maybe a handful of movies per year. Then a friend of mine who has my quirky sci-fi, truffle nose insisted that I watch Firefly. My first memories was “what a bunch of gleeful, zany puppies’! Yes! The pulp days of sci-fi was every bit tongue-in-cheek as it was doom and moralizing. Classic science-fiction was like old-bubble gum wrapped in cartoon wrapper. Chewy and zany entertaining. The cast of characters and lovable, otherworldly, setting goodness took me back to my early introduction to sci-fi wackiness in the 1970s! Woot what a hoot! Zany puppies!
Cowboys. In space. In spaceships. With cowboy things.
Went to the June 2005 pre-release screening of Serenity in Providence with a friend. It was our first date, actually (having gone from being just friends to officially dating) and he had to talk me into going because I’d never heard of Serenity or Firefly and wasn’t all that keen on science fiction to begin with. He had a hard time trying to explain what it was about, so he just said, “Trust me, you’ll love this,” and so I went.
Joss Whedon came on the screen to give the prologue and I went, “Holy s—t! I went to school with that guy!”. Mind boggled my date.
He was right. I loved the movie so we had to out and get the Firefly DVD set so I could catch up on the whole series and finally understand all his movie quotes and references. I ended up marrying the guy. I mean, c’mon… he introduced me to Firefly, after all.