I loves me The Train Job (apparently in a minority about it), but we'll get to it soon enough. Who wants to mess with aired order? feh.

And guys, next time we get to the end of the thread: just go to Bureaucracy and demand another. . . be Jayne about it.

sumi is very wise.

ETA: that vid made me wibble. Ain't every cancelled show can do that.

Hey, I was hooked from The Train Job and was a bad girl and ate up the leaked pilot even though Adam told us not to watch it and loved it to itty bitty bits without thinking "huh, that was a different show". Sure, there was horrible exposition (but even Serenity had some of that as well, I'm thinking of the dinner scene with Dobson in particular). But TTJ gets my love.

My mom had trouble sitting through the battle scenes in Serenity.

My next attempt to get her hooked will involve The Train Job, Saving Seranity for after.

But that's just her and war scenes.

I tried to get my dad to watch Firefly and he was good with it until he realized what Inara did and the scene with her and a client, then I lost him because he's not about to watch any kind of hookers in space.

My mom had trouble sitting through the battle scenes in Serenity.

did you tell her that was the one of only two war flashbacks she would have to view?

askye, I got nothing (unless you push the idea that Mal keeps calling her a whore!!!! and being all judgicakes?)

My girlfriend hates science fiction and "war movies" so I started her with "Out of Gas." She loved the interpersonal relationships in that episode, and after that she was happy to put up with "guns in space" in order to learn more about the characters. As she said "It's not even about space, it's about these people who live in space. They could be living in El Paso."

I do love this thread! I'm with everyone else for aired order and yeah at some point I agree we should plan around holidays. Out of Gas and Objects in Space are my favorite episodes hands down.

Aw hell... I just realized my DVDs are in Greensboro (NC). Luckily I know a Target here that sells them. I'll just let the loaned copy be my loaning copies. Totally worth it.

"It's not even about space, it's about these people who live in space. They could be living in El Paso."

This could not be more true.

...maybe I'll try starting my parents out on Out of Gas.

I never realized how Out of Gas could work as a pilot.

I lent my DVDs to a coworker, who wasn't much of a sci-fi fan, and she came back after watching a few eps with her husband and said she was surprised how quickly she came to care for the characters.

Everyone I ever lent the show to came back to me with stories of how they weren't allowed to cheat on their SO's with Firefly by watching without them.