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.

It's my firm belief the first 10 minutes of Serenity (the pilot), even revised, are the weakest of the series. It's a bunch of characters we don't yet care about, doing random stuff, talking chinese, making no sense... I only really got a grip on Firefly when Kaylee got shot, as *everything* was going on at that moment, the characters were coming out and somebody got almost killed. You're invested by then.

Comics are pushed back to first quarter 08 at the minute. They're written, awaiting inking.

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

Yeah, there are some double takes that don't work then, because you don't know the characters, but I think that while they're funny, they're less important to the show as a whole.

I thought the first ten minutes could have had better production value and staging, but I forgive it all simply for the last minute as Mal stares at the valley being ravaged and the angels aren't coming.

My girlfriend hates science fiction and "war movies" so I started her with "Out of Gas."

I always start new folks out with Out of Gas. They learn to love the characters and then go back to the appropriate order. Usually with a rewatch of OoG to pick up the bits of tid they may have missed the first time out.

Hooks 'em every time.

Ok...I keep forgetting that my first episode (parts of it) was Jaynestown. I was flipping around tv, saw it, heard it was pretty good, and thought the episode was funny. After that I forgot about it. Once the dvd's were out my brother made me promise to watch something and I agreed after a lot of badgering. I still didn't make the connection untill I finally got to Jaynestown.