Here are a couple more of the entries we had when we ran a contest in March. We asked people what their first memory of Firefly was.

Anna wrote:

If you want to be technical, It was a Saturday morning, a long time ago. I was watching cartoons, and an ad came on. There was a girl, fighting, guns. Serenity, the movie was called. I thought that was weird. Then my show came back on, and I forgot all about it.

It was years later that I first heard of Firefly, sitting in a religion class, before school started. A classmate quoted something, and the teacher laughed. The classmate, a boy named Kory, was knitting something, a hat. Red and gold, orange. My teacher called it a “Jane” hat, whatever that was. I was confused. They said, “Watch Firefly.” But I didn’t.

The next year in my math class, a girl saw my ring, the one that said “Serenity”. “Like Firefly?” she asked. “I’m Ceilidh!” (pronounced Kay-lee) I was confused. She told me to watch Firefly. But I didn’t.

The next year, my friend Jenna told a story about a dream she’d had. It was about cowboys in space, and someone named Mal, but Jenna was sad because someone else- Nara? wasn’t there, so there was no cute UST. Whatever that was. I was confused. She told me to watch Firefly. But I didn’t.

That summer, my cousin, my older, crazy-awesome fantasy loving cousin was talking. She quoted something. I knew the quote. Said it back to her. “Firefly?” she asked. “Uh, sort of. I haven’t..” but she cut me off. “You haven’t seen it? No. I’m sorry. We can’t be related until you watch this.” She handed me the box set. “Well,” I thought, “I might as well. I guess I should. Mike likes it. And Bishop and Ceilidh and Jenna. And I don’t want Katy to shun me. Looks fun. Might as well. At least I’ll know what all the fuss is about”.

I got home. Put in the first disk. Forgot Breakfast. Next disk.Forgot Lunch. Next disk. Sitting on the red couch, mouth open, I loved it. How had I waited so long? Why had I waited so long? I had to keep watching. So I did.

Ben wrote:

My brother came over for a visit one day and told me about this amazing television show called ‘Firefly’ that he had on DVD. He had said the same thing about many shows in the past, none of which had really captured me, but I decided to humor him and give this most recent show of his a chance. I was even more skeptical of this show after he told me that he wasn’t going to show me the pilot episode first, but instead he wanted to show me the one that was aired first. Nonetheless, I watched Captain Reynolds and his crew in ‘The Train Job’ and after the episode was over I could only say one thing to my brother: “More.”

What was your first memory of Firefly?