FIRST TIME WATCHING: Firefly Ep. 1!!

rewatched again just wanted to say this is such a great reaction all the swearing is very funny. I think all your comments and thoughts are so good, you have AMAZING improv skills don't be afraid to "yes and"!, and you manage your talking and listening so well. Thanks again!

Baron

Natalie, I love your reactions so much that I am going through this series with you AGAIN for the FIFTH time, I believe... lol This was the first thing I ever watched you react to. I joined your Patreon (my first) bc of this. HA. Happy 2023, Natalie! Now on sixth time thru witchu... :o

MertzRocks

Wow, harsh, man... You cancelled after one ep and so will probably never see these replies. She came around pretty quickly as you should have seen. I really hope you aren't the same dragon I know as Ashen...

MertzRocks

"Your first impression of a character, based on a few scenes where they are specifically painted as suspicious and morally ambiguous for narrative purposes, doesn't line up with my own opinion of the character which I formed over watching the entire series. Therefore I am canceling my patronage." Wow, if you're looking for a judgemental and narrow-minded person, you may want to look in a mirror... 😂

Onno Smits

Nice reaction... NOT - Natalie comes across as a pretty judgemental and narrow-minded person here, not a good look. Simon had done exactly nothing before he was judged harshly, and the "nosey-ness" was perfectly inline with a character that had NO intention of getting involved with the Alliance (and the nosey-ness happened BECAUSE Mal said they had been commandeered to do the medicine delivery), but by now she was already prejudiced. Cancelling Patreon.

MrSmokinDragon

Answering a question you raised (assuming you haven't tumbled to the answer yet): The goods they salvaged from the wreck were already "imprinted" with government ID stamps (on every molecule as Badger says). Something tipped Mal off to the fact when he opened the box and looked at the goods.

MertzRocks

Natalie, it's Dec 23rd (Festivus, I guess) and I just finished watching the reaction vid for Chernobyl ep4 : o and : ( >Ugly crying, "I'M NOT OKAY" "I CAN'T" etc< I needed something lighter after that so I'm diving back in here for like the 4th time. It's why I joined your Patreon in the first place. And in doing so, I found probably the best reaction video-maker on the web. Stay Golden and Stay SHINY! (kinda the same thing, eh?) : ) ; * <3

MertzRocks

I don't know WHY.... NONE of those Bachelorettes can kill you with their brains... ; P

MertzRocks

I did too but discovered perhaps the best reation video-maker on the web in the process. : )

MertzRocks

The parts that you [redacted] struck me as funny today because I just finished watching Natalie react to Chernobyl ep4 -- a real Ugly crying "I'M NOT OKAY" episode in which redacted documents come up. I don't even know if I ever saw [redacted] or [redacted] lol But I would have been upset had Natalie not reacted to Serenity. So glad she loved it. : )

MertzRocks

@Oouga, the last sentence of your LONG comment may be an UNDERstatement : )

MertzRocks

took at break from playing red dead redemption to start watching this reaction series.....and its bloody space cowboys! what is going on haha, i love it

Matt Camburn

The Bachelorette is on season 16 and they didn't let Firefly get past one. Stuff like that hurts my brain.

TheNeonRabbit

Yeah, what Gregory said. Great show.

Colin Ballendine

I joined the patreon just so i could watch your full reaction to this show, I love it

Gregory Coburn

I hope and think you will enjoy this series Jason. It's so easy to fall in love with the characters in Firefly.

Bob Criswell

This show is so goram good. "Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me."

gm

I've never watched FIREFLY so this feels like a good time to finally dive in

Jason Dolan

I'm glad you are reacting to this show and I appreciate the change in how you show the video. I understand that you want to be safe with copyright law, my only gripe in the past was it was difficult to sync up with the past videos but your current setup is much better. Am moving on to Episode 2 and Hulk next😁

Game Wizard001

I'm perfectly happy with the way you're filming these, and I think it's a safe way to do it. I queue up the episode/movie on one monitor and have your video playing a 2nd one. Works great.

Sam Kimpton

Well I appreciate it! Thanks for checking the Patreon out :)

Natalie Gold

From the cast of The Flash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac3a49-sj3A

Robert Kelly

Yeah, I understand. This one's on Hulu so it was easy to pull up. Your Fifth Element video was the first one that caught my eye.. After that I pretty much binged the others ... except for the Star Wars vids. I enjoy your content so I thought I'd come on over here and see what's the what. Looking forward to your next video.

Brandon Scott

I recommend anything Nathan Fillion is in, from 2 guys a girl, Blast from the Past, Castle and even the Rookie.

Joel S

Going to be a good time seeing someone experience it for the first time. And be sure to watch the film Serenity afterward to finish it all off.

Caturday Nite

I had a ball watching with you, Natalie! Yes, this was a HUGE 2-part episode that was supposed to be the premiere of the series, but Fox instead aired The Train Job as the first episode. If you haven't watched a lot of Joss Whedon, don't forget that he likes to screw with our heads by killing main characters or at least making us think they are dead. He is a cruel man who plays with our emotions like taking candy from a baby, and we fall for it every time. :) Just stay shiny and hold on, you're in for a bumpy ride!

Alan Kobb

There's a little intro video Joss Whedon did for the movie Serenity. I believe it's on the Blu-Ray. There are no spoilers. You already know the show was cancelled after 1 season and then a movie was made. This was Joss' message to the fans on the release of the movie. You can tell it was a labor of love. You can wait to watch after the series, or watch anytime, really. It is free of spoilers for both the TV show and movie. https://youtu.be/0yv4tCKP3Hs

John

Awesome! I was going to recommend it for a future reaction.

John

For what it's worth, Firefly is available on Amazon Prime. I load up the episode and reaction side by side on my computer and it works great.

John

You have to watch Cowboy Bebop.

Shea Harris

Got it. Thanks for responding!

matt

Welcome!

Natalie Gold

Haha I LOVE DR. HORRIBLE!!! Big NPH fan over here

Natalie Gold

Hi Dad_Plays! It's explained in my tier description that you need your own copy of the show/movie to watch along with me. I do this to be safe from copyright laws. Just because other reactors post the whole show, doesn't mean they're in line with the law. I would just rather be safe.

Natalie Gold

Yes!

Natalie Gold

Hi Matt, copyright laws exist no matter where you post the videos. This is the way I will be editing the videos. Even if I switched to GoogleDrive or OneHub

Natalie Gold

Hi Scott, I do this for copyright issues. Just because other reactors do it, doesn't make it legally safe. I explain that I watch things in a "watch along style format" in my tier description.

Natalie Gold

Natalie, maybe you could look into OneHub or GoogleDrive? A lot of reactors use those to avoid copy write restrictions. I'm a huge Firefly fan! I'm looking forward to these reactions!

matt

As far as I know there is no reason you can't have the full show with audio playing. Many other reactors have the full episode with audio. Just not for youtube.

Scott Rabie

That's their prerogative, but if somebody reported them to Vimeo (assuming they're using the same platform), those vids will get taken down and potentially put their account on a strict watch. Vimeo has copyright rules just like youtube. Yes, they're less strict about it (for now, that could change any day) , but uploading copyrighted material in its entirety is still a ticking time bomb on any vid you put up.

Gath Bard

I have not read through all the comments but you are planning to watch the movie after everything right?

Robert Kelly

Firefly only got cancelled because of the company not knowibg what time slot to put it in so just cancelled instead.

Fern Middleton

Yeah. I figured that out. But you know, I have been subscribed to no less than 7 other “reactors” on this platform and this is the first time I’ve come across every one I’ve watched until now showed the episode or film.

Brandon Scott

For the full reactions, you have to watch along with you own copy of the film or tv show. Copyright purposes. She can't just show a whole episode or movie.

I'm sorry. I just signed up here to watch the Firefly video but somethings wrong... I think. You are coming through perfectly clear but the video is not. Is this on purpose?

Brandon Scott

I'm glad you're finally reacting to Firefly and I can't wait to watch your reaction to the next episode.

Thundarr100

Right there with you, man.

matt

Great reaction, as always, Natalie. Firefly and Serenity are a lot of fun. And if you’re looking for a related diversion, I suggest Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog. It’s 45-ish minutes, was a web series Joss Whedon put together with Nathan Fillion, Neil Patrick Harris, and Felicia Day starring in it. And it’s a musical! Super entertaining and a quick and easy watch.

Ian Forbes

And I am now a Patron.

Dave Hampton

just my opinion, but you've started yourself on one of the greatest journeys of them all. The cast is brilliant, the creator is basically a genius, in particular where it comes to world and character building He wrote Toy Story, as well as writing for Roseanne back in it's best years. He created Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, and Dollhouse as well as writing and directing Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron

panther2552

Well, that was nice to watch again. The episodes mostly aren't this long, no... Pilot being all piloty as it is. One thing I learned... and it's interesting - nothing remotely spoilery, just interesting. When they were making this, they were almost constantly expecting to get cancelled, and so they made each episode as if it were the last, since it might've been. Kind of begs the question... would it be quite as special as it is if they'd been guaranteed like 3 seasons or something? Also; with the odd cuts etc... yeah, they are fully intentional. I wondered myself at first. I'm sure I checked the disk like 3 times when it did the weird freeze thing. But it's intentional to make it feel more like an old western with.. well, the occasional odd cut. Anyways, stay shiny.

Misty Crom

Natalie I am so freakin' excited for you to watch this show. This one caught me by surprise when I was a kid. Went and watched the movie completely randomly in a theater and it blew my mind. Going back through the series was a treat. Sometimes it's an interesting experience having the answers then learning the questions.

Brandon Diekhuis

Did you notice right after they pull the Crazy Ivan when the camera cuts back to Wash, there's no control stick. He's just holding his hand in the air like he was still holding it. "Crazy Ivan" is a reference to The Hunt For Red October and refers to Russian sub commanders doing an unexpected hard turn to catch any other subs that may be following directly behind them. Also, the scene with Shepard Book and Inara at the end when he said he thought he might be on the wrong ship, the visual was supposed to evoke the prostitute offering absolution to the priest.

John

I watched ep 2 immediately after Natalie's reaction.

John

I hope you watch the movie Serenity after the series

Colt 1983

Yay! A series I can watch along just by popping it into my blu-ray player! Enjoy the world-building, fall in love with the characters, cry at the short run.

David of the North

I watch this series at least twice a year. Can't wait to go to the next episode. If you liked the first one, I think it will just keep growing on your more and more. There's plenty of suspence, humor, and twists. It very much relies on character but then throws in action and humor as bonus.

Robert Reichle

That I can buy. :-)

Oouga

I have no idea what you're talking about, but Serenity is a great movie and an absolutely must-watch after the series.

Tom Evans

Keep going as fast as you can. This show is almost impossible to watch one episode at a time. Already I have the itch to turn on episode 2. That must have been so aggravating for the people who watched it once a week as it aired. That is, when it aired at all, or wasn't replaced by baseball. Or when it wasn't moving time slots from week to week. Fox really screwed it up with this show.

Garren Haskell

I remember reading an interview with Whedon in which he said he'd just finished reading the Civil War book, "The Killer Angels" and his imagination added the Millennium Falcon.

Christopher P Valdez

Oh this should be fun! Haven't watched Firefly in many years, looking forward to going through it with you.

Neil Silverman

I disagree. While [redacted] was bad and [redacted] and [redacted] are worse. . . I still believe that the movie is worth watching. It's the end to the story that we otherwise would not have gotten.

Sam Kimpton

The syringe that Inara had was a very specific drug. It wasn't revealed in the series, but it had a purpose. Inara planned to inject herself with it if the Reavers boarded the ship. The consequences of her taking the drug were more deadly for the Reavers than for her. If the series had continued, there would have been an episode that involved her using the drug.

Sam Kimpton

As was already mentioned, the Alliance refers to a U.S.-China alliance from the Earth That Was. Most of the Chinese they speak is accurate (as well as the actors could pronounce it) and is usually some kind of expletive. The battle scene at the very beginning was the war between the Alliance and the Independents who wanted to break away from the Alliance. The Independents (Mal & Zoey) lost. The Independents are also called Browncoats, hence the brown coat Mal wears. Basically imagine the Rebel Alliance being defeated by the Empire in Star Wars. What happens to the surviving rebels? This was a double episode for the premiere. The rest of the episodes are about 45 minutes long. Many questions get raised during the season. By the time you finish the season and watch the movie Serenity you'll have the answers to complete the story. Much of the confusion you expressed is exactly what you should be confused about at this point in the season.

John

Thus, I stand by m original statement: the Browncoats were the American Confederacy. And the Alliance was the Nazis. If you have information contradicting this, please present it to me so I may be educated.

Oouga

And while Wikipedia isn't the most reliable, at least this section has citation for where the information came from: Firefly Whedon followed Angel with the space western Firefly, starring Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Summer Glau and Ron Glass.[65] Set in the year 2517,[66] Firefly explores the lives of the people who, on the outskirts of society, make their living as the crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship.[67] The series' original concept progressed after Whedon read The Killer Angels, a book on the Battle of Gettysburg.[65][68] An ever-present element was Whedon's injection of anti-totalitarianism,[69] writing into the show a historical analogy of the Battle of Gettysburg, the "Battle of Serenity Valley".3[70] The beaten soldiers were called "Browncoats" after the brown dusters they wore as their uniforms.[71][72] Whedon said, "I wanted to play with that classic notion of the frontier: not the people who made history, but the people history stepped on—the people for whom every act is the creation of civilization".[73] Firefly was written as a serious character study,[74] encompassing what Whedon called "life when it's hard", and in elaboration was about "nine people looking into the blackness of space and seeing nine different things".[75] Fox chose to play the episodes of the series out of order, running The Train Job first, and not airing the pilot until a dozen episodes later, resulting in some confusion from viewers. The series was also promoted as a comedy, not a science fiction drama, and placed in the infamous "Friday night death slot". The show was praised by critics overall, but some objected to the fusion of American frontier and outer space motifs.[76][77][78] Faced with these hurdles, the show had an average of 4.7 million viewers at the time and was ranked 98th in Nielsen ratings. The series was cancelled by Fox before all of the episodes had aired.[79] Whedon took to Universal Pictures as a means of achieving a continuation of the story.[80] Following Firefly was Serenity, a follow-up film taking place after the events of the final episode.[81] This developed into a franchise that led to graphic novels, books and other media.[82][83][84] New Scientist magazine held a poll in 2005 to find "The World's Best Space Sci-Fi Ever", in which Firefly and Serenity took first and second place, respectively.[85] It also received an Emmy shortly after its cancellation, and a number of other awards. Since its cancellation, the series has attained cult status.[86]

Oouga

I was only relaying what I'd heard somewhere. Sorry if that irked you. :-(

Oouga

We insist on watching the movie as it answers questions left unanswered after the season ended. But your sentiments are taken to heart, as I have to agree on some levels with it.

Oouga

That was fun to watch. I had forgotten all about Firefly. Glad you seemed to like it. The next episodes are shorter.

Thomas Malley

The concept was Star Wars if the Rebellion lost. Serenity is the Millennium Falcon, and Mal is Han Solo.

John

I don't understand why y'all insist that she watch the "Serenity" movie. Did you not see her reaction to [redacted]? If I could forget the movie, I would, personally.

Troy B.

I once heard that Firefly was Joss Whedon's "what If the Nazi's (Alliance) went against the American Confederate South (Browncoats).

Oouga

Another enjoyable video. I'd actually finally started watching this series a few months ago. I got about 4 episodes in, but when I saw you might be watching it, I decided to wait. I'll rewatch the ones I've seen, then watch the rest for the first time with you. That should be really fun.

Robert Avila

Natalie, you noticed they speak Chinese a whole lot. Another poster already said why, but the script reason is so they can swear without bleeping or sounding stupid. Edit: Also if you end up liking the series, I would put Slither on your list. Nathan Fillion plays a similar role in a small town overrun by alien slugs.

JediLounger

Also, as for worrying about the story getting truncated because of the single season - keep in mind that there is also the motion picture "Serenity" to watch after you are done where they finish things up.

Thomas Yanez

This. I hope Natalie sees this. It wont be directly explained in the first season. They never come right out and say it. So its necessary to talk about it.

Armchair Wizard

Great reaction! Don't worry, the rest of the episodes are 45 minutes long. It was really interesting to see how you seemed very apprehensive to the show at first but became more and more invested in it as the episode progressed. Expect that to continue for future episodes. This show is really a masterclass in how to develop a character(s) and how to help an audience become invested in the characters and story. Can't wait for the next episode!

Matt

yeah i forgot how much I missed this show. really glad that your first TV series is one of my faves. fyi: it was just the pilot, the rest will be the typical 43ish minutes. really enjoyed the first episode and can't wait for the train heist as it's my favorite episode.

Jordan Tully

Believe it or not, I’m partially blind too. Only seen the pilot, Train Job, Our Mrs. Reynolds and the movie. So looking forward to sharing this experience!

Matthew Periolat

Basically the US and China got together in the future and eventually formed The Alliance which is why everybody speaks Mandarin. Everybody left Earth-That-Was 500 years ago for a new solar system with tons of planets to terraform. The Central planets are all civilized, and the Independent outer planets are like the frontier and refused to be controlled. The Browncoats fought for the Independents (Firefly fans are also called Browncoats). The first scene was the Battle of Serenity Valley where The Alliance won the war

jason

I'm so happy to be re-watching this with you!!!! You're going to love the characterization :-) Don't forget to watch the movie "Serenity" at the end of the series! Thanks Natalie!

Daniel Gauvreau

This is great!

Rusty Childers

really happy you're watching this. You'll love the characters, I think.

PickettsChargingPort

Awesome Natalie. I haven't watched this in ages. I probably won't remember most of it. I'll enjoy watching it along with you. The show is bookended by a fantastic movie, so you have that to look forward to too.

Darryl Low

I haven't really gone back to rewatch this in a long time. looking forward to seeing it again.

Jordan Tully

I'm so excited to watch your reaction to this series but at the same time so sad that it was butchered the way it was :(

Danishprince

Oh Goodie!! This might make my weekend :)

Chris (darkwater)

So exited to watch! Doing it now

D M

Looking forward to this. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Welcome to the Browncoat Army! Hope you and everyone here are staying safe and healthy. Cheers, Nat.

Andy Jordan