The moment that sold you?

[The Borgified Corpse]

What was the moment when you knew that you were going to absolutely love a movie or TV show?

I can think of a few for me...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (movie). The "So Long & Thanks for All the Fish" musical number.

Veronica Mars. In the 1st episode, when Veronica says in her voice-over, "Want to know how I lost my virginity? God, I wish I did."

Angel. I didn't start watching the show until very late into Season 2. I just loved this line in "Belonging," the 2nd episode I ever saw, when Angel is trying to explain why he's complaining about how expensive everything is in the restaurant, "I'm not cheap. I'm just old. I remember when a few bob could buy you a bottle, a good meal, and a tavern wench for... Let's change the subject."

 

[Nerys Myk]

Star Wars (Episode IV). I was sitting in a row near the front and saw a giant space ship pass over my head. I though to myself, "This is going to br cool."

 

[PKTrekGirl]

The very first scene shown in this video:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcBSTt2irh0&feature=related[/yt]

Mal is such a badass!

 

[Spot's Meow]

Lost - When Jack runs out of the woods and you see the plane crash on the beach. I was like, oh hell yes! This will be awesome.

 

[shivkala]

I was just re-watching "33" from Battlestar Galactica today and thinking about this. I watched the mini-series when it came on in 2003, but I did so as background noise. I caught "33" when it aired along with "Water" and was hooked. It was Saul Tigh's speech when Dualla mentions she might have mistakenly counted the Olympic Carrier after the previous jump, but it might not have been there.

"Yes, we're tired. Yes, there is no relief. Yes, the Cylons keep coming after us time after time after time. And yes, we are still expected to do our jobs!"

For Lost, I did like the previous episodes, but the reveal at the end of "Walkabout" really hooked me.

I've mentioned it in several Babylon 5 threads, but I had two such moments. The first was during a period of time I caught the last few episodes of season 1. Seeing the characters talk at the end of "A Voice in the Wilderness" and then the next week seeing a hint of that destiny in "Babylon 5" got me interested in the series. Due to it's changing time slot and odd scheduling (different and longer hiatuses between new episodes in a season), I watched sporadically and often had to rely on reruns to fill in previous episodes I missed. However, once I saw "War Without End," specifically the ending of that two-parter, I made damn sure to catch every episode, staying up late or using the VCR and often watching the new episode twice in one weekend.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

Well the two moments I came in here to say have already been said.

The end of Walkabout was when I knew I was hooked on Lost, and the end of The Train Job was when I knew I was hooked on Firefly.

 

[Starbreaker]

The end of Walkabout was when I knew I was hooked on Lost...

Ditto

 

[RoJoHen]

The very first scene shown in this video:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcBSTt2irh0&feature=related[/yt]

Mal is such a badass!

I didn't even need to look to know what scene this was. I absolutely agree.

Lost - When Jack runs out of the woods and you see the plane crash on the beach. I was like, oh hell yes! This will be awesome.

Completely agreed. I had never seen such an epic opening to a TV show before.

 

[Caliburn24]

Deep Space Nine, the end of 'The Jem'Hadar' from the moment the Odyssey gets destroyed until the end of the episode.

I had been a sporadic watcher of DS9 up until that point. From that episode onwards I was an avid weekly viewer who never missed an episode and was determined to stick with the show until it was over.

 

[HaventGotALife]

I didn't watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer until it was in the middle of its fifth season. I watched some tapes my brother had--Passions, the Becoming I and II from the second season--and I was hooked. He'd get the DVDs as they came out and between that and the re-runs on FX, I caught up.

I had a similar experience with the Sopranos. I hadn't watched it (as we didn't have HBO) but I saw the "email (Emile)" scenes with Christopher before he offed the guy and I was hooked.

Whispers was the first episode of DS9 that I liked. Watched it over and over again. Still, wasn't an avid watcher until the Search.

 

[Roger Wilco]

The title song of MLP.

Breaking Bad, when Walter strangles Crazy-8, I thought "holy fuck, that show really is good".

 

[sojourner]

Star Wars (no bloody "Episode IV", no "A New Hope") - From the opening scene the movie was great, but the moment that really hooked me, made me a serious sci-fi fan and movie-phile, was when Luke stares into the two setting suns and John Williams' score just makes. the. fucking. scene. Not even "Family Guy" had the balls to ruin that moment.

The opening to Lost is definitely a fave for TV.

 

[Jono]

The ending of the opening titles of Robotech with Rick's Veritech in battloid, gun pod smoking drifts in front of the SDF-1 command tower. I knew from that point that the cartoon would be cool.

 

[Emher]

^Oh yeah, I still remember that, and I was like four when I saw that the first time

As previously mentioned, the end of Walkabout. Also what completely sold me on Michael Giacchino as a composer.

Also, because no one has yet:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYfKHVdmjzQ[/yt]

 

[Neroon]

For "Fellowship of the Ring", at 2:27 of this trailer, when the boulder crashes through the stairway in Moria. That locked for all three parts of "The Lord of the Rings"

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pki6jbSbXIY[/yt]

 

[Agent Richard07]

When I saw the BSG mini series, I was indifferent, and when I heard that it was going to be a regular series, I thought it was a bad idea. Then ten months later, I saw the first episode, "33", and the teaser blew me away. I became an instant fan right then and there.

 

[FPAlpha]

Firefly - The Train job (first aired episode of the series)

When Mal kicks the bady guy into Serenity's engine.. up until then it was an ok show, funny and some action but this act alone sealed the deal immediately both for its suddeness, ruthlessness and subsequent humor and above all for overturning every SF convention i got used to until that point. It was the Anti Star Trek and at this point i was so fed up with Trek that this show renewed my faith in good storytelling in SF.

 

[Forbin]

Buffy, first season: "The Witch."
The whole episode spoke wonderfully of parental pressure, peer pressure, and psychotic parents, but the moment where Buffy looks at Amy's mother and realizes that it's Amy trapped in her mother's body nailed it for me. Then the Rod Serling-esque ending just gave me a biiig appreciative smile. I knew the show was gonna be different.

 

[Agent Richard07]

The very first scene shown in this video:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcBSTt2irh0[/yt]

I loved that first scene too. For me, it's more memorable than the kick into the engine.

 

[TheGodBen]

I started watching Breaking Bad a few weeks ago and it is probably the only show that grabbed me from the very first scene. Seeing a nerdy-looking guy out in the desert, in his underwear, wearing a gas-mask and preparing for a shoot-out with the police... I just had to know how he got there and where he would go from here.

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Arrested Development sold me in the opening episode of the second season with Tobias' Blue Man antics. I had seen bits and pieces of the show before, but that episode hooked me, specifically the bit where Tobias was run over by Barry Zuckerkorn and the scene with the doctor afterwards. "It looks like he's dead... He's covered in blue paint or something."