The moment that sold you?
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B5: "Z'ha'Dum" The tail end of the episode. Need I say more!
I still get goosebumps when thinking how awesome that entire sequence of events was.
DS9: "A Call To Arms" and the subsequent six-episode Dominion Occupation Arc. I had been watching the show catching episodes here and there but this is where it REALLY hooked me. I mean, what other Trek series had the balls (up to that point) to actually pull the rug out from under the characters and completely rearrange the situation like THAT?!! In truth, I would've liked the Dominion Occupation Arc to last the entire sixth season and have them get DS9 back at the season finale but hey.......
BTVS: When I first heard about the show I groaned about how dumb it was probably going to be (having only previously seen the movie). It wasn't until a friend showed me some select episodes from S2 (I think "School Hard" was one of the first ones I saw) and from then I was hooked. My wife and I eventually bought and watched all 7 seasons and then went on to Angel.
Stargate SG-1: I enjoyed the show from the get go but the last few episodes of S1 starting with "There But For The Grace of God" all the way through S2's "The Serpent Lair" (except for maybe the clip show one) were one stream of excellence. Most of S2 was quite good as well but then I just lost track of the show for some reason. The "Nemesis" and "Small Victories" episodes from S3 & S4 were excellent.
Transformers The Movie (1986): I was a big Transformers fan already so I was incredibly eager to see it, of course. Then, the first 30-40 minutes of the movie happened and my childhood relationship with Transformers was changed forever. Thankfully, the writers went back and fixed it later. It still rates as one of my favorite movies of all time.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Went into the first movie with LOW, low expectations (based on the ride?) but my sister-in-law had gotten it for my wife for her birthday, so we figured we'd watch it and probably sell it later. We were, however, PLEASANTLY surprised at how good it ended up being. I was eager to see DMC and was really floored by the end of Dead Man's Chest and looked forward to seeing how they would wrap things up in AWE
I still get goosebumps when thinking how awesome that entire sequence of events was.DS9: "A Call To Arms" and the subsequent six-episode Dominion Occupation Arc. I had been watching the show catching episodes here and there but this is where it REALLY hooked me. I mean, what other Trek series had the balls (up to that point) to actually pull the rug out from under the characters and completely rearrange the situation like THAT?!! In truth, I would've liked the Dominion Occupation Arc to last the entire sixth season and have them get DS9 back at the season finale but hey.......
BTVS: When I first heard about the show I groaned about how dumb it was probably going to be (having only previously seen the movie). It wasn't until a friend showed me some select episodes from S2 (I think "School Hard" was one of the first ones I saw) and from then I was hooked. My wife and I eventually bought and watched all 7 seasons and then went on to Angel.
Stargate SG-1: I enjoyed the show from the get go but the last few episodes of S1 starting with "There But For The Grace of God" all the way through S2's "The Serpent Lair" (except for maybe the clip show one) were one stream of excellence. Most of S2 was quite good as well but then I just lost track of the show for some reason. The "Nemesis" and "Small Victories" episodes from S3 & S4 were excellent.
Transformers The Movie (1986): I was a big Transformers fan already so I was incredibly eager to see it, of course. Then, the first 30-40 minutes of the movie happened and my childhood relationship with Transformers was changed forever. Thankfully, the writers went back and fixed it later. It still rates as one of my favorite movies of all time.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Went into the first movie with LOW, low expectations (based on the ride?) but my sister-in-law had gotten it for my wife for her birthday, so we figured we'd watch it and probably sell it later. We were, however, PLEASANTLY surprised at how good it ended up being. I was eager to see DMC and was really floored by the end of Dead Man's Chest and looked forward to seeing how they would wrap things up in AWE
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A child that young is going to be upset by any movie shown in a theatre - it's a dark room, with lots of quickly-moving bright lights and loud sounds coming from every direction. Kids that young simply shouldn't be at the movies.
The moment that sold me to all of Star Trek was when I was four, watching First Contact for the first time with my older brother, when Picard was looking out of the viewport on the Enterprise and the music was blaring really loud, and you could just see his face in the reflection of the glass, and then as the music reaches it's high point Riker steps in behind him. That's the moment when I thought the four-year-old's equivalent of "Holy crap, this is going to be frickin' awesome."
Good point. What I meant was merely that the content of a movie is more or less besides the point to a child that young.
You were four? Sheesh. I feel old right about now. When I four, the original Trek had just entered syndication.
The bit in SG-1's Children of the Gods when Carter says something about her reproductive organs... I'd been enjoying the episode anyways, but when she said that line I just fell in lurve with the show.
No, I don't know why...
No, I don't know why...
Hell, it made me feel old and I think when I was four, BOBW came out.
Have to agree with those who've said Bartletts first appearance in The West Wing. Martin Sheen is just awesome and you can totally see why they changed their minds about how big a role he was going to have in the show.
I really love Criminal Minds now, but when it first started I thought there were a lot of problems with it, most of which have been ironed out now. Being something of a cop show junkie (plus it had Matthew Gray Gubler, Shemar Moore and Thomas Gibson in it, running around with guns
), I stuck with it to see if it would get better. It did but it took a couple of years and it wasn't until the explosion in the season 3 finale and the aftermath in the season 4 premier that I really got hooked on it. Now I'm kind of addicted to it lol
All this stuff about other people in the cinema has made me think of when me and my brother went to see the RDJ Sherlock Holmes. There was a group of 13/14 year old boys behind us who obviously didn't know much, if anything, about Sherlock. Me and brother where both pretty amused when we heard one of the boys say to his friend 'I think Watson's the bad guy'
I really love Criminal Minds now, but when it first started I thought there were a lot of problems with it, most of which have been ironed out now. Being something of a cop show junkie (plus it had Matthew Gray Gubler, Shemar Moore and Thomas Gibson in it, running around with guns
), I stuck with it to see if it would get better. It did but it took a couple of years and it wasn't until the explosion in the season 3 finale and the aftermath in the season 4 premier that I really got hooked on it. Now I'm kind of addicted to it lolAll this stuff about other people in the cinema has made me think of when me and my brother went to see the RDJ Sherlock Holmes. There was a group of 13/14 year old boys behind us who obviously didn't know much, if anything, about Sherlock. Me and brother where both pretty amused when we heard one of the boys say to his friend 'I think Watson's the bad guy'
Doctor Who - The first episode I seem to recall is the end of The Ribos Operation. It became part of the Saturday evening schedule chez nous. The endings of The Keeper Of Traken and Logopolis probably cemented my addiction.
Star Trek - It's always been there. The Jack The Ripper episode and the one with the giant cat stick in the memory to some extent.
Buffy - I think I half-saw an early season two episode and pretty much wrote it off. The Zeppo in season three provided many brilliant moments, notably a laugh-out-loud one involving a car and a very unfortunate baddie. I think that it was the season four episodes with its brilliantly-written character scenes (eg Anya's businesslike seduction of Xander) that won me over. Went back and bought the season three DVD collection, which cost £85 in old money and was the first box set I ever bought. Money well spent, as it's a desert island DVD still.
Firefly - I think the show had ended before I caught my first episode, which was probably Our Mrs Reynolds. Enough said.
Battlestar - Kind of half-watched the mini, which washed over me. I think the show initially seemed uninspired compared to Firefly. Before too long, though, I was into it, wondering what would happen when character x found out about fact y etc etc. The final scenes of the awesome Kobol's Last Gleaming are probably what did it for me. What a cliffhanger!
Star Trek - It's always been there. The Jack The Ripper episode and the one with the giant cat stick in the memory to some extent.
Buffy - I think I half-saw an early season two episode and pretty much wrote it off. The Zeppo in season three provided many brilliant moments, notably a laugh-out-loud one involving a car and a very unfortunate baddie. I think that it was the season four episodes with its brilliantly-written character scenes (eg Anya's businesslike seduction of Xander) that won me over. Went back and bought the season three DVD collection, which cost £85 in old money and was the first box set I ever bought. Money well spent, as it's a desert island DVD still.
Firefly - I think the show had ended before I caught my first episode, which was probably Our Mrs Reynolds. Enough said.
Battlestar - Kind of half-watched the mini, which washed over me. I think the show initially seemed uninspired compared to Firefly. Before too long, though, I was into it, wondering what would happen when character x found out about fact y etc etc. The final scenes of the awesome Kobol's Last Gleaming are probably what did it for me. What a cliffhanger!
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