Glad to hear you added it to your Netflix queue, I don't think you'll be sorry. It is definitely worth checking out... might even be worth knocking somewhere toward the top of that million title queue...

Actually, I had zero interest in it myself before I finally got around to watching it. Several of my friends swore it was one of the best shows they had ever seen, but I just figured that was the Buffy/Joss Wedon fan in them speaking (and I never cared much for Buffy or any of Joss' other work myself). Finally I sat down to watch it the first time, made it to the opening title, got bored, and turned it off deciding it wasn't for me. There is a flashback in the pre-title sequence of the pilot, which gives some important background on the characters, but is also considerably less exciting than the rest of the show. Unfortunately, I figured the whole show would be pretty much like this and decided to give it a pass (I had also already made up my mind to some extent that I wasn't going to like the show, the premise of cowboys in space sounded lame, plus it was from the guy who made Buffy, I was pretty certain it wasn't my cup of tea before I ever took that first sip).

About a year or so later the wife was away for the weekend and I was bored enough to let one of my friends talk me into giving it another chance. I figured I suffer through one episode with him, then find something else to do... long story short, I borrowed the discs from him and had finished all episodes and the movie by the time my wife came home. After a week or so of trying to convince my wife that the show about cowboys in space really was cool, and that she'd like it, she too finally gave in and a few days after that had watched all episodes and the movie a second time with her. I actually think she enjoyed them more than I did.