For me it was the beautiful portrayal of River Tam. Fragile, brilliant, tragic, lovely, innocent, and strong all at the same time. She was amazing. Then I got to see more of her adorable personality online in interviews and the like. She is always so beautiful, inside and outside, so humble, so kind, and just graceful, gracious, and lovely in everyway.

I was hooked when I got to glimpse the inside of Summer a bit through the real life interactions I saw. I have been a big fan ever since. I loved her portrayal of Cameron... and even her character Crystal in "The Unit" had redeemable qualities due to the brilliant way Summer played her.

I think there is a little bit of Summer that comes out in each one of her characters, so I love to watch whatever she does, it seems to tell me more about her. There are no other stars that I know of that are like her. She is brilliantly talented, she is humble about it, and she is unique and genuinely completely lovely inside and out. That is why I care about her, and her life, her career, and her happiness so much.

What about you? What makes you all like her so much and what first attracted you to become her fan?

Well' I first saw her in TSCC and was stunned by her beauty. But that's not what made me really admire her. It was her incredible performances as Cameron and River that got me really hooked. I think she did a great job playing two of the hardest characters that you can imagine. It was much later that I started digging interviews and videos of her and got to know her a little better. So in one word it was her talent that first got me to admire her.

See my introduction thread, it will give you a good idea:

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I've seen her for the first time in Serenity (the movie, still have not see Firefly for the moment), and at the beginning I did not notice her especially (among the other actors): but it's the scene where she is tied and she is speaking with her "brother", Simon...

I can't explain, but that was at this moment ... a kind of "trigger": I felt something deep, something true.

And I realized she was "special": gifted.

After I've seen her in TSCC and I've begun to be interested in her career, in "her" (interviews), what she gives to see about herself to the others.

I am very impressed by her kindness, her softness shining from her, undoubtedly.

And she seems frail also in the same time: you don't want to hurt her, you just want to take care of her (at your level, because we do not know her in real life).

So.. she is a whole set: professionally and humanly speaking.

Yeah i guess you definitely notice the talent and looks first... I guess what makes her so special is that she has those, but is not defined by ONLY those things, you know? She has a beautiful soul to boot. Not many like her on this earth, not in the entertainment business anyways.

OK... I like the way you express your thoughts Monsieur. You hit the nail on the head. I think she is precious in a way that I would never ever describe another actor or actress. Your use of descriptions like "fragility", "deep" and "true" are entirely appropos. i think that maybe there have been (or are) some wounds there, and though we will most likely never know what they are, I think the evidence is there as you've hinted at. And I hope nothing ever hurts her like that again.

Oh, and you made your point quite well in English Joe. Better than I could have in French...

You take care. Goodnight from Texas.

The first thing that attracted me to be a fan of Summer was when I first saw serenity I didn't really understand it but I thought she gave an amazing performance and I just fell in love with her. I had never had a favourite actress but the moment I saw serenity Summer was my favourite. I then watched firefly to understand serenity more and loved her and the show even more.

When TSCC cameout I was delighted that she was in the show because it meant people would actually know who I was talking about. Then I found the forum and learned so much more about her. But her performance as river in serenity was what made me become an admirer.

I've used also that word speaking of her in another thread and in an "answer" to Summer's message on the website part.

First saw her in serenity looked her up. But wasn't a massive fan like i am now. Anyways i saw in TTSC and reconised her and her brilliant acting in serenity. I thought she was amazing then looked her up more.

Well I saw Summer for the first time in her role of Cameron in TSCC (tha't very late...shame on me...).

I was and I'm a great fan of Terminator and seeing this pretty little girl portrait a such scary robot so well, so deep really amazed me!

Then I looked for info about that actress, found her name and started surfing the web to gain
as much infomation as possible. It was pretty automatic, I don't know really how I become so involved.

As I've already written some time ago on the website, it's the first time in my life that I'm feeling so... well I cannot find the appropriate term... let use attracted, involved, fanatic, but just in the good way, for a person that works in the Hollywood's market (let call it that way).

While watching TSCC I recovered Firefly from a friend and started to watch it, then I watched Serenity (at the moment this are the only things I saw ) and bought asap all the relative DVDs.

when i started watching TSCC her eyes just hit me and i just got lost in them, and she is so naturally beautiful, she has such an on-screen presence i can't help but look at her even if she isn't doing much in the scene, from then i've watched all her work and her array of talent seems endless she has moved me so many times, and the fact that she is so appricative of fans and so humble.i'll stop there or i'll just babble about everything that makes her so unique and amazing lol i never thought i'd get like this over an actress or anything like that it would have taken something or someone special and it really has, Summer is so precious.