Woot! Finally I know somewhat of the story of the first season. I always thought the idea of the Nanoha franchise sounded cool but couldn't motivate myself through the early episodes of season 1 and shelved it before Fate was even introduced. Watching a 2 hour movie was right up my alley though and I think it was awesome. I did feel like I was missing a bit of the training grind but a montage and some imagination is enough to deal with that. She really did give Fate a massive friendship beam to the face though and that was probably my favorite part of the whole movie. Honorable mention goes to Precia's absurd sexy villain outfit that she apparently started wearing for no reason. I look forward to the season 2 movie but now that I'm past the initial training stages I think I'll give the TV version another shot.