Fandom meme
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maychorianI still haven't seen 4.21 and I probably won't get to until tomorrow, and I am exhausted and depressed and I won't be going home for awhile and, you know, all sorts of good stuff, so, well, here's a meme.
Comment to this entry and I'll pick up to three of your fandoms. You must then update your journal and answer the following questions:
1. What got you into this fandom in the first place?
2. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
3. Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?
4. Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
5. Do you think more people should get into this fandom?
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kalquessa gave me Doctor Who, Star Wars, and Numb3rs.
Doctor Who
1. I am not entirely certain what got me into this one. I think maybe it was a movie reviewer who I was following for a while...she kept posting blog entries about the new Who and was so desperately full of squee that I became very curious. I had Netflix at the time, so I devoured everything that was available pretty quickly. Torchwood too. Really great stuff, fantastic characters and fun plots, though it has its problems just like any other TV show.
2. As I am not even really in the fandom--just barely on the edges--I'll probably be here as I am forever, yeah.
3. Oh, man. I don't know if I can remember titles or anything, but ones that stick out in my head are, uh: that one with the angel statues, the gigantic traffic jam, the Master and his arc, "Are you my mummy?", the one with the reality shows, anything with Captain Jack, Vesuvius, the Ood, and the Cybermen with the alternate Jackie and everything in which Mickey became a man (that was one of very few TV episodes I've ever seen that really and truly horrified me). Umm, so yeah. A lot.
4.I'll watch the new episodes and keep slowly watching Classic Who as I have opportunity, but I don't expect I'll ever become hugely involved in it. I do love crossovers with Whoniverse, though, and I could see myself writing a few someday. No other show is so infinitely crossover-able.
5. I think everyone should watch this show, because it is just plain good entertainment. It seems to have a pretty vibrant fandom, though. And I'm going to go ahead and be selfish and say that I don't want my favorite fic authors leaving my current reading places to go write Dr. Who. ::pouts at them:: So no. Don't go.
Star Wars
1. Oh, man. This is hard to answer, and stretches waaaay back into my childhood. According to my mom, she and Dad went to see Return of the Jedi when I was an infant and held me in their arms while they watched, and she sometimes blames that for my current sci fi obsession. We watched Star Trek growing up, and my dad would get the tie-in novels from the library and read them in bed, leaving them on the nightstand. So as a wee tot (like, ten, eleven years old), I would sneak into his room and read them. The first ST novel I read was "Here There Be Dragons," btw, and I still fully recommend it. And there I read...and this is sort of hilarious...the second book of the Corellian trilogy. Mostly what I remember of it now is Han Solo crawling around in a tunnel with this big furry alien creature (not Chewie) and him complaining about being too old for this and his knees hurting. And yeah, that was my introduction to Han and Leia and Luke and everyone, and I adored them instantly. Then I bought a book of SW quotes from a bookstore with a birthday gift card, and later I dug up the VHS tapes my uncle had left in our attic, and it was all very backwards, truly.
When I discovered fanfic on the internet (I was...uh twelve? Thirteen?) I was ectastic. People WRITE STORIES ABOUT STAR WARS AND OTHER PEOPLE READ THEM? HOW COOL IS THAT? So I wrote one. It was awful. I wrote a lot of SW fic when I was fifteen and sixteen, then rediscovered it later in college, though then my obsession was pre-TPM fics with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan. I wrote A LOT.
2. Oh, I never thought that I would leave SW. It was my first love and will always own a huge chunk of my heart, and really it was my only fandom from my discovery of it until somewhere around my graduation from college. But then I fell in love with Daniel Jackson, and then just recently Dean Winchester has completely and utterly PWNED ME TO DETH. So yeah, I'm not so much in the fandom anymore, though I still love Obi-Wan with a fire of a thousand suns.
3. As hinky as it is, I love The Phantom Menace, because Obi-Wan is just so beautifully badass, and his face in that council chamber scene kills me every time. But yeah. A New Hope. And the X-Wing books, and I, Jedi, and everything Timothy Zahn wrote. The Han Solo Trilogy is fantastic, too. And I have a soft spot for The Crystal Star, despite its ridiculousness, because it was one of the first stand-alone books I read, and Leia is so very very badass in it.
4. Not right now, except for crossovers, it looks like. My brain is insisting that I must continue working on this fusion in which Castiel is an angel of Iego and owes a life-debt to Dean, because, well, it makes sense. Also, Sam with a lightsaber is made of AWESOME.
5. I think my fave SW writers should come write SPN now, because I know they would be ridiculously good at it. So no. COME TO THEDARK SUPERNATURAL SIDE, WE HAVE PIE.
Numb3rs
1. My parents really liked this show, so when I was very busy being a commuting college student and hardly watched TV at all, I would hear them talking about it. That was enough to pique my interest, and once I was living on my own (and, again, had Netflix), I checked it out for myself. And I really, really like it. It's a great show, consistently well-written, and I love the family dynamic that lives at the heart of it. Beautiful stuff.
2. I think I will always have this fondness for the show, yeah.
3. I like anything where there is character backstory or development, or something about the case touches one of the team members in a personal way. So the one where we found out that Don used to play baseball, and might have even been good. The ones with the kid that Charlie started mentoring. The one where Colby was so very touchingly desperate to rescue that kidnapped lady. And...my brain is failing me. But those ones.
4. While I like the show a lot, I'm not very fannish about it at all. I'm willing to write ficlets when requested to, but my brain doesn't really go there. And I occasionally read a fic or two when I see them on rec lists, but that's about it.
5. I'm glad that there's a fandom for this show, because it's a great show and it deserves exploration, but I don't really have any feelings about it one way or another.
Comment to this entry and I'll pick up to three of your fandoms. You must then update your journal and answer the following questions:
1. What got you into this fandom in the first place?
2. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
3. Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?
4. Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
5. Do you think more people should get into this fandom?
kalquessa gave me Doctor Who, Star Wars, and Numb3rs.Doctor Who
1. I am not entirely certain what got me into this one. I think maybe it was a movie reviewer who I was following for a while...she kept posting blog entries about the new Who and was so desperately full of squee that I became very curious. I had Netflix at the time, so I devoured everything that was available pretty quickly. Torchwood too. Really great stuff, fantastic characters and fun plots, though it has its problems just like any other TV show.
2. As I am not even really in the fandom--just barely on the edges--I'll probably be here as I am forever, yeah.
3. Oh, man. I don't know if I can remember titles or anything, but ones that stick out in my head are, uh: that one with the angel statues, the gigantic traffic jam, the Master and his arc, "Are you my mummy?", the one with the reality shows, anything with Captain Jack, Vesuvius, the Ood, and the Cybermen with the alternate Jackie and everything in which Mickey became a man (that was one of very few TV episodes I've ever seen that really and truly horrified me). Umm, so yeah. A lot.
4.I'll watch the new episodes and keep slowly watching Classic Who as I have opportunity, but I don't expect I'll ever become hugely involved in it. I do love crossovers with Whoniverse, though, and I could see myself writing a few someday. No other show is so infinitely crossover-able.
5. I think everyone should watch this show, because it is just plain good entertainment. It seems to have a pretty vibrant fandom, though. And I'm going to go ahead and be selfish and say that I don't want my favorite fic authors leaving my current reading places to go write Dr. Who. ::pouts at them:: So no. Don't go.
Star Wars
1. Oh, man. This is hard to answer, and stretches waaaay back into my childhood. According to my mom, she and Dad went to see Return of the Jedi when I was an infant and held me in their arms while they watched, and she sometimes blames that for my current sci fi obsession. We watched Star Trek growing up, and my dad would get the tie-in novels from the library and read them in bed, leaving them on the nightstand. So as a wee tot (like, ten, eleven years old), I would sneak into his room and read them. The first ST novel I read was "Here There Be Dragons," btw, and I still fully recommend it. And there I read...and this is sort of hilarious...the second book of the Corellian trilogy. Mostly what I remember of it now is Han Solo crawling around in a tunnel with this big furry alien creature (not Chewie) and him complaining about being too old for this and his knees hurting. And yeah, that was my introduction to Han and Leia and Luke and everyone, and I adored them instantly. Then I bought a book of SW quotes from a bookstore with a birthday gift card, and later I dug up the VHS tapes my uncle had left in our attic, and it was all very backwards, truly.
When I discovered fanfic on the internet (I was...uh twelve? Thirteen?) I was ectastic. People WRITE STORIES ABOUT STAR WARS AND OTHER PEOPLE READ THEM? HOW COOL IS THAT? So I wrote one. It was awful. I wrote a lot of SW fic when I was fifteen and sixteen, then rediscovered it later in college, though then my obsession was pre-TPM fics with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan. I wrote A LOT.
2. Oh, I never thought that I would leave SW. It was my first love and will always own a huge chunk of my heart, and really it was my only fandom from my discovery of it until somewhere around my graduation from college. But then I fell in love with Daniel Jackson, and then just recently Dean Winchester has completely and utterly PWNED ME TO DETH. So yeah, I'm not so much in the fandom anymore, though I still love Obi-Wan with a fire of a thousand suns.
3. As hinky as it is, I love The Phantom Menace, because Obi-Wan is just so beautifully badass, and his face in that council chamber scene kills me every time. But yeah. A New Hope. And the X-Wing books, and I, Jedi, and everything Timothy Zahn wrote. The Han Solo Trilogy is fantastic, too. And I have a soft spot for The Crystal Star, despite its ridiculousness, because it was one of the first stand-alone books I read, and Leia is so very very badass in it.
4. Not right now, except for crossovers, it looks like. My brain is insisting that I must continue working on this fusion in which Castiel is an angel of Iego and owes a life-debt to Dean, because, well, it makes sense. Also, Sam with a lightsaber is made of AWESOME.
5. I think my fave SW writers should come write SPN now, because I know they would be ridiculously good at it. So no. COME TO THE
Numb3rs
1. My parents really liked this show, so when I was very busy being a commuting college student and hardly watched TV at all, I would hear them talking about it. That was enough to pique my interest, and once I was living on my own (and, again, had Netflix), I checked it out for myself. And I really, really like it. It's a great show, consistently well-written, and I love the family dynamic that lives at the heart of it. Beautiful stuff.
2. I think I will always have this fondness for the show, yeah.
3. I like anything where there is character backstory or development, or something about the case touches one of the team members in a personal way. So the one where we found out that Don used to play baseball, and might have even been good. The ones with the kid that Charlie started mentoring. The one where Colby was so very touchingly desperate to rescue that kidnapped lady. And...my brain is failing me. But those ones.
4. While I like the show a lot, I'm not very fannish about it at all. I'm willing to write ficlets when requested to, but my brain doesn't really go there. And I occasionally read a fic or two when I see them on rec lists, but that's about it.
5. I'm glad that there's a fandom for this show, because it's a great show and it deserves exploration, but I don't really have any feelings about it one way or another.
