fandom memeage
If you want five questions, tell me the three things that most attract you to a fandom, or just say "I'd like five questions, please". You can also tell me your three things (I am curious!) and request no questions, if you'd rather.
These are from nobleplatypus.
1. What is the newest addition to your list o' favorite fandoms? Would you recommend it to others?
This is really sad, but I haven't added a new fandom in a long time. I've got some shows I've just started watching relatively recently (ie within the last season)--Burn Notice, Eureka, Castle, Covert Affairs--but watching the show and being involved in the fandom are two very different things, at least for me! I HAVE become acquainted with (but not really participated in) the fandom surrounding Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, etc (watched Thor yesterday, as a matter of fact), and I'm interested in the movie coming out, but I'm not obsessed enough to call myself a fan yet. :P However, I would like to recommend a show to anyone who hasn't watched it: Community. I honestly think it's one of the best shows on TV right now. It's smart and ridiculous and weird and hilarious. I particularly like its genre-based episodes (war movie! noir! bucket episode! Lord of the Rings!) and its self-referentiality. If you get a kick out of stuff that's meta, this is the show for you.
2. Assuming that two of your fandoms haven't crossed over already, which two do you think would make an awesome crossover? What sort of madness would ensue?
Mmmmm. Doctor Who and Merlin? I saw an icon somebody made for that crossover once, and the more I think about it the better I think it would be. Merlin would have to keep anybody from finding out about the Doctor, because they'd assume he was magic, and the Doctor would be constantly telling Merlin it wasn't magic, it was science, and the Doctor would know the future of the Arthurian myth... Ohhhh, it could be interesting! (Note: My mental image of this crossover would have the 10th doctor rather than the 11th. Don't know why.)
by yourmindisfancy
3. Have you ever left a fandom? How could a fandom lose your loyalty?
I've slowly grown away from fandoms, but I don't think I've ever left one intentionally. It would be pretty hard for a fandom to lose my loyalty once I was actually participating in it. Because fandoms involve so much: quite a lot of people, sub-communities, and of course the source material/canon itself. Strike that, I've thought of one. I was completely obsessed with Philip Pullman's Dark Materials series when I was in middle school--though I wasn't actually involved in a fandom, that is, a community of fans. But about three days after I finished the last book, I finally worked through all the thematic implications in my head and realized that the series, though wonderful and beautifully written, was entirely and precisely opposed to my religious beliefs. I mean, it was actually written as an anti-Narnia, anti-Christian, anti-Christian-God series! And though I loved the works, I left the fandom immediately. So yes, a fandom can lose my loyalty by thematically going completely against everything I believe. But that is an extremely rare occurrence, thank goodness. And in fact, if a series WAS against everything I believed, I think with most serie, I would notice before I actually BECAME a fan, so I wouldn't be in the fandom to begin with.
4. What's your favorite television soundtrack?
You know, I usually don't pay a whole lot of attention to television soundtracks. The last time I really noticed a soundtrack was watching the movie Chicken Run. (The soundtrack is AWESOME. Swing, and Copeland-esque arrangements, and just orchestral SQUEE!) I did notice, however, that the soundtrack on the most recent ep of Merlin was pretty awesome--more cinematic than before. Oh, and the violin music in the Granada Sherlock Holmes series is great. :)
5. If you could bring back a cancelled program, what would you resurrect?
Tough! Probably Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (at LEAST long enough to get some decent closure on that last cliffhanger!!!) or The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, which only ran for a season, but was crack. :P
These are from nobleplatypus.
1. What is the newest addition to your list o' favorite fandoms? Would you recommend it to others?
This is really sad, but I haven't added a new fandom in a long time. I've got some shows I've just started watching relatively recently (ie within the last season)--Burn Notice, Eureka, Castle, Covert Affairs--but watching the show and being involved in the fandom are two very different things, at least for me! I HAVE become acquainted with (but not really participated in) the fandom surrounding Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, etc (watched Thor yesterday, as a matter of fact), and I'm interested in the movie coming out, but I'm not obsessed enough to call myself a fan yet. :P However, I would like to recommend a show to anyone who hasn't watched it: Community. I honestly think it's one of the best shows on TV right now. It's smart and ridiculous and weird and hilarious. I particularly like its genre-based episodes (war movie! noir! bucket episode! Lord of the Rings!) and its self-referentiality. If you get a kick out of stuff that's meta, this is the show for you.
2. Assuming that two of your fandoms haven't crossed over already, which two do you think would make an awesome crossover? What sort of madness would ensue?
Mmmmm. Doctor Who and Merlin? I saw an icon somebody made for that crossover once, and the more I think about it the better I think it would be. Merlin would have to keep anybody from finding out about the Doctor, because they'd assume he was magic, and the Doctor would be constantly telling Merlin it wasn't magic, it was science, and the Doctor would know the future of the Arthurian myth... Ohhhh, it could be interesting! (Note: My mental image of this crossover would have the 10th doctor rather than the 11th. Don't know why.)
by yourmindisfancy
3. Have you ever left a fandom? How could a fandom lose your loyalty?
I've slowly grown away from fandoms, but I don't think I've ever left one intentionally. It would be pretty hard for a fandom to lose my loyalty once I was actually participating in it. Because fandoms involve so much: quite a lot of people, sub-communities, and of course the source material/canon itself. Strike that, I've thought of one. I was completely obsessed with Philip Pullman's Dark Materials series when I was in middle school--though I wasn't actually involved in a fandom, that is, a community of fans. But about three days after I finished the last book, I finally worked through all the thematic implications in my head and realized that the series, though wonderful and beautifully written, was entirely and precisely opposed to my religious beliefs. I mean, it was actually written as an anti-Narnia, anti-Christian, anti-Christian-God series! And though I loved the works, I left the fandom immediately. So yes, a fandom can lose my loyalty by thematically going completely against everything I believe. But that is an extremely rare occurrence, thank goodness. And in fact, if a series WAS against everything I believed, I think with most serie, I would notice before I actually BECAME a fan, so I wouldn't be in the fandom to begin with.
4. What's your favorite television soundtrack?
You know, I usually don't pay a whole lot of attention to television soundtracks. The last time I really noticed a soundtrack was watching the movie Chicken Run. (The soundtrack is AWESOME. Swing, and Copeland-esque arrangements, and just orchestral SQUEE!) I did notice, however, that the soundtrack on the most recent ep of Merlin was pretty awesome--more cinematic than before. Oh, and the violin music in the Granada Sherlock Holmes series is great. :)
5. If you could bring back a cancelled program, what would you resurrect?
Tough! Probably Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (at LEAST long enough to get some decent closure on that last cliffhanger!!!) or The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, which only ran for a season, but was crack. :P