more meme
again from Bekkypk this time:
The fandoms meme.
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?
Dukes of Hazzard
1: It was the Saturday night Family slot. Either in the place of Doctor Who or one side of it, i don't recall which. We watched it as a family because it was on at tea time and had a rare country music tinge to it which helped dad not talk through it.
It's a fun show, all the regular charecters can be seen as villanous but no one actually dies as a result of their actions. For all Boss Hogg's ruthless greed even in the first series, he's as honourable as anyone in the county at the end of the day.
2: I started watching the show with the original BBC transmission in the late 70s and spent the last 3 years buying the dvd releases. I even, dog help me, own the two 00s movie versions (although in my defence i've not actually tried to watch them) so I suspect so.
3: In the gap between transmission and DVD release one of my abiding memories of the show is the record breaking stacked car leap from the second season. I had no recall that this ep was a two parter but that always stuck in my mind.
From later seasons (6 i think) there was a run of episodes where show regular Sherriff Roscoe P Coltrane was replaced. As a kid i thought that was really stupid as the replacement was basically doing the same things as Roscoe, so it made no sense to me at the time. Of course the adult me discovered that the actor James Best simply had other commitments.
4: Not really. I've drawn a few things, mostly the General Lee. But i normally only participate in fandoms where theres a slim chance someone might look at what i do.
5: I'd happily show lots of people the eps but you either get it or you don't so i won't evangelicise it.
The A-Team
1: Peer pressure on my brother. A lot of A team eps were on at the same time as Dr Who but since our primitive video recorder was taping those anyway he insisted on seeing it.
2: I did move on for a long time, it was a fond memory but not something I participated in. Couple of years ago I bought the complete box set and managed to get halfway through series 2 before being interrupted.
3: I did have a favorite book in the form of the look in comic strip but being dirt poor I never bought an issue (my money going on DWM instead) just read them in the newsagents. Favourite episode is predictably 'the say uncle affair' which stuck with me for ages.
4: No. Especially not since the big budget remake (which i've not seen yet myself)
5: I don't think anyone really gets a choice. If you were going to get into the show nows probably the best time with the series discounted in the wake of the movie and the movie itself stirring up interest.
Mission: Impossible
1: M:I had always been there. I'd been a fan of 60s spies through the bank holiday airings of Bond and UNCLE movies on the BBC as a kid. In the late 80s early 90s BBC2 ran MI when there were no more UNCLE eps they felt like showing. Only the Jim Phelps eps and I think then only serties 2-4. Even at its worst the point of MI was to dangle a thread of 'how are they going to manage that?' at the viewer. And the Schifrin theme is as iconic as any from the era.
2: If i knew there was M:I on i would try to watch it. It had a long wilderness period in the uk until Tom Cruise started his series of films with the same title. I have all the classic series on dvd (blast their eyes for putting out a box set afterward with extra features in) and live in hope that the 80s writers strike series get a release too.
3: Far too numerous to cover completely. The first 2 years of the show had all the best examples of the mission itself in but even into its final year they were producing inovative adventures.
My favourite type of tale is the time shift mission where the gang try to convince their victim of the week that they are in the past or future in order to let slip some vital information. the template was set in the first season with Operation Rogosh but continued on even into the gangster years. Theres a 6th season ep with William Shatner in that takes him into his past to find incriminating evidence of murder. Thats fabulous.
Oddly enough I also have a soft spot for the third Cruise movie.
4: Not really. I've written M:I based fics and charecters based on the series archetypes for Bekky. I think I may have popped a drabble up now and then. But I'm not really smart enough to write a proper MI tale.
5: Certainly, If you like adventure shows or a even the mindnumbing crime shows out there theres something for you in Mission: Impossible
The fandoms meme.
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?
Dukes of Hazzard
1: It was the Saturday night Family slot. Either in the place of Doctor Who or one side of it, i don't recall which. We watched it as a family because it was on at tea time and had a rare country music tinge to it which helped dad not talk through it.
It's a fun show, all the regular charecters can be seen as villanous but no one actually dies as a result of their actions. For all Boss Hogg's ruthless greed even in the first series, he's as honourable as anyone in the county at the end of the day.
2: I started watching the show with the original BBC transmission in the late 70s and spent the last 3 years buying the dvd releases. I even, dog help me, own the two 00s movie versions (although in my defence i've not actually tried to watch them) so I suspect so.
3: In the gap between transmission and DVD release one of my abiding memories of the show is the record breaking stacked car leap from the second season. I had no recall that this ep was a two parter but that always stuck in my mind.
From later seasons (6 i think) there was a run of episodes where show regular Sherriff Roscoe P Coltrane was replaced. As a kid i thought that was really stupid as the replacement was basically doing the same things as Roscoe, so it made no sense to me at the time. Of course the adult me discovered that the actor James Best simply had other commitments.
4: Not really. I've drawn a few things, mostly the General Lee. But i normally only participate in fandoms where theres a slim chance someone might look at what i do.
5: I'd happily show lots of people the eps but you either get it or you don't so i won't evangelicise it.
The A-Team
1: Peer pressure on my brother. A lot of A team eps were on at the same time as Dr Who but since our primitive video recorder was taping those anyway he insisted on seeing it.
2: I did move on for a long time, it was a fond memory but not something I participated in. Couple of years ago I bought the complete box set and managed to get halfway through series 2 before being interrupted.
3: I did have a favorite book in the form of the look in comic strip but being dirt poor I never bought an issue (my money going on DWM instead) just read them in the newsagents. Favourite episode is predictably 'the say uncle affair' which stuck with me for ages.
4: No. Especially not since the big budget remake (which i've not seen yet myself)
5: I don't think anyone really gets a choice. If you were going to get into the show nows probably the best time with the series discounted in the wake of the movie and the movie itself stirring up interest.
Mission: Impossible
1: M:I had always been there. I'd been a fan of 60s spies through the bank holiday airings of Bond and UNCLE movies on the BBC as a kid. In the late 80s early 90s BBC2 ran MI when there were no more UNCLE eps they felt like showing. Only the Jim Phelps eps and I think then only serties 2-4. Even at its worst the point of MI was to dangle a thread of 'how are they going to manage that?' at the viewer. And the Schifrin theme is as iconic as any from the era.
2: If i knew there was M:I on i would try to watch it. It had a long wilderness period in the uk until Tom Cruise started his series of films with the same title. I have all the classic series on dvd (blast their eyes for putting out a box set afterward with extra features in) and live in hope that the 80s writers strike series get a release too.
3: Far too numerous to cover completely. The first 2 years of the show had all the best examples of the mission itself in but even into its final year they were producing inovative adventures.
My favourite type of tale is the time shift mission where the gang try to convince their victim of the week that they are in the past or future in order to let slip some vital information. the template was set in the first season with Operation Rogosh but continued on even into the gangster years. Theres a 6th season ep with William Shatner in that takes him into his past to find incriminating evidence of murder. Thats fabulous.
Oddly enough I also have a soft spot for the third Cruise movie.
4: Not really. I've written M:I based fics and charecters based on the series archetypes for Bekky. I think I may have popped a drabble up now and then. But I'm not really smart enough to write a proper MI tale.
5: Certainly, If you like adventure shows or a even the mindnumbing crime shows out there theres something for you in Mission: Impossible