One last look back at 2013
Your main fandom of the year
My 13 fandoms of 2013
(Certain quarters of) the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Harry Potter. Borgen, The Good Wife, Once Upon a Time, Strictly Come Dancing, Pacific Rim, The Mindy Project, Dredd, The Mentalist (whatever I pretend to myself). Downton Abbey, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and Sky High in terms of output.
Best film you watched this year
Gravity
Your favorite book read this year
Either The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern or Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein. I haven't written about the latter here, but I was profoundly moved and impressed, plus what was done with the narration was amazing.
Your favorite album or song to listen to this year
I found out about Dessa through fandom and bought and greatly enjoyed ‘A Badly Broken Code’.
Your favorite TV show of the year
Borgen (even over The Good Wife).
Your best new fandom discovery of the year
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries for raising so many interesting things about storytelling via whatever media and The Mindy Project for celebrating the rom-com. (Lizzie/Darcy, Mindy/Danny and Mako/Raleigh were my favourite new OTPs this year. In as much as iterations of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy can be 'new'.)
Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year
That The Hour was cancelled and that five won’t be picking up Once Upon a Time.
Most of the summer blockbusters and nearly all the final fight scenes in tentpole action films. The Wolverine was a particular disappointement with all the Wolverine/Jean referencing and the fact that it was boring at times. I was a little disappointed in/frustrated by Dancing on the Edge and, given the face-palming every time there was a Desolation of Smaug trailer, Tauriel and what they did with her deserves a mention.
Your biggest squee moment of the year
The end of Borgen season 2 where Birgitte took control of events, lots of Borgen season 3 and The Good Wife (season 4). There was lots about Iron Man Three, Thor 2 and The Hunger Games 2 that made me happy. The fight scene, among other things, in Pacific Rim. Lydia forcing Ricky Collins to do costume theatre, meeting Bing and meeting Darcy in the Lizzie Bennet Diaries…
Actually, no, it was going to see Much Ado About Nothing - the lights were still up and suddenly a line of schoolchildren, probably 13 to 14 year olds walked in and took up the front couple of rows, their teachers following. They behaved pretty well probably because of the teachers’ presence (no mobile phones! Not that much noise!) You knew most of them had been forced to go because they were studying Shakespeare, maybe some of them had been enticed by the idea that the guy who’d directed The Avengers had directed it and I’m sure some of them, the geekiest/the ones who like reading out Shakespeare in class, were as sincerely thrilled as I had been when I went to see, oh, it would have been Twelfth Night with Toby Stephens, Imogen Stubbs, HBC and Nigel Hawthorne.
Anyway, the film played, we laughed, the people who didn’t know the play gasped and, at the end of it, those children applauded, spontaneously. Normally I don’t know what to make of applause at the cinema at a normal showing of a film because the creators aren’t going to know, even if you want to express how much you enjoyed it, but this time, it left a huge smile on my face.
The most missed of your old fandoms
The Hour - the second series ended on a cliffhanger!!! Couldn’t they have brought it back for a special or stopped using clips from the show when advertising BBC 2? Like the awards it won after, it was salt on the wound. At least there's fic, although I don't think that anything set after the second series has made me think 'yes, this is how it happened.'
I’m anticipating missing Borgen when it sinks in that there is no more (couldn’t they bring everyone back five years on after the end of series 3?)
I haven’t dropped many fandoms (but I have stopped watching a few shows, like Castle) just added to them, but I’ve still had time to miss the amount of traffic on LJ/DW.
The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to
Sleepy Hollow, maybe, although I don’t see how, unless if a Freeview channel gets it.
Your biggest fan anticipations for the coming year
I mentioned Sherlock and The Bletchley Circle for this part last year and am in the middle of watching them (the latter is living up to expectations.) I also look forward to the return of The Good Wife, Parks and Recreation (series 3), Orphan Black and, after its mid-season hiatus, Person of Interest.
Films - The Lego Movie, Jupiter Ascending, Captain America 2, The Guardians of the Galaxy, Mockingjay part 1, the extended edition of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug on DVD and The Hobbit: We Finally End the Trilogy, for all its faults. X-Men Days of Future Past, just to see if it can make any sense.
And to prove I can be pretentious: the black and white Tom Hiddleston/Tilda Swinton vampire movie.
Opening and watching my DVDs of Community season 3.
Reading the follow-up to Code Name Verity, Rose Under Fire, although I'm currently on a self-imposd moratorium on buying new books.
There's probacly a lot of things I've forgotten for this section and others, but it would be a bit too taxing to do more research for a meme like this.
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