The 2020 fandom meme
Your main fandom(s) of the year: Scorpion for obsessing, watching and rewatching episodes, fic writing and a bit of fic reading. I still mainly read fic in MCU and Harry Potter, but I also read a lot of Brooklyn Nine-Nine (early seasons) and Batverse/DCU fics, partly because I rewatched all the Batman DVDs I own, In fact, I also used lockdown to revisit my The Hobbit/LOTR and X-Men DVDs.
Best film you watched this year: Little Women and It’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood in the cinema. Bringing Up Baby on DVD and Casablanca on TV.
Best book you read this year: The Starless Sea by Erin Morganstern (although I felt that I was adjacent to its target audience, rather than in it, partly because of my age, which wasn’t something I thought after reading The Night Circus).
Your favourite album or song to listen to this year: Album What’s Your Pleasure: Jessie Ware. Song: Mirores by Ani Glass.
Your favourite TV show of the year: Killing Eve had its moments or even episodes, but it’s a case of diminishing returns since season 1. Mrs America and The Salisbury Poisoning were the best new TV shows. Thanks to the BBC putting it on iPlayer, I got to enjoy the very good Battlestar Galactica (miniseries to season 2). Strictly made me happy, but through DVD, my fave was probably Scorpion for all its flaws.
Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year: was not that disappointing compared to real life. Actually, they’re linked, I’m disappointed that I didn’t get to see Mulan, Wonder Woman 1984 and the Black Widow movie in the cinema as I had wanted to.
Your biggest squee moments of the year: Realising I could catch up on Battlestar Galactica after missing it the first time around and the many moments of storytelling brio that ensued. Getting to watch the Lethal White adaptation and then reading Troubled Blood. The fact that they’d got the kiss into ‘Lethal White’ even if it was in a different bit, and the scene preceding it too. The ending of upTroubled Blood. Realising Strictly was coming back, the opening pro dance, Bill’s ‘ooh, he’s quite good’ moment with the quickstep, Max and Dianne’s Simpsons routine, the better street dances, HRV’s full house dances and Maisie’s dances towards the end. The Grazziano/Luba/Karen rotating dance. Scorpion: season 1’s CRACKTASTIC ‘Once Bitten, Twice Shy’, the ‘Satellite of Love’ kiss, ‘It Isn’t The Fall That Kills Tou’, the ending of ‘Something Borrowed, Something Blew’ and season 4 so far, but especially the musical number.
Your biggest fan anticipations for the coming year: It’d be nice to go to the cinema again some day... Getting my mitts on a DVD of Mulan sooner rather than later. (Belated Christmas present. Don’t ask.) I see that All4 have The West Wing…
Favourite couple of 2020: Walter O’Brien/Paige Dineen (Scorpion)
Favourite main character of 2020: Irene Winters,
Favourite other character of 2020: Laura Roslin, even when she’s being wrong.
Favourite team of 2020: Scorpion (I agreed so hard with Walter about Tim not being one of them.) This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/449860.html.