The whole end of the season / Finale Week era got me thinking, and...
Fandom is certainly a slippery slope, my friends.
Raligh’s Journey to the Darkside:
Circa-1985 I can recall occasionally watching Mr. Rogers and/or reruns of Lassie in the afternoons. This was pretty much the extent of my (very-limited) childhood television viewing experience
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That's part of why I instigated some "rules" like "it's okay to indulge as long as I'm not spending money on it" meaning no cable, no Netflix, no paid LJ account, etc.
Helps to create some limits.
Even so, I fell pretty hard and pretty fast. And, like, I said, THREE new series-es since MARCH! (Among other things, I mainlined all of S1 AND S2 of the New Doctor in a 10-day period over Spring Break.)
SO fun! =)
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Speaking of DVDs, I think I'm going to have to break my longstanding tradition of NOT buying DVDs of television shows with Psych, season one.
It just, it makes me SO happy. It would be such a perfect pick-me-up to have around and available. You know?
That, and most likely Heroes. Especially if they put all the cast commentaries on disc.
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Jack Coleman (HRG/Bennet) is a rockstar. ALWAYS awesome and funny and yet professional and mature.
Greg Grunberg (Parkman) is a big, goofy fanboy. And VERY bad about giving away spoilers.
Milo (Peter) and Sendhil (Mohinder) and Zach (Sylar) are funny because they get so caught up in WATCHING THE SHOW and enjoying it, that they forget to talk about it.
George "Sulu" Papa-Hiro Tkai did the latest one and kept a) discussing people's appearance, especially weight b) commenting on the decor in different sets and debating the exact shades of certain colors used c) pointing out where in fact all the scenes in "New York" took place (he apparently is "a native Angeleno")
Like, a LOT.
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I'm a fairly non-threatening fangirl, as the species goes.
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(that's right, Kari Coleman aka Mrs. Secor. I'ma talking to you.)
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Heh. I've been thinking the same sort of thing about my history with fandom with VM ending now, and although I haven't actively posted lately, I've always obsessively read recaps, comments on the boards, fanfics, sought out online clips and interviews, and bored people in RL with my obsessions.
It's funny what you said about "rules" around spending money. That went out the window so long ago for me, capped of course by going to Austin for the Marsathon last year. I now can't contemplate living without all my tv show dvds and my latest indulgence - my beautiful, beautiful Tivo. :)
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Fortunately, my obsessions are many and tend to come in cycles. I just rotate between them and hence, tend to keep an appearance of normalcy on the outside.
Sorta.
Reading recaps and episode scripts (and searching out more online) is how I stumbled across TWoP in the first place. Which, as I have already mentioned, led to more of my downfall into fanatical couch-potato-dom.
And, yes, I had to place those rules long, long ago. Of course, they're starting to come into serious question of late.
I have two or three different shows that I would LOVE to have on hand for unending viewing opportunity. I think I may yet break.
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Yay for "Doctor Who"!
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Yes, after putting this post together I totally felt shiftless and guilty and decided I ought to follow it up with like, a timeline of my career path changes and/or my weightloss journey, etc just to make myself feel more productive and purposeful.
But that's not NEARLY as fun.
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(I do these self-imposed hiatuses. I'm not sure why. It only took me a week to get over S1 (NINE!!!) and move on to S2 (And, okay, so I totally love Ten TOO!), but I've let it be much, much longer for S3.
I don't know if that's a Rose-withdrawal thing or a overload-on-Doctor-Who-by-viewing-both-seasons-AND-Torchwood-within-a-two-week-period-of-first-exposure thing, or maybe a these-S3-episodes-are-still-currently-and-if-I-start-in-on-them-right-away-I'm-going-to-quickly-come-to-a-point-where-there-ARE-no-more-available-and-I-don't-know-if-I-can-handle-that thing.
I have lots of things.)
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Yep. I think my totally embarrassing fangirl AIM name is in my LJ profile. I'm currently on a good deal of the day.
I've been enjoying season three and am not at all hung up about Rose. I think that's due to my status as a long time lover of Old Who, which means I'm 1) used to companions leaving and 2) not very invested in Rose/Doctor as a romance. They were sweet together but I can't buy her has his soulmate. She was more just what he needed at the time. The last episode of season three is scheduled to air on the 30th.
And don't get too upset about not having new shows... contrary to how it seems sometimes, I think there are quite a few high quality shows out there. It sounds like you might be someone who would enjoy Farscape.
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