The fandom meme
Comment to this entry and I'll pick up to three of your fandoms. You must then update your journal and answer the following questions:
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?
I commented to mab_browne, and, in spite of my having woefully few fandoms to pick from, she said, "Well, I don't think I've heard the story of how Jen got her start in TS, so we'll go with that one, Farscape and The Prisoner."
The Prisoner
1. I started watching the episodes when they aired on US SciFi in the early 90's and was instantly hooked. When I was in grad school, I pretty much watched SciFi 24/7. Because they aired, you know, GOOD stuff back then. I can't remember exactly what drew me to The Prisoner; I likely saw a preview and thought, "ooh, interesting!" - especially for a grad student in psychology. I loved the surrealism of it, the individual vs the collective theme, and all the references to mind/psychological control. I also loved those colorful umbrellas. And Patrick McGoohan. I videotaped the Labor Day Prisoner Marathon that was narrated by Harlan Ellison; he wore a bathrobe throughout and refused to say "SciFi", calling it "The Network That Shall Not Be Named". Sadly, I got rid of those tapes when I bought the DVD set.
2. I'll always love The Prisoner, although I couldn't imagine actually writing fanfiction for it or anything (and as I write this, my muse is thinking up some totally cracky Prisoner/TS crossover, because that's just the way she works...)
3. Well, the core seven that McGoohan said were important, of course: Arrival, Dance of The Dead, Free For All, Checkmate, The Chimes of Big Ben (including alternate ending), Once Upon A Time, and Fall Out (even as brain-breakingly cracktastic and surreal as it is). I also like The Schizoid Man for its portrayal of behavioral conditioning. God, it's been so long since I've watched any of the eps... this is giving me a serious jones to watch it again.
4. Not a bit, other than the occasional conversation with other fans. I don't even know if there are comms on LJ for it. I did spend a slow Christmas making a Prisoner Windows theme, with icons (the Windows kind) and .wav files and everything (the telephone ring was for emails arriving, and when I closed the computer down it said, "Be seeing you...").
5. Well, on the one hand, sure. It's such a cool show, who wouldn't want to try and get more people to like it. On the other hand, I don't think I could handle fluffy curtain!fic with No. 6/Rover. I'm sure that the new AMC series will draw some new folks in, but I think the original is an acquired taste, much like Scotch.
Farscape
1. Again, a commercial, I believe. I was intrigued by the blue chick, so I gave it a try. I think I came in about halfway through season one. And pretty much instantly fell in love with the blue chick (P'au Zotoh Zhann) as well as Aeryn Sun - two women who totally kicked ass in very different ways. And, after I got to know him a little better, fell in love with John Crichton, too. And D'Argo, and Pilot, and Moya, and even Rygel. Just an all-around ass-kicking, wonderful, heroic, and messily flawed group of creatures, human and otherwise. I watched this show devotedly for the remainder of its run. I loved the world the creators built, and the stories - sharp, good writing; smart AND funny; overarching story arc events with ongoing painful consequences; fantastic villians.
In 2002, SciFi cancelled Farscape, and I swore I would never watch SciFi again. And I didn't. Until they aired The Peacekeeper Wars in 2005. But I haven't ever really forgiven them (SGA fans, I feel your pain).
2. I'm not sure I can even say I'm in this fandom, as I don't do anything but read the occasional fic that floats by on my flist. I don't know about any comms or anything. But I unabashedly adore the show, and it would take very little to pull me in.
3. It's been so long since I've seen any episodes... any of the multi-part season finales; I loved all of those. Pretty much any episode with Scorpius and John. The whole storyline with the two Crichtons and Aeryn being on Talyn.
4. Nope, not really, apart from the one aborted fic (see below). Although, like I said in 2., I think a few episode viewings and I could easily get sucked back in... although a large part of my energy around it was the desire to resolve things left hanging in the fourth season cliffhanger, which Peacekeeper Wars did pretty well.
5. I don't know how active a fandom Farscape has, so I don't know if there's anything there for newbies. But as far as getting people turned on to the wonderfulness of the Farscape world and its inhabitants, oh, yeah!
The Sentinel
1. I had a dream in which P'au Zotoh Zhaan met Leonard McCoy (Star Trek:The Original Series) - don't ask me, it was a dream! - and that touched off a plot bunny for a ST:TOS/Farscape crossover in which Kirk and McCoy get transported to Moya and Crichton and Chiana end up on the Enterprise. In the course of researching for that I came across FanFiction.net, and while browsing there, for some reason that escapes me to this day, I clicked on The Sentinel. And was instantaneously, completely, irrevocably hooked.
I didn't watch the first season of The Sentinel, probably because I was getting ready to move to North Carolina for internship and was trying to get my dissertation proposal defended. But during my internship year I was watching Voyager, and I kept seeing ads for this show called The Sentinel, so I thought I'd give it a try. I watched what must have been the first episode of the second season - Flight - and my reaction was: a) "wait, all he's got are enhanced senses?" and b) "what's this anthropologist guy do? He just seems to be getting in the way". Clearly something about it stuck in the back of my head, though. And for me, TS is all about the relationship between Jim and Blair. I appreciate the diverse cast, as well as the attempt to bring in some non-standard plots and themes (poaching, human rights violations, how development threatens non-industrialized cultures), but it's their chemistry and interaction that captures me. In part, I think because it reminds me of many of the buddy shows I watched and loved as a kid: Star Trek, Starsky and Hutch, Emergency!.
2. I'm never leaving this fandom. Even if I run out of stories to tell (not likely!) or occasionally want to tell stories in another universe, TS was my first Internet fandom and I'll always want to be a part of it.
3. Warriors is, hands-down, my favorite episode. In addition to the standard ones that everybody loves (Switchman, Siege, Cypher, Rogue, Flight, Blind Man's Bluff, The Rig), I also have a soft spot for Love and Guns, because Jim is JUST SO CUTE offering a sad Blair noodles at the end. And Night Shift - I love Night Shift for the "whispers of his heart" line. And Gabe.
4. Heh. Yeah, I guess you could say that. :-)
5. Absolutely! The more the merrier! It's always great to introduce new folks to the Jim/Blair love. And this is such a terrific fandom, so welcoming and (generally) wank-free.
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?
I commented to mab_browne, and, in spite of my having woefully few fandoms to pick from, she said, "Well, I don't think I've heard the story of how Jen got her start in TS, so we'll go with that one, Farscape and The Prisoner."
The Prisoner
1. I started watching the episodes when they aired on US SciFi in the early 90's and was instantly hooked. When I was in grad school, I pretty much watched SciFi 24/7. Because they aired, you know, GOOD stuff back then. I can't remember exactly what drew me to The Prisoner; I likely saw a preview and thought, "ooh, interesting!" - especially for a grad student in psychology. I loved the surrealism of it, the individual vs the collective theme, and all the references to mind/psychological control. I also loved those colorful umbrellas. And Patrick McGoohan. I videotaped the Labor Day Prisoner Marathon that was narrated by Harlan Ellison; he wore a bathrobe throughout and refused to say "SciFi", calling it "The Network That Shall Not Be Named". Sadly, I got rid of those tapes when I bought the DVD set.
2. I'll always love The Prisoner, although I couldn't imagine actually writing fanfiction for it or anything (and as I write this, my muse is thinking up some totally cracky Prisoner/TS crossover, because that's just the way she works...)
3. Well, the core seven that McGoohan said were important, of course: Arrival, Dance of The Dead, Free For All, Checkmate, The Chimes of Big Ben (including alternate ending), Once Upon A Time, and Fall Out (even as brain-breakingly cracktastic and surreal as it is). I also like The Schizoid Man for its portrayal of behavioral conditioning. God, it's been so long since I've watched any of the eps... this is giving me a serious jones to watch it again.
4. Not a bit, other than the occasional conversation with other fans. I don't even know if there are comms on LJ for it. I did spend a slow Christmas making a Prisoner Windows theme, with icons (the Windows kind) and .wav files and everything (the telephone ring was for emails arriving, and when I closed the computer down it said, "Be seeing you...").
5. Well, on the one hand, sure. It's such a cool show, who wouldn't want to try and get more people to like it. On the other hand, I don't think I could handle fluffy curtain!fic with No. 6/Rover. I'm sure that the new AMC series will draw some new folks in, but I think the original is an acquired taste, much like Scotch.
Farscape
1. Again, a commercial, I believe. I was intrigued by the blue chick, so I gave it a try. I think I came in about halfway through season one. And pretty much instantly fell in love with the blue chick (P'au Zotoh Zhann) as well as Aeryn Sun - two women who totally kicked ass in very different ways. And, after I got to know him a little better, fell in love with John Crichton, too. And D'Argo, and Pilot, and Moya, and even Rygel. Just an all-around ass-kicking, wonderful, heroic, and messily flawed group of creatures, human and otherwise. I watched this show devotedly for the remainder of its run. I loved the world the creators built, and the stories - sharp, good writing; smart AND funny; overarching story arc events with ongoing painful consequences; fantastic villians.
In 2002, SciFi cancelled Farscape, and I swore I would never watch SciFi again. And I didn't. Until they aired The Peacekeeper Wars in 2005. But I haven't ever really forgiven them (SGA fans, I feel your pain).
2. I'm not sure I can even say I'm in this fandom, as I don't do anything but read the occasional fic that floats by on my flist. I don't know about any comms or anything. But I unabashedly adore the show, and it would take very little to pull me in.
3. It's been so long since I've seen any episodes... any of the multi-part season finales; I loved all of those. Pretty much any episode with Scorpius and John. The whole storyline with the two Crichtons and Aeryn being on Talyn.
4. Nope, not really, apart from the one aborted fic (see below). Although, like I said in 2., I think a few episode viewings and I could easily get sucked back in... although a large part of my energy around it was the desire to resolve things left hanging in the fourth season cliffhanger, which Peacekeeper Wars did pretty well.
5. I don't know how active a fandom Farscape has, so I don't know if there's anything there for newbies. But as far as getting people turned on to the wonderfulness of the Farscape world and its inhabitants, oh, yeah!
The Sentinel
1. I had a dream in which P'au Zotoh Zhaan met Leonard McCoy (Star Trek:The Original Series) - don't ask me, it was a dream! - and that touched off a plot bunny for a ST:TOS/Farscape crossover in which Kirk and McCoy get transported to Moya and Crichton and Chiana end up on the Enterprise. In the course of researching for that I came across FanFiction.net, and while browsing there, for some reason that escapes me to this day, I clicked on The Sentinel. And was instantaneously, completely, irrevocably hooked.
I didn't watch the first season of The Sentinel, probably because I was getting ready to move to North Carolina for internship and was trying to get my dissertation proposal defended. But during my internship year I was watching Voyager, and I kept seeing ads for this show called The Sentinel, so I thought I'd give it a try. I watched what must have been the first episode of the second season - Flight - and my reaction was: a) "wait, all he's got are enhanced senses?" and b) "what's this anthropologist guy do? He just seems to be getting in the way". Clearly something about it stuck in the back of my head, though. And for me, TS is all about the relationship between Jim and Blair. I appreciate the diverse cast, as well as the attempt to bring in some non-standard plots and themes (poaching, human rights violations, how development threatens non-industrialized cultures), but it's their chemistry and interaction that captures me. In part, I think because it reminds me of many of the buddy shows I watched and loved as a kid: Star Trek, Starsky and Hutch, Emergency!.
2. I'm never leaving this fandom. Even if I run out of stories to tell (not likely!) or occasionally want to tell stories in another universe, TS was my first Internet fandom and I'll always want to be a part of it.
3. Warriors is, hands-down, my favorite episode. In addition to the standard ones that everybody loves (Switchman, Siege, Cypher, Rogue, Flight, Blind Man's Bluff, The Rig), I also have a soft spot for Love and Guns, because Jim is JUST SO CUTE offering a sad Blair noodles at the end. And Night Shift - I love Night Shift for the "whispers of his heart" line. And Gabe.
4. Heh. Yeah, I guess you could say that. :-)
5. Absolutely! The more the merrier! It's always great to introduce new folks to the Jim/Blair love. And this is such a terrific fandom, so welcoming and (generally) wank-free.