10 Things I Love About My Fandom
I've been seeing this meme around, and have wanted to do it, but have been horrendously busy the past few days.
At any rate: 10 things I love about my fandom.
1. Stella Bonasera, one of the best women characters in primetime. Words cannot express the many ways in which she's awesome and amazing.
2. Subtext like whoa, which allows me to both use the polymorphically perverse reading of the show that I prefer, and to find support (or at least a starting place) for nearly any pairing I might feel inclined to write.
3. The relationships, particularly the platonic and familial ones: Mac and Stella's relationship, which is one of the best friendships on primetime TV, and one of the least heteronormative. Danny's relationship with Louie, which seems to have informed so many of his subsequent dealings with people, for good or ill. The way Mac never talks about his family, which suggests a story in itself. The hints that Flack's relationship with his father is an uneasy one. Most of all, the friendships. The deep, and real, sense that these people all have histories together, that they would go to the wall for each other, or die for each other. The fellow-soldiers ethos that shines through everything.
4. Interesting character backstory and consistency of character development. For the most part, they've been very, very good at both of these things, and they're aces at the whole stealth character development thing, wherein characters are built up and deepened even when the focus is on the Case of the Week.
5. The overarching themes that the show has concerned itself with: most obviously, its obsession with how identity is constructed and deconstructed, but also things like the family theme that was so prevalent in S3. Identity issues are something that interest me on a narrative level anyway, and that the show has consistently attacked this problem from a variety of angles is probably one of the things that's kept me drawn to it for so long.
6. That the show also deals with, to a great extent, one of my own personal narrative obsessions, the idea of negative space. We get this, obviously, in the work the CSIs do, but it also crops up, again and again, in their personal stories.
7. That characters can, and do, play with guns, stick their hands in gooey things, and set each other on fire, all in the name of science.
8. Connected, a little, with the character backstory and development, that plotlines are often set up far in advance, and that how early the seeds were planted frequently only becomes obvious in retrospect. For example: how early Danny's S1 downfall is signposted, or the way the Truby situation later comes back into play in a big way, or how Mac makes passing reference, in "Officer Blue," to being in Beirut in 1983.
9. The always-appreciated extreme prettiness of the cast, and the fact that I get to indulge my fashion jones every week in my episode write-ups. Yes, even Mac and his blue fetish, bless his little weapons-loving heart.
10. Mac, Stella, Danny, Flack, Hawkes, Aiden, Lindsay, Hammerback, Adam, and everyone else who's wandered through the lab.
I intend to do this for Doctor Who and Torchwood, too.
At any rate: 10 things I love about my fandom.
1. Stella Bonasera, one of the best women characters in primetime. Words cannot express the many ways in which she's awesome and amazing.
2. Subtext like whoa, which allows me to both use the polymorphically perverse reading of the show that I prefer, and to find support (or at least a starting place) for nearly any pairing I might feel inclined to write.
3. The relationships, particularly the platonic and familial ones: Mac and Stella's relationship, which is one of the best friendships on primetime TV, and one of the least heteronormative. Danny's relationship with Louie, which seems to have informed so many of his subsequent dealings with people, for good or ill. The way Mac never talks about his family, which suggests a story in itself. The hints that Flack's relationship with his father is an uneasy one. Most of all, the friendships. The deep, and real, sense that these people all have histories together, that they would go to the wall for each other, or die for each other. The fellow-soldiers ethos that shines through everything.
4. Interesting character backstory and consistency of character development. For the most part, they've been very, very good at both of these things, and they're aces at the whole stealth character development thing, wherein characters are built up and deepened even when the focus is on the Case of the Week.
5. The overarching themes that the show has concerned itself with: most obviously, its obsession with how identity is constructed and deconstructed, but also things like the family theme that was so prevalent in S3. Identity issues are something that interest me on a narrative level anyway, and that the show has consistently attacked this problem from a variety of angles is probably one of the things that's kept me drawn to it for so long.
6. That the show also deals with, to a great extent, one of my own personal narrative obsessions, the idea of negative space. We get this, obviously, in the work the CSIs do, but it also crops up, again and again, in their personal stories.
7. That characters can, and do, play with guns, stick their hands in gooey things, and set each other on fire, all in the name of science.
8. Connected, a little, with the character backstory and development, that plotlines are often set up far in advance, and that how early the seeds were planted frequently only becomes obvious in retrospect. For example: how early Danny's S1 downfall is signposted, or the way the Truby situation later comes back into play in a big way, or how Mac makes passing reference, in "Officer Blue," to being in Beirut in 1983.
9. The always-appreciated extreme prettiness of the cast, and the fact that I get to indulge my fashion jones every week in my episode write-ups. Yes, even Mac and his blue fetish, bless his little weapons-loving heart.
10. Mac, Stella, Danny, Flack, Hawkes, Aiden, Lindsay, Hammerback, Adam, and everyone else who's wandered through the lab.
I intend to do this for Doctor Who and Torchwood, too.