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I avoid Internet fandom for this show, and I read virtually no fic in it. Too many people seem to favor one character and hate another, or hate certain writers or producers...
Yeah, it sometimes depresses me how much fandom behavior can get me down about the show itself. It sounds like you have a healthy attitude about separating the two, thought.
Comment to this entry and I'll pick up to three of your fandoms.
Yeah, it sometimes depresses me how much fandom behavior can get me down about the show itself. It sounds like you have a healthy attitude about separating the two, though.
Oh, but I don't; that's why I must avoid the Internet fandom sometimes! If fans are just being jerks, I don't connect it to the show at all. But when I hear people criticizing a particular character, I can't get it out of my head, and I start to wonder if I ought to like that character. Gwen's a good example: I stumbled across a bit too much Gwen-bashing, and I found myself wondering why I liked her at all--and weren't my friends who didn't like her right? I had to get some distance to remember why I liked her after some of the things I saw said! I saw a lot of truth in the criticisms: Gwen makes lots of mistakes. But if we listed Jack's, it would dwarf her list; Ianto's list still makes Gwen's look pretty insignificant; and so on. Actor bashing is the same sort of thing. Often it starts with actual flaws, so then I start obsessing about them instead of just
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Memes like this are cool. Given that 90% of the interaction we see on LJ is fannish, we assume that we know all about people's fannish interests and background. And then memes like this prove how much we don't know.
I now know what I said in my original comment and forgot to re-type: I'm pretty sure that I knew most of your SG1 story, so you have mentioned *somewhere* on LJ. *g*
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Ha! For some of us, that's part of the attraction. ;)
I don't think I'd heard your "how I started watching SG1" story before, though, so thanks for repeating it for me!
a fandom isn't the same if you start after the show has ended.
And yet, it's almost a standard MO for me. :)
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when I joined a DW fan club. There I met Brilliant Husband and one of my best friends ever.
AWWWWWW!
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Oh, I thought I'd told my SG-1 story repeatedly, but since Aurora didn't know it either, maybe I didn't do it on LJ.
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I'm not in RL, but in fiction, I say bring on the wholesale destruction and ensuing wholesale angst. :)
Oh, I thought I'd told my SG-1 story repeatedly, but since Aurora didn't know it either, maybe I didn't do it on LJ.
Of course, it makes sense that I might not have heard it before, having only recently started paying any attention to this whole Stargate thing. :)
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Yeah, it sometimes depresses me how much fandom behavior can get me down about the show itself. It sounds like you have a healthy attitude about separating the two, thought.
Comment to this entry and I'll pick up to three of your fandoms.
I'll play!
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Oh, but I don't; that's why I must avoid the Internet fandom sometimes! If fans are just being jerks, I don't connect it to the show at all. But when I hear people criticizing a particular character, I can't get it out of my head, and I start to wonder if I ought to like that character. Gwen's a good example: I stumbled across a bit too much Gwen-bashing, and I found myself wondering why I liked her at all--and weren't my friends who didn't like her right? I had to get some distance to remember why I liked her after some of the things I saw said! I saw a lot of truth in the criticisms: Gwen makes lots of mistakes. But if we listed Jack's, it would dwarf her list; Ianto's list still makes Gwen's look pretty insignificant; and so on. Actor bashing is the same sort of thing. Often it starts with actual flaws, so then I start obsessing about them instead of just ( ... )
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I just read it again. Still crying. *sniff*
Memes like this are cool. Given that 90% of the interaction we see on LJ is fannish, we assume that we know all about people's fannish interests and background. And then memes like this prove how much we don't know.
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Yes, I was sure I had told everyone about my involvement in DW fandom and meeting Brilliant Husband there, but apparently I didn't do so on LJ!
Okay, your three are:
Doctor Who
Stargate
Farscape
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However, I didn't know your DW & BH story.
Edited for English failure.
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