I think I got into it because of you posting about the series--although it probably took a while for me to actually pick it up. :) Jedao is definitely my favorite character too. And that's a great quote!
Honestly, I have no complaints. This series did not go where I expected, but it always went to very interesting places.
Totally agree with this. I have to read the Hexarchate Stories book, and I bet there's some extra material I've missed that I'll need to seek out. :)
* How I entered that fandom I wasn't sure I remembered, but apparently I do (going back over my tags confirmed it): lodessa (a friend from ASOIAF fandom originally, though we have a lot more fandoms in common) lent me the first two books, which I'd been seeing some buzz on my flist about for some time and really wanted to try. I read them in early 2013 and was instantly hooked, so I bought and read the third one, and fortunately Broken Homes came out not long after, so I picked up the series at a pretty good time
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* How I entered that fandom It was mid-2008, and I had just discovered Fancast via The Dresden Files (it had the show up for streaming). Once I finished watching the Dresen Files, I noticed that Fancast also had Firefly streaming. I'd heard about it for years and decided to give it a shot. Like a week later, I had watched the whole thing twice, watched Serenity-the-movie, and all the outtakes and interviews and whatever else I could find on YouTube. It was pretty insane, and the most abrupt descent into fandom I've ever had
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After watching the show finally, suddenly ALL THESE REFERENCES and quotes I' been hearing for years slotted into place. It was a very singular experience!
Ha ha, yes! There are so many quotable quotes, the more so than any other show I've seen, it shapes the fandom lingo.
more so than any other show I've seen, it shapes the fandom lingo.
Yeah, that's my impression as well! I would guess part of it is just Joss Whedon being super quotable, but part must also be something about the timing of when it hit, vs the emergence of internet fandom?
Also, your icon is great, and amazingly fitting for this comment!
I'm so glad you're going to do more of my meme! I'm pretty sure I could do it over myself and every entry would have at least slightly different answers -- so it's tempting, but there are other priorities. :)
For the meme: I think I have to say Middle-Earth, since nobody else has yet.
* How I entered that fandom So actually there were two phases (and how I discovered Tolkien is a third, even earlier one, though it was years before I realized the story I read at 7 and really liked was actually Smith of Wooton Major and by the same author as my One True Canon). When I was nine or ten, The Hobbit appeared in the USSR in Ukrainian translation. My parents got their hands on a copy, and my mother "read" it to me as a betime story. The quotation marks are because my Ukrainian wasn't actually up to consuming a book in that language, so my mother translated it into Russian for me as she went (the two languages are quite close, so this is relatively easy to do). I was immediately swept up by the world, especially by these Dwarves that were the size of a small human (in Russian the word for (the mythological) "dwarf" and "gnome" is the same, but the standard image is that of, you know, David the Gnome-like creatures living in mushrooms, so Tolkien's Edda-esque Dwarves were a brand new concept for me. I spent a couple of years
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One of the things I love about the LotR books is that you can say to any fan, "The first time I tried to read I got stuck--" and they'll finish the sentence, "at the Council of Elrond, yeah."
Is the movie version of Boromir really less popular? I'm not sure I have a preference (can't help loving Sean Bean), but I usually expect Tolkien readers to be purists about everything, there may as well not be a movie version, etc. And on that note, of course no one could blame you for wishing for another adaptation. :)
you can say to any fan, "The first time I tried to read I got stuck--" and they'll finish the sentence, "at the Council of Elrond, yeah."
Yeah XD I actually, in retrospect, quite like some parts of the Council now. It's just... there's a lot of other parts of it. XD (I did also find a lot of the early section really slow -- the Hobbits' adventures before they met Strider (I don't just mean Tom Bombadil, but I also don't NOT mean Tom Bombadil :P)
Is the movie version of Boromir really less popular?
I'm not sure what I actually said, but I meant the reverse: I think the movie version of Boromir is quite popular, but book!Boromir is not as much. I do understand why -- Sean Bean is a big part of it, but also I do think the movie softened him somewhat -- focused more on his relationship with Merry & Pippin, less on his pride. I like prickly, proud Boromir, though, wrestling with his conscience, and don't actually want him softened.
This was actually also prompted over on DW, but by a flister who hasn't finished the books yet. So here's the expanded answer as opposed to the non-spoilery one
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Honestly, I have no complaints. This series did not go where I expected, but it always went to very interesting places.
Totally agree with this. I have to read the Hexarchate Stories book, and I bet there's some extra material I've missed that I'll need to seek out. :)
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Oh cool! :D
I've not read Hexarchate Stories yet, either, but I'm really looking forward to it.
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* How I entered that fandom
I wasn't sure I remembered, but apparently I do (going back over my tags confirmed it): lodessa (a friend from ASOIAF fandom originally, though we have a lot more fandoms in common) lent me the first two books, which I'd been seeing some buzz on my flist about for some time and really wanted to try. I read them in early 2013 and was instantly hooked, so I bought and read the third one, and fortunately Broken Homes came out not long after, so I picked up the series at a pretty good time ( ... )
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It was mid-2008, and I had just discovered Fancast via The Dresden Files (it had the show up for streaming). Once I finished watching the Dresen Files, I noticed that Fancast also had Firefly streaming. I'd heard about it for years and decided to give it a shot. Like a week later, I had watched the whole thing twice, watched Serenity-the-movie, and all the outtakes and interviews and whatever else I could find on YouTube. It was pretty insane, and the most abrupt descent into fandom I've ever had ( ... )
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Ha ha, yes! There are so many quotable quotes, the more so than any other show I've seen, it shapes the fandom lingo.
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Yeah, that's my impression as well! I would guess part of it is just Joss Whedon being super quotable, but part must also be something about the timing of when it hit, vs the emergence of internet fandom?
Also, your icon is great, and amazingly fitting for this comment!
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For the meme: I think I have to say Middle-Earth, since nobody else has yet.
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So actually there were two phases (and how I discovered Tolkien is a third, even earlier one, though it was years before I realized the story I read at 7 and really liked was actually Smith of Wooton Major and by the same author as my One True Canon). When I was nine or ten, The Hobbit appeared in the USSR in Ukrainian translation. My parents got their hands on a copy, and my mother "read" it to me as a betime story. The quotation marks are because my Ukrainian wasn't actually up to consuming a book in that language, so my mother translated it into Russian for me as she went (the two languages are quite close, so this is relatively easy to do). I was immediately swept up by the world, especially by these Dwarves that were the size of a small human (in Russian the word for (the mythological) "dwarf" and "gnome" is the same, but the standard image is that of, you know, David the Gnome-like creatures living in mushrooms, so Tolkien's Edda-esque Dwarves were a brand new concept for me. I spent a couple of years ( ... )
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Is the movie version of Boromir really less popular? I'm not sure I have a preference (can't help loving Sean Bean), but I usually expect Tolkien readers to be purists about everything, there may as well not be a movie version, etc. And on that note, of course no one could blame you for wishing for another adaptation. :)
Your random thought is excellent.
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Yeah XD I actually, in retrospect, quite like some parts of the Council now. It's just... there's a lot of other parts of it. XD (I did also find a lot of the early section really slow -- the Hobbits' adventures before they met Strider (I don't just mean Tom Bombadil, but I also don't NOT mean Tom Bombadil :P)
Is the movie version of Boromir really less popular?
I'm not sure what I actually said, but I meant the reverse: I think the movie version of Boromir is quite popular, but book!Boromir is not as much. I do understand why -- Sean Bean is a big part of it, but also I do think the movie softened him somewhat -- focused more on his relationship with Merry & Pippin, less on his pride. I like prickly, proud Boromir, though, wrestling with his conscience, and don't actually want him softened.
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