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rj_anderson

My First Fandoms

May 29, 2003 10:03

I think it was tzikeh who started the idea of talking about your first fandom; anyway, it was her Remington Steele icon turning up in my FriendsFriends list that made me stop and wibble. So, here's my contribution to the meme ( Read more... )

remington steele, shipping, fanfic, fandom

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Holy Crap. Manimal. tzikeh May 29 2003, 09:53:05 UTC

Lookit all your cool '80s fandoms! I think you and I are exactly the same age.

And yeah, I had the same reaction you did - Pierce Brosnan was a hottie, but that wasn't enough to explain the insanity with which I reacted to the show. I think part of it was the concept - that she made up an imaginary friend, basically, and then he took form and shape (nice shape!) and other people could see him and ... very, very odd, when you think about it.

Re: Holy Crap. Manimal. rj_anderson May 29 2003, 11:52:43 UTC

That's an interesting point -- I never thought of it that way. Yeah, it's about having your imaginary friend come alive! How cool is that? :)

Was I the only one who really, really missed Murphy and Bernice after the first season? I was a big Murphy fan especially. And I hated Mildred -- she was so annoying.

I'm still not sure why I never got a full-blown crush on Pierce Brosnan. I mean, he's got a lovely accent, he can act, he's good-looking... though actually, he's almost boringly good-looking, which is probably what did him in for me. I always liked faces with more character. Especially around the nose (which probably explains my fondness for Simon MacCorkindale).

Re: Holy Crap. Manimal. sff_corgi May 29 2003, 14:58:16 UTC

I thought the network (always blame the suits first) and the production got a little full of themselves after the first season of RS was such a hit and messed with something which didn't need messing with -- I liked the second season much less than the first, and did a slow drift away. Disappointing.

anonymous May 29 2003, 13:10:13 UTC

I missed Murphy and Berniece (Fox? Wolf?) too. Mildred bugged the crap out of me.

This seems like a good place to confess that at age 13 I wrote a Hogan's Heroes play which involved a jitter bug contest among other equally ludicrous things.

Cindie

I Never Knew... avarill June 1 2003, 23:46:38 UTC

... You were a Remington Steele fan! Me too! And yes, I loved Scarecrow as well. It's really too bad you don't have those stories anymore, I would have loved to read them.

Re: I Never Knew... rj_anderson June 2 2003, 19:38:45 UTC

I would have loved to read them.

Oh dear me, I don't think so. From what I recall of the plot and execution, they were staggeringly awful. Plus they featured an OC named Elaine, an intolerably smart and sassy self-insertion character whose mission in life was to solve all the cases pretty much single-handedly so Remington and Laura (and later, Lee and Amanda -- yes, she even graduated from apprentice detective to apprentice spy) could go out on dates. *sticks finger down throat and gags self*

And speaking of the dread Elainey Sue, I have just remembered that in the one multi-crossover story it wasn't Laura who accidentally stabbed Steele with the letter opener, it was Elaine who accidentally stabbed A.J. Simon with the letter opener -- thus causing him to go light-headed with blood loss, and try to kiss her. Hee!