2013 by Fannish Meme

[selenak]

How better to begin the new year than with a look back at the last? :)

1. Your main fandom of the year?

I'm a fandom polygamist, always was, always will be. However, I think the fandoms that occupied me a bit more than the others this year were Breaking Bad and Once upon a Time.

2. Your favourite film watched this year?

Wadjda, my review of

Comments

[callmesandy]

Ooh, I think you might love the Americans. I did. It helped that I am of the age and specific context of the youngest child in the show. (Down to the suburb where they live.)

[selenak]

It does sound intriguing...

[lokifan]

ORPHAN BLACK <333 so much love!!

[selenak]

So awesome!

[zahrawithaz]

I would love to see your thoughts on Sleepy Hollow, because despite its obvious flaws I enjoy that ridiculous show very much, especially its female lead. She reminds me a bit of Emma Swan. Also there's a great sibling relationship.

But I would not be your friend if I did not warn you: there are bad German accents. And a whole legion of minor bad guys who speak with them, for reasons that make very little historical sense but are probably intended to make viewers think of pop culture representations of Nazis in US media.

Mind you, I'm not really qualified to judge German accents on US TV, but nobody sounds like Boris Kudjoe in Undercovers.

[selenak]

Oh lord, don't tell me - a whole army of headless riders supposedly from Hesse, or something like that? Ah well. I can cope.

(Spartacus, of trashy tv fame, had some pleasant original surprises and one of them was that there was a whole bunch of German gladiators who were, gasp, not pop culture Nazis, and all individuals different from each other. And one of them was the only survivor from the first season all the way to the end who got a happy ending with his Syrian boyfriend. Thanks, Steven deKnight.)

[zahrawithaz]

Yes, they are indeed Hessians. What else? And they are…not even close to the most egregiously inaccurate representation of history on that show; there's a lot of competition.

Forewarned is forearmed, I always say.

But German gladiators make a lot of sense, historically. It does sound like that show had a lot of pleasant surprises.