The Three Fandoms Meme
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omorkaTell me you want to play and I'll pick up to three of your fandoms. Then update your journal and answer the following questions:
1. What got you into this fandom in the first place?
2. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
3. Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?
4. Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
5. Do you think more people should get into this fandom?
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calliopes_pen gave me Ghostbusters, Eureka, & Doctor Who.
Ghostbusters
1) I saw the first movie in theaters at the age of 10 sometime in the summer of '84 - I want to say the movie arrived in our hometown sometime around the 4th of July and we saw it later that month. I have to say, I have no idea what my parents were thinking, given that "occult comedy" should have been on their list of things to stay far, far away from, but Daddy is a bit of an Aykroyd fan, and they probably didn't hit the nadir of their descent into crazy conservatism until I was 18 or 19. I fell in love with it from top to bottom - Egon was one of my earliest fictional crushes (and the one of second longest standing), but really, there was nothing about the movie I didn't love except the opening scene. It's been a consistent presence in my life ever since - we've owned it on VCR, LD, DVD, and Blu-Ray as it's been released in each medium.
2) Stay. If nothing else, I drop at least one dialogue reference to it pretty much daily.
3) Are we including RGB here? I could give a list of my favorite RGB episodes, but if we're sticking with GB proper then the core canon is only the two movies, and while I am in the minority that actually likes the second film, the first one is unmistakably superior. (I confess to a certain fondness for the Viz not-a-manga that was put out a few years ago, but it's certainly not canonical.)
4) Yup. Although I haven't been as active recently, I still have a double-handful of WIPs that I'm working on, 200 and 500 words at a time.
5) I'd love for it to be a little larger than it is, but honestly, right now because it's so small and so old, it's fairly drama-free - in the time I've been modding![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
areyouagod, we've had all of one flamer/troll, and that's a beautiful thing.
Eureka
1)cheshirebast told us about the series shortly after the pilot aired - at the time he had cable and we didn't - and insisted that we watch it. The Spouse and I found it interesting, but not interesting enough to go searching for it ourselves. I'm not sure at this remove if Cheshirebast brought over the next few episodes, or if the Spouse noticed that the first season was out on DVD and bought it and we just watched it with him, but that was what hooked us - that, and about halfway through the first season I developed the most ridiculous set of the hots for Fargo.
2) I suspect I'll stay, given that in the course of my life I have never completely dropped a fandom, but we'll have to see what happens after the last season airs - it'll probably become a back-burner fandom for me, like Back To The Future is, rather than one I deliberately stay active in, like GB/RGB.
3) My favorite episodes are "Alienated," for the tension between Jack and Jo (and because it has Spencer in it - terribly underused character, there); "Right As Raynes," for the character background for Jo and Stark; "Try, Try Again," because it's All About Fargo; "Noche de Suenos," mostly for the Zorro sequence; "I Do Over," for the Jack-Stark-Fargo interplay; and any part of any show with Taggart in it, because OMG Matt Frewer! Having said that, I haven't watched the back half of Season 4 yet, so there might be some gems in there that I've missed.
4) Yes, although see the last part of the above - I'm not caught up on canon, so I've been on hiatus since last summer. I'm hoping to fix that over Spring Break, but that'll be just in time to be behind on the final season.
5) I don't quite understand why the fandom for this show has stayed as small as it has, given that it has hot guys, strong female characters who are also hot, and an abundance of shiny things. The writing has been deeply uneven, and the science is usually terrible, but the standout shows are great, and while I disagree where they've taken some of the characters, I can't accuse them of not doing proper character development. Having said that, this show won't appeal to the shoot-'em-up type of science fiction fan - that's not fundamentally what it's about. Jack's taken his gun out maybe three or four times over the course of the show.
Doctor Who
1) Remember back up when I said that Egon was my fictional crush of second longest standing? #1 is The Doctor, specifically in his Fourth incarnation. Mom used to watch the old reruns on the local PBS station on Saturdays, starting when I was very young indeed, and I would watch along with her. My earliest Who memories are during the Doctor/Sarah Jane/Harry era, and yes, that's how my youngling brain interpreted it. Doctor/Sarah Jane is my first 'ship.
2) My participation in this fandom has waxed and waned over the years, and I'm not thrilled where Moffat has been taking the show, but that's largely because I'm not terribly fond of Amy (Martha only got one season for this?) and I kind of want the Last Centurion to have his own show (hey, the previous Kenny-Immortal got his own, why not this one?). I didn't much like Dodo, either. Or Mel. The show outlasts bad companions and clumsy showrunners (or clumsy companions and bad showrunners), and I'm sure it'll get back to something I can squee over soon enough. And in the meantime, it's not as if Three and Four and Seven and Nine aren't there to write about.
3) I have a terrible skulking fondness for "Seeds of Doom" and "Masque of Mandragora," not because there is any particularly good writing in them but because they were awesome, classic Doctor and Sarah Jane romps. (I kind of want to run SoD as a CthuLARP one of these days.) From the new series, my favorites are "Empty Child/Doctor Dances," for Captain Jack, yes, but also for "Everybody lives!", which was the moment when Eccleston convinced me that I was not just watching a Time Lord traveling under the title of The Doctor (he had me at that in "Rose"), but the same being who was once Four - and I think I actually cried out, "What happened to him?" I'm also fond of "School Reunion" for the return of Sarah Jane, "42" for its awesomely tight writing (and some fine, fine acting by Tennant), and "Turn Left" (ditto for Tate and Piper). Also, contrary to most fannish opinion, I don't hate the 1996 movie, although good gods it has gaping flaws.
4) A bit. Unlike almost all of my others except for Trek and LotR, this fandom is humongous, and notoriously snipy. I mostly write flashfic, and mostly for old!Who, just to stay out of the current round of Companion Wars.
5) It's big enough already. Not that newbies can't join, but it's hardly in need of new members.
1. What got you into this fandom in the first place?
2. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
3. Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?
4. Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
5. Do you think more people should get into this fandom?
calliopes_pen gave me Ghostbusters, Eureka, & Doctor Who.Ghostbusters
1) I saw the first movie in theaters at the age of 10 sometime in the summer of '84 - I want to say the movie arrived in our hometown sometime around the 4th of July and we saw it later that month. I have to say, I have no idea what my parents were thinking, given that "occult comedy" should have been on their list of things to stay far, far away from, but Daddy is a bit of an Aykroyd fan, and they probably didn't hit the nadir of their descent into crazy conservatism until I was 18 or 19. I fell in love with it from top to bottom - Egon was one of my earliest fictional crushes (and the one of second longest standing), but really, there was nothing about the movie I didn't love except the opening scene. It's been a consistent presence in my life ever since - we've owned it on VCR, LD, DVD, and Blu-Ray as it's been released in each medium.
2) Stay. If nothing else, I drop at least one dialogue reference to it pretty much daily.
3) Are we including RGB here? I could give a list of my favorite RGB episodes, but if we're sticking with GB proper then the core canon is only the two movies, and while I am in the minority that actually likes the second film, the first one is unmistakably superior. (I confess to a certain fondness for the Viz not-a-manga that was put out a few years ago, but it's certainly not canonical.)
4) Yup. Although I haven't been as active recently, I still have a double-handful of WIPs that I'm working on, 200 and 500 words at a time.
5) I'd love for it to be a little larger than it is, but honestly, right now because it's so small and so old, it's fairly drama-free - in the time I've been modding
areyouagod, we've had all of one flamer/troll, and that's a beautiful thing.Eureka
1)
cheshirebast told us about the series shortly after the pilot aired - at the time he had cable and we didn't - and insisted that we watch it. The Spouse and I found it interesting, but not interesting enough to go searching for it ourselves. I'm not sure at this remove if Cheshirebast brought over the next few episodes, or if the Spouse noticed that the first season was out on DVD and bought it and we just watched it with him, but that was what hooked us - that, and about halfway through the first season I developed the most ridiculous set of the hots for Fargo.2) I suspect I'll stay, given that in the course of my life I have never completely dropped a fandom, but we'll have to see what happens after the last season airs - it'll probably become a back-burner fandom for me, like Back To The Future is, rather than one I deliberately stay active in, like GB/RGB.
3) My favorite episodes are "Alienated," for the tension between Jack and Jo (and because it has Spencer in it - terribly underused character, there); "Right As Raynes," for the character background for Jo and Stark; "Try, Try Again," because it's All About Fargo; "Noche de Suenos," mostly for the Zorro sequence; "I Do Over," for the Jack-Stark-Fargo interplay; and any part of any show with Taggart in it, because OMG Matt Frewer! Having said that, I haven't watched the back half of Season 4 yet, so there might be some gems in there that I've missed.
4) Yes, although see the last part of the above - I'm not caught up on canon, so I've been on hiatus since last summer. I'm hoping to fix that over Spring Break, but that'll be just in time to be behind on the final season.
5) I don't quite understand why the fandom for this show has stayed as small as it has, given that it has hot guys, strong female characters who are also hot, and an abundance of shiny things. The writing has been deeply uneven, and the science is usually terrible, but the standout shows are great, and while I disagree where they've taken some of the characters, I can't accuse them of not doing proper character development. Having said that, this show won't appeal to the shoot-'em-up type of science fiction fan - that's not fundamentally what it's about. Jack's taken his gun out maybe three or four times over the course of the show.
Doctor Who
1) Remember back up when I said that Egon was my fictional crush of second longest standing? #1 is The Doctor, specifically in his Fourth incarnation. Mom used to watch the old reruns on the local PBS station on Saturdays, starting when I was very young indeed, and I would watch along with her. My earliest Who memories are during the Doctor/Sarah Jane/Harry era, and yes, that's how my youngling brain interpreted it. Doctor/Sarah Jane is my first 'ship.
2) My participation in this fandom has waxed and waned over the years, and I'm not thrilled where Moffat has been taking the show, but that's largely because I'm not terribly fond of Amy (Martha only got one season for this?) and I kind of want the Last Centurion to have his own show (hey, the previous Kenny-Immortal got his own, why not this one?). I didn't much like Dodo, either. Or Mel. The show outlasts bad companions and clumsy showrunners (or clumsy companions and bad showrunners), and I'm sure it'll get back to something I can squee over soon enough. And in the meantime, it's not as if Three and Four and Seven and Nine aren't there to write about.
3) I have a terrible skulking fondness for "Seeds of Doom" and "Masque of Mandragora," not because there is any particularly good writing in them but because they were awesome, classic Doctor and Sarah Jane romps. (I kind of want to run SoD as a CthuLARP one of these days.) From the new series, my favorites are "Empty Child/Doctor Dances," for Captain Jack, yes, but also for "Everybody lives!", which was the moment when Eccleston convinced me that I was not just watching a Time Lord traveling under the title of The Doctor (he had me at that in "Rose"), but the same being who was once Four - and I think I actually cried out, "What happened to him?" I'm also fond of "School Reunion" for the return of Sarah Jane, "42" for its awesomely tight writing (and some fine, fine acting by Tennant), and "Turn Left" (ditto for Tate and Piper). Also, contrary to most fannish opinion, I don't hate the 1996 movie, although good gods it has gaping flaws.
4) A bit. Unlike almost all of my others except for Trek and LotR, this fandom is humongous, and notoriously snipy. I mostly write flashfic, and mostly for old!Who, just to stay out of the current round of Companion Wars.
5) It's big enough already. Not that newbies can't join, but it's hardly in need of new members.
