Return with a meme
May. 10th, 2009 08:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakBack from Vienna last night, and the conference remained great, but now I feel frustrated because everyone else on the list seems to already have watched the new ST movie. Tonight, I hope. Unless the Aged Parents say otherwise - this is mother's day.
Meanwhile, there is a meme to catch up on as well.
Comment to this entry and I'll pick up to three of your fandoms. You must 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?
hobsonphile gave me:
Babylon 5
1.) The Munich Fantasy Film festival showed an episode from early s1 - Mind War, to be precise - in the year B5 started. I originally watched it because it had Walter Koenig in it and I was an ST fan, and was sufficiently intrigued to go to the video store once it had the pilot, which it did before the first season was broadcast on German tv. The pilot was also interesting though not yet fannish-making. Then German tv started season 1, I watched, and fell for Londo Mollari (and Vir, and G'Kar) in Born to the Purple and Parliament of Dreams respectively; the later also made me fall for the show because of the final scene with Sinclair's presentation of the various Earth religions. The rest, they say, is history.*g*
2.) Given it's been 15 years and I'm curently participating in a rewatch community, I think it's save to say I'll stay. *g*
3.) Great Maker. The Coming of Shadows and The Fall of Centauri Prime for sheer awesomeness, Dust to Dust because I love the Bester plot just as much as the Londo, Vir and G'Kar plot, Soul Mates because of Timov and because to me, that's the best done of B5's comedy episodes, Day of the Dead because it's an inofficial Sandman/B5 crossover and Neil Gaiman does it fantastically well (it's such a good character episode for everyone involved), and The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari for obvious reasons.
4.) I haven't written fanfiction for eons, save for the odd crossover (the Londo/Chiana one for Andraste last year was the most recent), which probably won't change as I've said all I wanted to via fanfic about the characters. But as mentioned I'm in a rewatch community, and I always like to encourage new watchers.
5.) Abso-fraggin-lutely.
Star Trek
1.) I watched the original series as a child on tv (in German, as nearly everything on tv is dubbed here; I didn't hear the original voices until I started university, moved to Munich and thus had access to a video store with English-language videos) and sobbed my heart out at the ending of Wrath of Khan in the cinema. I also bought some of the tie-in novels. But I don't think I really got fannish in the sense of debating episodes and characters with other fans until TNG and then DS9 hit me. That's when I started to go to cons, exchange letters and later emails with other fans, bought fanzines etc. And finally got around to write some fanfic myself.*g* My Trekkish loyalties show this: I associate TOS with childhood nostalgia, but Picard is my Captain, not Kirk, while DS9 is my favourite Trek.
2.) Once a Star Trek fan, always a Star Trek fan. I'm out and proud about it in real life, too. Again, not that I've writte much but the odd crossover recently. But I read the occasional fanfic and sometimes when I feel like it I get out the occasional episode. And I always, always get into arguments if people try to pull the "Star Trek didn't do emotional consequences and always kept the reset button" cliché.
3.) Okay, let's try to limit this to one or two per show. Or three:
a) TOS - Journey to Babel, Trouble with Tribbles; movie-wise, ST II-IV.
b) TNG - Sarek, Family, All Good Things...
c) DS9 - The Wire, House of Quark, In the Pale Moonlight. And Trials and Tribulations, aka best mixing of old and new canon on ST.
d) Voyager - Someone to watch over me.
4.) See above. I've written fanfic, mostly DS9, but nothing recent; also meta posts on various ST subjects. I think the most recent with ST related content was a collection of YouTube vid, though. Oh, and I was thrilled whenkalypso_v linked me to a recent radio interview Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart did, in which the reporter asked a dumb question (whether these two keep their real acting efforts to the stage and during their outings in those popular franchises like LotR and Star Trek only "played on the reserve bank", so to speak) and got another patented Stewart smackdown, so depending on whether the reaction to the new movie won't sweep everything else away, I might do another rant on the snobbery of the media.
5.) Naturally, and given the reaction I see on the net, there might be a TOS renaissance coming. I hope it will extend to at least TNG and DS9 as well. (Incidentally, if there is one thing that annoys me more than media snobbery about ST, it's inner Trek snobbery. Whether it's "only TOS counts" or "DS9 only, all other Treks are imperialist propaganda". I have my own preferences, but you won't convince anyone one particular branch of the ST verse is worth watching if you diss all the others simultanously.)
House
1) I'm not really, which is going to make this a boring set of replies. Meaning I watch and I enjoy (mostly), but I can't have read more than six or seven fanfics altogether, and I rarely look for reviews. I don't even much remember episode names. As for how and why I started watching, tireless propaganda byshezan and hobsonphile did the trick; also, I had liked Hugh Laurie in films such as Sense and Sensibility and Peter's Friends, and of course in Blackadder, and couldn't imagine how he'd sound with an American accent, so I was curious. Oh, and I remember seeing Robert Sean Leonard, squinting and thinking I remember you playing a teenager in Dead Poets Society, pal. Are you sure I'm supposed to take you seriously as a doctor?
2) See above. I'll keep watching the show, which I enjoy, but I don't think I'll ever get fannish about it.
3) The One With The House Backstory Revealed For The First Time - Three Stories, Three Men or something like that, back in season 1? This season, I have a soft spot Lucky Thirteen and could remember the title because of the pun.
4) Meme replying is as far as it goes. I also posted some season reviews, I think.
5) Not as a must. But it's more a recommendation to relax with for me, especially if you're fond of Sherlock Holmes and Watson types.
Meanwhile, there is a meme to catch up on as well.
Comment to this entry and I'll pick up to three of your fandoms. You must 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?
hobsonphile gave me:Babylon 5
1.) The Munich Fantasy Film festival showed an episode from early s1 - Mind War, to be precise - in the year B5 started. I originally watched it because it had Walter Koenig in it and I was an ST fan, and was sufficiently intrigued to go to the video store once it had the pilot, which it did before the first season was broadcast on German tv. The pilot was also interesting though not yet fannish-making. Then German tv started season 1, I watched, and fell for Londo Mollari (and Vir, and G'Kar) in Born to the Purple and Parliament of Dreams respectively; the later also made me fall for the show because of the final scene with Sinclair's presentation of the various Earth religions. The rest, they say, is history.*g*
2.) Given it's been 15 years and I'm curently participating in a rewatch community, I think it's save to say I'll stay. *g*
3.) Great Maker. The Coming of Shadows and The Fall of Centauri Prime for sheer awesomeness, Dust to Dust because I love the Bester plot just as much as the Londo, Vir and G'Kar plot, Soul Mates because of Timov and because to me, that's the best done of B5's comedy episodes, Day of the Dead because it's an inofficial Sandman/B5 crossover and Neil Gaiman does it fantastically well (it's such a good character episode for everyone involved), and The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari for obvious reasons.
4.) I haven't written fanfiction for eons, save for the odd crossover (the Londo/Chiana one for Andraste last year was the most recent), which probably won't change as I've said all I wanted to via fanfic about the characters. But as mentioned I'm in a rewatch community, and I always like to encourage new watchers.
5.) Abso-fraggin-lutely.
Star Trek
1.) I watched the original series as a child on tv (in German, as nearly everything on tv is dubbed here; I didn't hear the original voices until I started university, moved to Munich and thus had access to a video store with English-language videos) and sobbed my heart out at the ending of Wrath of Khan in the cinema. I also bought some of the tie-in novels. But I don't think I really got fannish in the sense of debating episodes and characters with other fans until TNG and then DS9 hit me. That's when I started to go to cons, exchange letters and later emails with other fans, bought fanzines etc. And finally got around to write some fanfic myself.*g* My Trekkish loyalties show this: I associate TOS with childhood nostalgia, but Picard is my Captain, not Kirk, while DS9 is my favourite Trek.
2.) Once a Star Trek fan, always a Star Trek fan. I'm out and proud about it in real life, too. Again, not that I've writte much but the odd crossover recently. But I read the occasional fanfic and sometimes when I feel like it I get out the occasional episode. And I always, always get into arguments if people try to pull the "Star Trek didn't do emotional consequences and always kept the reset button" cliché.
3.) Okay, let's try to limit this to one or two per show. Or three:
a) TOS - Journey to Babel, Trouble with Tribbles; movie-wise, ST II-IV.
b) TNG - Sarek, Family, All Good Things...
c) DS9 - The Wire, House of Quark, In the Pale Moonlight. And Trials and Tribulations, aka best mixing of old and new canon on ST.
d) Voyager - Someone to watch over me.
4.) See above. I've written fanfic, mostly DS9, but nothing recent; also meta posts on various ST subjects. I think the most recent with ST related content was a collection of YouTube vid, though. Oh, and I was thrilled when
kalypso_v linked me to a recent radio interview Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart did, in which the reporter asked a dumb question (whether these two keep their real acting efforts to the stage and during their outings in those popular franchises like LotR and Star Trek only "played on the reserve bank", so to speak) and got another patented Stewart smackdown, so depending on whether the reaction to the new movie won't sweep everything else away, I might do another rant on the snobbery of the media. 5.) Naturally, and given the reaction I see on the net, there might be a TOS renaissance coming. I hope it will extend to at least TNG and DS9 as well. (Incidentally, if there is one thing that annoys me more than media snobbery about ST, it's inner Trek snobbery. Whether it's "only TOS counts" or "DS9 only, all other Treks are imperialist propaganda". I have my own preferences, but you won't convince anyone one particular branch of the ST verse is worth watching if you diss all the others simultanously.)
House
1) I'm not really, which is going to make this a boring set of replies. Meaning I watch and I enjoy (mostly), but I can't have read more than six or seven fanfics altogether, and I rarely look for reviews. I don't even much remember episode names. As for how and why I started watching, tireless propaganda by
shezan and hobsonphile did the trick; also, I had liked Hugh Laurie in films such as Sense and Sensibility and Peter's Friends, and of course in Blackadder, and couldn't imagine how he'd sound with an American accent, so I was curious. Oh, and I remember seeing Robert Sean Leonard, squinting and thinking I remember you playing a teenager in Dead Poets Society, pal. Are you sure I'm supposed to take you seriously as a doctor? 2) See above. I'll keep watching the show, which I enjoy, but I don't think I'll ever get fannish about it.
3) The One With The House Backstory Revealed For The First Time - Three Stories, Three Men or something like that, back in season 1? This season, I have a soft spot Lucky Thirteen and could remember the title because of the pun.
4) Meme replying is as far as it goes. I also posted some season reviews, I think.
5) Not as a must. But it's more a recommendation to relax with for me, especially if you're fond of Sherlock Holmes and Watson types.
