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The Year in Fandom
Dec. 31st, 2018 10:55 am...and speaking of memes, if you have topics you want me to ramble about, please say so here!
Your main fandom this year? I remain a multifandom person. Of my many fandoms, The Americans ending, very impressively so, and Doctor Who getting a new Doctor and new companions stands out in my fannish mind, but I wouldn’t call either my „main“ fandom of the year.
Your favourite film watched this year?: Sheikh Jackson, an Egyption movie, which I watched as part of this year’s Munich Film Festival and reviewed here. I loved it to bits, from first minute to last, all the characters were awesomely written and performed, the two timelines worked, and when I recently did my collection of music and dance sequences in non-musicals, I was very frustrated to find Khaled doing the moon walk wasn’t available on YouTube. 😊
Your favourite book read this year?: certainly the ones which moved and made me think most were Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quarted, reviewed here. (Before anyone asks, no, I haven’t seen the tv version, because it’s not available in my part of the world yet.)
Your favourite tv show of the year?: Star Trek: Discovery. It's not perfect, but no ST show ever was, and I went from "hm" to "like" to "love" within a season.
Your best new fandom discovery of the year?: marathoning The Exorcist‘s two seasons only to have it cancelled certainly was, err, an experience. But while neither season was actually broadcast in 2018 (the second one ended in December 2017), it just might have been the most viscerally gripping new-to-me fandom discovery.
Your biggest fandom disappointment?: Minette Walters writing a really bad historical novel. ☹
Your tv boyfriend of the year?: To my surprise, Graham from Doctor Who. If you don’t like him, don’t feel obliged to tell me so in comments. I adored him this season.
Your tv girlfriend of the year?: Charlotte Ritter from Babylon Berlin, and this is the first time my pick in this category is a homegrown girl. But I adored her, too. Runner-up: Michael Burnham. It’s so good to have a Star Trek heroine to cheer for again!
Your biggest squee moment of the year?: The unabashed fanservice that was Sense8: Amor Vincit Omnia, celebrating friendship, love, and the human ability to connect not in spite of, but with their differences.
The most missed of your old fandoms?: You know, tumblr events actually brought several missed friends from various fandoms back to dw world. Also, I used to reply with „Star Trek, in its various incarnations“ to this question, but no longer, because of Discovery. Which not only provides me with a new canon, but also, via![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
spacefungusparty, with a community that has both old Trekkers like myself and people for whom Star Trek: Discovery is their first or second Star Trek experience. Otoh, in the mythical case of having a lot of leisure time next year, I’ve been wondering about maybe doing a Farscape rewatch….
The fandom you haven’t tried yet, but want to?: The Terror. I’ve been hearing only good things.
Your main fandom this year? I remain a multifandom person. Of my many fandoms, The Americans ending, very impressively so, and Doctor Who getting a new Doctor and new companions stands out in my fannish mind, but I wouldn’t call either my „main“ fandom of the year.
Your favourite film watched this year?: Sheikh Jackson, an Egyption movie, which I watched as part of this year’s Munich Film Festival and reviewed here. I loved it to bits, from first minute to last, all the characters were awesomely written and performed, the two timelines worked, and when I recently did my collection of music and dance sequences in non-musicals, I was very frustrated to find Khaled doing the moon walk wasn’t available on YouTube. 😊
Your favourite book read this year?: certainly the ones which moved and made me think most were Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quarted, reviewed here. (Before anyone asks, no, I haven’t seen the tv version, because it’s not available in my part of the world yet.)
Your favourite tv show of the year?: Star Trek: Discovery. It's not perfect, but no ST show ever was, and I went from "hm" to "like" to "love" within a season.
Your best new fandom discovery of the year?: marathoning The Exorcist‘s two seasons only to have it cancelled certainly was, err, an experience. But while neither season was actually broadcast in 2018 (the second one ended in December 2017), it just might have been the most viscerally gripping new-to-me fandom discovery.
Your biggest fandom disappointment?: Minette Walters writing a really bad historical novel. ☹
Your tv boyfriend of the year?: To my surprise, Graham from Doctor Who. If you don’t like him, don’t feel obliged to tell me so in comments. I adored him this season.
Your tv girlfriend of the year?: Charlotte Ritter from Babylon Berlin, and this is the first time my pick in this category is a homegrown girl. But I adored her, too. Runner-up: Michael Burnham. It’s so good to have a Star Trek heroine to cheer for again!
Your biggest squee moment of the year?: The unabashed fanservice that was Sense8: Amor Vincit Omnia, celebrating friendship, love, and the human ability to connect not in spite of, but with their differences.
The most missed of your old fandoms?: You know, tumblr events actually brought several missed friends from various fandoms back to dw world. Also, I used to reply with „Star Trek, in its various incarnations“ to this question, but no longer, because of Discovery. Which not only provides me with a new canon, but also, via
spacefungusparty, with a community that has both old Trekkers like myself and people for whom Star Trek: Discovery is their first or second Star Trek experience. Otoh, in the mythical case of having a lot of leisure time next year, I’ve been wondering about maybe doing a Farscape rewatch….The fandom you haven’t tried yet, but want to?: The Terror. I’ve been hearing only good things.
