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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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killabeez:
Highlander, Star Trek: TOS, and Alias
Highlander
Oh, Highlander, how do I love thee. Let me count the ways....
1. What got you into this fandom in the first place?
Well. I think for the purposes of this exercise we shall limit this to the time I actually started reading and writing fanfic, rather than my 11-year-old self watching the first movie or the period of time during college when I watched Highlander: The Series live and had fantasies of Duncan MacLeod rescuing me from my dorm room. *ahem* It took a while, actually, for me to get into Highlander fandom. I watched the show, even read some of the fanfic found around 1997, but it wasn't until I readzorrorojo's JAG series (I was dabbling in ST: Voyager) that I started to want to rediscover Duncan and Methos. Right around that time I went to ShoreLeave and met killabeez. I was in the first flush of eager love for HL, and had read her story Gift of the Raven (and had of course read her ST: TOS stories). She was very kind and indulgent and let me follow her around like a puppy. But more importantly she informed me where I could buy two HL zines, one of them being Futures Without End 2, and pretty much the rest is history.
I just started to wonder if this question is really asking about an aspect of the TV show that got me interested. lol. Um, that would be the concept of Immortality first, and Duncan MacLeod second. That's what got me into this fandom.
2. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
Well, I haven't moved on yet but it's certainly not the bustling fandom it used to be (and that's quite natural and okay by me, imo). I was just mentioning tomelina123 that I actually prefer this kind of mellow involvement, where I love HL to pieces but I don't need to be in it 24/7. It's very nice, calm, easy. lol. Also, I think Highlander broke the mold for me. It's very likely to be my last, great big all-consuming fandom. I can't really commit to that level of involvement again. And I'm more than fine with that.
3. Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?
Oh gosh. Well, I never read many of the books, so that's easy there. Movies, definitely the original and Endgame, for all it's flaws. Episodes: I think I'd like to bundle all of season 3 and 4 in a big bow. But there are episodes of season 5 I love very much, too. I'm not good at this question....
4. Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
Fanfiction. These days, sporadically, but I usually get a story or two in every year. I'm up for good discussions, but in some ways I'm discussioned-out for HL. But there are still many interesting aspects of HL to be touched upon, here and there.
5. Do you think more people should get into this fandom?
What a silly question. Yes, most emphatically.
Star Trek: The Original Series
1. What got you into this fandom in the first place?
A temp job and Yahoo. No, for serious. I was temping at Big Important Bank as a receptionist on a floor where the phone never rang and they left me along with a computer and an internet browser. This was back in the day when yahoo listed fanfiction as an option under Entertainment -> TV Shows -> Science Fiction. And the archive for ASC* popped up, as well as several mirrors. I was pretty internet stupid back then, so I couldn't figure out how to get onto the usenet group (or even what usenet was), but I was able to find the archive. At first I tried reading Next Generation fic, but right around that time a local station started airing episodes of The Original Series in broadcast order, and more out of whimsy than anything else, I clicked on a short, silly K/S story by Jungle Kitty, to check it out. Then I read one ofkillabeez's stories, I believe it was Surrender, or possibly it was Turning Point. It's all a bit fuzzy now. Anyway, whichever story it was, my eyes became as big as saucers, and I pretty much read non-stop for some unknown period of time until I finally figured out how to join usenet. Shortly there after I started writing.
Aside from that, although I was much more a TNG kid than anything else, as a child I always thought Captain Kirk was kinda sexy, and then as a young adult in college I had a mad crush on Spock. When I plopped into fandom, I fell very specifically in love with K/S.
2. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
Oh, I suppose I've moved on some time ago. This new movie is very shiny, though, but I don't kid myself in thinking I'll actually get that fannish about it. Maybe I'll read, but I'm way too conflicted about nu!Spock to get overly excited. However, all this thinking about Star Trek again *has* got me remembering why I loved it so much and what it was about K/S that really hooked me in like very little else.
3. Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?
I didn't read many of the books -- the fan fiction so far outshone the one or two probooks I tried, I never could get into them.
Episodes and movies, in no particular order:
The Corbomite Maneuver
Journey to Babel
The Enterprise Incident
The Tholian Web
The Wrath of Khan
The Undiscovered Country
4. Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
Not really, beyond a passing mention. The new movie might change that slightly.
5. Do you think more people should get into this fandom?
Yes. Especially now. It's be really kind of wonderful if the new movie brought viewers to the original series. It's an iconic cheezy 1960's sci-fi tv show, and it deserves to be loved and mocked and petted.
Alias
1. What got you into this fandom in the first place?
Alias used to be on opposite X-Files, so I missed out on its first season because I kept on being loyal to that doomed TV show. But, sometime in its second season, I think I just lacked the energy to switch stations and started watching it, and was very quickly hooked. I loved Sydney Bristow, and she is the number 1 reason why I watched the series all the way through. It was a simple love, more because I wanted to be with her while she figured out what was going on in her life, rather than for any other reason. Alias is perhaps the only TV show I watched completely, beginning to end, which was 100% pure joy and love for me with nary a blip of disappointment. When there was angst, I wasn't destroyed by it even if I fretted along with everyone else. When it ended, I was sad but not upset. When it was off the air, I missed it very much.
2. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
I was never really *in* the fandom, to begin with. I mostly just hovered along the fringes. I did a lot of episode discussion and commentary. Very little reading. I found the show quite satisfying as is.
3. Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?
Oh, an Alias movie would be so much fun! Alas, I'm certain that will never come to pass.
Hm. I need wikipedia to help me with this. Clearly I need to rewatch from the beginning (and I've been wanting too. sigh. so little time.)
A Broken Heart (season 1), for the final scene really did break my heart
The Telling (season 2), many didn't like the season 2 cliffhanger, but I LOVED it.
Breaking Point (season 3), I think this is the episode where we see Jack's massive armory stash, but I'm not sure.
Unveiled (season 3), also, I think this is the episode where Lauren is supposed to kill her father and can't go through with it, so her mother does it. I fucking love Lauren -- no one else does, but I do. lol.
Which episode had Goth!Vaughn? I loved that one, just on principle.
Also, the episode where Jack is tortured and Sydney rescues him. And the one where she's drugged or hallucinating or something and he tries to comfort her. Oh heck, I really do need to watch them all again.
4. Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
Not much. No.
5. Do you think more people should get into this fandom?
How can anyone say no to this?
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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killabeez:Highlander, Star Trek: TOS, and Alias
Highlander
Oh, Highlander, how do I love thee. Let me count the ways....
1. What got you into this fandom in the first place?
Well. I think for the purposes of this exercise we shall limit this to the time I actually started reading and writing fanfic, rather than my 11-year-old self watching the first movie or the period of time during college when I watched Highlander: The Series live and had fantasies of Duncan MacLeod rescuing me from my dorm room. *ahem* It took a while, actually, for me to get into Highlander fandom. I watched the show, even read some of the fanfic found around 1997, but it wasn't until I read
zorrorojo's JAG series (I was dabbling in ST: Voyager) that I started to want to rediscover Duncan and Methos. Right around that time I went to ShoreLeave and met killabeez. I was in the first flush of eager love for HL, and had read her story Gift of the Raven (and had of course read her ST: TOS stories). She was very kind and indulgent and let me follow her around like a puppy. But more importantly she informed me where I could buy two HL zines, one of them being Futures Without End 2, and pretty much the rest is history. I just started to wonder if this question is really asking about an aspect of the TV show that got me interested. lol. Um, that would be the concept of Immortality first, and Duncan MacLeod second. That's what got me into this fandom.
2. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
Well, I haven't moved on yet but it's certainly not the bustling fandom it used to be (and that's quite natural and okay by me, imo). I was just mentioning to
melina123 that I actually prefer this kind of mellow involvement, where I love HL to pieces but I don't need to be in it 24/7. It's very nice, calm, easy. lol. Also, I think Highlander broke the mold for me. It's very likely to be my last, great big all-consuming fandom. I can't really commit to that level of involvement again. And I'm more than fine with that. 3. Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?
Oh gosh. Well, I never read many of the books, so that's easy there. Movies, definitely the original and Endgame, for all it's flaws. Episodes: I think I'd like to bundle all of season 3 and 4 in a big bow. But there are episodes of season 5 I love very much, too. I'm not good at this question....
4. Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
Fanfiction. These days, sporadically, but I usually get a story or two in every year. I'm up for good discussions, but in some ways I'm discussioned-out for HL. But there are still many interesting aspects of HL to be touched upon, here and there.
5. Do you think more people should get into this fandom?
What a silly question. Yes, most emphatically.
Star Trek: The Original Series
1. What got you into this fandom in the first place?
A temp job and Yahoo. No, for serious. I was temping at Big Important Bank as a receptionist on a floor where the phone never rang and they left me along with a computer and an internet browser. This was back in the day when yahoo listed fanfiction as an option under Entertainment -> TV Shows -> Science Fiction. And the archive for ASC* popped up, as well as several mirrors. I was pretty internet stupid back then, so I couldn't figure out how to get onto the usenet group (or even what usenet was), but I was able to find the archive. At first I tried reading Next Generation fic, but right around that time a local station started airing episodes of The Original Series in broadcast order, and more out of whimsy than anything else, I clicked on a short, silly K/S story by Jungle Kitty, to check it out. Then I read one of
killabeez's stories, I believe it was Surrender, or possibly it was Turning Point. It's all a bit fuzzy now. Anyway, whichever story it was, my eyes became as big as saucers, and I pretty much read non-stop for some unknown period of time until I finally figured out how to join usenet. Shortly there after I started writing. Aside from that, although I was much more a TNG kid than anything else, as a child I always thought Captain Kirk was kinda sexy, and then as a young adult in college I had a mad crush on Spock. When I plopped into fandom, I fell very specifically in love with K/S.
2. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
Oh, I suppose I've moved on some time ago. This new movie is very shiny, though, but I don't kid myself in thinking I'll actually get that fannish about it. Maybe I'll read, but I'm way too conflicted about nu!Spock to get overly excited. However, all this thinking about Star Trek again *has* got me remembering why I loved it so much and what it was about K/S that really hooked me in like very little else.
3. Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?
I didn't read many of the books -- the fan fiction so far outshone the one or two probooks I tried, I never could get into them.
Episodes and movies, in no particular order:
The Corbomite Maneuver
Journey to Babel
The Enterprise Incident
The Tholian Web
The Wrath of Khan
The Undiscovered Country
4. Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
Not really, beyond a passing mention. The new movie might change that slightly.
5. Do you think more people should get into this fandom?
Yes. Especially now. It's be really kind of wonderful if the new movie brought viewers to the original series. It's an iconic cheezy 1960's sci-fi tv show, and it deserves to be loved and mocked and petted.
Alias
1. What got you into this fandom in the first place?
Alias used to be on opposite X-Files, so I missed out on its first season because I kept on being loyal to that doomed TV show. But, sometime in its second season, I think I just lacked the energy to switch stations and started watching it, and was very quickly hooked. I loved Sydney Bristow, and she is the number 1 reason why I watched the series all the way through. It was a simple love, more because I wanted to be with her while she figured out what was going on in her life, rather than for any other reason. Alias is perhaps the only TV show I watched completely, beginning to end, which was 100% pure joy and love for me with nary a blip of disappointment. When there was angst, I wasn't destroyed by it even if I fretted along with everyone else. When it ended, I was sad but not upset. When it was off the air, I missed it very much.
2. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
I was never really *in* the fandom, to begin with. I mostly just hovered along the fringes. I did a lot of episode discussion and commentary. Very little reading. I found the show quite satisfying as is.
3. Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?
Oh, an Alias movie would be so much fun! Alas, I'm certain that will never come to pass.
Hm. I need wikipedia to help me with this. Clearly I need to rewatch from the beginning (and I've been wanting too. sigh. so little time.)
A Broken Heart (season 1), for the final scene really did break my heart
The Telling (season 2), many didn't like the season 2 cliffhanger, but I LOVED it.
Breaking Point (season 3), I think this is the episode where we see Jack's massive armory stash, but I'm not sure.
Unveiled (season 3), also, I think this is the episode where Lauren is supposed to kill her father and can't go through with it, so her mother does it. I fucking love Lauren -- no one else does, but I do. lol.
Which episode had Goth!Vaughn? I loved that one, just on principle.
Also, the episode where Jack is tortured and Sydney rescues him. And the one where she's drugged or hallucinating or something and he tries to comfort her. Oh heck, I really do need to watch them all again.
4. Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
Not much. No.
5. Do you think more people should get into this fandom?
How can anyone say no to this?
