tell me a story, game!

[solo_sword]

So with the new kids coming in and showing off their shiny new fandoms, I'm curious.

How'd you get into your canon?

Did you just pick it up one day and found yourself unable to put it down, or did someone (maybe from this game) drag you into it? How long have you been into it? Was there any one thing or character that hooked you on it? This is your chance to wax nostalgic and go on about what made your canon so cool for you. If there's a story behind it, tell us! And if there's not... tell us anyway!

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[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

My Strangers in Paradise fandom story is actually directly linked to my X:WP fandom story, because SiP was recommended to me by a Xena-fandom friend shortly after the Xena-parody "Princess Warrior" issue of SiP came out; Steven L. Sears, one of the X:WP executive producers who was pretty heavily involved in the fan community, actually got into SiP because of that too, and talked it up a lot, so word of SiP spread fast and far among Xenites. It was partly silly and superficial, because hi, look, there's physical similarities even though personality-wise Francine and Katchoo are the opposite of their near-doppelgangers. But then -- particularly among the Xena/Gabrielle shippers -- the love story of SiP struck a chord.

So I got in my little car and drove down to Golden Apple Comics in Hollywood (and I look back and laugh at wide-eyed sheltered young me going "OMGWTF AM I DOING ON MELROSE ALL BY MYSELF THIS IS SCARY") and, not realizing the three-issue miniseries of volume 1 was actually where everything started, picked up the I Dream of You trade that kicks off volume 2 and the bulk of the storyline.

I fell in love with it instantly -- in an amusing reversal from thatsamilkshake I started out identifying with Francine much more strongly than I did with Katchoo, and over time that somehow went the opposite way. Over the next couple of months I collected all the trades available up until that point -- there were only 5 -- and then tried to keep up with the individual issues, but that got hard after a while when it was released on a more-or-less 6-week schedule that sometimes took a lot longer than that. (Yay for independently published comics.)

So I kind of lost track for a year or two, and then came back to it and wooooooooooooooo, dove right the hell back in and never looked back.

And that is the story of how I now have to have an entire bookshelf devoted to my SiP trades and single issues, and how thatsamilkshake and I made a beeline straight for the Abstract Studios booth at Comic-Con this past year as soon as we got our badges to pick up our signed omnibus editions of SiP (complete with sketch on the front page by Mr. Moore!).

[thatsamilkshake]

I shall just piggyback off Shanie here since my story is shorter: discovered scattered issues of the second series* in college and thought what I had in my hands was awesome (oh hai look, girls in love omg in a comic right here across the street from this Methodist campus whatwhat omg) but confusing (I had like, Series 2, issues 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10, or something ridiculous like that, and often found it hard to visually tell Darcy and Francine apart at that point).

Picked it up later after I graduated and was buying comic regularly, lost track again during a massive period of depression in 1999-ish when I stopped buying comics altogether, then picked up trade paperbacks here and there over the years to try to catch up. Railed at the flashforward fakeout confusey storylines and would put it down for a year or so until I couldn't resist and picked another one up.

Vaguely thought of either of the girls as a playable character sometime around the time I was sending Door away but never got serious about it until Shanie commented to one of the Show Us Your Journals memes with Chewie who was super-far-down her potentials list. Me: I'mma make me a Francine journal and ENABLE THE HELL OUT OF HER UNTIL SHE FOLDS MUAHAHAHAHA. And then I re-read the entire series in the correct order including the issues I'd totally missed, made like 500 icons, stalked bugged Shanie about it forevers, and the rest is history.

And she's right: I used to ID with Katchoo because I'm short and good at pining, but now I can't really imagine not writing Francie. I don't have Chewie's anger issues, and know Francine's self-worth ones like the back of my hand.

* SIP goes Series 1 issues 1-3, Series 2 issues 1-13, and Series 3 issues 1-90. Welcome to the world of constantly changing publishers/self-publishing.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

I can't remember why I didn't start watching GA when it first started airing but it was probably because it was on a night I was already watching something or it just didn't ping my radar at the start. I ended up randomly picking up the first season on DVD because it was a short season and, thus, cheap.

And while GA is total crash and such a soapy soap opera? It was COMPLETELY ADDICTIVE. It was a ridiculous popcorn show and I watched that entire first season over a weekend. The storylines are SO OUT THERE and the characters are either REALLY ANNOYING (Hi, Izzie!) or really good (HI BAILEY AND ALEX) so nothing really made me turn it all the way off. I got to Netflixing the other available seasons until I caught up. GA isn't a show I watch every week but I watch in chunks and really do enjoy myself. Watching every week might be bad for your health (GHOST SEX GHOST SEX GHOST SEX).

And I use this icon because I can. That's an actual canon moment, oh yes.

[eternalstud.livejournal.com]

My roommate made me watch Grey's Anatomy and I was okay with that until Meredith "died". Fuck that shit, bitch should have croaked for realsies.

[guardian-god.livejournal.com]

It's me, there's always a story.

Now I have the added pleasure of becoming intrigued with the world of Vampire Academy way late one night when I read guardianborn's application (it's good to be an admin). I'd read all of the Twilight series and Richelle Mead's books just sounded like what I wished Twilight had actually been. Now, I didn't get myself a copy of the book right away because I was busy, blah blah conference blah work blah. But then I had to get books from the library for summer school anyway so I asked a few people for recs and Emily screamed GET VA. So I did.

I read the first chapter as I walked out to the car (because I have issues, okay?) and when I got home I was all "TELL ME WE GET MORE TALL RUSSIAN GUY!" I want to say I didn't have time that very day to continue reading, but the day I started on chapter two, I finished the book a few hours later with a whole lot of keysmash. Then I went out to the grocery store the next morning and forced the spouse make a side trip to B&N to purchase Frostbite, Shadow's Kiss, and VA (because I'm a completist). I got home in the afternoon, sat down, and read the next two books with a break for dinner in between. And during my break I made a character journal for Dimitri because I have no willpower. But then when I finished SK I weeped and made a WHOLE NEW JOURNAL because Richelle is EVIL. Yes, I'm still upset. But I was also lucky because Emily let me keysmash at her the entire time. I believe I sent whole emails consisting of nothing but character's names and keysmash. Good books, people. They really suck you in.

And then there were like, a few weeks or something before Blood Promise came out and broke my heart at least five different times. And now there's ELEVEN DAYS until I have Spirit Bound and can stop accidentally clicking spoilery links in Richelle's twitter feed and wanting to stab myself through the chest. *nods* And the LAST book comes out in December and I might die while waiting for that one in case you wondered.

[sensethevisions]

I have to say that you guys are the reason I ordered all four from Amazon and read them in a weekend.

[eternalstud.livejournal.com]

Oh, The Vampire Diaries.

I started watching it because I had nothing better to do before Supernatural started and the first month or so was me being like "THIS IS THE WORST SHOW EVER, GOD, WHY AM I WATCHING THIS?" but then somewhere say...mid-October it started getting better. And then it got even better. Then I apped Damon because I was able to say this was a guilty pleasure show.

Then after Christmas break The Vampire Diaries became the best written show out of all the shows I watched O.O

Those writers sold their souls to Satan or something because it was complete and utter crap in the beginning and now there are fast moving plots and character development and everything is running smoothly and omg nobody could have possibly seen this coming.

It's actually kind of scary.

[needsaparrot]

How I actually got into Buffy fandom is short and sweet: I loved the movie and didn't pick up the show for three years because I loved the movie and knew it didn't quite follow movie continuity and because I didn't particularly want to get eyerolled at by heromaniac who hates teen dramas with a passion. Then I was bored and depressed and looking for something to distract me and channel-flipped to a summer-rerun of Consequences, specifically Buffy and Faith fighting on the dock at the end, and spake, "Forsooth, the exchange between these two attractive young ladies appears to have elements of rampant homoeroticism!" Or maybe it was "God damn that's gay. Wait, are they actually a couple?* I have to watch this show!" And then there was catching up over the summer and yeah.

*They so, so were. If only in Faith's head.

More entertaining (or at least nostalgic) is me at my post-Chosen weariest, bitching in a locked post.

1. Reality-check: Chosen? Was not written specifically to hurt you. No, seriously. You're not that important.
   
2. Your deep and vitriolic Joss-hate makes the baby sane people cry.
   
3. OH. SHUT. UP. about the fucking mall jokes at the end of Chosen. It's called black humor. It's called any humor in the face of almost dying, losing friends, but possibly saving the world. It's called OMGSTFU about how hard done by Anya and Spike were.
   
4. I love Spike.
   
5. I do not love Spike like you love Spike.
   
6. Because I am from this planet. (Despite rumors to the contrary.)
   
7. Your Xander-hate makes the baby Amy want to say additional bitchy things about your characterization of him in your magnum opus. Just so you know.
   
8. I'm going to see Serenity at least one more time than I would have, and dedicate the extra money going into Joss' pocket to you, because I am five that way.
   

[weetuskenraider]

. . . I hate you. I'm about to go on my break, and I have "Chosen" on my phone, and I THINK I WANT TO GO WATCH IT NOW. :(

[weetuskenraider]

This is the part where I actually have to admit I never saw the original Star Wars trilogy until I was in college.

I had a very weird life, okay?

Let's just say that once I did, I got them on VHS immediately and wore those poor tapes out, so yay for my having the DVDs now. (Look, I'm not going to lie. The first time I heard Luke say "I am a Jedi like my father before me," I CRIED. I DID.)

Before that, though, I dabbled in the books. *glances up at other comments* I'm pretty sure you can make a solid case for me never being able to get into a canon in the proper order. This is a whole wacky story about how we didn't have air conditioning in my house growing up, and summers were miserable, and my dad used to take me to the mall a lot during the summer just so we could get out of the heat. I always ended up spending hours in the bookstore, and for some bizarre reason I ended up reading all the Young Jedi Knights books that way, which led to (after some initial apprehension because some of those covers were ridiculous) the adorable trainwreck of Junior Jedi Knights. And then to some of the earlier non-YA Bantam books.

Which were, unfortunately, Kevin J. Anderson books. And then The Courtship of Princess Leia. It kind of put me off the books for a long, long time until the New Jedi Order series came out, and then I sort of slacked off with Legacy of the Force because I was waiting for the first one to come out in paperback, and then forgot for a long time, and finally got back into them in time for Invincible to come out so I could keysmash a lot with trickster_twin and sith_happened.

And now I've read pretty much all the books except for the Clone Wars and new trilogy kids' books, my collection of SW comics trades is growing at an alarming rate, and I am waiting for the next Fate of the Jedi book to come out so it can be Christmas on May 25, and . . . yep. I get into my fandoms late and out of order, but boy, do I get into 'em.

[life_inshadow]

This is the part where I actually have to admit I never saw the original Star Wars trilogy until I was in college.

Speaking of us being weird ... me too. I saw the 20th anniversary rerelease. I'd picked up bits on TV here and there, but never start to finish before then.

[loyal-type.livejournal.com]

Leda: Well it was pretty much a case of seeing the book in the library, and winding up reading it and it's immediate sequel many times over. I loved the world, and the characters.

Tully: I was going on a road trip and needed a new audio book to pass the time, and hey, look, one by Jimmy Buffet. I like him. And I love that the narrator sounds like David Caradine.

Tim: This is another case of finding the book in the library, loving it, and re-reading it many many times. I was a teenager myself when I did so, so I really could relate to the boy.

Billy: I grew up watching the cartoon. And then when Marvel started putting out the trades of the old comic I checked them out, remembering some stuff from my friends tales when I was a kid. I wound up becoming impressed with the characterization of the people as opposed to the cartoon. Particularly ol' Snake-Head himself.

Oz: A fan since season one, episode one. I checked it out because I was curious about how they were gonna turn the movie (which I had not actually seen yet) into a tv show. I knew the story of course, because as huge geek, I'd read the novelization of the movie.

Robin: And last but not least, I grew up with the Muppets. And have loved them forever.

[therewaslife]

Me reading The Graveyard Book came at the tail end of a spree of Gaiman books for me. Ebooks are a wonderful, wonderful invention, guys. Anyway, in the weeks previously, I'd read Coraline, American Gods, Nevewhere, and Stardust and didn't want to stop. The Graveyard Book was one I picked up randomly and couldn't put down. It was such a different sort of tale, completely going against what I read as a young adult (RL Stine, Christoper Pike, Judy Blume) and I really hated that I hadn't been turned onto him earlier.

I can't even remember who's recc finally got me going onto Gaiman but I know our dearly departed justice_beat and her HUGE enthusiasm for her canon and her canon's author helped. So, I will give her partial credit! I'm horrible at finding new books for myself to read so I always go off reccs.

ONE DAY, I WILL GET TO VA!

[vanillajello]

You are part of the reason my Mom brought the Finnish translation of The Graveyard Book with her from the library today.

Because you bringing Bod here got me off my ass and finally buying the book, which in turn led to me squeeing at her about how much I liked it and yeah.

Just so you know. YOU ARE INFLUENTIAL.

[bloody-luck.livejournal.com]

I read ridiculously fast and always have (My mom stopped buying me Babysitters Club books because I'd have it finished in the 20 minute car ride between the store and home), so I'm always looking for books that are thick that will last me more than a few hours.

While loitering in the sci-fi section, seeing if there was a new Star Wars book (in a time before I had internet. OMG dark ages), I saw the Wheel of Time. And the books were ridiculously thick. Like, breaks the front cover off of the paperback thick. And the cover art was absolutely ridiculous (there's a website devoted to mocking them (http://linuxmafia.com/~pam/cover_art.html)), but I was in college majoring in poli sci and if I didn't find something other than Aristotle and de Toqueville to read my head was going to explode. So I picked up the first book, was kind of "eh" about it until the boys got separated and then hoooooooooly cow. I was up until 4 in the morning three nights running trying to finish it and went back to the store to get the next one not a week later.

I read fast enough that I caught up to where Robert Jordan was still writing them, so I waited anxiously for Winter's Heart to come out (finding my very first online chat group along the way), and bemoaning how nothing was happening for books at a time.

And this year the latest book came out, things are actually Happening, and we might get a genuine End to this Damn Story.

[glacial_queen]

That's how I got into Mercedes Lackey! My mom brought me to a bookstore for my 11th birthday, and I was debating between Winds of Change and some other random book. I was bringing other random book to the counter when I stopped to check the page count for that one and then went back to check Winds of Change.

WoC was longer (by, like, 4 pages) so I set other random book down and got WoC instead.

And then had to buy ever Misty book EVER.

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

Uh, there's not much of a story to this one. I saw how hot Ryan Reynold looked, think Callum Keith Rennie is ALWAYS hot and watched because of that.

It's an awful movie but I forgive it for having some amazingly scene chewing characters that make it hella entertaining.

[laceycantlie.livejournal.com]

The story of how I got into Corner Gas fandom is very short and very simple.

longislandiceme would not stop spamming me in IM with quotes from the show, until finally I decided I had to check it out, one day.

Two days later, I'd watched two and a half seasons.

I still haven't watched the last half of the final season, though. I'm in denial that it's over.

[wantstocheer.livejournal.com]

I think that's how EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US got into Corner Gas lol.

[flipped-god-off.livejournal.com]

Me watching Dogma was due to one simple thing: Kevin Smith's View Askew universe. I would and will watch any movie contained in that universe, no matter what. I fucking loved it and I fucking miss it. I loved every single movie in that universe and I will do so until I die.

GO BACK TO VIEW ASKEW, KEVIN. PLEASE? PLEAAAAAAAAAAASE! Come on, how can he not go back to the movies that gave us the STINK PALM!

[life_inshadow]

GO BACK TO VIEW ASKEW, KEVIN. PLEASE? PLEAAAAAAAAAAASE! Come on, how can he not go back to the movies that gave us the STINK PALM!

I WILL SIGN THIS PETITION, JUST SO YOU KNOW.

... apparently I think this is worth capslocking about. But Kevin should totes stop doing other things and stick with movies that can plausibly have Jay & Silent Bob in them.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

I got into Skins right back when it first started, and there was huge amounts of hype over here because it was supposed to be all quirky and gritty and groundbreaking showing teens like no other, or something. So of course I watched. And geeked out over it excitably at likes_chicken, and he was about the only other person I managed to enable into watching back then.

Then I made this journal just as they were airing the second season (and in fact played Effy veeeery briefly at another game a year before I app-ed her here), because of course, not content to be a normal person and into one of the main characters, I went 'oh hey, I think that little sister that lurks around and doesn't talk is awesome'.

And then at the end of that season they announced she was taking over as a main character for the next two, and I was all \o/ (ofc they went on to totally mess her up, but-- Not the point of today's babble.)

[isntabitpretty.livejournal.com]

This one's simple, too: I read a lot. A lot, and the day that I ran out of Anne of Green Gables books to pick up when I was fourteen, I drifted back to the L.M. Montgomery section at the bookstore and picked up The Story Girl. Read it in about four hours, didn't discover there was a sequel until a couple of months later, picked that up the second I found it, read that in about four hours.

Over the next couple of years I proceeded to read those two books to pieces, got new copies, read those to pieces too . . . yay for Kindle editions, is all I have to say.

[nojesusfreak.livejournal.com]

Lamb was a book I picked up entirely because of the title. Come on, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal. Who wouldn't read that? And it turned out the book was amazing. I went out, bought and read everything else Chris Moore has ever written, and pimped out Biff to everyone I know (it's a book I have three copies of, two for lending out).

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

Bones I can blame on a friend from school. I was staying with her the night before I caught a flight out to DC to visit FH-ers. I didn't want to sleep when I had to leave to catch a plane at 4am, so I mainlined the entire first season she had on DVD.... aaaand promptly forgot the ENTIRE THING. Seriously, when I rewatched a year later I recognised nothing.

I'm blaming the jetlag of the couple days after.

Anyway.

A year later I got back to it for real. Right around summer semester application time! That was the point it actually hooked me. I'd only actually watched the first season at the point I sent in my app for Angela. But fortunately I kept loving her for the next four, so it turned out to have been a good spur of the moment decision on my part.

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

I'd read The Giver as a kid but I didn't really remember it when I picked up randomly to read again one rainy weekend (I remember that it was raining and there was nothing on television). I remembered that it was CREEPY and DISTURBING AS HALE but not why until about ten pages in.

It was still enthralling though and considering it was written many years ago and could still be pretty relevant told me how good it was. Lois Lowry couldn't really duplicate the success with the sequels so I sort of say The Giver exists in its own AWESOME bubble.

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

I'm reading this post waaaay late but your comment reminded me of something. I read Messenger the other day (I thought it was the second one, not the third, so hurp durp me) and I found myself frustrated. I like the idea of fleshing the world out a bit, but I think you're right about not being able to duplicate the success of The Giver and it's in the writing. Messenger really felt like she had the establishy part down perfectly, but then wasn't sure what to do with her plot, so she rushed as fast as she could to the end, hopping, skipping and jumping over points to keep under a certain word count.

So disappointing considering how awesome The Giver is.

[gorka-wolf.livejournal.com]

Once upon a time, long long ago, I found a comic book called Run Makita Run at a garage sale for fifty cents and picked it up. And fell in love. But I could not find ANY of the previous issues at my comic book store, and so thought it had been canceled and resolved to love my one, single, copy.

Then make_the_shot came to town during his cross-country tour, and was astonished that I did not know this was an ongoing series. And promptly loaned me all the copies he had in his car.

I read them in one night. I read them three times in a row, and then promptly addicted my boyfriend and two ninjas in the same evening.

The Red Star is a series by Christian Gossett set in a sci-fi/fantasy world described by Gossett as "Mythic [Soviet] Russia". The "Lands of The Red Star" were inspired by both Russian folklore and military history. The series is thus heavily reminiscent of a post-World War II Soviet Russia mixing technology and sorcery. Magic is a science, and one with a horrible secret.

It's the story of a woman who has lost almost everything in the name of her country, and keeps losing. Husband, best friend, her soul. A woman ready to die, who is then given one chance to take back everything that has been stolen from her. A opportunity to risk everything, and remake the world. On the surface, it is the history of Maya Antares, her redemption from unthinking weapon of the State to savior, and her struggle to free humanity from unseen chains.

It is one of the few canons that has ever made me cry, joining ranks with Voices of a Distant Star for something that can make me bawl on command. Run Makita Run nails me every damn time. It's the series that gives us complex and nuanced characters such as Urik, Goncharova, and Kyuzo. People who want to do their duty, who honor and love their nation. People learning bloodstained lessons about love, loyalty, and patriotism, and the absolute heart-break when you realize all that you know about the world is a lie.

I know we've addicted a few of you, but for those who want to start small and read the stand-alone issue where Makita and Proto come to Fandom from, you can find it here (http://s278.photobucket.com/albums/kk115/AhddieIcons/redstar/runmakitarun/) (password is the same as my AIM screenname).

It's fierce. It's heartbreaking. And it is inspiring beyond all belief.

[make-the-shot.livejournal.com]

And if people find their appetites whetted by that (AND YOU WILL), well, I might have an extensive collection of digital scans.

Or something.

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

It went something like this:

Sister: I'm reading those Twilight books, it's fun. You should read them after me.
Me: 0.o Don't they suck? It's Twilight, I heard horrible things about it.
Sister: No, no. It isn't bad. I'll get you the first book!

And then somehow I finished reading them all. Yeah, I still don't get it. It had to do with this wolf boy, because I like wolf boys and he got me through the bad. So I figured I should get him through it too.

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

The first movie I ever saw in a movie theatre was actually The Little Mermaid. D'aawwwwww. ♥

[sensethevisions]

I got into Charmed when it first started because it was about witches and sisters. (I like family teams, ok?) To the surprise of no one, Phoebe was the sister that I just fell in love with. I liked the show, but then the writers annoyed me with the way they were treating different deities by making them the evil demons. However, I still watched and then S3 and S4 happened. I loved Phoebe and really loved the whole Phoebe and Cole relationship. Then, of course, the writers really pissed me off and I stopped watching it for awhile. At around the same time, I started playing Phoebe at a prompt community because I wanted to "fix" where the writers had gone wrong.

Then, I met some friends, I started playing here and so I started watching the show again. There was stuff I loved and stuff I hated and stuff I will NEVER DO in game. (Most of Season 8.)

Luckily, I had canon mates who wanted to re-write and fix things just as much as I did.

[scruffnfeathers]

I think I stumbled onto Pete and Pete (for Artie), I dunno, I was, like 8 when I got into it. Ten Inch Hero (Priestly) I watched purely for the Jensen factor, because I'm shallow, and Warehouse 13 (Claudia) I saw ads for that had Claudia in them so I watched that purely for her -- because, no, really, I'm shallow.

Supernatural is a bit of a more interesting story, though.

So, when SPN first aired, I was in the Czech Republic, learning to teach English and generally thinking I was really hip. I think I managed to download like, one episode of house and one of Lost to try to keep up on shows I watched stateside, and my mother mailed me a burned DVD of Lost episodes once. The only TV I had access to was a) hooked up to a German satellite company (Voyager auf Deutsch is kind of hilarious) or b) entirely in Czech until the last few weeks, when they finally got the English channels working and watched a lot of VH1 and Cartoon Network, since they were the only channels that came through. I read a lot. And watched every last freaking bit of the DVDs I brought with me at least twice. It snowed every day in November in over stateside, Nate and Gumboy were talking about this game which I couldn't jump in on because my email access was, like, 20 minutes four times a week in the back of a video store, most of which was spent downloading email. I didn't even know a show called Supernatural existed until we got a Sam and a Dean in this game.

[momslilassassin]

Voyager auf Deutsch is kind of hilarious

IT IS. I love when the name of the random Trek thingie is so long in German that it trails into the next scene.

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

So I touched a bit of Tortall canon when Emily sent me the Aly books way back. I don't remember when exactly and I adored Aly, but never really got to read any of the other books.

So when I was at Emily's last year, she had Terrier and the cover kind of intrigued me, I dunno. I randomly read the few first pages and then somehow ended up buying the books and I adored them.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

It was, um, a freaking long ass time ago. March 2007 maybe? It was in the Spring.

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

I started watching Farscape from the get go because I love love love good science fiction and this was one of the SciFi Channel's first original series. It was love at first episode. Holy crap, this show is and was amazing. It took some time for it to really kick into gear but if you get through those first few episodes, you're golden.

The only bad thing about watching as it aired? THE HORRIBLE HIATUSES THE SCIFI CHANNEL INSISTED UPON (BSG and SGA/SG1 fans can attest to this). They were SO LONG (sometimes hitting nearly a year or a year plus) and they usually happened right after an AWFUL cliffhanger. Die Me, Dichotomy anyone?

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

They had me at "Little Yellow Bolts of Light" and Aeryn and D'Argo shooting Crichton WTF looks of Death. *ggg* Okay, they maybe had me at John waking up naked and then Aeryn taking him down, but they *definitely* had me by the jailbreak.

Oh god I hated those hiatuses. SO DAMN MUCH. They were hellish.

[chosehumanity]

Oh, did I ever get into Being Human ass-backwards.

Me and hotceltogoth were talking about our mutual love of Beeb shows when he wound up going all, 'Oh, and I'm apping George from Being Human!'

Me: Bzuhwhat?
Him: You don't know it? :O OMG. You'd play a PERFECT Mitchell! *throws clips at me*
Me: ... razzum-frazzum.

Three episodes in, I'd made a Mitchell account, cursed hotceltogoth's name repeatedly, and gotten totally hooked. I swear, a six-episode season of Being Human makes you feel like you've just watched a whole 24-episode block. It's intense, and the character development is amazing, and it's so so human while at the same time managing to be about the supernatural, it's a comedy and a drama, balanced utterly pitch-perfect.

And of course he had to go and be right about Mitchell being perfect for me. Nghrble.

Seriously, though. You have to love a show that has a Friendly Neighbourhood Vampire who goes over the edge after being falsely accused of being a pedophile (resulting in the boy's death), a werewolf who refuses to cop to what he is and can go from goofy to intense from one minute to the other, a ghost who seems like a stereotypical Weak Damsel at first until you realise her entire character arc is about shaking that stereotype...

Oh, and then there's stuff like Mitchell killing a train full of people, brooding about it, only to be obviously and intensely denied recognition of it by George. "I don't want to know what you did," he says, "I can't be your confessor, I need you too much." DSFJDSKFHekhakfjhask.

This show, man. It can be funny, and it can be utterly chilling. And have another trailer. I'm in a pimping mood.


Mostly-platonic OT-frickin-3. I don't know any other show where I love all of the leads equally.