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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[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

Let's start with Xena: Warrior Princess since it was my first real fandom, shall we? Yes.

I have to admit, I didn't actually get into X:WP right away. The first episode I ever saw, thanks to the scheduling-pinball magic of syndication, was the season 2 opener "Orphan of War," and my basic reaction was a gigantic OMGWTF?!? I was sitting there going "Okay, she seriously just killed that really bad CGI centaur with a GIANT CROSSBOW BOLT MADE OUT OF A TREE, this show is insane, I cannot deal." And then after that, I didn't really bother for a while until there was a lot of hype about the first musical episode, season 3's "The Bitter Suite." Which was cracky, and fun, and pretty, but again I was too o.O and confused by the syndication schedule to really get into it.

Then an ex-girlfriend of mine linked me to some X:WP fic, I couldn't tell you what it was now, but it was some long fic and it was pretty good and I just kept reading fic (I developed a huge thing for the early canon ubers based on "The Xena Scrolls," with Janice Covington and Mel Pappas) and I decided "screw it, I'll give this show another shot."

So I did, which just happened to land me right in season 4, 9 episodes in with "Past Imperfect." Season 4 was so not the best season to start watching, but I really did get hooked -- that was the season where they really started ramping up the subtext and the intensity of the relationship between Xena and Gabrielle, and the New Zealand locations were absolutely gorgeous, and let's face it, the leads were smoking hot, and right about that point in my life it was about the best hook I could ever ask for in a show.

After that, I watched every episode pretty much religiously, went back and mainlined the earlier seasons, bought all the DVDs when they came out, went to a bunch of cons . . . the rest is pretty much history. X:WP is always going to have a soft spot in my heart as my first "real" fandom, as in the first one where I actually got so hardcore into the show that I did the fic thing and the con thing and the mailing-list/message board thing. (And yeah, this fandom is totally how I met divinesurfchick, holy crap how many years ago was that now)

And the getting flamed out of sections of the fandom for defending the series finale thing. Remember this, it'll be a bit of a motif.

[therewaslife]

Every few months, I get into these Xena moods where ALL I WANT TO WATCH ARE THE DVDS. And I just do it incessantly. I so hate that I didn't get all the DVD sets before they were discontinued (I'm like one season away).

CURSES!

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

*cough* (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00344EAQO/tvshowsondvdcom)

SEASON 1 RERELEASE IS OUT NOW. THE OTHERS ARE COMING.

[therewaslife]

I saw that JUST as I submitted this comment! HUZZAH! Now, I can complete my collection! I am such a completist, holy crap. I still need a few X-Files DVDs to ease my OCD too.

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

I have a bunch of season 2 episodes on my phone, actually. It's like random emergency comfort-watching on stressy days. :D