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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[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.

[weetuskenraider]

I was dragged to the Special Edition screenings (that had just started coming out, my freshman year) by the DM of my college Dungeons and Dragons group when he found out I'd never seen them, and was UTTERLY SCANDALIZED.

This was kind of an impressive feat considering we were a bunch of fifteen-year-olds, freshmen weren't allowed cars, and the nearest theater screening it was 40 minutes away in Springfield . . .