Yet Another Survey

[omorka]

Ganked from scarfman:

What 5 fandoms would you like to get into, but just can't?

5) Supernatural. It sounds like the first two seasons would be pretty much right up my alley. Unfortunately, I know that universe turns out to be very, very Christian, and that would annoy the crap out of me. Also, there appear to be a lot of very vocal tinhats in the fandom.

4) Fullmetal Alchemist. Does not have the above problem. I've seen the first few episodes, and I enjoyed them a lot, but I haven't felt enough of a pull to watch the rest of it, and I'm not sure why.

3) Reservoir Chronicle Tsubasa. Same as #4, although I've seen more of it. There's also the minor issue of my having gotten spoiled on a few plot points and going WTF? They probably make more sense in context, but still.

2) Marvel Comics, in general. I used to know every character backwards and forwards. I haven't followed a single title in years. I blame sucky writing, but I still feel bad about it.

1) Babylon 5. We own it. I love JMS like a lot of fen love Joss Whedon. Bruce Boxleitner holds a small but important place in my discovery of my sexuality, from his TRON and Scarecrow and Mrs. King days. It has Billy Mumy in it. It has Walter Koenig in it. There are strong female characters. I have no damn excuse. Someone please tie me to a chair and make me watch it.

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iTunes has sent me to Allison Crowe's cover of "Hallelujah." Remind me not to write songfic for this song. Shows off her voice, though.

I have eight stories on deadlines, and I've spent two and a half hours getting something terribly angsty and self-indulgent into TextEdit that has nothing to do with any of them. Then again, I can sort of think of this as warm-up for the one of the eight of them I've not laid Word One down on. (And I still need to re-watch Banzai for one of the remaining ones.)

Comments

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

IMO Season 1 of B5 is hard to get through, but ultimately the payoff is go.

[the-kiggy.livejournal.com]

I used to be a big fan of the Legion of Super Heroes, but, as it happens with the big 2, they kept messing with the continuity, retconning and rebooting and I jut dropped it, along with al american mainstream comics.

Now it's just manga and webcomics for me.

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

Wait...you OWN B5 and haven't watched it???

*boggle*

Come. My house. I will tie you down as necessary.

[omorka.livejournal.com]

I'm a terrible fangirl, I know. :-(

I've watched about five episodes, not contiguous.

Edited to add: And far be it from me to refuse an offer from such a fine gentleman for a good tying down. ;-)

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

You naughty lady! (I could deny that I intended the double-entendre...but somehow I suspect you wouldn't believe me.)

[bibulb.livejournal.com]

We've read the episode guides cover to cover (this was before the turn of the century, when "getting caught up" would have entailed either breaking down and getting cable or paying beaucoup buckolas to get the thing on seven zillion videotapes (or borrowing five zillion tapes from friends who had recorded it)), and we've gone through a lot of supplementary material online and in other books (the RPG and such-like), but we never sat down with it - and we got the discs early last year (thank you to Costco for having them ABSURDLY cheap, and thank you to the Art Ninja for finding them there) before THINGS HAPPENED FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR, and never got the chance to start plowing through.

The number of things that we have with intentions of devouring but never got around to is rather sad...

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

I certainly understand that Life Happens. I had the full series run on DVD for a couple years (mega-sale at Best Buy, similar to your purchase at Costco) before cracking the shrinkwrap on 'em (though that was for re-watching, not first-time viewing). And my "to read" pile of books always gets bigger, never smaller.

But really, you MUST figure out some way to extract the time in your busy lives to sit down and watch it. It's that good, really it is. (Season 1 has its slow moments and false starts; bear with it, and you start getting your reward when groundwork laid in Season 1 starts bearing fruit in Season 2.)

Do you have the pilot movie "The Gathering"? It contains some important backstory/mystery stuff which gets reviewed via flashbacks and suchlike during Season 1 eps, but I think it makes more sense in its original context.