*sigh* I've been feeling wistful of late. Oh, the nostalgia of
BtVS fandom silliness/angst/joy/flailing. Was there anything more glorious than devouring/abstaining spoilers, waiting with baited breath for each ep, watching said ep, then hopping on to Crumbling Walls/LJ/etc. to discuss/analyze/wail/squee with dozens of others that felt your pain/joy, and were of like mind? I still don't know how I had time for all that, but dang! It was FUN. It was/is pretty much the only time I've ever been completely engulfed, and
involved while a show was still actually in production. Hard to top
BtVS/Angel running at the same time, and oh how can we forget those awesome crossover eps!!! Nothing like it IMO. Oh, and boy...did I ever 'ship some Spuffy. Wow. Read lots of fanfic to scratch that Spuffy itch...searching for things that I JUST HAD to "see" happen between them. If I couldn't get it on the screen, then by george, I was going to get my fix one way or another. Oh, and the icons, banners, wallpapers, manips, etc. that I made to see my OTP together as they should have been darn it!! Obsessed. Yeah. I think that word might cover it. I had a photo op with James Marsters at Dragon*Con one year, though he no longer had his platinum "Spike" hair. It was fun meeting him, and listening to the Q&A panel, but I was/am really more of a Spike fan, than a JM fan. But, I digress. Spuffy. It ate my brain. *nods*
I got on the
Firefly wagon way late. Show was over, done, canceled (WAH!) by the time I discovered it. Shipped the heck out of some Mal/Inara too. I think that if I would have been on board while the show was airing, I would have been even more involved with the fandom. Even so, late or no, I did icons out the wazoo. Annnd....courtesy of yet a couple of other D*C jaunts, with
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angstchic , I had the pleasure of speaking with Mark Shepperd (Badger), and Ron Glass (Shepherd Book). Plus, photo ops with Nathan Fillion (Mal) & Alan Tudyk (Wash), as well as attending Q&As with all the preceding, along with Jewel Staite (Kaylee), Morena Baccarin (Inara
).
Lost. I loved every ep and lurked quite a bit on some boards, but I never dove into fandom like I did with BtVS I lurved me some Sawyer. I made scads of icons. I 'shipped Skate eva so hard, but by the last season I was very OK with Sawyer/Juliette, which kind of surprised me...but hey...Kate kept acting like a twit! I could not help! *shrugs* The finale, oh it made me cry, but I was happy with the ending. It gave me the answers and closure I needed/wanted.
So many other shows that I've enjoyed for a time, but for whatever reason lost interest in.
House, Fringe, Burn Notice, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Chuck, Supernatural, Leverage, etc. Eh, what can I say. I'm hard to please, and apparently have the attention span of a gnat. Oh, and
Moonlight, but I didn't lose interest there...that totally wasn't my fault. The @$$h@ts at CBS canceled it. Gah. I think I'll always remain bitter on that one. Oh, and I jumped in late on
24, and stayed till the end. Poor Jack Bauer. *pets him*
I'll also watch the new seasons of
Dexter (definitely) &
True Blood (maybe) once they are released on DVD/BluRay, since I don't get premium channels on Dish. Though I'm up to date with both of those so far. The other 2 shows that I'm current with, and so far, plan on staying that way are
The Walking Dead, and
Justified (both off season right now). I don't know how long my interest will hold, but so far so good.
So, here's the crux of this post. I have
major show-induced 'ship angst. Once again I'm late, late, LATE, to the party. Worse than I was with
Firefly. OMG I have to just say it. BBCs
Robin Hood. Guy Gisborne &
Marian.
OMGTHEPRETTY!! They. Hurt. Me. I saw bits and pieces of RH while it was ongoing, and I felt a strong pull...and instantly the G/M 'ship made my little shippy heart race. I personally thought the show should have been named
Robin Who? But I'm biased. OMGGUY. Ahem. Very biased. But I never quite seemed to have time to really INVEST into it. So it was kind of like a flirtation for me. I didn't set aside time to watch the eps, but I did DVR them. I tended to read spoilers, and then it happened.....I found out that
horrible things were going to happen at the end of S2. Really, really STUPID things. I mean, I thought Joss Whedon had the market cornered on breaking fan's hearts, but I dare say, these writers might be able to teach him a thing or four. So I stopped watching. I deleted the eps on my DVR. I couldn't bear it. I didn't know if I could STAND watching it. It wasn't until S3 was over (cancellation announced July '09), and I completely spoiled myself to everything that happened that I finally watched my most dreaded scenes on YouTube. OMG the angst. The pain. Mind you, I haven't watched every episode...but somehow, !STILL!, I'm
intensely involved with this 'ship. I avoided watching eps, because I knew it was going to kill me. I mean, if I'm up to my eyeballs in angst
without watching all the eps...think how deep it'll get after I've seen everything!! Gah. But for whatever reason, the other day I started thinking of Spuffy, of how much I loved that 'ship and the fandom, and that got me thinking of Guy/Marian and next thing you know I'm scouring the net for G/M fic. I'm dying to make screencaps, wallpapers, icons of them. I'm devouring fan vids. I freaking ordered the series set on Amazon today. WTH? *sigh* I must be a glutton for punishment. Hello to the pain.
Comfort? Comfort here! Anyone? :P
P.S. Actually,
whining sharing here on LJ has helped, I might survive. \o/ ...At least until the DVD set arrives. Meep!
P.S.S. What fandoms/'ships/shows are you currently invested in? Which ate
your brain/broke
your heart? Share, vent, discuss. :)
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