Silly Relationships Meme Time
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promethia_tenkI'm in one of those moods. Let's be silly and fannish, shall we?
MEME THE FIRST:
Comment with any ship (romantic or platonic or maybe even non-existent!) from a fandom that you know I have some knowledge about, and I will rant about aforementioned ship. This may be incoherent gushing or exclamations of disgust, depending on your ship of choice.
I'm not going to promise to insult anybody's ship in an unadvisedly flippant manner, but how will we ever know if nobody tempts fate? *eyebrow waggle* Feel free to prompt more than one. Off-the-top-of-my-head list of shows/fandoms I have an opinion of (may not be comprehensive) for your reference:
SciFi/Fantasy: Star Wars, Star Treks (all but Enterprise), X Files, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy, Dollhouse, Doctor Who (New), Torchwood, Heroes, True Blood, Harry Potter, Firefly, Game of Thrones, 10th Kingdom, Pushing Daisies, LotR
Drama: House (4 seasons), Gossip Girl (2 seasons), Dexter, L Word, Gilmore Girls, Grey's Anatomy (2 seasons), West Wing (3 seasons), Sherlock, Ugly Betty (2 seasons), The Tudors (2 seasons)
Comedy: 30 Rock, How I Met Your Mother, Community, Arrested Development, Simpsons
MEME THE SECOND:
It's that fandoms as relationships thing that's going around! Admittedly, I'm using a rather loose definition of "fandom" here . . .
The one who seduced you, screwed you over, broke your heart in a million pieces, and laughed about it.
My first thought here was Battlestar Galactica, but I've become oddly zen about that show of late and have to award the spot to House, MD, which continues to flaunt its degraded status on my television to this day.
The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp:
Sorry, HIMYM--this seems to be you. But I love catching up from time to time!
The mysterious dark one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3 AM at weird coffee houses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized s/he really was fucking crazy:
True Blood, you could have gone insane in the most brilliant way, but no . . . What a waste.
The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor and whom you'd still really like to get with again, although you're relieved s/he doesn't actually live in town:
Heroes! I never finished the last season and, yeah, it's probably best it's gone. But season three was TOTALLY WORTH IT, y'all have no idea what you're missing.
The steady:
Hmmm . . . I'm more of a serial monogamist, but if I had to put something in here, it would probably be Star Trek in all its shapes and forms. I thought it was consigned to the realms of nostalgia, but then the reboot came back and, dammit, I love it with every earnest, idealistic, campy fibre of my being.
The alluring stranger whom you've flirted with at parties but have never gotten really serious with:
Ugh, so many! Maybe Leverage? It's an ENTIRE SHOW ABOUT HEISTS!
The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with, but ultimately you're just good buddies:
Community. The fandom seems really fun, but the characters and relationships don't have quite the same amount of hook that HIMYM did for me.
The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems like a hell of a cool person except it's never really gone anywhere:
From the things I hear and the little I've watched, I can tell I'm gonna be mad for Fringe for at least a little while. But I've stalled out about halfway through the first season. I think I just know that when I finally feel like it, it's still gonna be around.
The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at them and thinking, "How the hell did they land all these cool people?"
Sherlock. WTF?
The one who gave you the best damned summer of your life and against whom you measure all other potential partners:
Doctor Whoooooo! Ok, it's been a year and half, but who's counting?
The one you recently met at a party and would like to get to know better:
Avatar: The Last Airbender
The old flame that you wouldn't totally object to hooking up with again for a one night romp if only they'd clean up a bit:
There's a Gossip Girl-shaped hole in my life, but it's probably all horrid now, isn't it?
Your hot new flame:
Dollhouse. All the hotter for being a little wrong.
The one who stole your significant other:
I don't know that this has really happened to me. I'm badly susceptible to being stolen myself, though.
MEME THE FIRST:
Comment with any ship (romantic or platonic or maybe even non-existent!) from a fandom that you know I have some knowledge about, and I will rant about aforementioned ship. This may be incoherent gushing or exclamations of disgust, depending on your ship of choice.
I'm not going to promise to insult anybody's ship in an unadvisedly flippant manner, but how will we ever know if nobody tempts fate? *eyebrow waggle* Feel free to prompt more than one. Off-the-top-of-my-head list of shows/fandoms I have an opinion of (may not be comprehensive) for your reference:
SciFi/Fantasy: Star Wars, Star Treks (all but Enterprise), X Files, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy, Dollhouse, Doctor Who (New), Torchwood, Heroes, True Blood, Harry Potter, Firefly, Game of Thrones, 10th Kingdom, Pushing Daisies, LotR
Drama: House (4 seasons), Gossip Girl (2 seasons), Dexter, L Word, Gilmore Girls, Grey's Anatomy (2 seasons), West Wing (3 seasons), Sherlock, Ugly Betty (2 seasons), The Tudors (2 seasons)
Comedy: 30 Rock, How I Met Your Mother, Community, Arrested Development, Simpsons
MEME THE SECOND:
It's that fandoms as relationships thing that's going around! Admittedly, I'm using a rather loose definition of "fandom" here . . .
The one who seduced you, screwed you over, broke your heart in a million pieces, and laughed about it.
My first thought here was Battlestar Galactica, but I've become oddly zen about that show of late and have to award the spot to House, MD, which continues to flaunt its degraded status on my television to this day.
The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp:
Sorry, HIMYM--this seems to be you. But I love catching up from time to time!
The mysterious dark one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3 AM at weird coffee houses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized s/he really was fucking crazy:
True Blood, you could have gone insane in the most brilliant way, but no . . . What a waste.
The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor and whom you'd still really like to get with again, although you're relieved s/he doesn't actually live in town:
Heroes! I never finished the last season and, yeah, it's probably best it's gone. But season three was TOTALLY WORTH IT, y'all have no idea what you're missing.
The steady:
Hmmm . . . I'm more of a serial monogamist, but if I had to put something in here, it would probably be Star Trek in all its shapes and forms. I thought it was consigned to the realms of nostalgia, but then the reboot came back and, dammit, I love it with every earnest, idealistic, campy fibre of my being.
The alluring stranger whom you've flirted with at parties but have never gotten really serious with:
Ugh, so many! Maybe Leverage? It's an ENTIRE SHOW ABOUT HEISTS!
The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with, but ultimately you're just good buddies:
Community. The fandom seems really fun, but the characters and relationships don't have quite the same amount of hook that HIMYM did for me.
The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems like a hell of a cool person except it's never really gone anywhere:
From the things I hear and the little I've watched, I can tell I'm gonna be mad for Fringe for at least a little while. But I've stalled out about halfway through the first season. I think I just know that when I finally feel like it, it's still gonna be around.
The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at them and thinking, "How the hell did they land all these cool people?"
Sherlock. WTF?
The one who gave you the best damned summer of your life and against whom you measure all other potential partners:
Doctor Whoooooo! Ok, it's been a year and half, but who's counting?
The one you recently met at a party and would like to get to know better:
Avatar: The Last Airbender
The old flame that you wouldn't totally object to hooking up with again for a one night romp if only they'd clean up a bit:
There's a Gossip Girl-shaped hole in my life, but it's probably all horrid now, isn't it?
Your hot new flame:
Dollhouse. All the hotter for being a little wrong.
The one who stole your significant other:
I don't know that this has really happened to me. I'm badly susceptible to being stolen myself, though.
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Date: 2 Sep 2011 02:11 am (UTC)Picard/Crusher: I shipped this so hard in middle school (and Crusher was by far my favorite TNG character). My sister got bequeathed my ST recordings at one point and had to call me up to point out that the only TNG episodes I had taped had P/C elements--I make no apologies for this. Also the first ship I ever read fic for. I'm actually rather hesitant to go back to TNG and watch them again because I don't want to find out that really I was a moron and that I hate them now or something like that.
Simon/Kaylee: One of my favorite things about Firefly. They were cute with each other and Simon was hot, so I definitely watched for them. Ultimately, though, Firefly doesn't do that much for me, so while I had a good time rooting for them, I probably wouldn't have really thought of them much again after I'd finished watching were it not for how Firefly obsessed fandom is.
Mal/Inara: Never cared. I think I liked them better platonically and got a bit annoyed with how the show teased with them.
Helo/Athena: I enjoyed them well enough while they were still on Caprica together, although I liked most of the other elements of the show more. Once they got back to the fleet, though . . . they managed to continually rankle me. I did feel very bad for them with everything that happened with Hera, but I was also in this perpetual state of low-level annoyance with them: I think they generally came off very condescending and holier-than-thou. Helo was just generally not a favorite, though, except when he was being friends with Starbuck. And I always sympathized a lot more with Boomer than I did Athena :-\
Amy/Rory: I went from being convinced they were a bad idea in season five and hoping for Amy to be free of him to really loving the couple they grew into and being all warm and fuzzy over them. I'll admit they get a lot less of my fannish energy than Doctor/River, but I do like getting pointed to a good fic for them, and if the Pond family doesn't end this season in a happy state there will be vicious fuming. Also, I am SERIOUSLY DISPLEASED with how they're being treated on the show right now (especially Amy) but am biting my tongue til I see how it all plays out.
Hmm, I did get through all the Sherlock episodes (and the third is far better than the second, fyi) and had a good time watching them twice or so. And then I said "well, that was fun" and went on with other things. I'm not quite sure how you get a fandom out of them, tbh--there's not that much there. Only three episodes, not much depth . . . But then also, I'm not a slasher, so . . .
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Date: 2 Sep 2011 03:00 am (UTC)Fandom is Firefly obsessed? How so? I've sort of had the opposite experience--yeah there are a lot of people who remember it fondly and talk about it, but it's around more as sort of a geek culture classic than an active fandom. It's sort of hard to find fic for it, for example.
I share many of your feelings about the Ponds. I wasn't really big on Rory until he died, and even when he came back I wasn't sure if they were really ready to marry. Now I love them to bits. And yeah, if Moffat wrecks their happy ending, I will be really unhappy.
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Date: 3 Sep 2011 05:44 pm (UTC)Yeah, I guess I just mean that it comes up a whole lot (especially for a show with such a tiny run) and everybody flails all over it. I've never really gone looking for stuff, so I'll definitely believe you if you say the real fandom is a bit thin.
PONDS \o/ I'm really excited for this episode, actually, because I MISS ALL MY CHARACTERS and I feel like we didn't really get to spend any time with them last week.
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Date: 3 Sep 2011 11:02 pm (UTC)Yay for this episode! It looks like a monster-of-the-week sort of episode, which will be nice for a change. The story arc this season is sort of exhausting. I miss all the characters, too, especially Amy.