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john_amend_all) wrote2012-02-25 03:23 pm
Fandom questions meme
Memed from lost_spook:
Tell me you want to play and I'll pick up to three of your fandoms. Then update your journal and answer the following questions:
- What got you into this fandom in the first place?
- Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
- Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?
- Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
- Do you think more people should get into this fandom?
lost_spook gave me Doctor Who, Miss Marple
and The Two Ronnies. Which isn't the order I'm doing them
in, for reasons which will, I hope, become clear.
Miss Marple
- 1. What got you into this fandom in the first place?
The BBC TV adaptations; I began watching midway through The Body in the Library. Later, I was given the books corresponding to the first four adaptations (as a single bound volume) and became very familiar with them.
- 2. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
Since staying where I am costs me no effort, I'm not sure that I'd have any reason to move on.
- 3. Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?
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A Murder Is Announced, in both book and BBC adaptation. Even the ITV version isn't completely awful (and has Keeley Hawes).
By some strange freak of fate, the ITV version of A Pocket Full of Rye was superior to the BBC version in some aspects.
- 4. Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
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I've perpetrated a couple of pieces of fanfic, both of which were shippy — and therefore, by some law of nature regarding shippy fic I write, disturbing in one way or another. 'Original flavour' fanfic would be more difficult, since it would require me to construct an elaborate mystery for Miss Marple to solve, and constructing mysteries is hard.
I don't participate in discussions; the only vaguely suitable LJ comm I found looked inactive. Possibly I should have posted to it when I did my rewatch series, but there you are.
- 5. Do you think more people should get into this fandom?
Maybe they are, and I just haven't come across them.
Doctor Who
- 1. What got you into this fandom in the first place?
Oddly, Miss Marple. One of the serials was being repeated at 8pm on the night of Wednesday 5th October 1988. I turned on a few minutes early, and was confronted with the sight of a Dalek chasing the Doctor and Ace up a flight of stairs. I'd previously had a vague notion of what the Daleks were, but seeing one in action was quite the revelation. And from there it was a slippery slope to watching the rest of the series, reading Peter Haining's 25th anniversary book, novelisations, joining a society of like-minded people at university, and discovering Internet fandom.
- 2. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
I expect to stay until the day I die, but I reserve the right of every fan to stalk off in a huff with a cry of "Ruined FOREVER!"
- 3. Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?
I have a certain fondness for the last three stories of Season 26 (Ghost Light, The Curse of Fenric and Survival) because they were the first ones I was able to record and rewatch. (I missed the last episode of Battlefield because of having to go to air cadet camp; my brother should have recorded it, and didn't. I had to make do with his inadequate synopsis for years, until the episode was repeated).
Other than that, The Deadly Assassin, Dalek, The Invasion, The Eleventh Hour, Power of the Daleks, Blink...
- 4. Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
<adopts studied air of blankness> Whatever gives you that impression?
- 5. Do you think more people should get into this fandom?
Yes, particularly if they end up in the bits that aren't Ten/Rose. Not that Ten and Rose don't have their good points, but it seems to me that the bulk of LJ fandom is rather skewed towards them as it is.
The Two Ronnies
I used to watch repeats, clip shows and the like when they were broadcast. Now and again these included the weekly serials (The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town, Stop! You're Killing Me, The Worm That Turned and so forth). I never managed to watch a complete serial, so that left me with a certain sense of unfinished business.
What really caught my attention, though, was the publication "All I Ever Wrote" (Ronnie Barker's complete works), which gave me all sorts of dangerous ideas about cod-Shakespearian dialogue, filk, and so on.
As with Miss Marple, I'm 'in' this fandom in the most passive sense, so it's unlikely that I'll take any definite steps to change.
The Phantom Raspberry Blower stands out in a number of respects, not least because Spike Milligan was a co-author. Then there's Tinker, Tailor, Smiley, Doyle, for Ronnie Barker's definitive portrayal of Smiley, and for some reason Girls I've Known has stuck with me. These days I imagine the tune of the latter being used for a tongue-in-cheek Doctor/companion multishipping fanvid.
I'm not sure there is an active fandom in that sense — or if there is, I've never looked for it. I've written the occasional bit of fic (most recently with Lucy Lee's appearances in the Fifteen Characters meme) but that's about it. Original flavour fic would be hard, for a similar reason to doing it for Miss Marple; instead of being as clever as Agatha Christie, I'd have to be as funny as Gerald Wiley.
If it means my crossover prompt on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif){kind=small}
dw_straybunnies gets written, definitely :-)
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