Aww, and I really liked how the thing is actually a thing! I never suspected!
My B5 history is a sordid and occasionally sad tale. In 1993 I was twelve and very, very into Star Trek. One of the science-fiction TV magazines ran an article about B5, and so I watched "The Gathering" on initial broadcast. And hated it, because it wasn't Trek, pretty much. I tuned in a few times for some of Season 1; I think I cared that Walter Koenig was guest-starring. For some reason I even bought some of the tie-in novels (the one about Talia, 'cause I liked Talia a lot) The last thing I remember watching in the original run is partway through S2, where, uh, spoiler asks spoiler for help with her spoiler. I've forgotten the episode name again.
Anyway. Skip forward to, like 1998. B5 has just ended, and I found out Neil Gaiman (who I was a big fan of at the time) wrote an episode, and I thought I should tune in for the reruns so I could refresh my memory of the characters. Well, uh, I caught the final four episodes of Season 3. And from then on, I was hooked.
I'm mostly a lurker in B5; I read usenet compulsively but never post. I've been in a whole lot of fandoms in the intervening years, mostly as a slasher (though I'm not really a slasher in B5) all on LJ -- The Sentinel, Due South (that was a big one for me), The X-Files, Buffy, Starsky and Hutch, Harry Potter, new BSG, House, Psych... the list goes on. My current fannish obsession is The Professionals.
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Date: 2009-01-18 04:49 pm (UTC)My B5 history is a sordid and occasionally sad tale. In 1993 I was twelve and very, very into Star Trek. One of the science-fiction TV magazines ran an article about B5, and so I watched "The Gathering" on initial broadcast. And hated it, because it wasn't Trek, pretty much. I tuned in a few times for some of Season 1; I think I cared that Walter Koenig was guest-starring. For some reason I even bought some of the tie-in novels (the one about Talia, 'cause I liked Talia a lot) The last thing I remember watching in the original run is partway through S2, where, uh, spoiler asks spoiler for help with her spoiler. I've forgotten the episode name again.
Anyway. Skip forward to, like 1998. B5 has just ended, and I found out Neil Gaiman (who I was a big fan of at the time) wrote an episode, and I thought I should tune in for the reruns so I could refresh my memory of the characters. Well, uh, I caught the final four episodes of Season 3. And from then on, I was hooked.
I'm mostly a lurker in B5; I read usenet compulsively but never post. I've been in a whole lot of fandoms in the intervening years, mostly as a slasher (though I'm not really a slasher in B5) all on LJ -- The Sentinel, Due South (that was a big one for me), The X-Files, Buffy, Starsky and Hutch, Harry Potter, new BSG, House, Psych... the list goes on. My current fannish obsession is The Professionals.