I was just a little kid when the series first started airing ("The Gathering" aired just before my sixth birthday), but I watched it from the beginning. My mom had already been raising me on the various Star Trek series and the original Battlestar Galactica (with a spattering of Doctor Who when the local PBS happened to air an episode here and there), so when B5 started she sat me down to watch it with her. And I was immediately hooked.
All we had was antenna back then, so we could only watch the show sporadically. I don't remember what channel it came on at first (FOX 17, maybe?), but it was one that we only got at certain times of the year so we missed huge chunks of it. It wasn't until the show moved to TNT and they began airing the earlier episodes that both of us were able to watch it from beginning-to-end for the first time.
I've never really been in the fandom. I became involved in online fandom around the time Crusade aired, so I tiptoed around some of the forums and archives a bit at that time, but I was still in a "this is a pre-fandom show" mindset so I even stopped lurking. I bought the DVDs a few years ago and marathoned them (converting my college roommates to the series in the process), and I realized just how much I'd forgotten about the show. That at least got me reading B5 fanfiction, so I'm slowly but surely tiptoeing into the fandom. Better late than never, right?
As for my other fandoms... *lol* Doctor Who is my major obsession right now (classic series, new series, books, audios, spin-offs - basically everything), but I'm literally active in dozens of different ones. Multifannish, that's me.
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Date: 2009-01-18 08:58 pm (UTC)All we had was antenna back then, so we could only watch the show sporadically. I don't remember what channel it came on at first (FOX 17, maybe?), but it was one that we only got at certain times of the year so we missed huge chunks of it. It wasn't until the show moved to TNT and they began airing the earlier episodes that both of us were able to watch it from beginning-to-end for the first time.
I've never really been in the fandom. I became involved in online fandom around the time Crusade aired, so I tiptoed around some of the forums and archives a bit at that time, but I was still in a "this is a pre-fandom show" mindset so I even stopped lurking. I bought the DVDs a few years ago and marathoned them (converting my college roommates to the series in the process), and I realized just how much I'd forgotten about the show. That at least got me reading B5 fanfiction, so I'm slowly but surely tiptoeing into the fandom. Better late than never, right?
As for my other fandoms... *lol* Doctor Who is my major obsession right now (classic series, new series, books, audios, spin-offs - basically everything), but I'm literally active in dozens of different ones. Multifannish, that's me.