I watched B5 on and off when it first aired. My friends kept after me, but it was a busy time of my life and I kept missing episodes, which left me lost the next time around. I tried watching the re-runs TNT ran before S5 (I still have a few on videotape which I recorded in an effort to catch up), but I couldn't keep up and eventually just stopped. Fast forward to three years ago--while searching Netflix for something that my whole family could watch and enjoy, I had the bright idea of catching up on old tv sf, and ordered in Midnight on the Firing Line. We were all hooked, but it hit me hardest. It was very schizo watching the series with random memories popping up from before; like living a dream or experiencing precognition or enduring random bursts of intense deja vu.
From there I've just descended into madness...I was in fandom for a long time from high school to grad school and beyond, but career and marriage and children took me away for a good ten years. B5's been my way back, and also my entry into writing, for which I will be forever grateful.
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Date: 2009-01-18 04:09 pm (UTC)I watched B5 on and off when it first aired. My friends kept after me, but it was a busy time of my life and I kept missing episodes, which left me lost the next time around. I tried watching the re-runs TNT ran before S5 (I still have a few on videotape which I recorded in an effort to catch up), but I couldn't keep up and eventually just stopped.
Fast forward to three years ago--while searching Netflix for something that my whole family could watch and enjoy, I had the bright idea of catching up on old tv sf, and ordered in Midnight on the Firing Line. We were all hooked, but it hit me hardest. It was very schizo watching the series with random memories popping up from before; like living a dream or experiencing precognition or enduring random bursts of intense deja vu.
From there I've just descended into madness...I was in fandom for a long time from high school to grad school and beyond, but career and marriage and children took me away for a good ten years. B5's been my way back, and also my entry into writing, for which I will be forever grateful.