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Introductions before we start
Sunday is here and it's time to get this thing on the road. The response to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
b5_revisited has been amazing with over 100 people watching the community already! Thank you to all the people who have pimped the community.
While we wait for the discussion posts to go up (or you wait and I make the posts), how about some introductions first.
I'll go first: I started watching B5 in 1997 when it began showing on Finnish tv. I'd never heard of the show before, but was a 17-year-old who loved scifi, and in those days we were lucky to get any scifi on tv so the fact that it had aliens in it was enough for me.
I can't actually remember what I thought about the first episode, but I do remember the moment when I became a fan of the show, which was when I saw "And the Sky Full of Stars". The episode that sealed the deal for me, though, was - and all you old fans are going to laugh at me now - "GROPOS" in season 2. And by season 4 I had already started my own B5 fansite, 190 Bester Place (which is still up even if I haven't remembered to update it for about three years and celebrates its 10 birthday next month).
In fandom I used to lurk at the Finnish B5 fans' group on Usenet, but was at my most active on the About.com Babylon 5 fans forum and the fabulous JumpNow forums. The last few years my fannish activity has been mostly on LJ, and has included runninguniverse_today and babylon5_love and couple of ficathons.
I can also often be found hanging around in the Buffyverse and X-Files corners of Internet.
How about you? Are you an old fan from the first age of usenet, or a newbie watching the show for the first time? How did you first heard about the show? Where do you hang out, what are your other fandoms?
And remember, no spoilers! Because one of the best parts of Babylon 5 fandom is, after all, watching the reactions of the unspoiled newbies when they reach that episode where that character does that thing and it is revealed that the thing is actually a thing. You know that thing I mean ;)
b5_revisited has been amazing with over 100 people watching the community already! Thank you to all the people who have pimped the community.While we wait for the discussion posts to go up (or you wait and I make the posts), how about some introductions first.
I'll go first: I started watching B5 in 1997 when it began showing on Finnish tv. I'd never heard of the show before, but was a 17-year-old who loved scifi, and in those days we were lucky to get any scifi on tv so the fact that it had aliens in it was enough for me.
I can't actually remember what I thought about the first episode, but I do remember the moment when I became a fan of the show, which was when I saw "And the Sky Full of Stars". The episode that sealed the deal for me, though, was - and all you old fans are going to laugh at me now - "GROPOS" in season 2. And by season 4 I had already started my own B5 fansite, 190 Bester Place (which is still up even if I haven't remembered to update it for about three years and celebrates its 10 birthday next month).
In fandom I used to lurk at the Finnish B5 fans' group on Usenet, but was at my most active on the About.com Babylon 5 fans forum and the fabulous JumpNow forums. The last few years my fannish activity has been mostly on LJ, and has included running
universe_today and babylon5_love and couple of ficathons.I can also often be found hanging around in the Buffyverse and X-Files corners of Internet.
How about you? Are you an old fan from the first age of usenet, or a newbie watching the show for the first time? How did you first heard about the show? Where do you hang out, what are your other fandoms?
And remember, no spoilers! Because one of the best parts of Babylon 5 fandom is, after all, watching the reactions of the unspoiled newbies when they reach that episode where that character does that thing and it is revealed that the thing is actually a thing. You know that thing I mean ;)
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I first found out about B5 from the lovely people I had met in my first year of Uni at the local Sci-Fi soc. They were all saying that Babylon 5 was the dogs' proverbials! They seemed like people of taste, so I followed their recommendation.
The first episode I caught was #102 and I was *floored*. Even though at the end, I did think 'Naaahh... they're never going to follow through and tell us what it all means!'
Ahahahahaha! More fool me!
I caught bits of season one (first year) and two on Channel 4 (second year), partly because it was on at 6pm during the week (I was working part time during my second year) and I kept missing it because of my shift pattern.
Thankfully I shared a house with another geek, so we could gang up on the others and watch it;)
This did lead to screams of "ZOMG! THINGEE IS THINGEE!" from time to time.
Then in my final year, Channel 4 saw sense (?) and showed it at 6pm on a Sunday - no work to interfere. The then boyfriend offered to 'lend' me his tapes of Season one, I took him up on this generous offer.
Within about five minutes of 'Midnight on the Firing Line' my geeky housemate leaned over and said "you are going to ask for the rest of them aren't you?"
"Oh yes!" was the feverent reply. The season opener for Season 3 was shown on that Sunday and I fell hopelessly in love with two of the things I saw in that episode. To say more will be spoilerific.
Babylon 5 will always be one of my top shows ever. Yes, I love Doctor Who and have seen at least two seasons of Battlestar Galactica (I'll watch the final two when it all wraps up) but B5 was there first.
My 'current' favourite TV show is NCIS which seems to have had at least two cast members crop up and of course, has a B5 guest star (from season 1) as a regular cast member.
The episode just gone featured another guest star from Season 1 just sitting in a room with the aforementioned regular - just talking... The flashbacks to Babylon 5 were incredibly trippy!
So, I have very happy memories (bar one but let's not talk about that yet!) of this show and am looking forward to re-watching it!
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