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b5_revisited2009-01-18 04:16 pm
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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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Nowadays I'm not very fannish about new stuff. I still love B5, various Trek, and recently got into X-Files, but I'm not as active in fandom as I used to be.
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B5 was probably my first real fandom, more or less simultaneously with the X-Files. (Which I was introduced in exactly the same way - I owe you, big brother. I don't think I even knew the X-Files was a series until he made me watch it, because the only episodes they advertised with trailers were Squeeze and then Tooms so I wound up with the impression that it was a one-off special type thing.) I was also big into Due South in much the same era. Sadly, this was years before I had an internet connection, so I never really got into the web communities or fic-writing fandom for any of them.
Since then, I've bounced with various degrees of fannishness through BtVS, The West Wing, Harry Potter, Stargate SG-1, and my latest infatuation, Alias. I never paid much attention to Trek when it was on, but I've since had a bit of a revival and have just recently bought season one of DS9 to check out. But Babylon 5 will always have a special place in my heart as my first big fannish obsession, and one of very few shows I ever watched totally unspoiled.
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I had the same reaction :D I remember swearing that I would never ever again watch the show if the spoilers were true. Luckily the whole thing happened so sneakily in between episodes that I ended up watching the next episode hoping that the spoilers were wrong, and then the next episode just to see what happened to the other characters, and then the next episode... :D
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