Introductions before we start
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b5_revisitedSunday 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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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.