Who are you?

[amnisias]

Inspired by a poll by colls a little while back. I thought it would be nice to find out a bit more about the peoples on my flist, what common interest we have, how you participate in fandome and what other stuff you get up to. Also, I've never done a poll before, and I really want to play with the poll function. I'll hide it under a cut, so if this is a slow Sunday,

First off - TV fandoms (It's a random selection with an US bias, not comprehensive in any shape, way or form)

[Poll #1865166]

Fannish participationt:

[Poll #1865167]

Comments

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Wow- there's a lot of shows I've never watched...

The last two need to be multiple buttons me thinks. Lots of peeps do more than one thing. Though maybe it's about the main thing...

xx

[amnisias.livejournal.com]

Ah, see - helpful feedback is so helpful. Obviously yes, those are multiple choice questions. *Doh*

[legoline.livejournal.com]

Coolness!

I wish the polls would have had an option along the lines of "Used to watch it, not anymore", though. I have a few shows along that line on the list and while I was leaning towards certain answers with most of them I had to opt out of grading Supernatural entirely as I basically went straight from super fannish to "Let's never speak of that show again".

Ah, I really wish I'd participate more in fandom again. I used to write so much fanfiction. Read it, too. It's sad :-/

[amnisias.livejournal.com]

I wish the polls would have had an option along the lines of "Used to watch it, not anymore", though.

Darn. I totally missed out the 'used to feel fannish about but not anymore' variety of watching. But too late now, LJ won't let me edit the polls, so I'd have to re-do it, and I don't feel up to that.

Ah, I really wish I'd participate more in fandom again.

Well, as you get older it's all about fitting fandom in with your RL. Most people find that between job/family/friends/other intersts the time allocated to fandome decreases. But quantity is not quality - just make sure the time you spend in the fandomverse of your choice counts!!!

[legoline.livejournal.com]

True! I wish I'd read more fic, too, but I'm so hesitant to get back into any fandom. SPN broke my heart many times over, I've had trust issues ever since :)

[serrico.livejournal.com]

Those last two should really be check boxes, I think--I could answer with three of the "production" selections, and a whole host of the "interaction" ones. :)

[amnisias.livejournal.com]

Those last two should really be check boxes, I think--

Aahrgh! I knew I'd mess it up somewhere along the way. Did I mention it's my first poll? I'd probably should have gone with a less ambitous project - something like 'Are you a fan?' Yes No

It won't let edit the polls, though - so I'm spamming today. :)

[icepixie]

I feel like my Bones response deserves more detail. I used to really like it, in the first two or three seasons, but then Bones turned into a robot, and Booth into a jerkish, incompetent oaf, and Sweets's idiocy annoyed me further and further, until finally I had to break up with it somewhere in the middle of season four. Just...ugh. It used to be a wonderful little show, and then it was like Mr. Hyde took over and it all went to shit. (IMO, of course!)

Haven is one I really, really, really wanted to like, because the premise is right up my alley, but I watched the whole first season and just couldn't connect to any of the characters, and was left frustrated by the slowness with which the arc was being revealed. I might go back one day, maybe (or at least read the Wikipedia article when it's all over)...

[amnisias.livejournal.com]

Lol - no way I could integrate such a nuianced answer in the poll. :)

Yes, Bones is vey inconsistent nowadays. I'm a season behind (I think?) but am still watching. But episodes are very much hit & miss, depending how silly the plot is and which intern they've got that week. It's okay, but no way as enjoyable as it used to be. Sweets is graining, I agree.

If I'm going into a show trying to like it, it rarely works out for me. Something about too high expectations, I guess?

[colls]

YAY!! I LOVE POLLS!
I'm like FANNISH about ticky boxes or something.
/is a nerd


Some shows I'm simply behind on - LOL! and some I like more than others that I've seen. Like I enjoy Haven more than H50 although I watch both. Some I used to be fannish in once upon a time, but not so much anymore - like Farscape.

A couple shows I've never heard of. Are they UK shows? -- Lewis & Wire in the Blood??

I plan to watch Friday Night Lights, Nikita, and Homeland (after a vid I saw at VVC)

[amnisias.livejournal.com]

Yes, I've included some Canadian and UK shows, because not all people on my flist are American. I've tried to include all the ones I know people feel fannish about, but I still forgot tons. Hey Ho!

Lewis is a UK crime show, very british, distinguished, slow etc. Wire in the Blood is a bit like the UK version of Criminal Minds, but it's just a police officer and a psychologist.

FNL & Homeland are great shows if you like dramatic, RL settings. Nikita is fun, though I don't like the male lead very much. I didn't know there was a Nikita vid at VVC. Was it a premiere?

[colls]

Both shows sound interesting.
I know what you mean about TONS! There really is so much out there.

The vid I"m thinking about is for Homeland, fan_eunice's one and it was a premiere. It has made me add Homeland to my 'to-watch' list.

[destina.livejournal.com]

I assumed you were talking about the new Nikita, which I love, as opposed to the old Nikita, which I never watched and which wasn't for me.

[amnisias.livejournal.com]

Sorry, yes. Was the old one also called Nikita, or was that La Famme Nikita? Or is that just the movie? I never watched the first show, so it completely slipped my mind.

[anoel.livejournal.com]

Oooh you love Homeland? Maybe we talked about this at VVC and I forgot but OMG SO MUCH LOVE for that show. I can't wait to work on my vid for it, it'll be fun to rewatch.

[amnisias.livejournal.com]

I love Homeland. But after eunice's vid I feel a wee bit intimidated to vid it. But it's visually so stunning that it makes my fingers itch. I'm looking forward to yours, though. There aren't enough Homeland vids out there. Go forh and vid!

[shadowhuntress.livejournal.com]

A few of those fandoms I listed as fannish (Glee, Supernatural, Hawaii Five-0), but to be more specific, I still read fic, etc., but don't actually watch the shows anymore.

Doot doot doot, on to the next poll!

[amnisias.livejournal.com]

I am quite happy for people to interpret 'fannish' any which way they want to. But it's interesting how views varie. In a way I think staying in fandom after falling out of love with the source is the ultimate sign of fannishness.

[deejay.livejournal.com]

Which Battlestar Galactica? I was intimately involved with the original series (don't ask), but didn't get past watching the pilot episode of the latest one.

Hawaii Five-O, I'm all fannish about both series, though. =}

[amnisias.livejournal.com]

Ah, I should have clarified that, you're right. I do remember the original BSG, I had a huge crush on Dirc Benedict (I was 12), but the original Hawaii 0-5 passed me by. Oh, god. I've got vision's now, where they reboot Buffy and Supernatural in 30 years later. I'm not sure I'd take it as well as you do.

[isagel.livejournal.com]

For some of these I feel like the way I think about the show and the characters is fannish, even though I don't participate in the fan community, if that makes sense.

I wasn't sure how to answer in cases where I'm very behind on the show, so that I have seen every episode of the first few seasons and intend to watch all subsequent episodes, I just haven't got to it yet. I don't watch much tv on a weekly basis anymore, apart from what I watch with my mom as it runs on Swedish television. Most of the shows I care most about, I watch in intensive many-episodes in a row sessions that can be months apart.

Teen Wolf is a weird fandom for me in that I've never seen the show and don't especially want to, but I do read the fic, because it tends to hit a lot of my bullet proof kinks.

[amnisias.livejournal.com]

One of the things this poll has shown me is how many nuances people identify in the level of their involvement with the source. Even with 5 or 10 more categories I still think people would get back to me with 'I didn't know what to tick for show x' because their feeling and relationships with certain shows are as complex relationships with people.

Like the 'I felt fannish about the show and then it broke my heart and I never recovered from it'. Your ' Never watched the show but read the fic seems to a typical Teen Wolf phenomenon, and I'd argue that it's a fandom that works so much better if you don't actually watch the show and have to try and reconcile two totally different canons in your head. In this particular case my slash googles don't work (not for the prefered fandom pairing at least) so I'm watching and not reading. I could see both Derek/Scott or Scott/Stiles, but I don't think anybody is writing those...

In case you haven't polled all shows yet, I'd say for shows where you're behind but have seen all eps up until where you are and are planning to continue at some point at time - go with option two.

[amnisias.livejournal.com]

Oh, all that meta talk made me forget: How are you, your collar bone and your screws? And the doggie?