fandom year in review (meme via marinarusalka)

[nenya_kanadka]

Your main fandom of the year?
Babylon 5! I got quite into Doctor Who during the River Song episodes this summer, and followed along desultorily with ds9_rewatch, but as I mainlined all five seasons of B5 (plus some of the movies) since April, I think that has to count as my main fandom.

Your favorite film watched this year?
Desk Set, with Katherine Hepburn. Made the year my mother was born, and yet it has women who behave more like actual real people I have known than many more modern romantic comedies. They have friendships with each other! And there is witty banter! And, well, Katherine Hepburn. I am not one for movies about how Technology Is Evil (large and extremely important parts of my life would be impossible without computers), but I still loved it.

Your favorite book read this year?
Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon and To Dream In The City of Sorrows by Kathryn M. Drennan. The first is a novel of first contact whose protagonist is a 70-year-old woman, and the second is a Babylon 5 novel about what happened to Jeffrey Sinclair between when he left the show at the end of season 1 and when he reappeared in War Without End. It apparently is considered canon, which yay.

Your favorite album or song to listen to this year?
I rediscovered on YouTube some Russian Christian songs I'd had on tape back in my teens, and got a chance to translate the lyrics of a few of the songs for my cousin, who'd also had the tape but no idea what any of it meant. I probably looped this one the most: Я хочу с тобой поговорить ("Lord, I Want To Talk To You")

Your favorite TV show of the year?
Babylon 5!

Your favorite LJ community of the year?
wrisomifu and ds9_rewatch

Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. OMG so much cuteness. And finally watched some of Avatar: The Last Airbender--also pretty damn awesome. It's amazing how much excellent storytelling you can put into a show that's ostensibly about kids.

Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
Susan and Talia didn't get enough screentime. And Talia's exit from the station. Also what the hell, JMS, with your final Lennier plotline.

Your fandom girlfriend of the year?
River Song! Also, Delenn. And possibly Mira Furlan.

Your fandom boyfriend of the year?
Dukhat, Lennier, Valen--all the men in Delenn's life that she didn't marry, I guess. :P

Your biggest squee moment of the year?
OMG HOBBIT MOVIE HI THERE WEE BILBO ALSO GALADRIEL

The most missed of your old fandoms?
Deep Space Nine and LOTR. I poked about a bit in Silmarillion fandom (enough to get Mucca making annoyed comments about Elves), and I did rewatch some of the first three seasons of DS9.

The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?
Sherlock, Sanctuary

Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?
Squee, the Hobbit movie! And seeing The Avengers with Mucca on holidays.

Comments

[muccamukk]

I love Desk Set. I think it's my favourite classic film. Also B5 and most of the other stuff.

Hey, even mentioning the Silm is enough to get me to make annoyed comments about Elves.

[nenya_kanadka]

I didn't expect much one way or another out of Desk Set going in, but it totally blew me away. Must dig it up and rewatch it in the new year. Beats Kirk vs dumb robots any day, I say.

I notice you glossed over how all my fandom boyfriends are space!Elves, too. :D (Though really, Sinclair tops the list, and is mostly human, and also the fandom boyfriends are kind of tacked on anyway, because RIVER SONG HI THERE.)

xoxo

[evilstorm.livejournal.com]

SHERLOCK IS WONDERFUL AND AMAZING he's a brilliant tasty sociopath I <3 him so much. Airbender is also a totally fantastic cartoon with better production values and storytelling than many, many real actor shows.

[nenya_kanadka]

My sisters have been telling me with great enthusiasm but not much detail how excellent Sherlock is! Mostly I want to see Arthur Dent and Bilbo be John Watson. :D

I heard a about Airbender via fandom osmosis for quite some time before I saw any of it, though admittedly lots more about the shipwars than anything, and I was just totally delighted with it when I saw it. I really like all the characters, even the annoying ones! I think Katara may be my favourite, but it's hard to choose. *pets Appa too*

[biting-moopie.livejournal.com]

OMG there is a DS9 rewatch comm????

MLP is awesome. It's funny and clever and so darn cute. Every episode makes me smile so much.

And Avatar is incredible. Wait till you get to the final episodes of season three - you'll be blown away.

[nenya_kanadka]

There is a DS9 rewatch comm! :D I actually kept thinking that was where I'd met you, but I guess not. ds9_rewatch is the name of the place--go see! They're doing something random over the holidays, but picking up in, I think, mid-season 3 in the new year. :)

Just finished the first season of Avatar, and loving it. :D Fantastic show.