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The first time I saw Torchwood was when I stumbled upon the middle of the episode Cyberwoman and my reaction was to laugh hysterically. The bad specialeffects! The over-acting! The mockable cyberwoman costune! I promply turned of the tv and want to bed.
A year or so later someone put up a rec for the Torchwood fic Get Loved, Make More, Try to Stay Alive and I was quickly sucked into fandom. When I sat down to watch the actual show from the beginning I enjoyed it greatly, because I already liked the characters.
With Stargate:Atlantis, another sci fi show I watched after I got addicted to fic, much of my enjoyment came from the complex 3D characters that came from watching the show through the lens of fanon. Fanon gave the characters more dimensions, filled in plotholes and made full use of the potential the show itself rarely made use of.
In many ways fandom have completely changed how I enjoy movies and tv shows. The penultimate episode of SGA would have pissed me of before I discovered fandom, but now my first thought was all the amazing fic that it would bring. The main character in Wanted (2008) is much more likeable when you are predisposed to him by the fact that he is played by James McAvoy. I came out of Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy entertained but surprised by how much I cared about Peter Guilliam and his future happiness, a transfer from BBC Sherlock.
The small downside to all this is that fandom as a whole cares more about creators and actors than I ever have, which means I sometimes find out more about them than I want, and I was perfectly happy not knowing one of my favourite authors is a islamophobe.
Thoughts? Comments? Have you experienced anything similar?
month_of_metaThe first time I saw Torchwood was when I stumbled upon the middle of the episode Cyberwoman and my reaction was to laugh hysterically. The bad specialeffects! The over-acting! The mockable cyberwoman costune! I promply turned of the tv and want to bed.
A year or so later someone put up a rec for the Torchwood fic Get Loved, Make More, Try to Stay Alive and I was quickly sucked into fandom. When I sat down to watch the actual show from the beginning I enjoyed it greatly, because I already liked the characters.
With Stargate:Atlantis, another sci fi show I watched after I got addicted to fic, much of my enjoyment came from the complex 3D characters that came from watching the show through the lens of fanon. Fanon gave the characters more dimensions, filled in plotholes and made full use of the potential the show itself rarely made use of.
In many ways fandom have completely changed how I enjoy movies and tv shows. The penultimate episode of SGA would have pissed me of before I discovered fandom, but now my first thought was all the amazing fic that it would bring. The main character in Wanted (2008) is much more likeable when you are predisposed to him by the fact that he is played by James McAvoy. I came out of Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy entertained but surprised by how much I cared about Peter Guilliam and his future happiness, a transfer from BBC Sherlock.
The small downside to all this is that fandom as a whole cares more about creators and actors than I ever have, which means I sometimes find out more about them than I want, and I was perfectly happy not knowing one of my favourite authors is a islamophobe.
Thoughts? Comments? Have you experienced anything similar?
