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[muji]

Well, it's rainy and gray here, and I am more chipper right now than I've been in weeks at this time of the morning.

(Admittedly, I just discovered that the deli downstairs carries Naked Juice, so there are other factors involved. Mmmm Orange Mango Motion.)

Has there ever been a fandom that you avoided (for reasons other than you personally didn't like it after trying it)? Like (as an example -- sorry Aspen!) Aspen doesn't watch Pushing Daisies because she's afraid she'll like it and then it'll get cancelled. Any other examples out there?

ETA: And because I forgot to say earlier: Whoever gave Mal a paid time extension -- xiexie. *sprinkles you in glitter and such*

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[djcati.livejournal.com]

All the tiiime, either because I'm afraid I'll like it and sucked in so much that I'll want to RP someone from it, or because I feel like it's been over-hyped and couldn't possibly be as awesome as everyone says, even when it's all my friends list is talking about. (Especially then, in fact.)

My avoidance of Heroes lasted a grand total of four weeks after it started airing, uh. Supernatural was longer -- almost a year and a half! An accomplishment, truly. And I went a whole ten years before watching Buffy.

Sadly, I always get sucked in eventually.

[muji]

*just smug*

[innerbrat]

I avoided the Big Two comic fandoms becuase they were JUST TOO BIG.

Then Ana happened (CURSE HIM) and I was sucked in by the awesomeness of Birds of Prey.

[muji]

I really need to read BoP I think. I like the premise.

[canadabear.livejournal.com]

Seriously? I avoided Smallville like the plague because I didn't want it to ruin my love for the Superman movies.

...we all know how that turned out.

[muji]

We all fail at avoidance I think.

[silveraspen]

... *starts laughing*

What a thing to wake up to.

But it's true. I blame my experience with Firefly for my reluctance to watch potentially-awesome shows if I'm not sure they've got enough drive behind them to pick up and survive on mainstream TV. I was really heartbroken with what Fox did to that show. Even with as much push as Supernatural has in terms of network strength and fanbase, there's a part of me that's worried that the rug will be pulled out from under it without warning.

I don't read fics that are works-in-progress, either. I don't care how incredible the writer is; I've been burned too badly too many times by writers not finishing their stories. This applies in some degree to professionally-published works as well, and THAT experience is largely because of the Wheel of Time. I love those books, as I think everyone knows. I love those books.

And it's been fifteen years that I've been waiting for the last book in the series to be written, and we all know what happened a few months ago.

So.

[muji]

Trust me, I count my blessings that I wasn't really into FF when it was on television. So much.

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

I must not be awake, because my eyes skimmed down and saw Pushing Daisies, and thought you said the deli carried Ned Juice.




Yeah.


Friday Night Lights, because I still haven't recovered from going to a football high school (and having to go to all the games).

[muji]

I know if I gave myself the opportunity I would be all over FNL too. *eyes footballtowne that I grew up in*

[gramarye1971]

I wouldn't say that I necessarily avoid fandoms, but I don't often go out of my way to find them, either. Part of it is the fact that I don't watch television that much anymore -- I can't even get network TV on the television in my place -- and I still have a backlog of shows on DVD (e.g., Foyle's War) that I'm working through very slowly. I've really cut down on my book purchases and haven't had a chance to go to the library lately, so that rules out a lot of new-to-me book fandoms, too. I almost never download shows, not because of legality issues but because I'd really have to set aside the time to watch them on my computer...so I make my own excuses, really.

I really ought to write some more fannish posts in my LJ in hopes of tempting people toward my fandoms. Master Keaton and Genshiken for anime series, Foyle's War on TV....

[muji]

Yeah, that's me too, really -- it's so hard for me to want to sit there and stare at a computer screen some days for fun, when that's all I do for work.

[sdelmonte]

Hmmm.

I haven't tried Torchwood yet despite having the first season downloaded. But that's mainly because nothing I have heard about it so far makes me think that I will really like it.

And I will admit there are a lot of shows that I am vaguely interested in that I just don't have the time for. Even with the writers' strike, I'm not sure that will change.

[muji]

Gotta say, I only made it through the first half of Torchwood S1. And most of that was because of John Barrowman.

[newredshoes]

One word: Wincest. Kept me out of Supernatural for the better part of... a year and a half? Not to mention the fandom itself just pissed me off 'cause it worked itself into a lather every single damn second of every single damn day. But then I lost my disc drive and couldn't watch anything except what was downloadable, and, er, the rest is history.

I haven't watched anything on NBC since they murdered Studio 60. (Naturally it helps that I don't have a TV, which makes my righteous indignation a bit easier, but all the same.)

[walksbyherself]

I will so join you in the club of fiery NBC hate if they don't bring back Life post-writers' strike.

After I cry like a little girl.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

In virtually every case over the last five years where I've actively avoided a particular fandom and avoided the source material for said fandom, it's because something in the fandom has put me off. Usually, it's a television program. I was watching Heroes at the begining, and while I think Heroes fans may collectively have more of a sense of humor than some other fandoms, one can only watch The X-Tinction Agenda play out so many times on Heroes before one starts laughing hysterically, even while enjoying it. (I keep waiting for the messianic time-displaced character to show up on Heroes and/or a guy wearing a menorah for a helmet.)

(Astute readers may pick up why I'm using this Siryn icon.)

The other reason I'll avoid a fandom is because 1) I know that I'll get sucked into watching and then doing a ton of research, and/or I'll get sucked in and need to watch canon obsessively. This is why I'm not deeper into Ghost in the Shell. I know that if I watch more, I'll start reading everything I can get my hand on regarding AI and philosophical implications thereof because of one simple line that the Major says to Batou.

I avoided L&O:SVU for years because I didn't want to get sucked into another good procedural drama, and, of course, its siren's call was too much for me to resist.

But I'm deeply in comics fandom, which takes a serious committment of time and intellectual energy. We've got more characters and continuities and easter eggs and conspiracies to keep track of than all of the rest of collective fandom put together, I suspect.

There's one example where the fandom has gotten me deeper into a show when I've considered bailing, and that would be Lost. Because there's a core of extremely intelligent Renaissance men and women on certain Lost forums and communities that spin out endlessly inventive analyses and theories about EVERYTHING on the show. These aren't the people that write the Jack/Locke slash, these are the people that are in it for the long haul.

[wanderlustlover]

Oooh. Umm.

Supernatural most definitely. I waited until almost the end of season two to watch all of it. (*cough*fuckinmilliways*cough*) I don't think I touched Firefly until it was on DVDs, but then I was hard core fandom long before the movie. Joan of Arcadia was in this lot, too.

I have the issue that if I think I'm going to love something it's likely going to suddenly die. I think it's almost a death sentence for a season finale of my favorite show to have an opener that links to the next season, because they all get canceled before then (ie; Jeremiah, Dark Angel, Joan, etc).

I fear syndicated tv a lot of the time now, because I don't want to end up brain sucked into something horrid.....so mostly I wait for the flist, fandom, and milliways to tell me OMG you must watch the televisions naow!

[muji]

Me too, to a certain extent. Like...oh, what was it? Damn, I can't even remember now, all the shows I've liked that disappear.

[agonistes]

Not recently.

In eighth grade (this would have been... season two, I think?) I remember sitting in the cafeteria with my friends before school and hearing them talk about how Spike was the ADORABLIEST and SO much better than Angel, and I really remember thinking to myself, "YOU ARE WATCHING A SHOW CALLED BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. WITH OTHER CHARACTERS NAMED SPIKE AND ANGEL. MY FRIENDS HAVE NO TASTE. GOD. I WILL NEVER WATCH THAT."



...yeah.

:D?

[muji]

I think I was one of those girls.

[visible_sariel]

I avoided, and still do, Lord of the Rings thanks to a friend of mine ruining the entire fandom for me in high school. she and her boyfriend at the time decided to take LotR to the *extreme*, as in considering themselves elves in everyday life and taking canon as religion. Yes, you read that right; religion.

ahem, yeah. So. Series avoidance for a rather obvious reason.

[muji]

I am very sad on your behalf, loving LOTR as I do, that others have ruined it for you. I hope you have the opportunity to approach it differently at some point in the future. :)

[dragonofgrey.livejournal.com]

I avoided Marvel for the longest time since it seemed like OMG sooo many interconnected books to get into which kind of scared me away. Plus I was chilling over in DC waters, especially Vertigo since that was also out of mainstream DC canon.

Then the series Runaways came along, and now I favor Marvel more these days heh to the point of having a Marvel pup. Whoops? :D?

I like Bill Pardy but um, I couldn't even watch the trailers for Slither much less stand to watch the whole movie. It's just ....eww....OMGGETITAWAYNAO!

Oh, and originally I was going to avoid Heroes since my first impression was all 'uh wait, it's like they ripped off 4400 and especially Rising Stars.' Yeah... can guess how long that lasted. heh.

I haven't watched much TV of late with the strike so hadn't been interested in trying shows like Sarah Conner Chronicles.

[vivien]

I am giggling, Di, that you are eeked out by snakes (or at least by Slither). Draco in your head must be aghast. :-P

[pastrydeity]

All the time.

There are some I avoid because the fans put me off (there are some crazy-rabid and scary fans out there), or because my friends get on my case all "OMG you HAVE to read/watch this! What's wrong with you?!" 'Cause that makes me stubborn, and I figure I'll read/watch it when I'm good and ready, thank you very much, and each time I'm told I HAVE to go do it, that time gets pushed further away.

And there are some--TV shows, usually--where I've heard such good things about them that I do want to see them, but I don't like having to wait between episodes, so I figure I'll just get the DVDs (instant gratification!) and then, usually, either forget or don't have the money and then forget.

And there are others where, by the time I get there, there is so much to them and I don't know where to start and get intimidated and just back away.

[muji]

I get stubborn a lot as well! I'm all "Uh, if its that good, it'll still be around when I feel like reading it, kthx."

[minkhollow]

I only sort-of avoid most of TV, but that's more because I don't watch TV than any outright avoidance. My last must-see show was Daria. (I'd probably really like Pushing Daisies, if I ever got around to watching it, but I never remember to watch these things, and I probably won't bother with Internet downloads until the strike's sorted out.)

In general... there have been several things my parents have recommended that I avoided when I was younger simply because it was my parents recommending them - and when you're twelve, even when your parents are right, they're wrong. XD Granted, I'm glad I waited until recently to start in on the Asimov; the Foundation trilogy probably would have been way over my head a few years ago.

(As for avoidance that backfired... that would be Sneakers. Parents tried to have me watch it a few years ago, it didn't hold my attention, Cam brought Whistler into the bar, I actually watched it when I got home... and the rest is history. XD)

[muji]

:O! You avoided Sneakers! Tsk tsk, yo.

[bcgphoenix]

Like a lot of other folks, I think the only canon I ever actively avoided for a stretch was Supernatural, because of -- say it with me, kids! -- the preponderance of Wincest in its fandom. Then that fateful day came when I was kind of bored, kind of curious, and watched the pilot episode on a whim.

I think I mainlined the whole first season within two weeks after that.

(I still stay the hell out of the fandom for the most part, though, unless I'm recced something really astounding. Luckily, even if they're a bit hard to find, pockets of sanity do exist here and there that're warm, cozy, and not obsessed with bashing the female characters and/or writing incestual orgies. I like them! They have cookies.)

But, yeah. By and large, if I'm not watching or reading something, it's just because I'm not personally interested in it; that, or because I'm still working through the backlog of all the other stuff I've been meaning to watch/read. I've been a part of enough crazy fandoms to know that it's best to take the source material on its own merits rather than let the fans scare you off sight unseen, and when things like threats of cancellation come into play, I tend to fall into the "'tis better to have loved and lost" camp.

[muji]

I only started watching SPN when Aspen oh-so-strategically played the pilot episode 'just to test the projection hookups' at Millicon in Chicago.

*eyes her* Sneaky.

[baby-duck484.livejournal.com]

Harry Potter. I didn't want to be one of those that stood waiting and wanting to read the books. I didn't want to start something that wasn't finished, She was writing seven books, What if I read 4, 5, and even up to 6 and then something happed to her? And I thought the fans were crazy. But a Friend told me I would be a good Ginny I should read them and mun her. So I did. I was 20 and the first five books where out before I read the first one.

LOTR, I've never seen a movie, or read one of the books to this one.

Comics. Never read one.

[herdivineshadow]

Harry Potter. Mostly because I had the Worst Witch growing up and NO ONE I know has ever actually gotten round to placing the first book in my hands so that I can read it. Heh.


And I know what happens anyway.

[sdelmonte]

Now that you remind me...

I have not read the Harry Potter books. Part of the reason is because the bits of them that were read to me didn't impress me. Part of the reason is that what I know of them - and I know a lot - didn't do a thing for me. And part of the reason is that the movies are just close enough to the originals to not make me read.

But I will admit that at this point, I just don't see it worth my while to see what everyone else got worked up about. Perhaps I am being of the obstinate. Or maybe it still don't like fantasy novels.

[cheevy.livejournal.com]

I thought Metalocalypse looked retarded until one of the pups from the show actually tagged me.

Now I have three pups connected with the show/world and a gradually expanding collection of doodles.

IRONYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. Sing it with me.

[ex_amurderofcrows752]

I successfully avoid fandoms easily. All I need to do is look at the people and stay the hell away. But honestly -- I rarely get INVOLVED in fandom anyway; I read Naruto without committing to any fo the spoiler sites or anythnig else. I didn't really care to watch it for various reasons... and eventually, I dropped out of the anime scene wholesale due to going: There are people you know who will like series you will like. Do you want to deal with them in your fandoms ever again? The theft, the lies, the stalkings!!!!!!





Just that keeps me the hell away from most fandom. I watch my shows, but rarely participate in fannish activities outside RPing, anymore. It's just too much shit to deal with. About the only fandom I'm semi-active in is Avatar, and I brush shoulders with Heroes fandom .which, quite honestly, makes me sick a lot of the time.

Right now I'm ashamed of Milo being IN on of the series I love. HAYDEN'S 18. STOP DATING HER!!!! IF SHE's LESS THEN HALF YOUR AGE + SEVEN YEARS, IT'S FUCKING CREEPY, YOU SKEEVY ASSHOLE. (He's 30, she's 18. SKEEVE ALERT.)

[bcgphoenix]

........wait, is he seriously -- ?

I thought that was just a rumor along the lines of LotR's "DOMINIC MONAGHAN AND ELIJAH WOOD ARE TOTALLY HOOKING UP!!!1!one" crazies. D:

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

I won't watch Heroes, I'm afraid...

First, I got scared off by the hype, and then the Heroes fen at Comic-Con were horrid and so, I can't do it...

[vivien]

Nothing I have read about Stargate Atlantis makes me in any way, shape, or form interested in watching it. I'll stick with re-runs of Star Trek: Next Generation or Firefly for my sci fi needs.

I'm happy that the only reason I didn't watch the first season of Supernatural was simply because I didn't know much about it and forgot to watch it. I was comparatively Wincest-free!