ways_back_room | Daily Entertainment: The One Where Debi Is (Mostly) Blameless

Medal of Honor: What can I say? I like shooters and was drawn in by the (mostly unfulfilled) promise of the reboot making the franchise more character-driven.

And then Warfighter (quite deservedly) bombed and there probably will not be another one for a long long time.

Assassin's Creed: I like history in my games! That was what drew me in initially, before it became EVERYTHING HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT THAT EVER HAPPENED IS THE END RESULT OF TEMPLAR AND/OR ASSASSIN ACTION. C'mon, guys.

Avatar: The Legend of Korra: Debi's fault.

Well, okay, she didn't make me marathon Book 1 or Book 2 or A:tLA but she did EP Korra and that was what kicked off my interest in the series/world as a whole.

So yes, Debi's fault.

The Last of Us: It got like 240+ Game of the Year awards and near universal 5/5s so I thought I'd give the remastered version a try once I got my PS4.

I am not a man known for making smart decisions, but I like to think this one was pretty well up there.

Wolfenstein: I think I bought it on a whim? It was the alternate history and all the storytelling possibilities thereof that got me into it.

Top Gun: My lacrosse team turned it into a drinking game my freshman year but I had to go like a third of the way through. And then I got Netflix and it was available for streaming so I thought "why not?"

100 minutes well-spent.

I think Maverick would adore the fact that our local tiki bar has a drink called the Jet Pilot (garnished with fire of course) . When you order it, they hit a button and the bar lights color morph, and the first lines of the Top Gun theme song plays over the sound system.

.....

can this please happen in-game sometime *_____*

Random tiki outbreaks at the bar? Or just Curtis & Dejah discovering the joy of fruit alcoholic beverages garnished with flame that come with their own soundtrack and light show?

Both? =D

Why not both? :D

Thirding the both. Embrace the power of AND.

He would! Whether he'd order one is up in the air, but he'd think it was So Cool You Guys.

I used to watch way too much television. I kept watching and bought the series on dvd because I love the action and characters. Methos, Duncan, Darius, Joe, Fitz...

So here's the thing. When Smallville first started I refused to watch it, because I thought it would suck and ruin Superman. After a while, I decided to use Tom Welling as a PB for another character, so SV screencaps were a blessing.

Then I started wondering what was going on in some of those screencaps, cause they can be a trip. So I started reading episode guides and... I had to watch some just to see what it was like. And I couldn't stop.

And that is how I became a stupid Smallville fan who still can't let go.

Star Wars: A long time ago, in a city far far away, my father took me and my brother to a drive-in to see this crazy movie that had just come out. My mind was blown. I grew up with the original trilogy, missed the EU explosion of the 90s, was somewhat entertained by the prequels, then finally sat down to watch the Clone Wars TV show and was blown away all over again.

Penny Dreadful: I'm not sure to be honest. I think the trailer just showed up on one of my RSS feeds.

X-Men: First Class: I loved the first three X-men movies, though X3 was bothersome. When the soft reboot happened I was hooked, especially with Hank and his complicated self.

Knights of Sidonia: Was bored one weekend and queued up Netfix. Okay, actually I think I saw it suggested to me a few times by the powers that be at Netflix. Since each episode was only 20 minutes long, I figured it wouldn't be a huge time commitment and so gave it a chance. Finished the first season and then went to look for the manga. Fourteen volumes later and season two was released.

October Daye series: I blame Kate/Fi for this one. I picked up the first book on her suggestion and I owe her so much for that. = ]

Vikings: Not sure really. Must have been a trailer or Gif sets on Tumblr.

Marvel MCU: I'm a marvelite, of course I am going to watch the movies.

Gotham: As much as I am a marvelite, I am the same with any animated or live action show with DC, especially anything to do with the Bats.

Edited 2015-07-20 15:54 (UTC)

From senior year of high school I'd been increasingly into Shakespeare, bolstered by annual trips to a local(ish) major Shakespeare festival. One year, I saw that they were going to be doing Henry IV Part One, which I'd heard referenced a lot, so I thought I should probably know what it was about. I figured since it was a history and therefore probably boring, I'd rather see it than read it. THREE HOURS LATER I'm sitting there like *____* and now I just sit around and think and write about history plays all day (and, you know, hang out here as Hotspur) and it's all this one production's fault.

I don't actually remember how or why I picked up Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, except that it was shortly after it was first published, when I was in high school. And I can't remember how I first encountered Twelfth Night.

Watched the movie, loved it. Set it aside for a few months. Watched it again, STILL loved it. Set it aside for a few more months. Found myself talking about it, referring to it, thinking about it. Watching it one more time and realized I was in that place. That place where you have fallen in love with a piece of media and it's eating your brain. Only, this time? There was no fandom to indulge my cravings. [Insert rant about Disney's marketing department screwing up a really good thing.]

And a year after the movie came out, I finally broke down and admitted I had a Dejah Thoris headvoice who was loud and had opinions and wanted to kick some ass, thank you very much. And here we are!

Tars grew out of the same obsession, only he's an elusive head voice. I'm always afraid I'm messing him up somehow.

I have a long and involved relationship with Cabaret. To summarize, I had regretted not having seen the 1998 Broadway production even though I was a fan of Alan Cumming; many years passed and a Cabaret-based RPG happened on LiveJournal and it was my first game and it was the best thing ever; many years passed again and the show came back to Broadway with Alan in his original role. And no matter how many times I saw it, it never lost its emotional impact, especially since I was RP'ing the Emcee here. (It was magnificently meta when I would sometimes sneak a tag in while waiting for the show to start.)

I blame Emcee's relationship with Eric Northman on my watching "True Blood." And also Alexander Skarsgård, who is hot. Yes, I did watch everything all the way through the first time, but rewatches involve only the Pam and Eric parts. The rest is filler.

And I think it was Emcee's interactions with Athelstan that encouraged me to watch "Vikings," which I devoured in like two days. It surprised me how entertaining it was! (I think I was watching "Outlander" at the same time, so I was up to my eyeballs in hot and manly Highlanders and Vikings. Rawr!)

To wit

The two-fingered come gesture. That was it. I was done.

Huh, this amuses me greatly because as I've been thinking about the question I'm realizing one way or another most of my character fandoms relate back to comics, which relates back Batman: TAS in a very long story involving latch key kids, grocery stores and ghosts. XD

The short of it is I started watching Batman: The Animated Series while home alone, discovered there was a monthly comic book based on the show, and from that discovered the whole world of comics. *insert 'Angelic Music' here*

Logan and Matt: Marvel comics. My obsession with Wolverine started with the 90's Fox X-men cartoon, which I had watched as a kid, but didn't really pick up and get into until after I'd started really watching Batman: TAS when it was rerun on Cartoon Network some years later. Then the first X-men movie came out and I remembered, 'Oh yeah, this guy is awesome and I always thought he was cool!'. By that time I was reading comics and the movie prompted me to cross over from DC into Marvel.

It was the Affleck Daredevil flick that had me add DD to my monthly (by this time ENORMOUS) comic book stack. Boo and hiss all you want, I won't deny the movie has its (many) faults, but it led me to one of my absolute favorite characters so for that I shall always be grateful. This was during the Bendis run and holy bejeepers did I fall hard instantly. I went back and read the Kevin Smith stuff as well and was sold. From that point it became my favorite comic book and I got my grubby mitts on everything Matt Murdock that I could after that.

Hellboy: Hellboy films. Again it was the movie that got me into Red and his comics. I was working at a discount theater at the time this movie came out, and as part of enjoying the benefit of free flicks I took my dad and bro to see it. My brother had read some of the Mignola comics, but at that time I was still strictly Marvel and DC. This film quite easily changed that with its fun and awesome.

Bill Pardy: Slither. Believe it or not I have comics to thank for finding Bill and his canon, too. I didn't see Firefly when it was on TV, but when Serenity hit the big screen I was all over it thanks to Whedon's run on Astonishing X-men. That was my first contact with the man and I absolutely loved his dialogue so I had to see his movie. And then of course I fell in love with Nathan Fillion and his face. I can't do zombie movies, I just can't. I have this severe problem with people coming back from the dead that means I instantly have nightmares whenever I even watch a little bit of Night of the Living Dead or Pet Sematary. But, for that man and his wonderful face I braved a horror-flick and it was awesome. Bill Pardy made everything better and okay, and James Gunn and his brilliant writing and hilarious dialogue didn't hurt, either. I came home from the theater and apped Bill the very next day XD

Charlie Kenton - Real Steel. This has everything to do with Hugh Jackman, which has everything to do with Wolverine and that first X-men movie.

Puss in Boots - Shrek 2. One of the few I don't owe to comics. I just love cartoons, and Antonio Banderas and his voice, so when they made a sequel to one of my favorite cartoons with his voice I was so there. The same with Pleakley and Lilo and Stitch, minus Banderas and plus Disney, I like cartoons and love Disney cartoons, what can I say? *G*

Comics, the true gateway medium.

INDEED XD

Growing up I loved B: TAS, it and Talespin were my favorite cartoon shows. They were just so good and hold up too.

There are other fandoms that I blame on you. Also, if it weren't' for the comics we would never have met.

Song of the Lioness quartet: I read Alanna: The First Adventure when I was wee, and it became my go-to book when I wanted to read something fun. I loved that the hero was a girl. I hadn't seen many books with a female protagonist before. When I got back to the States, I found out there were THREE MORE BOOKS and exploded with joy. JOY. Anyway, it's stuck with me over the years, and when I saw Milliways had a Thom in, I apped Alanna immediately.

The Man From Snowy River: My favorite movie when I was wee. Still one of my favorites. Jim is weirdly soothing to write, so I enjoy threading with him when I need to relax. Childhood happy place, apparently.

Pirates of the Caribbean: I loved the first movie a LOT, and I sort of vaguely remember Kate prodding me to app Elizabeth? Not like she had to prod much. Then Debi went and picked up Will, and I loved them so much I kept Lizzie around for the long haul.

Saving Grace: I happened to catch a promo for the show on TNT one lazy Saturday. I remember being super impressed that Holly Hunter was involved both because I like her and because she was older than most actresses headlining shows at that time. And then they allowed her to be brash and sexual and no holds barred in a way I just hadn't seen. I loved it. Playing Grace has the same appeal.

Daughter of Smoke and Bone: I picked up the book because it had a pretty cover. *admits* It took me a while to get into it, but once I did I fell in love with where the story goes and how tailor made it seemed for Milliways!

Archer: I mean. It's amazing. And terrible. But mostly amazing. I've been watching since it premiered. I love Lana. It was always going to be a double act, but then Tony got busy with RL stuff. Luckily it looks like I found another Archer player! HUZZAH!

Teen Wolf: *points at Alex* It's her fault.

Doctor Evil: Um. I wish I had a better excuse for this that wasn't, post movie watching, "HA, HA, HA WATCH ME DO MY DOCTOR EVIL IMPRESSION!" *rotates in chair with cat* and then "THAT WAS HILARIOUS, YOU SHOULD APP HIM" but I don't. Er...

Edited 2015-07-20 17:55 (UTC)

THE BITE IS A GIFT

I read Paul Creswick's Robin Hood with N.C. Wyeth illustrations when I was younger and fell in love. Robin Hood is one of those canons that is just there for me.

I fell in love with the X-Men through the early movies and enjoyed them but then when James McAvoy was on the screen as Charles, I wanted to get more involved.

The October Daye books I found pretty much by accident, the first book was in my university's browsing section and I picked up and ate it up. Then I went and found all the others and everything else I could find that Seanan McGuire had written. Fae in the modern world is a favorite story of mine and I love her take on it.

My first knowledge of 3:10 to Yuma was reading Elmore Leonard's story when living in New Zealand. I didn't really think more about it, I think I might have been sort of aware of the movie. Then Ben Wade and Dan Evans were in Milliways played by my friends who showed me the movie, and then I bought the movie and soundtrack.

I fell in love with Discworld when I was traveling in England, Wales and Ireland after my semester abroad. At used bookstores, I'd buy cheap copies and read through two or three books then trade them out at the next spot. From that trip, I still have my copy of Eric and Sourcery. When Going Postal came out, it didn't make a huge impression on me but at one point, I was thinking about giving away by copy but started a reread and found out it was one of my favorites.

When I was living in New Zealand, two of my friends who share my love for James Mcavoy said that Becoming Jane was really good. I watched it on my birthday and it made me cry in happy ways.

I read The Abhorsen Chronicles because I wanted to know what was going on with Yrael in Milliways and then I was hooked. I love the world building and the dysfunctional family at the heart of it.

My sophomore year of college, I had this one friend who decided I needed to catch up on some series. She lent me the first four Harry Potter books, those were all that were out at that point and Vorkosigan books. I was absolutely hooked on how rich the characters and the writing were.

I fell in love with Greek Mythology due to this beautiful book that my family had with wonderful illustrations and telling the major myths. Then I went and became a Classics' major so I love them. I love how mixed up and real the gods feel.

Narnia is one of my favorite series from when I was small. I still haven't read The Last Battle because I decided as a tiny child I didn't want the series to end.

Peer pressure and boredom.

Well, I don't remember why I started to watch Stargate, but I did.

Tegid's canon I read while in high school, my mom had picked the books up at a used books shop and I tended to read interesting books that she had read.

Tass' cannon I picked up because my cousin's brother left a series of books at my grandmother's house and I ended up with them.

Many of the others I started to watch because my friends/family were doing it so I tried the shows out and like them.

I read Teja's canon at age eleven or twelve as it's been a favourite book of my family's for three generations, ever since it came out.

The first Discworld book was lent to me by a good friend at university (whose middle son is now my second god-child), and I read the rest as I went along and they came out. The first I caught all new was 'Interesting Times', I think.

In the summer of 2013, I seriously fell into the Les Misérables fandom. I saw the movie on the plane to Iceland (picking it among the options because I liked he Write played Javert, not that I knew anything about him), and just fell for it all, so started angling around only to find that it's a huge thing. I think I own six DVDs by now that all say 'Les Misérables' on the back? The 2012 movie, the Tenth Anniversary Concert, the terrible 1998 movie with Liam Neeson, the 2000 French TV production (where I take my icons for Madame Thénardier from), the 1978 movie with Anthony Perkins, the 1995 French version set during World War II. where Vlajean and Javert pee on a bush together (that's possibly the strangest one) -- did I forget anything? There are so many! And because I do like Philip Quast as Javert on the TAC, I wanted to see more of him, hence that half-forgotten TV series 'Ultraviolet', and Father Harman.

The TV incarnations of Hannibal and Sleepy Hollow, as well as 'Penny Dreadful' kept swimming by on my tumblr dashboard, so I got curious.

Only for Vikings can I blame a fellow mun -- the original player of Lagertha. We talked a lot about it through Twitter, and I got curious. It was a bit hard to get at, and I watched the first season at night on my iPad through Amazon Prime Instant Video, where it is for free; when Kate brought Athelstan, I watched the second in the same way, and then Ragnar (whom I had thought about already for the sake of that Lagertha) did settle into my brain.

Merlin: I think it was people on my LJ friendslist talking about it that got me interested, and one of the US networks showed the first season (but no others, woe; that fell upon BBCAmerica) so I watched that. I've had an obsession with Arthurian myth for a long time and I like seeing different interpretations of it, and while Merlin is kind of ridiculous, the cast is so charming I'm willing to forgive a lot.

Mad Max: Fury Road: I grew up with the other Mad Max movies, thought they left me kind of meh. Then when Fury Road came out it was so discussed and praised that I had to see it, and I just fell in love.

Welcome to Night Vale: I blame Tumblr. Quotations from the show kept showing up, so when I finally discovered the source I had to hear it. And omg. I devoured that first year in a day or so. Devoured

The Thrilling Adventure Hour: So, WTNV got me listening to podcasts, and the podcasts I listen to have a lot of crossovers, and so one of them led me to TTAH and Beyond Belief. I think it was the Nerdist interviewing Blacker&Acker, but I don't really remember the exact path.

Kings: This one I found myself. I was intrigued by the premise--King David in modern times? Neat!--and am still sad that the network didn't give it much of a chance. It would probably do better in today's tv atmosphere, or even on a cable channel. I will add that at least part of the reason I saw Captain America at first was because I remembered Sebastian Stan from Kings and wanted to see what he was up to.

Marvel: I'd seen Iron Man and enjoyed it, and was fairly interested in the other movies...and then again, we can blame Tumblr, when panels from Civil War started showing up. Color me intrigued. Then The Avengers came out at a very bad time in my life and I saw it 6 times in a month. I kind of dove the MCU then, and haven't really surfaced yet.

Jonathan Coulton.

No, really. I only started looking into Portal when I found out that Jonathan Coulton wrote the ending theme song, and researching Portal led me to discovering Half-Life since they take place in the same universe.

Eriond: I forget. Someone probably recommended it to me.

Henry: See above.

Evelyn: Dragon Age in general? I don't remember, I guess I heard Origins was good or something. Inquisition in particular? Blam Cam. It is all Cam's fault.

Tavi: I tried to read it originally when I was ill in October '08 and loved Dresden Files. In May '09, when I was extremely severely ill, I knew I needed Butcher's writing style but Dresden wasn't doing anything for me. I picked up Furies of Calderon, incredibly dubious... and I think the rest is history.

Lois: ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Milliways it is your collective fault I blame you all

In 2010 someone, somehow convinced me to go to Dragon*Con. (And got me addicted. I hate you all.) I went home on Tuesday, dizzy with glee. On Thursday, I was running a 101.something degree fever. I was not really thinking, and decided I needed to watch terrible terrible media to consume while my brain cooled off. I remembered there was an old movie that went from black-and-white to color, that mom always hated and said was crap. Sounded perfect for a boiling brain.

I decided, inanely, that the name of the movie was Smallville.

At first I was super-confused that it was a TV-show, and in color, and then was extraordinarily baffled about why there were (greenish) space-rocks. And I totally missed the names Lex Luthor and Jonathan and Martha Kent. And I was, in general, utterly confused about the space baby. Was wondering based on some in-world newspaper articles if this was a show about superheroes, and thinking man, the guy they cast for this kid is cute, when I hear the line "Clark Kent, you're going to be late for school!"

At which point I slammed my hand on the pause button, stared, literally squealed (those who have met me can probably guess the pitch), and turned the show back on. I started talking to crackchat about it, who did nothing to stop me.

And that, ladies and gents, is how instead of watching Pleasantville I fell into the trap that is Smallville and general interest in comics.

It is all you people's faults and I blame you heartily.

Elder Scrolls: This series is my single greatest fictional love. I first played Morrowind during visitation at my dad's house when I was 13/14-ish. We spent much of our brief time there running around, doing random quests, and running around Vivec, alerting the guards, and getting killed by a dozen Ordinators at once. Eventually I decided to smuggle it home, along with the big map we hung on the wall. I learned progressively more and more about the canon each time I played it. And then I discovered the lore community, and the way I look at video games was never quite the same.

Michael Kirkbride is legitimately one of my artistic heroes.

Mortal Kombat: The first experience I can remember of Mortal Kombat was at an arcade at the Maplewood Mall when I was about six or seven. My dad wasn't watching me very closely, so I put my quarters into the MK2 machine and played a single-player match. Being a dumb kid who knew nothing about fighting games, I got destroyed, and the AI performed a fatality on me (punching my kharacter into a pool of acid that seared off all his flesh). I slooowwwly backed away from the machine, knowing I'd just seen something I shouldn't have.

After that, when I was about 10 or 11 or so, one of my friends had Mortal Kombat Trilogy on his N64, so I played that some as well. I also saw the movie at some point. I mostly ignored the series after that. My impression of it was that it was adolescent silliness: anyone old enough to buy a Mortal Kombat game was too old to appreciate it.

Later on I played the reboot from 2011, whereupon I realized that the goofiness and the ultraviolence are a feature of the series and not a bug. I found MK9 mildly diverting, but Mortal Kombat X got me a lot more invested. I just had so much fun playing as Cassie Cage and doing that selfie fatality that I had to bring her in here. That's pretty much it.

Edited 2015-07-22 01:56 (UTC)

I watched Reno and MLP from the beginning.

I blame Becky for getting me into Psych and Brisco!

My dad is a Les Mis fan and I grew up with the score!

Daily Entertainment: The One Where Debi Is (Mostly) Blameless

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