Forever Fandom - Snowflake Challenge #9

[logicgunn]

Picking my forever fandom is easy for me because I only have a couple. I'm not one to jump from fandom to fandom, I tend to get my claws into one thing and hang on for a long time. My oldest fandom is HP, I got into that not long after book one was published, but it's not my forever fandom. That honour goes to Stargate Atlantis.



I'm late to the SGA fandom. I skipped it when it first aired cause life was too busy to get into another show and I was heavily into SG1 so it got put off and put off and forgotten about. It wasn't until a couple of years ago that I sat down and watched it and I was hooked from episode 1. I like so much about it, the premise (I love long lost colony sotries, Voyager was my favourite of the Treks), the big bads (their aesthetic appeals to my inner goth, and seriously, no matter how silly they look the thought of being an alien's food is terrifying), the script is tight and fantastic and the visuals are stunning. But the biggest and most important thing that I love about SGA are the characters. Like SG1, it's easy to love them and follow them from world to world, problem to solution. Especially John (the "I'd do anything for any one of you" military leader, thrust into leadership unexpectedly and walking the line between the military and his own heart) and Rodney (the brilliant but ascerbic scientist, who went from a misogynistic jerk in SG1 to a loveable but flawed grouch in SGA). No one but David Hewlett could have taken that guest character and made him a firm fan favourite.

I like it even more than SG1 and I'm gutted I missed out on the early fandom days, but I was thrilled to find out that people still talked about it and made fanworks, even ten years after it's over. Discovering the world of SGA fanfiction was like all my christmasses come at once (especially when I clocked onto the McShep vibes), and discovering people were still writing them was like adding in all my birthdays. I read fics for a couple of hours every day and write bits of my own fics whenever I can. It's the first fandom I've ever posted a fic in, and I can totally see me still doing this an twenty years time.

Wade x

Comments

[spikedluv]

Loved reading this! I'm firmly on the periphery of the fandom these days, but I still love to read a good McShep fic. I agree that the characters are what make this show so special.

[logicgunn]

I think that's true of any show. Good characters = active fandom.

[melagan]

*raises glass* I am firmly there with you.

[logicgunn]

*clink!*

[vexed_wench]

It's always great to see another SGA fan.

[logicgunn]

*Waves!*

I like your fics. :)

[vexed_wench]

*Waves back*

I always need more SGA in my life.


Thank you :)

[excellente]

This post has reminded me of how much I love this ding dang show. I'm going to have to rewatch it (and make the partner watch it with me I think) and get back into reading fic - and who knows, maybe even write some of my own!

(also, find some SG:A icons because I am sorely lacking)

[logicgunn]

My wife is watching it through with me a the moment, a couple of episodes a week. It's a lot of fun to watch it with someone else.
If you ever write some fics I'd love to read them. :)

[excellente]

I may have to hold you to that! It'll be a couple months away at the very least, though once I get into it I'm not entirely sure I'll be able to stop!

[themightyflynn]

I absolutely loved Rodney! It's a shame the show didn't run as long as SG-1.

[logicgunn]

It's annoying that they cancelled it for Universe, the two could absolutely have run concurrently. SGA had many more seasons in it.

[zilentdreamer]

Yes! SG1 will always have a special place in my heart since there are so many memories of sitting on the couch with my siblings while I watched it, but SGA was a blast as well for how much further they took the premise of aliens.

ALSO HELL YES TO VOYAGER, ALL HAIL THE QUEEN THAT IS JANEWAY!

I watched each episode as it aired with my family and ugh, I loved so many of the characters. At the time Seven-of-Nine was such a new idea, that the female character would be cool and intellectual since I hadn't seen many of those at the time.

[logicgunn]

Seven is such a great character, and having a Borg-Pinnochio story arc was really interesting to me. I watched Voyager as it aired with my mum. Good memories.