Media confessions

[grammarwoman]

My husband has given up being surprised when I know all about a movie or TV show despite having never seen it, because being fandom adjacent is a sort of omniscience.

However, I feel compelled to confess the gaps in my fannish experience, ie the things I haven't finished or never got around to seeing that it seems EVERYONE else has:

Leverage
Due South
Fringe (though this one is less my fault, as I was specifically asked to not watch it so my TV killing curse would spare it, and then never got back to it)
Orphan Black, season 3ish and onward
The Librarians, season 2 and onward
Avatar: TLA, season 1sh and onward
Legend of Korra
The Clone Wars
Star Wars Rebels
Slings and Arrows
Person of Interest
Supernatural
Parks & Rec
Community


At some point, I would love to get around to working my way through this list. It'll probably mean watching less HGTV, for starters.

So which do you think I should start with? And what fannishly popular media have you missed yourselves?

Comments

[grammarwoman]

I will admit that I am completely fannishly biased, but I would say tiptoe through SG-1 to get the highlights, get recs for best of SGA (because that was a show of my heart but I will freely admit it was very flawed and not for everyone), and skip SGU.

But first watch Farscape.

[umadoshi]

I doubt I'll ever watch SG1 at all--I picked up SGA because I know SO many people who're fannish about it, but AFAIK I don't know many people who're that into SG1.

I do wanna see SGU, though. ^^;

And yeah, everyone tells me to bump Farscape up my list, and C keeps wanting to watch something in that vein. We shall see? I do want to see it for its own sake as well as the "knowing what so many people are into" aspect, which I admit is most of why I want to see SGA.

[grammarwoman]

SG1 does have some really great episodes, but much like SPN, there's just so much of it to cover! Though SG1 is much better with the female characters.

SGA is almost pure crack, plot-wise, with actors doing a fantastic job with less than stellar scripts. The characters they created are iconic, which is why the fanworks are so amazing. Literally ANYBODY could have written better stories than TPTB.

FARSCAPE FARSCAPE FARSCAPE. FAAAAAAAAARSCAAAAAAAAPE. :)