So, what are your other fan-obsessions?
POSTED BY: Storymark
UPDATED: Friday, December 23, 2005 00:00
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Farscape, Farscape, Farscape!
There, out of my system now :p
It's the first and only show that's made me go and buy all the seasons and now the mini's DVD sets. Until Firefly just now ofcourse :)
Another TV show, The Shield. It was hyped for so long before starting, and that first episode did not disappoint at all. Deep down for alot of us I'd guess Vic is our hero 
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Originally posted by seryn:
no, truly, brilliant show, the kinds of intelligent, gripping, terrifying and amazing t.v. that only comes along once in a blue moon and naturally has to be messed around by the t.v. schedulers.
Oh, I loved Carnivale too. To death. I definately heard it was cancelled, though. I believe I even saw so on the official page on the HBO website. Unless they pulled a just-kidding, which would be AWESOME, but... well, we all know how likely THAT is.
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SOUTH PARK: Again, it's childish and stupid, but I've been a fan since the beginning. And the current run of episodes are as funny as they've ever been. I'll buy up anything Trey Parker and Matt Stone put out.
To be fair, it's frequently childish and stupid, but it's not always childish and stupid. I love the show for the biting and shocking humor, but most of all for the sociopolitical standpoint.
Myself, I don't like to call my fandoms by name because they cycle. I'll have one major obsession at a time, then it'll fall into regular rotation with all my loves as I pick up on something new. But this is all the stuff I'm into, in terms of fandoms:
TV: Firefly (no, really?), Numb3rs, Lost, House, South Park
Literature/Comics: Stephen King books, and the collective works of Jhonen Vasquez
Movies: Well, Serenity of course. Also, most Tim Burton works, The Addams Family, the first Jurrasic Park only (everything that came after was crap)
Music: I'm shifting music tastes again so I don't even know anymore.
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Heroes of Might and Magic: "Just one more turn."
Fallout: "War. War never changes"
Andy Richter Controls the Universe: "HITLER!!!!!!"
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
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I'm a lifelong car nut. Our '04 MINI Cooper S is much more to me than transportation. My 1961 Morgan (bought last year) has been a static display for mostof my life, but that is soon to change.
To the respondent who mentioned Frank Miller comics: Did you catch the Fox Kids animated series based on Miller/Darrow's BIG GUY AND RUSTY THE BOY ROBOT. Fantastic series that only lasted about a season and a half. I've seen about half of them. No DVD sets or rebroadcasts on the horizon, I'm afraid.
British Sci-Fi series THE PRISONER. Great opening sequence of a Series II Lotus Se7en tearing around London (the British car bug rears its ugly head again).
Like many here I came to FF via closet Buffy/Angel Fandom.
Huge Sonic Youth fan. 25 years of continually evolving sound, and (to my ears) it has always been good. Other "out there" music: Anything Nels Cline has been involved in (Nels Cline Trio, Nels Cline Singers, Banyan, etc.), Mike Watt (Minutemen, Firehose, solo recordings, Banyan again), Lightning Bolt, etc..
To the respondent who mentioned zombie films: Put the original version of DAWN OF THE DEAD at the top of your to-see list. Filmed mostly on location inside a shopping mall (at night when closed...~Kevin Smith's MALLRATS). The gore that you expect plus intelligent social commentary that you might not. Also, you can't go wrong with a movie that includes a pie fight scene between a roving biker gang and hordes of living dead.
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Dark Angel
Space Above and Beyond
Babylon 5
Farscape
Andromeda
Stargate SG1
Dr Who
Jeremiah (used to be on Showtime)
And, I almost forgot.....Red Dwarf!
Another one I had forgotten. I too really enjoyed the Highlander tv series.
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Longtime Buffy/ Angel fan and then Firefly hit me like a ton of bricks.
Newest fan obsession: Veronica Mars- the slow reveal of the clues to the big mystery is so frustrating- but in a good way.
Fan of but not obsessed: Grey's Anatomy, House, Bones, Dead Like Me.
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My secret shame, on and off through the years, has been Magic: The Addiction.
I nearly had to check myself into rehab over that game about 10 years ago. God, that makes me feel old all 'a sudden.
Not only did I collect (and play for hours on end) Magic, but also Star Wars, Star Trek, Highlander, Vampire/Jyhad, Wildstorms (a super-hero game) and a handfull of other very short-lived card games. They were fun, but the debt I accumulated over those games makes me want to go back in time and shoot my younger self in the face.
"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."
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This may come as a shock to you...but I'm a bit of a Star Wars fan.
I'm all about some Lord of the Rings, too. Not just the movies, but the whole mythology. I'd love to see a Silmarillion mini-series. Oh! An anime mini-series.
I'm pretty nuts over Final Fantasy anything, all things Gundam.
And of course Firefly.
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Originally posted by LfO:
My secret shame, on and off through the years, has been Magic: The Addiction.
I nearly had to check myself into rehab over that game about 10 years ago. God, that makes me feel old all 'a sudden.
Not only did I collect (and play for hours on end) Magic, but also Star Wars, Star Trek, Highlander, Vampire/Jyhad, Wildstorms (a super-hero game) and a handfull of other very short-lived card games. They were fun, but the debt I accumulated over those games makes me want to go back in time and shoot my younger self in the face.
"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."
In 2000/2001, I discovered there were some amusing games that had been discontinued, and so I bought some boxes for about 10% of retail price - I've got a good selection of Guardians cards, which are really quite amusing. I'd forgotten, but I went Star Wars CCG crazy for a while too - fed that one a significant chunk of change.
The other weekend, I met Ed Beard (artist for Magic) at the Texas Ren Faire near Houston - bought a signed print, which is now framed with the corresponding card, and hanging in the wall of my music studio (which is where all the money now goes ;) )
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