Fandom of the year 2010...

[rogueslayer452]

Your main fandom of the year: As a whole I'm going to have to say Supernatural because let's face it, I have been posting about it constantly, both the good, the bad and the ugly. Plus I've been to conventions for that particular fandom (and only conventions featuring that fandom), so I'd say it qualifies in the category. Following pretty damn close behind as my main fandom would definitely has to be Caprica, or anything BSG-related for that matter. ;)

Your favourite film watched this year? Definitely a tie between Inception and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. ♥

Your favourite book read this year? Umm, I don't know? Haha wow, that's kind of sad...

Your favourite album or song to listen to this year? Selena Gomez's new album, "A Year Without Rain" It has been on repeat like, whoa. As for song I'm gonna have to go with "Take It Off" by KESHA.

Your favourite TV show of the year? Caprica because hello, how can I not love that show? Also Nikita is becoming another fast favorite since it premiered, and Warehouse 13 because it is my fun happy-making show and I love it so much.

Your best new fandom discovery of the year? Nikita as mentioned, since there's hardly enough ass-kicking leading females on television these days and we gotta be representin' the kickass womens. Haven is another new fandom that I discovered this summer on Syfy, I am also kinda in love with it. Others that I have tried and haved liked are: Pretty Little Liars which honestly surprised me in a good way, so addictive. The Vampire Diaries, since I now understand what all the hype is about, and I'm glad I'm finally in the loop. V as well, as I mostly watched that for Morena Baccarin, but it really is a good show in and of itself. Sherlock really surprised me too. I didn't expect to be that interested but hey, I love me some mysteries and the way they do a modern-day Sherlock is kind of fantastic.

Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year? Supernatural. If you've been following me most of the year you know this isn't much of a shocking revelation to hear. It's just been one disappointment after another, and it's gotten to the point where I'm feeling more frustrated than I am interested with the show these days. So I've been gradually distancing myself from the fandom in general. I'm still keeping certain things of relevance close, like the Castiel, Dean/Castiel and Misha Collins parts of fandom, obviously, along with all the lovely people I've met through this fandom, but otherwise this show is going on the backburner.

It's been said before from others, which I agree, that Supernatural is now that Bad Boyfriend type of show where you want to leave because you're unhappy, but it tries to make-up with you by playing nice so you stay, only to abuse you yet again. It's an unhealthy cycle, you see.

Your TV boyfriend of the year?

Castiel (Supernatural) and Sam Adama (Caprica)



Your TV girlfriend of the year?

Claudia Donovan
(Warehouse 13)



Your biggest squee moment of the year? Misha Collins recognizing me at LACon earlier this year and at Chicago Con. ♥ Getting to meet the fabulous Mark Sheppard and getting to geek out over Cylons. Hugging Richard Speight (three times) and Matt Cohen. Saying "you're fucking awesome" to Marksha, along with hugging him. Meeting Amber Benson at her book signing. TRICIA HELFER and KATEE SACKHOFF answering the comment I made during their live streaming video chat they did! \O/\O/\O/ Meeting the most fantastically amazing people at conventions...

....Seriously, when did my life become filled with exciting things? I don't even know.

The most missed of your old fandoms? Buffy the Vampire Slayer! Loved the show, loved the fandom, just love. Of course, now with the blasphemous news of the reboot movie it's spawned more activity from fans than ever before. I think that's a good sign, yeah? ;D I'm also missing the Battlestar Galactica side of fandom, because it seemed that after the series finale there's like NOBODY active anymore. They've all dispersed and it's just....strange. idk I miss being able to theorize and converse about who is the Final Cylon and all of that good stuff. Now it's all cynicism and that's just not cute. -__-

The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to? Misfits. I've been hearing about it everywhere and I'm vaguely curious as to how it is.


I'm currently playing with my new Christmas toys. Also I've been kind of shopping the after-Christmas sales and I bought myself the Dollhouse S2 DVD because hey, uber cheapo, how could I resist that? Plus it has the Epitaphs comic inside, which is pretty nifty. \O/

Now I'm off to watch the final episodes of Caprica, be prepared for some squeeing ahead.....

Comments

[silverusagi]

Now the fanwanking regarding that is unneeded because we shouldn't need to fanwank about character motivations

This. We shouldn't have to figure out what the hell the characters are thinking. There's a difference between mysterious motivations and things being revealed, and trying to figure out why the hell the characters are doing what they're doing every damn episode.

Like Castiel was nice and enigmatic in S4. He was mysterious and distant, but it all made sense why he was that way. But I can't for the life of me figure out why he wouldn't answer Sam's prayers. And the time jump still bothers the heck out of me. Forgetting the Lisa thing, I can totally see Dean cutting himself off. However, I *can't* see Bobby and Cas just letting him, or not trying to contact him themselves. And Cas! Cas, you had that shitty goodbye in 5.22, and then you actually don't see Dean for a year?! What happened?! Seriously, that kind of goodbye is a normal Cas goodbye, not a 'possibly leaving forever' Cas goodbye. Cas is always abrupt, but damn. I don't think he's that clueless about farewells.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

But I can't for the life of me figure out why he wouldn't answer Sam's prayers.

The shipper fangirl side of my brain automatically responded with "because he loves likes Dean better!", but yeah honestly that's not really an excuse for the show's lack of explanation for, well, many of the inconsistencies this season has pulled. Many things don't make sense when you really think about them, and unless they want us to just accept it face value, and I don't want to think of them thinking of us as being brain-dead or not intelligent enough to pick up on those kinds of things. But you sometimes got to wonder with how often they exposition things on the show....

Nonetheless, there really are huge chucks of plot holes and unexplained things the show has yet to even answer, and probably never will.