slash goggles and fandom hawt
May. 22nd, 2008 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kiki_engI don't know Life on Mars. I have never seen the show. I had never heard of it until very recently (i.e. within the last 24 hours) Fandom, though, is completely and utterly amazing because this video by kliaand the very short paragraph I had to read on imdb to figure out why John Simm appeared deeply disturbed on account of an animated sheep now has me just about convinced that the show can be summed up as follows:
John Simm is a detective who accidently travels back in time to 1973, where he becomes... a detective. ...and there's this other detective type person and there's angst and baddies and UST. Lot's and lot's of UST, but maybe, eventually, it's just ST? Yeah?
...and I am completely in love with fandom and how it can do that, because the show's not written for that, I don't think. (I don't think it would be nearly so much fun if it were.)
So, what on earth was I doing watching a vid for a fandom I've never heard of before? I'm not entirely sure.misspamelais putting together The Fandom Hot 20 which is to consist of the hottest fictional characters of all time. (So, yes, of course I'm intrigued by this idea, because it is made of awesome. ...and I like lists and fictional characters. ...and hot fictional characters. - we'll get back to this) ...and Life on Mars is one of the fandoms that's had characters nominated from it, as is Doctor Who (Doctors 8,9,10, Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Captain Jack, Sarah Jane Smith) The Master's not in there, though (He's a hot baddie, OK?) so this led, I think to me imdb-ing John Simm (You know, John Simm is kind of pretty in an odd sort of way - and why do so many of my evaluations go that way?) and discovering that he's Sam Tyler from Life on Mars, thus: vid? (Wandering about in a fandom you know absolutely nothing about is wonderful, because everything's new and shiny and completely and utterly bizarre, like being trapped in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by The Beatles.)
So, I'm kind of excited for this list thing, because I like list things and it's grandsweeping and fun while being exactly the sort of thing that I like.
It's incredibly interesting to watch the posts come in. Dean Winchester's been nominated 17 times so far and apparently I'm decidedly not alone in my Dick Grayson thing. There's a heck of a lot more men than women on that list right now, though, which isn't entirely surprising but is still grating a bit at me, if nothing else because there are some enormous holes. Buffy isn't on there yet, and that's just... really weird, because really strong female character, attractive, kicks ass.
misspamela 's pointed this out and having spent a lot of time in that fandom it's really, really weird to see: Harry Potter is incredibly under-represented. Seriously. The only ones who've been nominated so far are Snape, Draco, and Sirius. (Once a piece.) ...which is odd, because it's a huge fandom. There are so many bloody characters. One of the first things I heard when the first film came out was that Olvier Wood? Dead sexy. (The Potter fandom has not found this yet.)
Some people not yet nominated: Charlie Eppes from numb3rs; Colonel Brandon from Sense and Sensibility; Buffy and Oz from BtVS; Max from Dark Angel; Scott Summers from X-Men; Aileron and Diarmuid from The Fionavar Tapestry; Matthew from Four Weddings and a Funeral; Oliver Wood, Percy, Bill, and Charlie Weasley from Harry Potter; Susan from The Discworld; Evie from The Mummy; Sean from Dragonsdawn; The Master from Doctor Who; Radar from M*A*S*H; Tosh from Torchwood; Carson Beckett from Stargate: Atlantis...
(I'm planning on nominating my allocated three just as soon as I figure out who I want them to be.)
kliaand the very short paragraph I had to read on imdb to figure out why John Simm appeared deeply disturbed on account of an animated sheep now has me just about convinced that the show can be summed up as follows: John Simm is a detective who accidently travels back in time to 1973, where he becomes... a detective. ...and there's this other detective type person and there's angst and baddies and UST. Lot's and lot's of UST, but maybe, eventually, it's just ST? Yeah?
...and I am completely in love with fandom and how it can do that, because the show's not written for that, I don't think. (I don't think it would be nearly so much fun if it were.)
So, what on earth was I doing watching a vid for a fandom I've never heard of before? I'm not entirely sure.
misspamelais putting together The Fandom Hot 20 which is to consist of the hottest fictional characters of all time. (So, yes, of course I'm intrigued by this idea, because it is made of awesome. ...and I like lists and fictional characters. ...and hot fictional characters. - we'll get back to this) ...and Life on Mars is one of the fandoms that's had characters nominated from it, as is Doctor Who (Doctors 8,9,10, Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Captain Jack, Sarah Jane Smith) The Master's not in there, though (He's a hot baddie, OK?) so this led, I think to me imdb-ing John Simm (You know, John Simm is kind of pretty in an odd sort of way - and why do so many of my evaluations go that way?) and discovering that he's Sam Tyler from Life on Mars, thus: vid? (Wandering about in a fandom you know absolutely nothing about is wonderful, because everything's new and shiny and completely and utterly bizarre, like being trapped in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by The Beatles.)So, I'm kind of excited for this list thing, because I like list things and it's grandsweeping and fun while being exactly the sort of thing that I like.
It's incredibly interesting to watch the posts come in. Dean Winchester's been nominated 17 times so far and apparently I'm decidedly not alone in my Dick Grayson thing. There's a heck of a lot more men than women on that list right now, though, which isn't entirely surprising but is still grating a bit at me, if nothing else because there are some enormous holes. Buffy isn't on there yet, and that's just... really weird, because really strong female character, attractive, kicks ass.
misspamela 's pointed this out and having spent a lot of time in that fandom it's really, really weird to see: Harry Potter is incredibly under-represented. Seriously. The only ones who've been nominated so far are Snape, Draco, and Sirius. (Once a piece.) ...which is odd, because it's a huge fandom. There are so many bloody characters. One of the first things I heard when the first film came out was that Olvier Wood? Dead sexy. (The Potter fandom has not found this yet.)Some people not yet nominated: Charlie Eppes from numb3rs; Colonel Brandon from Sense and Sensibility; Buffy and Oz from BtVS; Max from Dark Angel; Scott Summers from X-Men; Aileron and Diarmuid from The Fionavar Tapestry; Matthew from Four Weddings and a Funeral; Oliver Wood, Percy, Bill, and Charlie Weasley from Harry Potter; Susan from The Discworld; Evie from The Mummy; Sean from Dragonsdawn; The Master from Doctor Who; Radar from M*A*S*H; Tosh from Torchwood; Carson Beckett from Stargate: Atlantis...
(I'm planning on nominating my allocated three just as soon as I figure out who I want them to be.)
