Fandom Snowflake 2021 #1

[brightknightie]

'21 Snowflake #1 : Introduction

This is my fandom journal. You'll rarely find non-fannish posts here.

To this day, most posts here are about Forever Knight. Now, I do enjoy other things as much at this point! Gracious. Even my beloved first-season FK, I rarely rewatch. And yet: so much FK here. Because of the inertia of decades, because I moderate fkficfest, and because most of you know me from FK, which was my first online fandom, and ever my deepest and dearest fandom, so naturally we still connect over that shared story universe and fannish experience.

Besides FK, you'll sometimes see me post here about Highlander, Young Blades, Dungeons & Dragons (the '80s cartoon!), Battlestar Galactica (the original), and Pokemon GO (Level 43). I almost never post about any of the rest, like Masterpiece PBS/BBC shows, Bujold's "The World of the Five Gods," or even OUaT or DPS. If you're interested, I do mention further fandoms in my standing likes/dislikes post from the days I participated in a lot more fests. But most things that I watch and read, I never bring up here at all, a few because I got bitten and learned to stay away from those fandoms, but most only because they pass through lightly without needing what fandom supplies.

Three example musings on other fandoms/IPs that I rarely mention here:

(1) I'm currently watching Frankie Drake Mysteries via PBS Passport. It's a spin-off/sequel of Murdoch Mysteries, set after WWI but before Ontario repealed its temperance act. It's a zippy, charming, historical whodunnit with mostly women characters. And halfway through first season, that's all it is. Pleasant. Charming. Comfortable. Competent. No need whatsoever for fandom. Similarly, I just finished The Trouble With Maggie Cole, which is solid, engaging, rewarding, but now over with no need for fannishness on my part.

(2) I was all Star Wars as a child, and thought of Star Trek as my dad's, but first the prequels and then the bile after the actually very good The Last Jedi broke those ties. I don't, anymore. I just don't. I'm all Star Trek these days. Not that you can't be both! But I'm not anymore.

(3) The Scarlet Witch has been my favorite superhero since I was nine, so while I eagerly follow her all around the MCU, I am also a constant litany of comparison/contrast to the comics canon. I tend to assert the primacy of the canon as it existed when I was twelve, or, you know, whichever writers' work I like best. Writers come and go; superheroes are forever. Her hair is brown and curly, though. Just saying. Brown. And curly. And I'm fond of Wiccan because he's her son and came to rescue her; his and his brother's other appeals are mostly lost on me, because I'm too busy going, "Look! It's Tommy and Billy! It's Vision and Wanda's sons!" Byrne should yet answer for what he did to her in what he did to them. Psychological fridging.

Comments

[lightbird]

I've only seen a couple of episodes of the Frankie Drake Mysteries, and I liked them well enough. I think your description sums it up very well. It's a very decent, pleasant series.

[brightknightie]

Thanks for sharing that you've encountered the Frankie Drake Mysteries, too. :-) Yep, it was sort of ... nearly the last drama I had not yet tried on PBS Passport that didn't have blood in the thumbnail, and when I saw the period costumes, I had to try it, and... it's nice. :-D

[pj1228]

I've also seen a couple of Frankie Drake episodes and found them entertaining. In particular those when her mother turns up. But generally I like Murdoch Mysteries better.

[brightknightie]

If Murdoch Mysteries were available to me for free, I imagine that I would be watching it instead! But for now, Frankie Drake Mysteries is... fine. Just fine. ~laughter~ It's my Sunday night show for now.

[pj1228]

I really hope you'll get the chance to watch Murdoch Mysteries one day. I have a feeling that you'll like it because it fulfills all that you usually list as "likes" in your preferences.

[chelseagirl]

I watched the first season of Frankie Drake this summer, and thoroughly enjoyed it, but wasn't compelled to immediately watch the second. I'm saving it for when I need something light and pleasant and girl power.

[brightknightie]

"Light, pleasant, girl power" is an excellent description!

I'm likely to abandon the entirely pleasant Frankie Drake Mysteries as my Sunday night show as soon as the next Masterpiece season starts -- I think we're getting a new incarnation of All Creatures Great and Small? -- in hopes of something a little deeper, but I'll cheerfully return to it between other fare choices, as long as it's there on PBS Passport.

[greerwatson]

I'm curious to see the new All Creatures Great and Small. I have such fond memories of the original TV version: I wonder how the new one will measure up? Though I expect, in time, it will make its own memories.