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[emony]

It's funny, it's been at least a year, probably more, since I was at all involved in Stargate fandom, but no matter how much I tell myself I'm over all that stuff, it still gets me furiously angry in a way almost nothing else does.

I feel the need to go and sit in OS chat for a bit, shore up my self-belief for a while.

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[cedara]

Gee... did you watch Threads?

[emony.livejournal.com]

No. I just heard enough about it to make me want to poke my eyes out with a spork.

[nausica2.livejournal.com]

Ah, the wonders of SG fandom.

I told myself I was just a casual fan, because I had been drifting.

It took only Reckoning to get me all bouncy, happy and excited.

Of course it took Threads (some parts of it and reading certain people's ljs) to get me all blah again.

We should start a group for therapy.

[cedara]

Ah, well, the Daniel stuff was nice, ditto the Jaffa stuff... the last five minutes were funny. But the rest was ... GUH.

[cedara]

Can I join? ;)

[nausica2.livejournal.com]

erm... sorry, but are you Cedara the Cedara to whom I used to chat a long time ago in the DANIELites chat?

Just curious.

[emony.livejournal.com]

Yes, the Daniel stuff sounded all right. The rest .. well, I don't watch anymore, so I shouldn't care. But I do. *sigh*

[emony.livejournal.com]

As long as we can charge the cost of the therapist to Mallozzi and Mullie, I'm all for that plan *g*

[xochiquetzl]

Alas. I tell myself this: *points at icon* and sometimes that helps, but, you know, sometimes it doesn't.

[odycee.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'm typing with a braille keyboard now.

[emony.livejournal.com]

Lol. You've picked it up remarkably quickly.

[emony.livejournal.com]

:(

[cedara]

Yup, that's me.

[niennah.livejournal.com]

Is Threads the episode title? *is clueless*

I'm sorry. Tomorrow we can talk about bunnies and puppies and cats. And chocolate (I caved and had that caramel creme). And pasta.

And other things. Definitely not the thing we're not talking about.

[niennah.livejournal.com]

You didn't like it either?

Possibility 1: I've lost my sense of taste and style.
Possibility 2: You are all bitter cynics.

;):P

[nausica2.livejournal.com]

You bet. :)

[nausica2.livejournal.com]

Don't forget Brad Wright and RCC, they should pay too.

[niennah.livejournal.com]

Yes, the Daniel stuff sounded all right.

You must have heard it from other sources then, because the crapness of the diner metaphor made me cringe. And talk about spending far, far too long figuring stuff out.

Well, what do I know. I've lost my sense of taste and style. ;P

[nausica2.livejournal.com]

:) Great to hear from you again.

[emony.livejournal.com]

I just meant, ya know, the nudity. The rest of it I could take or leave. Really though, Daniel could sit there and read the phone book in a dead monotone and I'd say it was okay in an episode that had [blank]/[blank] stuff, because in comparison? It is okay.

[emony.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. I have a list, don't worry *eg*

[emony.livejournal.com]

Yes, Threads is the title.

It's not you, not at all *loves madly* It's just Stargate itself. It gets to me. That metaphor I used before? Imagine me sitting in a wheelchair, twitching, feeling phantom pain where my legs used to be, and screaming every time I hear a loud bang because I think it's the Viet Cong come to get me. It's like that. Not good.

I'm glad to hear you have the caramel creme though. Embrace the chocolate!!

[kitt.livejournal.com]

Ya know, it almost makes me feel better, knowing that it's not just me. I've been out of the fandom for what? Almost 2 years now? I'm not even sure anymore. I've spent the last week or two getting slowly back into the fandom, and it hurts but I just can't make it go away. I stopped watching after season 5, but lingered around in the fandom for a bit, now I've picked back up and watched all of 6, and am nearly halfway through 7. I fear 8 and 9 and what they'll do to my brain. On one hand, I love catching up with the fandom that really got me into... well, fandom. But on the other hand, it's also one of the more painful and annoyingasallhell fandoms that I've ever been witness to.
I still get angry at things that happened years ago, which is stupid. And even more stupid, I get angry at things that are happening now even if I only have half a clue whats going on. I think that's part of the reason why I'm letting myself get sucked back in to an extent, there was just never any escaping it in the first place. No matter how many times I told myself that I wasn't really in that fandom anymore, I still found myself paying attention to it or getting worked up about it, or getting nostalgic about it against my better judgement.
It really is the fandom that just won't die. I think I've finally resigned myself to this fact. My only protection being that I'm a professional lurker, so except for the people who knew me way back when ;) nobody knows who I am now or pays me or my rants any attention.

I will say that now I'm curious about what got you so worked up about it and am itching to go take a look at what this episode was all about... The evil, it's drawing me in!

[cedara]

Likewise. :-)

[cedara]

*nods*

Don't we all... I watched the Behind the Scenes special, which should have made me aware that they seem to do a Craptastic stuff line again, but I'm working on being blind on that ear/eye/whatever, let's see how long it'll take until I succeed.

*shrugs*