I am a scifi slave, I confess.

[dangermousie]

Do you know, I have just realized I am a scifi geek?

Yeah. I have a Star Wars background on my lj, and I just realized it? I can hear a chorus of "come on"s.

But I didn’t think so. Of course, for a time in my preteens and early teens I devoured scifi books. I would read nothing else for days, sometimes. But that passed and I thought that while definitely not anti-scifi, it and me were over for good. Most of the movies and books I read nowadays have little to do with spaceships after all. But then I looked at the list of the TV shows I’ve ever liked (and it’s not much. I am not really a TV watcher) and what do you know, they all have a certain similarity. Here’s the list.


Shows I love:
Farscape: It doesn’t get much more science fictiony than an astronaut shot through a wormhole to bond with aliens.
Battlestar Galactica: unless it’s a show about humans from distant planets running away from genocidal robots.

Shows I like:
First Wave: aliens secretly invading Earth to take it over sounds more Asimov than Austen.
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer: anything involving Vampires in the title better be a fantasy.
Highlander: Immortals bedding everything in skirts? Definitely a fantasy.
Robin of Sherwood: Robin Hood in a fantasy setting.

And I have just got hooked on “Firefly,” a space Western.

And this is the complete list of all the shows I’ve ever liked. Yeah.

Still, I don’t read only (or even mostly) scifi or fantasy. Why such an exclusivity when it comes to TV? Well, all of the above had plenty of interesting characters, story arcs, and angst. Characters in these shows often have layers and layers and layers. Plus, you can see heroic characters in a scifi or fantasy world, something you can’t see in a modern, real-world show. You can have battles, star-crossed lovers, running from evil governments, saving the world. And of course, It’s a lot more creative, writing about an alien society, then making attention-seekers eat worms on reality TV. But you know what? I am sure it’s also a bit of it is purely the desire to explore the boundaries of the fictional world, or even to look at another world entirely. When was the last time you saw a sentient plant Priestess on Law & Order?

Favorite book this year so far? Harry Potter. Favorite Movie? Revenge of the Sith. Geekery beckons.

Comments

[ayn-rand-fan-13.livejournal.com]

Hee. Geekery is awesome.
I just spent three weeks at nerd camp, so my geek-detection is a bit off. I just assume everyone I know is a geek, and keep it at that.
I like scifi, but I'm more into more human fantasy. I kind of think it's an equal, if not greater, feat of creativity to make a hero in normal human situations. For instance, Veronica Mars. It's great because she's a hero, with no magic or anything. She's stuck in one place, without something nobody else has, and still manages to stick out.
Harry Potter is my homebody.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Half my flist is crazy about Veronica Mars. What is it about, anyway?

Warning: Fangirlish rambling ahead.

[ayn-rand-fan-13.livejournal.com]

Veronica Mars is a mystery/noir series. It's about a sixteen year old girl, Veronica Mars, living in Neptune, California. It's made up of the extremely wealthy, and the poor. Her father used to be the sheriff, but was voted out and they are in the lower half. A year before the show started, her best friend was murdered, her mother was an alchoholic and left, her boyfriend (her best friend's brother) broke up with her for no reason, all of her friends left her, and she was raped. Her father became a private investigator, and she works after school as a P.I. The season is about her solving her best friend's murder, figuring out why her boyfriend broke up with her, finding her mother, and figuring out who drugged and raped her.
Okay, it sounds kind of weird when put like that, but honestly, it is awesome. The first season had an incredible story arc, fantastic character development, and the acting is awesome. There's so much below the surface, and it's done in an incredibly non-cliched way. She never self-pities, just states the facts and tries to fix the problems.
Oh, and icon love.

[plazmah.livejournal.com]

Don't feel guilty about your geekery! Where would the world be like without people like us? ;)

My list of shows I've ever become hooked on? X-Files, Alias, Lost, House, CSI. I guess I'm a science geek through and through :)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

My forensic science prof hated CSI because he said it wasn't accurate :)

[plazmah.livejournal.com]

I know CSI is far from accurate. As is House MD. But I don't watch for accuracy, I like to be entertained dammit! :)

[vierran45.livejournal.com]

Heh, I've always known I'm a geek, so welcome to the fold :).

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

[morwen_peredhil]

Geek pride!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

*makes banner*

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

I was a born geek. When I was little, I watched Trek reruns and Space 1999 (Polis Massa = Moon Base Alpha). When I was 11 I went through a Doctor Who phase (Tom Baker episodes, mostly). I watched the original BSG, Buck Rogers, and a ton of other sf/f shows. In college, I watched STTNG. In the '90s, I was nuts about X-Files, and occasionally watched Xena. Now I'm all about Lost.

(None of this counts SW, natch.)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen any Doctor Who, but am interested in the new episodes. Considering my first book was Wizard of Oz, maybe I was doomed as well :)

[elvensapphire.livejournal.com]

Being a geek is such a terribly happy thing, though.

And we get hot boys a lot of the time. On top of the scifi and/or fantasy. I have no complaints. :D

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Mmm, hot boys. *derails*

[rowanna73.livejournal.com]

Erm, what's wrong with being a scifi geek? :) Geeky is good! I think world is definitely a better place with people who have imagination and don't take themselves too seriously. And geeky movies DO get all the hot guys.

So don't worry dear, you are doing just fine and all of us other little geeks love you just as you are. :)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Nothing is wrong :) I was just amused it took me so long to realize. I think discussing the way Darth Vader's burns would have healed (or not) in his suit in detail with my husband on the way home from grocery shopping should have given me a clue.