My Top 30 Fanboy Obsessions of All Time

[90scartoonman]

Posted in response to what mattzimmer did a while back. I had to ask myself what my top 30 Fandoms of all time are, and I think I've settled on something reasonably accurate.

There is some overlap, such as the Marvel and DC stuff and then their universes in other mediums, but that's just kind of how it goes.

Comments

[90scartoonman]

Yay! You should do one...if you find the time in your busy schedule!

[90scartoonman]

Maturity leave?! You plan on leaving your maturity?

[mattzimmer]

Ren and Stimpy is better than Gargoyles but Gargoyles is definitely the second-best original of all time. And The Goliath Chronicles was nowhere near as bad as Adult Party Cartoon or even the Games episodes.

Lost's finale was amazing. I will never understand people's gripes against it. They actually expected some grand unifying theory to explain the island? Were they watching the same series as me?

Keep going on Doctor Who.

[mattzimmer]

Oh, and great list!

[90scartoonman]

Ren and Stimpy and Gargoyles is another apples and oranges thing to me (not unlike the Simpsons and JLU), but I will say Ren and Stimpy probably had a bigger impact on my childhood in terms of me quoting lines, theme birthdays, and Muddy Mudskipper-based homework assignments. However, I was more INTO Gargoyles. The world, the mythology, coming up with theories, connecting with fans online, etc. Interesting and accurate comparison about the second series of each, though.

I need to avoid getting in online debates with Lost haters. The answers are there, they just need to be pieced together. A lot of the answers anyway, and there's enough in the conversation with Jacob, his brother, and their mother to have an idea of what the island is. But yeah, it's like if you look at any show where a character believes in God and getting angry the show doesn't explain the nature of God.

[mattzimmer]

I always compare shows in different genres and mediums. That's partly how I set up my ratings system in my reviews. But I think The Goliath Chronicles is way better than everyone says. I only read the first few issues of the "canon" Gargoyles comics so far (I own them all though and will get around to them eventually) but from what I DID read I preferred TGC. By far.

Audiences need their television spoon-fed to them. Anything that challenges them, or asks them to make up their own mind about something is automatically considered bad. I wonder if this is an American thing. There are many popular Japanese animes that don't actually make any sense and their audiences are fine with it. I don't get people sometimes.