Big ditto to the 'real time' thing - it is like having a present delivered every week! I've always tried to avoid 'live' series after seeing brilliant set-ups go ruthlessly down the pan and characters given complete personality changes without explanation. I'm hoping here that having the myths to draw on provides some sort of ring fencing albeit with lots of freedom to explore.
It's odd - all my other fandoms I found through the fanfic (even SGA; I didn't pick it up until about mid-way through the first season, after a lot of fic had come out). This is the first that grabbed me from the first with the episodes (well, I suppose I had a lot of grounding through adoring the Arthurian legends and the Dark is Rising books). Same hopes here - though to be sure the characters in the myths are all over the map :) I'm hoping more that the writers will not be a bunch of random people writing individual episodes, but one team that pays attention to the characterizations from one episode to the next
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It's odd - all my other fandoms I found through the fanfic (even SGA; I didn't pick it up until about mid-way through the first season, after a lot of fic had come out). This is the first that grabbed me from the first with the episodes (well, I suppose I had a lot of grounding through adoring the Arthurian legends and the Dark is Rising books). Same hopes here - though to be sure the characters in the myths are all over the map :) I'm hoping more that the writers will not be a bunch of random people writing individual episodes, but one team that pays attention to the characterizations from one episode to the nextThis interests me since I really find it difficult to read fanfic without knowing the series - largely since so much is written with the idea that the reader brings in a ton of knowledge to the text. *g* I guess it would be like reading original fic with the extra benefit of knowing that all one's particular ficcy desires were being met
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This interests me since I really find it difficult to read fanfic without knowing the series - largely since so much is written with the idea that the reader brings in a ton of knowledge to the text.My very first fandom was X-Files - I'd watched three or four seasons of it before I found the fanfic. Before that, I thought being a fan meant watching the episodes on tv every week :) I hadn't realized that there were people actually writing stories with the characters. My recollection was that at the time, people mostly wrote long stories - practically novels, and often case files, so there were lots of OCs, and you didn't have to know much about the show except for the main points. From there, I got into Highlander, iirc because of Wombat's crossover story - I went looking for more stories, and found an archive. Again, most stories were full-length, and you pretty much just needed to bring the basic knowledge about Highlander - that the immortals don't die unless you cut off their head, and watch out for people with names beginning
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Historical accuracy? 'smoked pigeon sandwiches' nuff said.
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