We didn't start /some/ fandoms.

[caladri]

Culled from this video, with a few additions. (I've tried to keep anyone from hitting any of LJ's item-limits without having to have multiple questions. Apologies if it cuts you off.)

NB: I want to define my sense of sentimental in the poll below. I specifically say sentimental and not "nostalgic" or "personal" or "fannish" because that's what'

Comments

[elfy]

Really interesting ... actually, there are quite some things on that list I watched (part of), but don't feel sentimentally attached to. Also, I think being sentimental about something means to me it has to have a certain ... age. Like, I loved BSG, but I watched it only 4 or so years ago and don't think I am sentimental about it - if I use the word right. Same with Sherlock (BBC), I love that show, but it's way to recent to be sentimental about it.

[skellington1]

I'm not sure, using your definition of 'sentimental', whether any of these are 'sentimental' for me... or rather, the one that I'm SURE is needs some qualification (the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was HUGE for me while I was going through surgery, but that was the books, not any of the other incarnations).

Probably Old Who, as a thing I watched with my dad when I was quite small. Maybe TNG, if I think not of recent viewings but of watching as a kid and blurring it all with Reading Rainbow. :P

Oddly enough, maybe Red Dwarf, just because it helped me laugh through some tough times in college.

There are a lot of these that are not just nostalgic but comfortable, and others I still really appreciate, but I'm not sure whether that fits your definition of 'sentimental.'

I haven't clickied any ticky boxes yet. I'm just trying to get a handle on your definition.

[caladri]

Well, always use your own definition/sense/inclination :) I was offering mine since I, at least, wanted to answer it for a specific thing that seemed difficult to explain, but perhaps an interesting approach. Obviously not so for everyone!

Also, I should've included Reading Rainbow. What's wrong with me?

As for the H2G2 thing, well, I left that ambiguous deliberately. Everything else is TV or Movie, so I'd implicitly mean the miniseries (since no other screen adaptations exist), but interpreting it as the book or the trilogy would be just fine.

[skellington1]

Ah, I was following my natural inclination to want surveys to be tidy valid comparisons, and all lists to be parallel. :P

The only other H2G2 screen adaptation is actually one of my drunk hallucinations, and therefore of course no one should believe it exists.

(translated: I am the only person who enjoyed That Movie and I only did because we went to the theater LIT, and therefore it probably only happened in my head and the rest of you are safe).

[gement]

That quite certainly would have improved my viewing experience. I went very tired, which did not.

[twoeleven]

You're clearly missing Connections (James Burke) and Stargate (movie). :) The former can be directly blamed for my interest in how science and technology actually develop, as opposed to how we'd like to think they do. (And to a lesser extent, how culture evolves in general.)

[gfish]

Yes, Connections. And, moreso for me, The Day the Universe Changed. When I rewatch it now, I'm continually amazed at how deeply it shaped my view of just about everything.

[twoeleven]

Never heard of tDtUC before, so could you say more about the way it changed your life? :)

[gfish]

It's like Connections but less... wankery. More just tracing interesting threads through history, focusing on moments when our understands of the universe radically changed. It gave me the first real sense that how I view the world is a product of my culture/technology/moment in history. (What always equally attracted me to SF, but applied backward instead of forward.) And it first gave me the sense that ideas -- not grand ideologies, just little ideas -- can change the world. I remember trying to write a full cross-referenced index to a research paper I wrote in the 5th grade, because the show had deeply impressed me with how powerful a tool that was.

[m_cobweb]

That was surprisingly easy--some of those are linked so tightly with a time and place I like to remember. I still do that, even as a adult.

[gfish]

Huh, I wasn't expecting that Bend it like Beckham spike.