Whereas I've never been able to really get into fic for shows I don't watch, no matter how well-written and plotted the story as a story. It's a different strokes thing, I suppose.

See, if you don't know the show, it's almost like reading original fiction.

I watched Due South when it was originally broadcast on CBS, and I liked it, but not fannishly. I watch SG-1, but not especially fannishly. OTOH, I loved most of Farscape.

Due South is on in rerun on Canada's Showcase channel.

Hmph.

I have read a few Due South stories, but mostly just flashfic things that friends post in their LJs, that are short enough they're not even behind cut tags. So I read them. I know the basic premise, but some of it escapes me...

But I keep MEANING to watch more, so I can read more fanfic...(yes, I only want to watch the show so I can read the fanfic. It's sad, really)

I think they should film Emily's post and show it every Xmas.

Is that too long to COMM?

See, if you don't know the show, it's almost like reading original fiction.

Very much like, especially if it's good. Actually, I think it's probably good practice (for the people who actually work at it) in that it shows how useful it is to have a fully defined character in mind.

(Also, the wallaby-rescuing wicked cool lesbian lover above was played by Farscape.)

yes, I only want to watch the show so I can read the fanfic. It's sad, really

This is why I watched The Sentinel. I'm not entirely sure it was worth it, mind you.

Is that too long to COMM?

Nah. Hey, if Hec can COMM the Story of Billytea's Testicle...

This is why I watched The Sentinel. I'm not entirely sure it was worth it, mind you.

Me too. And me too. See, I'd like to see more of it in order because otherwise I'd feel strange writing fic for it. On the other hand... it would require watching more Sentinel, and so far I only tend to really enjoy the last five seconds. You know, when they do The Joking Around. Oh, and the bit at the beginning, too, where they go, "In the jungles! Of Brazil," and I always say it along with it and then feel really stupid because I'm not only watching a really bad TV show, I'm SINGING ALONG....

Whew. I blame the drugs.

See, if you don't know the show, it's almost like reading original fiction.

You'd think, but it tends to read very differently. All the artfully-integrated canon that good fanfic lives for reads as something that the author takes for granted that we know, if you don't know what they're talking about. Which, of course, the author does. And I don't mean that as a bad thing -- but it's definitely a different feeling reading it than reading original fiction.

Although, Emily reminds me, there's one exception to the whole don't-read-fic-for-shows-I-don't-watch rule, since it's how I got into SV fandom in the first place. How silly of me to forget that here of all places.

I'm trying to think of something to redeem Sentinel.

Having a hard time.

Except that maybe you get some of the more obscure references in the fic.

Hey! I ENJOY Sentinel.

It's cheerfully bad. And hello? The Gay!Jim flashbacks? With the earring and the 'stache?

Priceless visual comedy,

Except that maybe you get some of the more obscure references in the fic.

True, but at the same time it's something of a let-down to realize Blair doesn't have big old collagen-enhanced lips and ever-moist BLUE eyes a la Frodo and silken hair to his butt and nor is Jim a giant of a man with a jaw like granite.

On the other hand, it turns out that while Blair's probably less cute than I was imagining, Jim's more. Which is too bad, because his characterization is Pure Dick.