DPP: Pilots for Dummies (or How I Explain This Insanity to Muggles)

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Greetings and salutations, Shipper Nation! I'm Amy, your friendly neighborhood monkey ninja. My plans for this week require a good deal of audience participation, so you may as well block off the whole week on your calendar right now. :) I'll wait right here... Go ahead...

Anyway, I've had this topic idea for quite a while now, and it ends up kind of timely, since the gang on Twitter was talking over the weekend about recruiting for Shipper Nation. Pardon my mixed fandom metaphor, but today I'd like to know how (or even IF) you've ever explained pilots to the Muggles in your life.

By way of explanation, my company has this open-plan building concept where the cubicles only come up to about your waist when you're standing. This means that almost everyone in your area can see you from their desk. This also means that when I'm reading particularly interesting Daily Pilots Posts, my cube neighbors can see and hear my reactions. Now, thankfully, my monitor faces a corner, which will be useful later this week, but it still means that every so often I'm asked what's so funny or why I'm smiling or shaking my head, etc. If you've commented at no_takebacks  before, there's a pretty good chance I've quoted you out loud. I'm a sharer, what can I say?

So, tell me- have you ever tried to get a friend to watch BSG? How did you try to sell it? Or, have you ever tried to get a casual BSG fan to come and join our little discussions here? Maybe you prefer to keep this whole thing your private little secret. That's OK, too. Your mission is to tell us how you've made your case for pilots (or why you'll never tell). If you used visual aids, include them (why, yes, that IS a cheap ploy to include teh pretty). Have you shown someone a fanvid, a scene from the show, that gif from Eye of Jupiter where you get a little flash of tongue? Ahem. Yeah, so... How do you explain the fandom to an outsider?

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I'm in the group of late-comers to this show, and back in the fall when I was newly addicted, I was sitting around at lunch one day with a bunch of other teachers. Sarah and I had just had an animated conversation about the awesomeness of Ender's Game, and I decided she was ripe for conversion to watching BSG. I started by saying this: "So it's not really scifi. See, there are these robots--" And then we were laughing pretty hard. (It's often political allegory was my point. She's a social studies teacher.)

The first person I successfully hooked was my father, by convincing him to get me the box set for Hanukkah and then that he should watch "just the mini-series" with me. We watched all the way up to Home before I left.

I also got a friend addicted, who ships K/L now maybe even more than me. She watched most of it on her own, but I was there for Maelstrom and she promptly declared that Kara was the main character and she was never watching this show again if she and Lee weren't going to end up together! (She did, of course, with encouragement :) ) And actually, I just gave her a link to my profile to read some of my fanfiction, so she may wander over here one of these days...