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no_takebacksTwo questions today:
1. What's your personal fanon for how Starbuck and Apollo got their callsigns? There's no official reason given in the show (I'm told Kara's is explained in one of the comics, which I have but haven't read yet, but having read most of the comics, I'm rather loathe to count them as any kind of canon) but there has to be a reason she came out Starbuck and he Apollo. (Because there were characters with those names in the original is NOT a valid reason)
2. What advice would you give to a person for whom BSG was her/his first "real" fandom? How would you explain fandom to a newbie?
1. What's your personal fanon for how Starbuck and Apollo got their callsigns? There's no official reason given in the show (I'm told Kara's is explained in one of the comics, which I have but haven't read yet, but having read most of the comics, I'm rather loathe to count them as any kind of canon) but there has to be a reason she came out Starbuck and he Apollo. (Because there were characters with those names in the original is NOT a valid reason)
2. What advice would you give to a person for whom BSG was her/his first "real" fandom? How would you explain fandom to a newbie?
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Date: 2010-07-22 09:12 pm (UTC)As to the fandom. My family just watched BSG this past winter in approximately two months. It became addictive and after the ending, we all reacted differently. My son was disgusted and wouldn't even discuss it; my husband got over it; my daughter just remembered what she wanted but me: I started reading as much fiction as possible to rewrite the entire ending in my head. I never even heard of fandom or fan fiction but the more I got into it, the more I found. It's sort of like Alice going through the looking glass. It's definitely an addiction and I'm still trying to figure out how healthy that actually is..
Having said that, it seems like a world of friendships based on some pretty interesting common denominators. I'm just lurking on the outside although I have begun commenting. No live journal though so I can't always post.