This week’s 5 Fandom Friday topic is Five Favorite Fathers. As I thought about this there were a few that immediately jumped to my head, and others that I had to think about. And even one that I’m not sure if it counts…but I’m going to count it.
It’s Thursday and Thrilled time again, but guys, Thursdays are HARD!! However, tomorrow I’m going to go see Chris D’Elia with the husband and I am STOKED! I’m so excited to sit at a comedy club and just laugh! If you haven’t heard his comedy, you can watch his recent stand up show on Netflix now. Other than that, here is what I’ve been thrilled about lately.
This week’s 5 Fandom Friday topic is Five Fictional Characters I Most Identify With. I had to take a step back and really think about this. I tend to get overly attached to characters very quickly, and end up seeing a lot of myself in a lot of characters.
If you follow me on tumblr you may have already seen this, however sometimes I come across such awesome gifsets that a reblog on tumblr just isn’t enough. Sometimes they hit that spot in my heart because it is so beautiful and true that I want to cry. This gifset is one of them about how as women, we can write the story on our own.
This week’s 5 Fandom Friday topic is Fictional BFFs and OMG did I have a hard time narrowing it down. As someone who gets far too emotionally attached to fictional characters I tend to feel that every character is my BFF. To quote Mindy Lahiri: “Best Friend isn’t a person Danny, its a tier!” so to pick ONLY five was incredibly difficult. Read More
I am not a runner. In high school I actually got kicked out of my gym class because I couldn’t do the running portion of the class.
I dislike running.
A lot.
Currently`
Reading: The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet by Bernie Su & Kate Rorick
Watching: Supernatural ` Season 4
Listening To: You Raise Me Up ` John Barrowman
Starring: Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Erica Cerra, Neil Grayston, Joe Morton, and Niall Matter.
Aired: SyFy | July 2006 to July 2012 | Five Seasons
About Eureka
With the help of Albert Einstein and other trusted advisors, President Harry S. Truman commissioned a top-secret residential development in a remote area of the Pacific Northwest, one that would serve to protect and nurture America’s most valuable intellectual resources. There our nation’s greatest thinkers, the über-geniuses working on the next era of scientific achievement, would be able to live and work in a supportive environment. The best architects and planners were commissioned to design a welcoming place for these superlative geniuses to reside, an area that would offer the best education for their children, the best healthcare, the best amenities and quality of life. A community was created to rival the most idyllic of America’s small towns – with one major difference: this town would never appear on any maps. At least, none that haven’t been classified “eyes only” by the Pentagon.(from imdb.com)
“I’m sorry, is that mushy? Well, you know what they say. Veronica Mars, she’s a marshmallow.”
In September of 2006, I was a recent high school graduate living at my grandparents and working at a job that I disliked immensely. My one shining light in my weeks (aside from seeing my boyfriend, now husband), was turning on Gilmore Girls on Tuesday nights. You see, my mom had just moved to Texas and I was feeling a wee bit depressed, so watching Gilmore Girls was my way of coming back from that depression. It reminded me of spending time with my mom, and that would make me happy, even if only for an hour.
One night, after watching Gilmore Girls, I forgot to turn off my TV to watch something else (probably Smallville or Bones at the time) so the next show started playing without any protest from me. Here was a show that had a quippy blonde who talked back and made pop culture jokes all while trying to solve a mystery of the week. Add her brooding boyfriend, tech-savvy best girl friend and suave and sweet talking best guy friend to the mix and it pulled me in.
Veronica Mars was probably one of the first shows I started watching with no knowledge of what it was about or influence to watch it from anyone I knew. Any time I mentioned that I was going to watch it, most just looked at me quizzically for a moment before shrugging and returning to what they had previously been doing. No one I knew had ever even heard of this show.
After seeing just a few episodes, I ran to FYE and bought the first two seasons in an effort to catch up to the season I was watching. This is where my ability to finish a few seasons of a TV show in a few weeks comes in handy. Aside from work, I essentially locked myself in my room and binge watched Veronica Mars, quickly falling in love with the characters, the storylines, the guest stars, and the dialogue. Sadly, in May of 2007, Veronica Mars came to an end with one of the worst endings in a series I have ever seen. I was completely distraught.
Of course, this didn’t keep me from recommending it to all the rest of my friends. Bringing them into my Veronica Mars caused depression. It also didn’t keep me from rewatching the series every once in a while.
Fast forward to March of 2013, and I get an alert on my phone saying that Rob Thomas (creator of Veronica Mars) is trying to make all Marshmallows dreams come true, but he needed our help. Rob Thomas, Kristen Bell, and the rest of the cast of Veronica Mars have joined together to try to get funding to shoot the Veronica Mars movie. They only need $2 million dollars. I went into a Veronica Mars daze and when I awoke I had donated enough money to get a shirt, stickers, a digital copy of the movie when it’s released and a copy of the shooting script. It was the best $35 I have ever spent.
Every month (a lot of the time every week), I’ve been receiving updates on the movie, and with every update I get more and more excited. Mostly I’m just excited because the fans for this show are so amazing to come together and actually manage to fund an entire movie. Not just give them the $2 million they needed, but to go over that and end up donating $5,702,153. The cast, in return, has managed to continuously post things about the movie and how grateful they are for everything.
Tomorrow this movie comes out and hopefully will provide closure to all the questions I’ve been asking myself since the finale aired. Though I’m excited for the closure and to see all my favorite characters again, I think the thing I’m the most excited to see is how the Veronica Mars community came together to create and support this amazing series.
If you donated or are planning on/have already seen the movie? Let me know what you thought about it. What are you the most excited for? Are you Team Logan or Team Piz? I’ll probably be posting a review in a few days, so look forward to that.
“Annoy tiny blonde one, annoy like the wind!”
Starring: Amanda Tapping, Robin Dunne, Christopher Heyerdahl and Ryan Robbins.
Aired: SYFY | October 2008 to December 2011 | Four Seasons
The enigmatic Dr. Helen Magnus recruits an insightful forensic psychiatrist Will Zimmerman to join her in the quest to track, study and protect the strange, and often terrifying creatures that secretly populate our world. (From IMDB.com)
Starring: Joshua Jackson, Anna Torv, and John Noble
Aired: FOX | September 2008 to January 2013 | Five Seasons
The FBI teams up with a formerly-institutionalized scientist – who was performing experiments on the fringe of real science – and his son to investigate weird crimes that are seemingly part of a larger pattern, and may be connected with a global company called Massive Dynamic.(from IMDB.com)
