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Snowflake Challenge - Day 2
Jan. 20th, 2018 09:33 pmDay 2 - Share a fandom memory.
When I was in university, I was generally poor, like most of my peers. I didn't live in during the first year, I commuted, so as a result I didn't know nearly as many people as most, so when it came to finding a shared house to live in, life got a little difficult. I did eventually find a house (after a shortish stay in a house of people I didn't know, and which I've dedicated to wiping out of my memory as completely as possible) through the Southampton University Games and Roleplaying Society. It was a bit of a mix of people - one person was working fulltime, one was a PhD student, and three of us were undergrads. The guy who was working full-time was, with hindsight, chronically insecure - he wasn't the only seriously insecure person in the house, which made life even more complicated, but in his case, he based his sense of self-worth on whether he could buy things you couldn't. That meant new computer, new tv in his room that was bigger than the house tv, new stereo system in his room, etc.
At this point, most of us were watching a few tv shows that I guess were cult shows at the time - or so terribad that they made great drinking shows. Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: I'm looking at you. We were watching Xena, Seaquest DSV, DS9 and, of course... Babylon 5. Babylon 5 had a bit of a weird schedule in the US - from what I can remember, the US networks used to show 6 episodes, then repeat those 6 episodes before showing the next 6 new episodes. That meant we were behind in the UK, by quite a long way... until the last handful of episodes, which we ended up seeing first, for the middle seasons.
As our house had the big tv, the stereo sound et al, it naturally became a gathering place for everyone who wanted to watch. The guy who owned them all was delighted, as he was the centre of attention... but he was generally so busy being the large man in the house that by the time he got up to his room to watch, every chair was taken half a dozen people would be sitting on the bed, and he'd end up on the floor. Whoops.
With so many people in the room, each episode inevitably ended up becoming a bit of a talking shop, which could be frustrating. However, then "Interludes and Examinations" aired. It was the episode where we first saw Vorlon ships attack a Shadow ship, it was the episode where Kosh died, and it was the first episode where not only was everyone almost completely silent throughout, as soon as the episode finished, we rewound the tape and put it back on again to watch for a second time.
When I was in university, I was generally poor, like most of my peers. I didn't live in during the first year, I commuted, so as a result I didn't know nearly as many people as most, so when it came to finding a shared house to live in, life got a little difficult. I did eventually find a house (after a shortish stay in a house of people I didn't know, and which I've dedicated to wiping out of my memory as completely as possible) through the Southampton University Games and Roleplaying Society. It was a bit of a mix of people - one person was working fulltime, one was a PhD student, and three of us were undergrads. The guy who was working full-time was, with hindsight, chronically insecure - he wasn't the only seriously insecure person in the house, which made life even more complicated, but in his case, he based his sense of self-worth on whether he could buy things you couldn't. That meant new computer, new tv in his room that was bigger than the house tv, new stereo system in his room, etc.
At this point, most of us were watching a few tv shows that I guess were cult shows at the time - or so terribad that they made great drinking shows. Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: I'm looking at you. We were watching Xena, Seaquest DSV, DS9 and, of course... Babylon 5. Babylon 5 had a bit of a weird schedule in the US - from what I can remember, the US networks used to show 6 episodes, then repeat those 6 episodes before showing the next 6 new episodes. That meant we were behind in the UK, by quite a long way... until the last handful of episodes, which we ended up seeing first, for the middle seasons.
As our house had the big tv, the stereo sound et al, it naturally became a gathering place for everyone who wanted to watch. The guy who owned them all was delighted, as he was the centre of attention... but he was generally so busy being the large man in the house that by the time he got up to his room to watch, every chair was taken half a dozen people would be sitting on the bed, and he'd end up on the floor. Whoops.
With so many people in the room, each episode inevitably ended up becoming a bit of a talking shop, which could be frustrating. However, then "Interludes and Examinations" aired. It was the episode where we first saw Vorlon ships attack a Shadow ship, it was the episode where Kosh died, and it was the first episode where not only was everyone almost completely silent throughout, as soon as the episode finished, we rewound the tape and put it back on again to watch for a second time.
