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[neadods]

Couple things I thought of interest:

The infamous "whogasm". I don't know why I'm so amused at watching a pair of total strangers watching Doctor Who - it's not like the same scene wasn't more or less played out in my own living room (with perhaps a few less "Martha, no!" comments). Or maybe it's the sorority of fandom that makes it so much fun. After all, on ep night at Media*West when I tried to call a friend's room and got misdirected, a total stranger cheerfully checked out what I was asking for. We are what we are, and we are not alone.

I have always liked Slactivist (who has an LJ feed under that name): Articles like this one on Conservapedia is the reason why. (That and the Left Behind analysis articles, which are chilling but brilliant.)

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[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

OK, total icon love. Obviously running about LoM fandom, I saw lots and lots of Camberwick puppet icons, but this is just too lovely a combination.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I just HAD to do it! I wish I could do it on a T-shirt, but I only have icon-sized art. You wouldn't know where I could find a larger screencap, would you?

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

If you go to The Railway Arms,
http://domeofstars.com/forum/index.php

and go to fanart/graphics, there is a thread on Camberwick Icons -- it's pretty far back now -- and some of the images are larger. But not a larger one of the particular image you're using. I think there may have been some other larger images floating around but it would be pretty time-consuming going through the threads looking, so I put out a request asking for a larger version of your pic, and hopefully someone who's got one on their harddrive will respond. I'll let you know.

Oh, and you don't have to register at TRA, you can go in as a guest.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I put out a request asking for a larger version of your pic

Thank you!

I should have been more active in LoM fandom, but Who is already so high-volume...

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

I get overwhelmed just looking at Who fandom from the edges . . . LOM fandom is really active right now (well, for a smaller fandom) because everyone's still processing the final episode or bouncing back or whatever.
Right now, of course, it is full of Simm-squee bc of Who. Hopefully it will settle down into a long term solid core, as some people drift away and others hang in, but we'll see. Oh, and I guess there'll be a new batch of fans when BBCA finally gets around to airing season 2, which now looks to be January. (Grrr. I mean, Jekyll looks intriguing, but we're getting that two or three months after the UK gets it; why the delay on LOM?)

If nobody responds to my query, there are a few people I can ask directly. Once they've calmed down from the Simm-squee that Saturday is sure to provoke. ;-)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

How does Season 2 work? I mean, Sam's not going anywhere. Who else ends up back in time, when, and how?

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

More of the same: Sam learning to cope and trying to get home -- nobody else travels back in time. At least not until Ashes to Ashes, the forthcoming sequel series, about which I will not spoil you unless you wish to be spoiled. There is a definite conclusion to the series in the last ep, I will say that.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Ooop, sorry, using series in the American sense, not the British one. I know about the ending to the second series with Sam (have the DVD although have not yet watched). It's the sequel series that I'm trying to figure out how it works. (Grammatically suspect sentence, but you know what I mean.)

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

I'm becoming Anglicised. Blame my husband! I always do. ;-)

It's set in the 80s, and Gene, Chris and Ray are now working together in London. A woman from our time, Alex something, is in a hostage situation and somehow ends up, Sam-like, travelling back. Except she's read the memos Sam left when he came back to the future.

*Don't* have the DVDs yet and it is making me crazy. But it's something to ask my mum-in-law to bring over at the holidays, and it's not like I can't rewatch in the meantime.

[ionlylurkhere.livejournal.com]

OMG, the link within that Slactivist article to "Category:Broadcasting" ...

I had no idea they had articles on LoM (http://www.conservapedia.com/Life_on_Mars) -- a "sitcom", didn't you know? and despite his name Gene Hunt is "not a genealogist" (must be a troll, surely) -- and Who (http://www.conservapedia.com/Doctor_Who) (they give a sarky Guardian quote calling it "relentless socialist propaganda" as though it's serious while simultaneously claiming Invasion of the Dinos as a warning about environmentalists). I never thought of looking for fancruft there before.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

At some point this weekend I'm going to follow those links, but I have fear.

Although? Who is pretty heavily tilted towards socialism, and always, ALWAYS discounts religious themes, which is not going to play well on Conservapedia.