Random question of the day

[hmpf]

Why *is* it that Life on Mars fandom produces about ten times the crack as, say, Farscape and Highlander fandom combined? (And so much less angst than you'd think, considering the hyper-angsty premise?)

Comments

Re: Bwuh?

[loz]

I'm British, if that clears anything up. Live in Australia, but if people ask me where I'm from, the answer's almost always "England, but I live in Australia." I'm quite annoying about it. :D

Oh, okay. :)

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Always lived there, or moved there later in your life? Just curious. (My beta is an American who's lived most of her life in Britain...)

[loz]

I've lived in Oz longer. I'm 24 and moved here when I was ten. But, as I said, even though I think it's silly, I'm really very tetchy about being considered English first and foremost. I'm sure it says something interesting about my psyche. ;)

[neuralclone.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm.... it would be an interesting experiment to see how "Australian" you would feel if you moved back to Britain. Moving to Australia at the age of ten might have given you a sort of "perpetual outsider's" view on life.

In any case I'm inclined to think that fandom in general, and this particular corner of LOM fandom in particular, tends to attract "outsiders" of one sort or another. We certainly don't seem to fit into celebrity-magazine-reality-tv-sport! mainstream culture, though we do tend to squee! over our own idols!

[loz]

Even when I was there I felt like an outsider, because Yorkshire doesn't necessarily take kindly to Londoners, and a small rural town especially doesn't. I've always been on the fringes of society. It suits me.

[neuralclone.livejournal.com]

Likewise.

(It might it explain my Sam identification!)