I'm similar. I was obsessed with Saved by the Bell, then with Dawson's Creek, and then with Stargate, but not all at the same time. Each obsession was all-encompassing. If I watched anything else, it was because one of the actors from my one show was in it.
Still, I retain a special fondness for my previous obsessions. I still have my Dawson's Creek poster and three framed photos on the walls. OTOH, I did sort of abandon that fandom and I still feel rather sad about it. I got busy, lost interest in repeating the same discussions over and over, and sort of fell out of going to the forum all the time. To be fair to me, though, that was a full forum that had many, many busy threads. Even at the top of my obsession, I couldn't keep up and as I got further and further behind during a busy time, it got harder to go back.
Now I'm watching Smallville, Degrassi, Lincoln Heights (which I mean to write about soon), Gilmore Girls, Boston Legal, and, of course, Supernatural. I don't think I've ever had a time in my life when I have had so many shows on that I want to watch and modern conveniences make it easy to catch up on shows that I haven't watched from the beginning, so that makes it even more fun.
and while it's sad, it's also freeing. I'm finding I'm not stuck in a single mindset and that everything is about SG-1. I can watch other things, enjoy them, and it in turns helps me creatively. It's like when I read -- I jump from horror to fantasy to science fiction. It gives me the variety that I need to break creative blocks.
I don't know if it helps me creatively to be more multi-fannish and less obessessive, but there was a time that if something I read didn't have Daniel Jackson in it, I simply was not interested. I couldn't even *make* myself read fiction any more--this from the one who has never gone anywhere without a book since I was 8 or 9 years old. hehe Everything seemed so boring unless it was about Daniel, or, as my son once joked, "the more important Daniel." *g*
Daniel Jackson invaded my life, and I think it was all good, and I'll always love him as a character (even if I don't love him *g* if you know what I mean), but I think I could actually enjoy a real novel again even if he was no the featured character. *g*
But now I'm thinking... Are there any Smallville books? *g* Hee! I'm hopeless.
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Date: 2007-02-27 02:15 am (UTC)Still, I retain a special fondness for my previous obsessions. I still have my Dawson's Creek poster and three framed photos on the walls. OTOH, I did sort of abandon that fandom and I still feel rather sad about it. I got busy, lost interest in repeating the same discussions over and over, and sort of fell out of going to the forum all the time. To be fair to me, though, that was a full forum that had many, many busy threads. Even at the top of my obsession, I couldn't keep up and as I got further and further behind during a busy time, it got harder to go back.
Now I'm watching Smallville, Degrassi, Lincoln Heights (which I mean to write about soon), Gilmore Girls, Boston Legal, and, of course, Supernatural. I don't think I've ever had a time in my life when I have had so many shows on that I want to watch and modern conveniences make it easy to catch up on shows that I haven't watched from the beginning, so that makes it even more fun.
and while it's sad, it's also freeing. I'm finding I'm not stuck in a single mindset and that everything is about SG-1. I can watch other things, enjoy them, and it in turns helps me creatively. It's like when I read -- I jump from horror to fantasy to science fiction. It gives me the variety that I need to break creative blocks.
I don't know if it helps me creatively to be more multi-fannish and less obessessive, but there was a time that if something I read didn't have Daniel Jackson in it, I simply was not interested. I couldn't even *make* myself read fiction any more--this from the one who has never gone anywhere without a book since I was 8 or 9 years old. hehe Everything seemed so boring unless it was about Daniel, or, as my son once joked, "the more important Daniel." *g*
Daniel Jackson invaded my life, and I think it was all good, and I'll always love him as a character (even if I don't love him *g* if you know what I mean), but I think I could actually enjoy a real novel again even if he was no the featured character. *g*
But now I'm thinking... Are there any Smallville books? *g* Hee! I'm hopeless.