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I'm having so much fun getting

bloody-bee-tea into Guardian. She really loves Lao Chu. I've just got to get her over here to DW and we'll be set! The fandom on Tumblr seems pretty dead, at least compared to here.

I rewatched the last eps, but I'm watching also with Bee (we just finished 27). So my head is all over the place. I have a million fic ideas but no actual output on them yet. Mostly my fannish creative outlet has been icons lately...

Oh, and I've been listening to lots of music and deciding if it's Guardian music or not. lol

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Tumblr took a huge dip back in December, and the tumblr Guardian fandom was mostly based around "lol look at this trash" -style disparaging of it anyway, which is not a mode of fandom I enjoy, so good riddance imo. All the activity is on DW, and Guardian is seemingly a good chunk of the DW renaissance. Maybe entice her over with a curated list of Lao Chu icons?

Ahhh okay. I'm absolutely in love with this show and still in my honeymoon stage, so I'm not really into that kind of take anyway. I will just reblog pretty pictures over there and ignore any trash talking.

She's a younger fan and was never on LJ or DW so she doesn't really get the journal style, but I told her I'd hold her hand through it. :)

Yeah, I loathe those takes, too. (They always seem to be comparing Guardian to measuring sticks not applicable, or holding it to higher standards than anything else ever...)

potofsoup made a DW for Tumblrites tutorial series, which might be worth looking into!

Thank you for that link! :D

tumblr Guardian fandom was mostly based around "lol look at this trash" -style

I saw a lot of that stuff before I'd seen more than a couple episodes, and was surprised to find the show so good. And I was BLOWN AWAY when I started my re-watch and saw how tightly-plotted it is, and how the closely the "cases" tie into the overall plot and themes.

Everything that needs *money* isn't very good, but characterization (not just of the leads!), plot, and attention to detail e.g. in the set design is WAY above Smallville, Teen Wolf, Merlin, or SGA.

I was BLOWN AWAY when I started my re-watch and saw how tightly-plotted it is, and how the closely the "cases" tie into the overall plot and themes.
Same! The story (emotional bits) is very well done, and the plot is at least average for the genre of cheesy sci-fi TV, both on the show level and the individual episodes level. And the science is just as bad to every other sci-fi TV show ever. Do these people come from an alternative universe where every TV series is some super-high-budget meticulously plotted and researched adaptation of a hard SF novel à la Tau Zero? That is the only way I can make sense of the criticisms. (And the special effects aren't that dire, either...)

+1 on the rewatch feels - I have done way more squealing during my rewatch than I did on my first watch, because I keep finding hints that totally went over my head the first time! And it's so refreshing to have characters who don't change their core characterization from episode to episode.

it's so refreshing to have characters who don't change their core characterization from episode to episode

This is the really big thing, for me. When characters DO change, it's over time and for a reason: like Li Qian between 01-02 and when she re-appears in Mad Science Lab.

Hollywood-type shows have so much plot-driven characterization, I don't know if I'll ever really go back.*g*

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