ah-chie
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Post by ah-chie on Feb 2, 2005 21:03:43 GMT -5
Reading got me into science fiction.
HG Wells, George Orwell, Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, John Wyndham, etc. when I was in elementary and high school.
Later, much later, I took a course in uni on science fiction and fantasy writing (but that pretty well killed my enthusiasm for the genre).
I didn't find Star Wars interesting (I think I may have been too old when it came out) and don't like a lot of SF movies (my very favourite was Steven Soderberg's Solaris), but I did watch Star Trek (the original series) as a teenager (but it was all the rage to do that back then) when it finally came on a night that I was allowed to view television (my parents had strict rules - Friday night and weekends only!).
BSG is the first SF series that has really hooked me - it is character driven and that is what I really like. ;D
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Post by Beckymonster on Feb 3, 2005 4:54:44 GMT -5
What about the showroom dummies  The Automanons (or whatever they were called )... erm... can I plead that I was too young to remember them? My memories range from the end of the Baker era onwards - Peter Davison was my favourite, though you must give 'All teeth and curls' his due! Oh frak - I forgot 'Blake's Seven' too! *doh* |
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Roner
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Post by Roner on Feb 3, 2005 12:34:34 GMT -5
Mom, got me into Sci-Fi. She was a fan of the original trek. So I watched it with her. Then we would watch any sci-fi show; Six Million Dollar man, Bionic woman, BSG, Dr. Who, etc... But the deal was cemented when Star Wars hit the theater. My Dad took to me to that one and I was forever hooked.
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Post by Boomer on Feb 9, 2005 15:33:57 GMT -5
Ain't parents great?
My dad and I used to have our quality family time in front of ST:TNG (I was in single digits for the first few seasons of that). Impressed, he got me into science and astronomy and we branched out into Land of the Giants and all that stuff he'd watched as a kid in the 60's.
I've watched virtually all of what's around these days, including most of the tat, before finding taste and style and giving up the science stuff in favour of writing (I'm not saying taste and giving up science are related!).
I still love the tat. I was reunited with Starship Troopers the other night. I *LOVE* that film. Neighbours weren't so impressed with me shouting at the tv though.
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Post by darth_librarian on Feb 10, 2005 6:02:12 GMT -5
Star Wars and Dr Who as a kid, my mums book collection, and a general love of all things spacey from an early age.
I distinctly remember sitting in front of a TV waiting for a show called Battlestar Galactica to come on...
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Post by Thrace on Feb 11, 2005 18:57:59 GMT -5
I'm not as die hard Sci-Fi as most of you are. For me it was Startgate SG-1. Stop laughing!!!!!!!  Really the Goa'uld posing as the Gods of Egypt really hooked me. Apophis, Hathor, Ra, Osiris, and Seth(just to name a few) as the bad guys was fascinating to me. That and Amanda Tapping discussing "Wormhole Physics" every week with a cool confidence of an Airforce Captain/Major and now Colonel got me into Sci-Fi. Throw in Jack O'neil's Comedy and Teal'c s rebel warrior and away you go into fantasy land. I still watch every week and I still LOVE that show!!! |
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Post by Starbuck on Feb 11, 2005 22:56:54 GMT -5
You can blame my dad he had a cupboard full of Sci-Fi books and I must have read everyone by the time I was 12.
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