Yet another show to add to the list of ones I'll pick up when I'm one day independently wealthy and start my own on demand entertainment business cause time slots are no longer effective.
I fully support this idea and I'll send wealth vibes your way :)
This hurts so much, doesn't it? I had plans to catch up on fic last night and then all this cancellation shit started happening. That kind of ruined everything. So I think tonight I'm going to kick back, relax and read some fic. I think I really need that.
*hugs* We can hope, can't we? I can hire you to do promotions. XD
This hurts as much as Carnivale. And Firefly. And Pushing Daisies. For the lose. Tonight, I'm going out, seeing Star Trek with friends home from out of state colleges to get away from it all, then likely sniffle just a little into a spiked hot cocoa.
Hope the fan love that's been created cheers you up some. I know I'll still keep crafting.
Star Trek is a great distraction from all this (I loved it), so I hope it helped.
I'm glad to have met you too and I can tell you this much with certainty: I will never tire of Sarah Connor. I've loved that character for over 20 years already. So craft away, I'll always be interested. I have partial fic of my own that I want to finish. I have Comicals I want to do. The show may be done, but I've got a love for these characters that's not going to die. What makes it all so cool now is I actually have people I can share that with.
It's really kind of funny to be shoulder to shoulder with people that have loved the character for 20 years when I've only gotten acquainted with her for a little over 1. Couldn't be happier to have been sucked in even if Fox ends such a big part of the fun.
I always worry when the the fandoms slacken off... people fall out of touch, the projects get less prolific... but you know what happened just last month? A girl from my VERY FIRST FANDOM from when I was 8 messaged me out of the blue cause she found my youtube ID was so close in name to the ID I'd used on the fan forum when I was 13 and she just had to know if it was me. She felt bad we'd fallen out of touch, and we went back to squeeling about my first Strong Lead Female character of adoration, as well as all the other characters we'd glommed onto since.
I now proudly let Sarah Connor rent an apartment down pituitary lane with Sophie Bojakshiya, Bastila Shan, Bianca Sherer, and even my 1st love Katran of Riven.
the_narration is right... none of us are going to be rid of each other easily. Wouldn't want it any other way. :)
I think it's awesome that TSCC has created in a new generation of Sarah fans :)
Being my first fandom, I've never been through this before. I'm sure it'll shrink a lot in the coming weeks and months, but based on what I see around LJ, when people love a set of characters, the fandom lives on in smaller form.
And I definitely don't want to get rid of you guys!
I can testify to that: The Magnificent Seven has been my favorite fandom for years, though I became really active about three years ago. It was canceled after it's first season, but a major fan campaign brought it back for a second one. The producers assembled a soundtrack as a thank you for the fans - it was never available in stores, and the woman organizing the revival effort got a cameo in the first episode of the second season.
That was ten years ago. We still squee over the boys, and have LJs dedicated to them, hold passionate discussions (we're holding a rewatch now, and we're down to the last episode), create graphics and fics (there's a yearly fanfic contest, the judges are currently going over nominations), and there's been an increase in vids too.
What's best, with the DVDs that were issued for the first time recently, we're getting a lot of new fans, because of the huge number of AUs and crossovers in the Mag7 fandom. Most of these people have discovered the show through fanfiction, and they're enjoying themselves comparing what they've read to what they can now see on screen.
So, even though our show has been off the air for ten years, the fandom is still going strong. I can only hope it will be the same for the TSCC fandom. [Of course, it would be even better to have a third season, and fourth and so on - I've grown to love this show - AND the Sarah arc! - almost as much as the boys, who were lead by Michael Biehn. :) ]
Well that's really cool that that Magnificent 7 fandom is still going after all these years. All I really care about in the long run is that I have my Sarah buddies within reach. If Sarah Connor can live on in fandom, I'm good :)
I will never tire of Sarah Connor. I've loved that character for over 20 years already.
Adds **love** for Sarah. I always thought she was cool, but this show has taken my adoration to a whole new level! It may have been over all too soon, but they wrote us an amazing Sarah and Lena *speechless* Lena just rocks my socks.
I have partial fic of my own that I want to finish.
*prods* Finish it! These characters are all ours now!
What makes it all so cool now is I actually have people I can share that with.
This fandom may be relatively small, but it is awesome :-)
Kudos to everything you said cj2017. I have very good friends that I've made through this fandom and we're all propping each other up now and giving shoulders to lean on, along with all the RL stuff we're dealing with as well. FOX can't take that away!
I have unfinished fan fic as well, as well as some finished stuff that I'd post if I get the guts to do it. I'm a shy writer. :D
This fandom may be relatively small, but it is awesome :-).
Agreed! Awesome, passionate, intelligent, and a zillion other positive adjectives that come to mind. Everything FOX is not - lol!
Don't be shy about fanfic. We need more Sarah stories! My biggest problem is I write scenes and then don't know what to do with them. I suck at building plot. That's why I only have one reasonable length fic posted and the others are just little quickie ficlets. My unfinished one has the start of a plot, though, and I think that's what intimidates me about it. Anyway, when you do get around to posting what you've got and writing more, I'll be excited to read it :)
I struggle with the future stuff, Born to Run just didn't make me want to go and play out there. It did make me want to take one or both of the Reese boys back to Sarah and play out there though... *g* I guess the nice thing about the finale was that it left an awful lot of avenues to explore, whichever character(s) you prefer writing for. Course, there's no rule saying you have to play in the show's universe at all, fic is all about making up your own tangents...
Oh oh oh - I don't think I told you about k8ie saving Born To Run for me! Go read her post at SCS (http://tsccsociety.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=nonspoil&action=display&thread=1426&page=41). She had a revelation about why Sarah let John go and it works. It fucking works! It doesn't fix everything, but I can make peace with that finale now. Go read it!
Okay this is a little funny. I was just lurking at the wiki (I violated the mantra, I know) and there's a thread about "who's changed their mind about the finale?" The consensus now seems to be that the finale sucked since it ended up being a series finale. No shit. I was amused by that. Okay, but seriously, go read k8ie's post at SCS in the BTR thread. You'll feel better.
I did read it. I really loved the idea. Then it kinda made me sad, cos it meant that somewhere along the way Sarah either died or failed miserably.
My only problem - playing Devil's advocate - with the theory is that I wonder if Sarah is really so sure of her ability to change everything. So absolutely sure that she would allow John to jump into the future because she's absolutely convinced that she will manage to stop JD. I know Sarah's all for the mission, and she is utterly determined. But the path to JD seems to roll inexorably along no matter what they do and that fact must play at the back of her mind - "aside from the fact the world's about to end..."
Things are closing in, time is running out, everyone she trusts is gone, and she may or may not be sick. Her odds right there and then aren't good. I love that she doesn't falter in her single-mindedness to change John's fate, but I'm not totally convinced that she's convinced she will ultimately succeed. Not enough to allow John that jump without putting up a fight.
Having said that... I do love K8ie's theory: Sarah's right there, with the choice in front of her and no time for her to think it through or second guess herself. Go John, I'll stop it. Wherever you end up, I will have stopped it. You'll be safe.
It's so simple and so lovely and so very Sarah.
How strange would it have been had John jumped forward into a utopia?! "Hey, mom did a damn good job!"
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This hurts so much, doesn't it? I had plans to catch up on fic last night and then all this cancellation shit started happening. That kind of ruined everything. So I think tonight I'm going to kick back, relax and read some fic. I think I really need that.
*hugs*
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This hurts as much as Carnivale. And Firefly. And Pushing Daisies. For the lose. Tonight, I'm going out, seeing Star Trek with friends home from out of state colleges to get away from it all, then likely sniffle just a little into a spiked hot cocoa.
Hope the fan love that's been created cheers you up some. I know I'll still keep crafting.
*GRUGS* Glad to have met you through this fandom.
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I'm glad to have met you too and I can tell you this much with certainty: I will never tire of Sarah Connor. I've loved that character for over 20 years already. So craft away, I'll always be interested. I have partial fic of my own that I want to finish. I have Comicals I want to do. The show may be done, but I've got a love for these characters that's not going to die. What makes it all so cool now is I actually have people I can share that with.
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I always worry when the the fandoms slacken off... people fall out of touch, the projects get less prolific... but you know what happened just last month? A girl from my VERY FIRST FANDOM from when I was 8 messaged me out of the blue cause she found my youtube ID was so close in name to the ID I'd used on the fan forum when I was 13 and she just had to know if it was me. She felt bad we'd fallen out of touch, and we went back to squeeling about my first Strong Lead Female character of adoration, as well as all the other characters we'd glommed onto since.
I now proudly let Sarah Connor rent an apartment down pituitary lane with Sophie Bojakshiya, Bastila Shan, Bianca Sherer, and even my 1st love Katran of Riven.
the_narration is right... none of us are going to be rid of each other easily. Wouldn't want it any other way. :)
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Being my first fandom, I've never been through this before. I'm sure it'll shrink a lot in the coming weeks and months, but based on what I see around LJ, when people love a set of characters, the fandom lives on in smaller form.
And I definitely don't want to get rid of you guys!
*hugs everyone*
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That was ten years ago. We still squee over the boys, and have LJs dedicated to them, hold passionate discussions (we're holding a rewatch now, and we're down to the last episode), create graphics and fics (there's a yearly fanfic contest, the judges are currently going over nominations), and there's been an increase in vids too.
What's best, with the DVDs that were issued for the first time recently, we're getting a lot of new fans, because of the huge number of AUs and crossovers in the Mag7 fandom. Most of these people have discovered the show through fanfiction, and they're enjoying themselves comparing what they've read to what they can now see on screen.
So, even though our show has been off the air for ten years, the fandom is still going strong. I can only hope it will be the same for the TSCC fandom. [Of course, it would be even better to have a third season, and fourth and so on - I've grown to love this show - AND the Sarah arc! - almost as much as the boys, who were lead by Michael Biehn. :) ]
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Adds **love** for Sarah. I always thought she was cool, but this show has taken my adoration to a whole new level! It may have been over all too soon, but they wrote us an amazing Sarah and Lena *speechless* Lena just rocks my socks.
*prods* Finish it! These characters are all ours now!
This fandom may be relatively small, but it is awesome :-)
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*hugs everyone again*
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I have unfinished fan fic as well, as well as some finished stuff that I'd post if I get the guts to do it. I'm a shy writer. :D
This fandom may be relatively small, but it is awesome :-).
Agreed! Awesome, passionate, intelligent, and a zillion other positive adjectives that come to mind. Everything FOX is not - lol!
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I struggle with the future stuff, Born to Run just didn't make me want to go and play out there. It did make me want to take one or both of the Reese boys back to Sarah and play out there though... *g* I guess the nice thing about the finale was that it left an awful lot of avenues to explore, whichever character(s) you prefer writing for. Course, there's no rule saying you have to play in the show's universe at all, fic is all about making up your own tangents...
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My only problem - playing Devil's advocate - with the theory is that I wonder if Sarah is really so sure of her ability to change everything. So absolutely sure that she would allow John to jump into the future because she's absolutely convinced that she will manage to stop JD. I know Sarah's all for the mission, and she is utterly determined. But the path to JD seems to roll inexorably along no matter what they do and that fact must play at the back of her mind - "aside from the fact the world's about to end..."
Things are closing in, time is running out, everyone she trusts is gone, and she may or may not be sick. Her odds right there and then aren't good. I love that she doesn't falter in her single-mindedness to change John's fate, but I'm not totally convinced that she's convinced she will ultimately succeed. Not enough to allow John that jump without putting up a fight.
Having said that... I do love K8ie's theory: Sarah's right there, with the choice in front of her and no time for her to think it through or second guess herself. Go John, I'll stop it. Wherever you end up, I will have stopped it. You'll be safe.
It's so simple and so lovely and so very Sarah.
How strange would it have been had John jumped forward into a utopia?! "Hey, mom did a damn good job!"