I think that's the only "please don't kill our show" campaign I ever participated in, even just at the margins.
Understood. I watched friends go through the same.
It was similar to the Babylon 5/Star Trek slapfights.
I don't think I spent time on slapfights: I just loved Babylon 5. Discounting childhood shows like The Muppet Show or Fraggle Rock, it was the first television series I actively followed; I came in at the end of the first season and fell in love. In hindsight I can diagnose all kinds of problems, from JMS' variable success with different registers of dialogue to the intermittent development of even the main cast to the fact that, look, even the future of the mid-'90's should not have been as white or as straight as all that, but you will never talk me out of a deep and abiding affection for all things Centauri and the bisexual Russian Jewish badass that was Susan Ivanova. I stayed with that universe through the aborted spinoff of Crusade and all the TV movies, which was more than most of the TV movies deserved. I wrote fic for Babylon 5.* I didn't even do that for Red Dwarf.
* My only foray into online fandom until 2011, when I wrote some flash for Lackadaisy as a present for handful_ofdust. It may still burn me that it was edited without permission by the site maintainer, whose ideas of grammar and orthography did not match the file I had sent her, or for that matter English usage. For God's sake, I knew how to spell "lavender"! It all went down with Geocities, anyway. At least I hope so.
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Understood. I watched friends go through the same.
It was similar to the Babylon 5/Star Trek slapfights.
I don't think I spent time on slapfights: I just loved Babylon 5. Discounting childhood shows like The Muppet Show or Fraggle Rock, it was the first television series I actively followed; I came in at the end of the first season and fell in love. In hindsight I can diagnose all kinds of problems, from JMS' variable success with different registers of dialogue to the intermittent development of even the main cast to the fact that, look, even the future of the mid-'90's should not have been as white or as straight as all that, but you will never talk me out of a deep and abiding affection for all things Centauri and the bisexual Russian Jewish badass that was Susan Ivanova. I stayed with that universe through the aborted spinoff of Crusade and all the TV movies, which was more than most of the TV movies deserved. I wrote fic for Babylon 5.* I didn't even do that for Red Dwarf.
* My only foray into online fandom until 2011, when I wrote some flash for Lackadaisy as a present for