Lois & Clark Nfic Archive Interview: Where Are They Now? -- LabRat
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| Title: | Lois & Clark Nfic Archive Interview: Where Are They Now? -- LabRat |
| Interviewer: | Annette |
| Interviewee: | LabRat ("Doctor Klein's Labrat") |
| Date(s): | 2001 (possibly 2002) |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman |
| External Links: | Lois & Clark, Archived version |
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In 2001, LabRat was interviewed for the Lois & Clark Nfic Archive.
This interview was part of a series of checking back in with previous interviewees in the series: "Welcome to the Writer's Showcase *new* monthly feature!! Have you ever wondered what happend to your favorite writers? Are they still a part of FoLCdom? Have they moved on to bigger and better things? (Who am I kidding, there's nothing better than LnC!) Are they still writing at all? Well, look no further ... At the beginning of each month we will feature a previously showcased author, beginning with those authors who were interviewed by Annie Lansbury when she founded the idea and web site of The Writer's Showcase."
See LabRat's previous interview: Lois & Clark Nfic Archive Interview with LabRat.
For similar interviews, see Category: Lois and Clark Fan Interviews.
Some Excerpts
Although a FoLC is forever, are you still an active part of the fandom? What holds your interest now?
Ooooooh, now where do I start? As far as I recall - like most rats I have a very poor memory for such things - when I did my last interview FoLCdom was a very small world for me. I was writing fanfic and posting it to Zoom's mbs, but they were a simpler and much less involved version of the thriving and vibrant community we have today. I had a few email friends...but that was about the extent of it.
My participation in FoLCdom has expanded tenfold since then. I discovered the wonders of IRC for one thing. No, wait...back up a bit. That wasn't the catalyst. The catalyst for expansion came when the market in UK ISPs exploded and become much more like the US model. Previously, I'd had to severely limit my internet time (to just 4 or 5 hours a week max) because the costs were so exorbitant. Boy, those were the days. <G> Hard to believe I went through that anguish now. ;) Now I'm on ADSL cable, where I pay a set fee a month and no per minute phone call costs. So the sky is pretty much the limit. I'm on the pc, I'm on the internet.
So...where was I? Oh, yes - I discovered IRC. And in particularly #lanekent. Now I spend most of my evenings chatting to the most gregarious, fun-loving group of people it's been my privilege to meet. I've made many new friends. Expanding outwards from there, I've been drafted...uh...persuded to volunteer and get involved with so many FoLC projects. Beta-reading stories...being a General Editor for the Archive..presenting awards at the Kerths and nKerths...my eddress book has blossomed spectacularly and my mailbox is hardly ever empty. I work behind the scenes helping out the real brains behind the Messageboard Indexes and this Writers' Showcase...it's a good thing I've retired from work really. <G> Culminating, of course, in the ultimate project...Editor-in-Chief of the Fanfic Archive. I'll wait for the next update interview to let you know how that one turned out. ;) It's scary, but exciting too and I'm looking forward to working with so many talented people on this one.
Has your view on the characters and the show changed, and why?
No, I don't think so. Perhaps. But if so it's so subtle that its an unconscious thing that I'm barely aware of. I haven't watched any episodes for a long time, other than in bits and pieces when researching something for a story, so I rely on my own perceptions of the characters that I hold in my head when writing.
The show retains its special place in my heart. Pre-LNC I had moved through a love affair with several TV shows. When one ended, I moved on to another. I have fond memories of all of these, visit them occasionally, but I'm not involved in any fandoms for them these days. Post-LNC...I never really moved on at all.
Other TV shows have found a way into my VCR collection and hold my attention each week...Buffy, Angel, Stargate, Voyager...but none of them have the hold on me that LNC still has, so many years after its demise on our screens. I occasionally trawl the net for fanfic for these series, but I have no desire to become more involved in their fandoms. I am signed up to Buffy and Stargate newsgroups, but only very rarely remember to check out the posts in them. And none of these shows have me counting the hours and minutes until the new episode arrives as LNC did. Sigh...those were the days. I would get dinner done and dusted, shoo my husband Stuart upstairs to play computer games and settle down for the evening. After checking the VCR was ready to roll at least a dozen times, in a cold sweat that something would go wrong and I would fail to capture all those wonderful moments for reviewing several times in the following days. Nope, they don't make them like that any more. Not for me so far anyway.
I guess there's just something about LNC - for me - that was a classic. That rare moment in the world of entertainment when everything gells, every little detail comes right and you have something timeless, that has the power to grip hold of you and never let go.
I hope it never will.