McShep Match Team Angst 2007 Interview with Allison
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Team Angst McShep Match Interview with Allison |
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| Interviewee: | Allison (latentfunction) |
| Date(s): | July 2, 2007 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Stargate Atlantis |
| External Links: | online here, Archived version |
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Allison was interviewed in 2007 for McShep Angst.
It is part of this series: McShep Match Interview Series.
Excerpts
I wrote in Harry Potter for about two years, and accumulated lots of self-indulgent inside-joke fics and a few good pieces. After the shine wore off, I dabbled in Good Omens and smaller fandoms for a while (Toy Soldiers, King Arthur, an original rpg, Stephen King) and caught Queer as Folk US in time for the last season. I had a period of very spotty internet access and stagnated until Firefly and the sixth HP book came out, at which time I started lots of fic and am just now finishing one of them. After Firefly, I got sucked into SGA by a few people on my flist. I'm toeing around HP again, and I'm probably going to take a vacation from the internet until the seventh book comes out, because I've had bad luck with spoilers recently.
SGA just gives you so much to work with. Space vampires! Uniforms! Thigh holsters! Nuclear weapons! Aliens! Dreadlocks! The lost city of freakin' Atlantis! It's the best playground ever.My favorite part about the SGA fandom (and really, this is true about all fandoms) is that we create the show I want to see. I have lots of fun with SGA purely as cheesy scifi, but I always want more from the things I love. I wish Atlantis really was cut off from Earth, and that the expedition members have to count on each other for everything, because there is no Daedalus to bring the deus ex machina. I wish that the ethics of various situations were taken into account. I want to see the gender issues brought up by female leaders; I want to see regulations questioned and circumvented, or changed, or openly defied; I want I want I want! Even if the show doesn't do things as darkly, or as academically, or as geekily as I would, I know I can find it somewhere.