McShep Match Team Angst 2007 Interview with gothphyle
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| Title: | Team Angst McShep Match Interview with gothphyle |
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| Interviewee: | gothphyle |
| Date(s): | June 26, 2007 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Stargate Atlantis |
| External Links: | online here, Archived version |
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gothphyle was interviewed in 2007 for McShep Angst.
It is part of this project: Team Angst and Romance McShep Match Interview Series.
Excerpts
In retrospect, I actually wrote my first fanfic when I was eight (nearly 25 years ago, for those who are curious); I had just finished reading Gone With the Wind, and I just *couldn’t* believe it ended that way! So (like so many before and after me), I found a legal pad and a mechanical pencil and set to work. Many long, convoluted, grammar-abusive pages later I had my "happy ending", though not without a fair helping of angst along the way – even then, I liked my fic to be fraught with peril, challenges, and plenty of dark-night-of-the-soul moments. Of course, at the time I didn't know what "fic" was... Cue my discovery of the internet, and fic as a world-wide smorgasboard phenomenon in the mid-90's, courtesy of con attendance and the wonderful things known as zines. By 1998 I was on-line, lurking on posting boards, mail-lists, and hunting for the ever elusive "archive". I posted my first fanfic on the web in 1999, and never looked back.
With regards to the show, I really appreciate the fact that we are given such complex characters that really feel "real"; no one is perfect, everyone has potentially significant and detrimental character flaws, and yet... and yet, they are warm, and likable, and the kind of people you would want defending your galaxy from life-sucking space vampires :) If I have to get more specific, I would sum my SGA-love in one name: Rodney. Brash, impatient, and endearingly heroic in his way, I just adore Dr. McKay. When it comes to fandom, I can only parrot what so many have said before. What is fantastic about SGA fandom? The sheer level of genius and productivity! Artists, iconers, vidders, meta-analyzers, and writers; truly, it is one of the most all-around superb fandoms I've been lucky enough to find. I am sometimes a bit embarrassed by the excess of fandom riches that SGA seems to hold, but I quickly get over that and just revel in my ability to glut myself on sheer brilliance. I think even Rodney would be forced to compliment fandom, and concede that we rank above the "soft sciences" when it comes to good ideas and flawless execution.