paraka | Fannish Osmosis Meme!

Ummm...SUITS!

>.> Possibly I will really suck at this game, since I'm not actually sure what Suits is... is it a cop show?

I want to say it's that cop show where the partners are put into couple's therapy but I'm pretty sure that show is called "Common Law" also, I think Suits has been around too long.

Should I make something up? It's a cop show about detectives that specialize in... real estate fraud!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Now you're supposed to tell me what it's really about! So I don't embarrass myself next time. :P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suits_(TV_series)

Hotshot corporate attorney hires a genius college drop-out/pot dealer who has no law degree but DOES have an eidetic memory & passion for the law as his associate. THEY ARE ADORABLE D/s BOYFRIENDS

Also starring Gina Torres as the BAMF managing partner of the firm, and Donna the sassy flawless redheaded assistant.

FYI, all I got out of that explanation is that it stars Donna Noble :P

If Donna was American and about 50 lbs lighter? Basically.

SO LET'S TRY AGAIN, I'll give you another USA show: WHITE COLLAR

This one I do know some stuff about!

It's about Matt Bomer (I don't know his character's name. Neil maybe?), who is a... conman I think? Who is given one of those deals that if he works for the cops and uses his skills for good, they'll let him out of prison.

So he moves in with a cop (and Kelly Kapowski! ~~and there are threesomes~~) to wear suits a lot and con people and occasionally paint in tank top to show off his arms and sometimes the cop has to reign him in ~~with the leash around his ankle~~.

How'd I do on that one?

Yep, basically accurate! Although technically he just WORKS for the FBI agent (Peter, who is top of the food chain at the White Color division of the NY FBI, thus the show name), he actually moves in with an elderly black widow named June whose late husband was ALSO a conman and she's played by Diahann Carroll and is FLAWLESS.

Kelly Kapowski would be Elle, Peter's wife who is UTTERLY AMAZING and she and Peter seriously have the most functional marriage on television, omg.

Accurate about the leash. Yep.

The Professionals

Oh damn, I should know this one! My roommate,

kronos999, is in that fandom.

OK, I think it's an older fandom and is about... spies?

And one for you: Numb3rs

Yup,

early 80s British spies (they call it CI-5, but it's basically MI-5, the internal spies in Britain). Their boss is Cowley (aka the butler from upstairs, downstairs :) and the have the typical odd couple of public school (I think) dropout turned former mercenary (great rape past in his time in Africa :) and art student turned cop with a heart of gold and about as much hair as Blair...

can you do Sentinel????

Ohh I really didn't think I got the spy-thing right, go me!

I feel more confident about Sentinel, but I have seen a few episodes of it, so that helps.

Jim is a military guy who gets left in a jungle for a while and his senses get super honed and he becomes a Sentinel. Blair is, like, an anthropologist or something who's heard about Sentinels and decides he's going to be Jim's guide. So he's trying to help Jim deal with his super senses so he can function like a normal person, but still use his super powers to help him solve crimes, which he (Jim) does because he's a cop.

I only got a few episodes in, but I've been told that in the second season or something they get spirit animals?

Oh yes...and they merge and all!!! But that's pretty much all that you'd need to read fic :) [and that's really the most important thing, right???]

Hmm..I'm trying to think of my smaller fandoms....

OZ!!!! (Or should i throw out my latest obsession, GenKill? :)

Oh man, I tried watching Oz and failed out at the episode where... I want to call him Toby, but I could be completely wrong there, broke the glass window and went for the Aryan's eyes. :S That's when I started having nightmares and decided it wasn't worth it.

So, GenKill. It's about soldiers and... actually, I think that's all I got. I'm assuming they're fighting something, for something, but I couldn't even tell you that. (apparently I suck at osmosis. /o\)

You did fine om the big fannish ones :) If you know B7, starsky and Hutch, Pro, Sentinel, and DS, you're pretty good omn the slash front.

Oh, remembe Quantum leap? And what's your favorite ST spinoff? (I'm a DS9 girl myself, though New Gen certainly marred me for life :)

[FWIW, it's operation Iraqui Freedom and the main character (the reporter who embedded and wrote the book and the show has as much of a crush on him as does fandom) is Erik from True Blood!!!]

Gah, sorry, I think I missed your response because I was distracted with the chain below. :S

Quantum Leap... god, all I'm thinking of is Sliders, I think they were slightly similar? Jumping from dimension to dimension?

Of the ST shows, the only one I really watched was Next Gen, but I was like 10 at the time? The one I'm most fannish over is the reboot movie.

Oh re Numb3rs...used to watch it first season until I got too frustrated with their faily math. ...a weak spot for me. Loved the dad, though and tolerated Don...Charlie had too much hair!!! :D (what is is with fans and the curly fro?)

And I LOVED seeing the girl with Flanigan in Thought Crimes (I love that TV film...sue me :)

[OK, just did use IMDB to find her name, Navi Rawat. doing that I realized that Gabrielk Macht, aka Harvey Specter was initially cast for Don Eppes)

Damn, I think we have a lot of fandoms in common. I was trying to think of a fandom I'm in that you might not be in and it turns out you were. :P

OK, are you in Once Upon a Time? How about Secret Circle or Terminator?

PS. I liked Thought Crimes too, I wish it had been a show.

Me too!!! It'd have been a really fun fandom, I think!

I watched the beginning of Secret Circle, bc I liked Life Unexpected (for a random way of liked...the statutory rape teacher was very cute!!!), and the main character was played by that actress...and then there was Brian Kinney, of course (though damn, did he not age well, which I already realized in Hellcats). So...young witches and wizards who need a certain number to form a circle and increase their power, which their parents had done but things went awry and people died (or became comatose). And principal and Brian are the evil parents who wean to use the kids and Brian killed Cassie's mom (maybe that was her name in Life Unexpected? :). Then there are crystals and I stopped when the hunters came on the scene...

I watched all of SCC and loved it. I tried Once Upon a time, so I know the basic premise...everyone's young and pretty even if they're each other's parents and grandparents and Rumplstilkin rocks???

then there was Brian Kinney, of course (though damn, did he not age well, which I already realized in Hellcats).
Really? I didn't think he aged too badly (and I was totally drawn into the show by the promise of Brian Kinney and John Connor on the same show. :P)

So...young witches and wizards
Actually, they're all witches. No wizards mentioned. :)

Brian killed Cassie's mom (maybe that was her name in Life Unexpected? :)
You got it! She was Cassie on SC. :D

Rumplstilkin rocks
Yes. Rumpelstiltskin and Belle.

Oh man, I forget John Connor. But then I kinda tried to ignore him on SCC too. Now 90210's Brian? I liked him for the first time!!!

(OMG speaking of 90210...dylan was the love interest for a bit on Haven...that was a weird you seem familiar but...)

Haven??? anyone? :D

I think I watch too much TV????

What? We clearly watched SCC very differently, I loved John in that! (and mostly didn't care about Derek).

I have no idea what Haven is.

kronos999 said she had the vague idea that it was one of those "small town on the water, where weird things happen" kind of shows, so I'll make something up based on that.

It is about a small town girl, who's kind of a loner and brainy. One day while on a hike she manages to wake an old evil that starts causing mysterious things to happen around town and it's up to her and some new-to-town boy to figure out how to stop it!

:P

Oh, I forgot to give you one! Do you know anything about Newsies?

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Dark is Rising

You realize I have no idea what this is? So, pulling something out of my ass...

It's a book fandom set in a world with fairies. The dark that is rising is, in fact trolls trying to take over their kingdom. The main character is a fiesty woman who's quick with a knife and is trying to infiltrate the troll camp with the help of her side kick, a glow worm.

And now this sounds like a Disney movie. :P

Now, for you, did you ever watch Queer as Folk? Or, oh! Card Captor Sakura? (wait, you were in anime, so probably). Or Outlander, the book series?

I really like this and want to read it.

Dark is Rising: A children's book series about the epic battle between forces of Light and Dark based on Arthurian legends and celtic/norse myths. Most fic centers around Will Stanton, a boy who discovers that he is an Old One (one of the immortal and mystical beings that fight for the Light) and Bran Davies, son of King Arthur that Merlin brought into the future.

Queer as Folk:
About a man named Brian who is a bit of a player getting together and negotiating a relationship with a fairly younger man Justin (I get the impression he might be underage when they first hook up). And it ends in tears because they break up and all the development of Brian's character disappears? Maybe?

Card Captor Sakura:
Okay, magical girl show where young girl who is the daughter of one of the reincarnations of the great magician Clow has to collect a bunch of mystical cards that he left behind with the help of a flying teddy bear. Meanwhile, Clow manipulates the shit out of things 'cause there are like 3 different versions of him. I read the manga many years ago and shipped Touya/Yukito (the brother and the guy who turns into Yue with the wings). All I really care about is that Touya gave up all his magic (and ability to see his dead mother) in order to save Yukito/Yue.

Outlander:
Woman (a nurse) from the 20th century gets taken back in time in Scotland. She might go back and forth for a bit. Think she gets tried as a witch at one point. Gets married. And they end up in America eventually. Also told in first person?

Dark is Rising: A children's book series about the epic battle... and mystical beings
See? I totally got that one right. :P

Queer as Folk
Pretty good. It's technically and ensemble show, but Brian and Justin get most of the fannish limelight. Saying they negotiate their relationship is maybe giving those two a bit too much credit (and yeah, Justin was 17 when they first had sex).

And it ends in tears because they break up and all the development of Brian's character disappears? Maybe?
Clearly you've heard me rant about this. :P

CCS
I'm not sure if it's the difference in the manga vs. dubbed TV show or if it's just been that long since I watched it, but I sooo don't remember half the things you mentioned there.
From what I remember Sakura accidentally opened Clow's book of cards and they all ran away, so Sakura had to gather them all up again with the help of the teddy bear. I don't really remember Clow being in the show and I only vaguely remember the Touya/Yukito relationship (although they weren't together in the dub and they had different names).

Outlander
She only goes forth the once and back the twice (well, up to book 5, I haven't read the others) but everything else is right! She gets married before the witch trial (if I'm being super picky) and it's an arranged marriage. And it's implied later that she *is* actually a witch and never realized, that's part of the reason why she could travel back and forth in time.

Red Dwarf

OK, it's set in space! And is British and very funny for internal concept people!

One dude is a platic person/robot, one only has a single tastebud so likes eating spicy things like vindaloo.

It's all rather ridiculous and at one point they explain why all their technology looks old and even though it's set way in the future, there's no internet.

Sounds accurate.

His Dark Materials.

Fandom-wise, this is the one with the daemons that are people's souls and take animal forms. So I know a bunch about that thanks to crossovers, but as to the plot, I think there is a girl called Lyra and I can't remember the other kid's name trying to stop a being claiming to be God or an archangel or something. Also, there might be a species that uses their food as an extra limb in order to walk? I never actually managed to get into the books, so all my knowledge comes from fandom.

Admittedly, it's been a while since I read the series, but I don't remember any God or archangel. Lyra's parents were trying to play god, and there was dimension hopping (which is where the species that uses their food as an extra limb to walk come in) and people trying to cut off other people's souls, so it wouldn't surprise me if there was a god aspect to it. I don't know man, it's been 5 years. I figured with all the crossovers out there that focus on the one aspect of the world, it'd be fun.

So, what do you know about The Protector of the Small?

Edited 2012-09-21 01:37 (UTC)

Is that Tamora Pierce (and I think I've spelled that wrong)?
I'm guessing it is about a girl who learns magic or swordplay. And hooks up with a guy that's older than her.

Okay, how completely wrong am I?

The Pretender

Oh, I've actually seen a few eps of this! (possibly more than you?) But it's been a while, so lets see.

The main character is Jared and he was possibly part of a government program to turn him into a super soldier or something? Jared can be sort of child-like in his interest in simple things but is really smart and manages to always beat Ms.... M? I think she had a full last name, but only an initial for her first name?

Presumably Ms. M is trying to capture Jared and bring him back to the secret program he escaped from but never really catches him.

Digimon?

Pretty good. He's a pretender who is a genius that can pretend to be different people and pick up skills really quickly. Ms. Parker is the name I think you're looking for.

Digimon: Digimon, digital monsters, digimon are the champions! I think this was a kind of pokemon ripoff. Daisuke seems like a name I associate with it. That's all you're getting.

Next up: Once a Thief.

I guess it was sort of a pokemon rip off, except I don't know much about pokemon so I can't speak much to it.

There's this group of kids that get pulled into the digiverse and run across the digital monsters and yeah, they sort of have pokemon style fights and the kids help them digivolve into bigger and better monsters. I think at some point too, they go back to their own world and there's some back and forth? Man, how sad is it that I have to start going back 10 years in my fannish life to find something we haven't shared?

Once a Theif
I have no idea of the actual facts, so.

It's a TV show about an ex-cat burglar. He used to be the best in the biz but now he's trying to live a normal, quiet life. Until! Something happens to his daughter who's now in trouble! In the pilot he breaks out his old skills to try and save her and now she knows about his past and demands to be trained. So he starts passing on his knowledge and skills to her.

The Bridgerton Series!

Decent guess. It is about a thief who was raised by the mob in Hong Kong and manages to piss off the next leader (his adopted brother) and a bunch of other triads. He ends up getting recruited by The Director to work for her alongside his ex-girlfriend/not-actually-sister and her new fiancée. In Canada. Wackiness and choreographed fights ensue.

Bridgerton Series:
About the family Bridgerton through several generations of marriage and children. And also, vampire slaying. (Yeah, that last bit I made up.)

Coldfire

A series about viking zombies! The only way to kill them is with fire, but it's sooooo cold!

Panic! at the Disco. :D

It does have undead. *nods*

Book fandom. Evil (with a capital E) undead sorcerer and a warrior priest unwillingly team up to track down memory stealing monsters. Then they save the world from a demon that feeds on sadism who is trying to alter humanity to bring that emotion to the forefront. (Oh god, so slashy. The priest actually goes to hell to pull the guy out in the last book. And they snark at each other the entire time.)

Panic! at the Disco. I think they're a band ;)

Oh yeah! I should have remembered that Once a Thief was Canadian. That's the one Lianne wrote fic for that you liked, right?

About the family Bridgerton through several generations of marriage and children
It's actually only one generation (the Baroness had 8 children! And they'll never forgive her for naming them alphabetically). It's a series of romance novels but if you pretend the ton is vampires, even that last bit fits!

The Prisoner

So, the prisoner is about a guy whose wife is murdered and he ends up getting blamed for it and going to jail. And prison is prison, so it sucks and there is rape and this dude just tries to be quiet and serve his time. Meanwhile he's slowly chipping a tunnel through the wall of his cell until one day it gets big enough for him to climb out to freedom!

Oh wait, that's the Shawshank Redemption. Never mind. :P

The Four Feathers

I will refer you to here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkN6pgz6xWU) for an awesome vid. Okay, spy tries to quit and ends up getting kidnapped. He finds himself in a village that he can't escape from and his only identity is number 6. He keeps trying to find out who number 1 is and escape while those running the place try to find out why he quit. It is a little strange (in the best way possible).

The Four Feathers: Guy refuses to go to war so his friends give him four white feathers symbolising cowardice. He ends up going anyway undercover and saves their lives, though I think one of them ends up blind.

Damn, you knew that one. OK, what do you know about D.E.B.S.?

Damn it! Why do I keep forgetting my other one?

I think that's actually pretty accurate. She was one of the sword wielders and I can't remember which guy Kel ended up with (if she ended up with anyone?) but both of the guys I think she was with were older.

The Vampire Diaries?

Oh man. So I know it's based on a book series, written by the same author as the books The Secret Circle was based on.

I've seriously only seen maybe 20 minutes of an episode and there was a dude, probably named Damien, who maybe had a brother? From what I gathered, the girl talking about Damien thought he was an ass, but my sister loved him because he's hot.

Presumably there are also vampires.

How'd I do? :D

Not, that's pretty much the fandom in a nutshell :D

Damon is an ass, but he's hot, so fandom loves him. His brother is generally considered to be less interesting, although they dirtied him up a bit in season three.

WELL PLAYED

From Eroica with Love
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