Stargate Atlantis and old fandom loves...

I've got SGA sitting here on my desk computer at work because I have a DVD player and a giant screen, and sometimes I just want nerdy boys I know and love and all the fanfiction I can shake a stick at.

It's so much fun to re-read old favourites, but at the same time it can be difficult to fall back into an old fandom. So much has changed, so many fandom quirks and aspirations are slightly different, and I find some things I used to love now irritate me.

DADT. That used to be a great plot point and a source of get-together-strain but now it brings all these complicated emotions. On one hand, it's AWESOME that it's no longer a thing, but on the other: wow, how many people suffered with this for how many years because it's just wrong.

Rodney's personality: I love it, but if it's not written well it can be annoying, and so it HAS to be written well. I'm past the point where I will read anything in this fandom - I find it much easier to nope out of stuff.

Elizabeth: Gawd, girl, I just want every author to treat you right. I remember some of the John/Elizabeth vs John/Rodney wank that went on (just peripheral to me) and I think some of that came across in the writing. She is so amazing and I love her and she's so flawed and perfect... I adore the boys but I LOVE Elizabeth Weir. I want everyone else to love her too.

... and just in general, not being able to squee over the show or new episodes. That sucks. I want to kind of drag someone kicking and screaming into the show with me.

B5. That's another show that I want to re-watch, with orderly_chaos if we can make it work (because my schedule is crazy, I blame my children.) I was not on-line or plugged in when the fandom hit, so I'm peripheral only -- I love the show and the characters and I'm finding fic YEARS after the fact and it's hard and difficult and awesome.