Soledad's Journal

So, I've created this InsaneJournal account waaay back, during the second big LJ crisis, I think. (During the first one, I've created a Greatest Journal account, but that seems to have gone down a black hole - anybody has an idea what happened to GJ?)

Here it is.

Anyway, I've decided to use the IJ account for something, you know, useful, since I like it. In some aspets, it's esier to deal with than with LJ itself, even though it doesn't have all the bells and whistles. So I've decided to post stories there, as a backup place for my writing journals. Finished stories, mostly, but not exclusively. As it's not a community, I'll be able to change the date on the entries afterwards, so that chapters belonging to the same story would actually be posted together, instead of being scattered all over the place.

Currently, there are a couple of stories to several different fandoms, but I'm working slowly towards copy&paste-ing all the finished ones. There is no need to hurry, after all.

I don't know whether I should grieve or celebrate. Once upon a time, it used be a fairly funny, snarky forum, but in the last three years or so... utter tripe. So, it's perhaps better that the Site Guru put it out of its misery.

At least it has given me the acquaintance of eye_of_a_cat, so the years spent occasionally visiting it weren't utterly wasted.

So, which are the fandoms you've given up on because the creators took a turn you could not agree with?

Mine are:

- Angel, starting around the end of Season 2, when Joss brought in that stupid demon universe storyline. I stopped watching the show somewhere mid-season 3.

- Buffy, after Season 5, although I was seriously tempted to give up on it as soon as at the beginning of Season 4, when Buffy suddenly became an idiot. The last straw for me was the appearance of Dawn. I forced myself to watch the show to its bitter end, but honestly, I regretted having done so.

Andromeda, after mid-season 2, when Gold Trance came into the picture and Kevin Sorbo turned the show into Hercules in Space. I kept watching till the end of Season 4, but it just got worse and wordse. I never bothered with Season 5.

SG - Atlantis, after the Season 3 episode "Sateda". I liked that one. I bought Season 3 on DVD, but I seriously doubt that I would even bother to watch Season 4 and whatever might yet come on German TV.

Stargate SG-1. Stopped watching after Season 8, when O'Neill left and the annoying new guy entered the picture. The whole thing stopped being a slightly self-ironic sci-fi show and turned into some sort of stupid science fantasy. Oh, and I do hate Vala Mal Doran.

Earth: Final Conflict, after they killed off Boone, to get in the young Marty Stu, castrated Da'an and made Zo'or a stupid and incompetent villain. Watched sporadically till the end of Season 4, though, then stopped.

Queer As Folk, at the moment when Brian hit Michael, just because Michael said something "mean" about that annoying little slut, Justin. As if a piece of blond boy a§§ would be more important than a deep friendship of 14 years. Again, I watched the show to the bitter end and was shocked by the increasing badness of it.

Enterprise. I gave the show a chance, just because it was Star Trek. I gave up somewhere during the very first season. I even deleted the recorded episodes from the videotapes, it was so very bad.

These are just the fandoms in which I've invested much time and energy, and in which I also write. I've given up many, many more. *g*