Meme taken from ruuger. I miss posting about fandoms, but I have such a crappy memory and for this year especially, so I filled this out with the help of the few LJ posts I made this year.

Your main fandom of the year?
Whoa, the latest season of Doctor Who didn't air in '19?! Huh. Well, despite 2020 having Doctor Who in it, it wasn't a very Whovian year for me. I'd say that makes Alias (due to the rewatch, capping [This show seriously lacks cap galleries, hmph!], thorough discussions with alias_chick and endless iconning) the main fandom.

Your favorite film watched this year?
I'm still not much of a film person, I haven't been to a movie theater in a bit over a year and I don't think I've seen anything new elsewhere. Unless you'll let the recording of the Hamilton musical count.

Your favorite book read this year?
Still a frustratingly slow reader (I'm starting to think I might have attention deficit disorder and if I took something against it, it might stop my mind from going off on tangents like trying to figure out floor plans and whatnot), so I haven't read many books. The only one I'm aware of reading this year was Jo Rowling's The Ickabog. It wasn't bad, but to me it was really the wrong year for something dystopian and Jo having gone TERF didn't help either.

Your favorite album or song to listen to this year?
Hamilton!

Your favorite TV show of the year?
Since I already named Alias, I'm gonna declare this question to be about the fave new one, to which the answer is The Mandalorian. I was gonna say "there can never be enough Star Wars", but then I remembered the announcements for all the new shows and I doubt I'll be able to keep up. I haven't even gotten my hands on Clone Wars and Rebels yet!

Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
The Supernatural finale. I still haven't gone into detail about it because I'd have to do it either from memory (which, as mentioned above, is crappy - and I want my critique to be thorough) or with the help of a rewatch (I'm not ready to relive the disappointment).

Your biggest squee moment of the year?
Probably Ewan McGregor being confirmed to come back as Obi-Wan.

The most missed of your old fandoms?
Doctor Who, although it's still running. The fandom on LJ died/migrated to other platforms, the show's been a bit wobbly in story quality, the hiatuses are longer and the seasons shorter. But at least dwstills just started back up again, so now the show is at least partially back in my life. ♥
Also Muse, although the band also still exists. I just don't like that they've abandoned rock.

The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?
His Dark Materials, because Andrew Scott and Lin-Manuel Miranda in the same project. But what if I like the show and then will want to read the books, which most likely would result in being annoyed at the show for not adhering to the books enough?

Your biggest fan anticipations for the coming year?
Overdosing on Star Wars. I doubt I'll watch all 11 of the new shows/movies, but who knows - after all I didn't think I'd be interested in The Mandalorian until I read the 1x01 spoiler.

Finally searched YouTube for Hamilton instrumentals. They exist! The whole thing! \o/

So now I'm wasting time listening to the playlist and trying to find out which songs King George's songs remind me of* instead of getting stuff done! I should eat breakfast! Reply to a comment! Watch 3 more Alias episodes (yes, I finally started another rewatch) I'm set to discuss with alias_chick later today!

* There are more bits that remind me of other songs than I had previously noticed. Over all I'm reminded of Life on Mars (the show), so I'm thinking the songs must be from the 70s. The e-organ at 1:54 of You'll Be Back (all time stamps refer to the tracks from the playlist linked above) is typical for the 70s. I think what the way the following piano bit is played reminds me of is the Life on Mars song itself. I can't tell which song the guitar part at 2:54 reminds me of. Whoa, I only just noticed that the piano beginning of You'll Be Back reminds me of Life on Mars's. Hm, the cello intro to What Comes Next? (only in the Hamilfilm) and the cello bit at 0:48 could remind me of LoM too. Can't tell what 0:56-1:02 in I Know Him reminds me of.

OMG, I never notice the 80s-tone guitar in Wait For It before! There's more e-guitar in the musical than I was aware of! ♥

Since forever I've wanted a ring with the Rambaldi symbol. But not just in any way - engraving it wouldn't be cool enough. It should be pretty much the way I photoshopped it:


I wouldn't be surprised if rings like that exist (and wouldn't even be fannish ones), but I have no idea how to find them. So I'd have to get it made. Because I imagine that that would be expensive, I haven't even dared asking a jeweler what it would cost.

You know how fandoms collide, it's nothing unusual with shows/movies. With music and TV it's not so common though, so having a Muse/Alias connection through Justin Theroux (he was in the music video for Hysteria and on Alias as Simon Walker in 3x04 & 05) was pretty cool.

And now I just found out who the actress in the trailer for Muse's 6th album is and checked her IMDb. She was on Alias XD! Ha, now there are 2 Muse/Alias connections.

Benedict has only nice things to say about JJ. Be still, my fangirl heart!
One of these days I'll have to watch that Star Trek movie, because I'll probably end up watching the 2nd movie too. Just like I watched all Mission Impossibles because of JJ.

You can have him arrested, you can torture him, you can do anything you like with him, but nothing's gonna make Benedict reveal secrets. Ruffling his hair is the interrogation method you need to get info out of BC. XD

JJ Abrams and Benedict Cumberbatch in the same picture!!!

Hey, it's good when people are successful in their job, but sometimes I worry (because that's what my brain naturally does). What if I lose them to the enemy? As a fan of TV shows, the enemy is movies. And when it's about British stuff, the enemy is the US.

Benedict Cumberbatch will be in Star Trek 2.

But the hilarious thing about this is that I have a fandom collion here which I'd never expected! Sherlock and Alias, because JJ Abrams directs Star Trek 2. Also, there's Noel Clarke, which means that Alias and Doctor Who meet there, too.
...But that still doesn't make Star Trek 2 as interesting as The Hobbit. The Hobbit has so many familiar faces that I can't even list them all from memory.

I'm making a Sherlock layout, but have no idea what to name it. It's currently just the "Sherlock layout" and that's utterly lame. Does anyone have any suggestions for something more interesting?

( And I can't just mention Michael Giacchino without giving some examples. )

So that's the "big classic cover song" they had talked about. And I thought it was gonna be Feeling Good. ...Nah, not really, haha... they play that often enough without special guests.
Yeah, so I'm glad that dude from Jet sang. Don't think Matt would have managed to sound like that. And I'm not sure that song would work if sung in a different way.

Also, that was the second time I was reminded of Supernatural while stalking this BDO via Twitter. The first was when this was tweeted:
bdo_official Ok, a friend just said that Muse are the greatest rock band since Zeppelin! The show here is awesome! The scrims are huge screens!
If Dean had been born a generation later, he'd be a Muse fan. *nods*

I love how all my fandoms are connected in some way. Maroon 5 had covered Back in Black too. also, the song was played on Alias. And I could connect back from Alias to Muse. But that has nothing to do with Back in Black. And it's waiting for months now to get its own post. Let's see when I post that.

On Mother's Day I visited my mom and on the train ride I saw some things that made the fangirl part of me smile. "BSG" on a truck, but of course it didn't stand for Battlestar Galactica. And on a weird machine on rails "CSM". But the best was this:



I'm sure it doesn't mean what I see in it, it probably has something to to with the number under it. But still, hee! I'm so glad I got the camera out and could snap a pic before the train left the station again.