Heh - I saw Iron Man 6 times in the cinema, the Superman Returns 5 times. Lost count of how many times I saw the first X-Men. (that's when I decided that the Cineworld card was worthwhile) I find your frequent visits to see Star Trek as ... amusing ... but not in a denigratory way, just amusing as in "by now she'll be able to recite the lines before the actors say them".
I must admit I didn't like Joe 90 either, but I was a huge fan of Captain Scarlet - and an even bigger UFO fan later.
No one ever tried to turn me away from SF books, apart from one English lit teacher who thought that all SF was "robots and rayguns" pulp with nothing of substance to it. I altered her opinion when I took an Andre Norton book which she thought was "fluff" and got a Band 1 A pass at O level, which she said must have been a "fluke", then used the sequel to get a similar result for my Highers. (my view is that it isn't the book that's important, but what you get from it)
My other English lit teacher (who had taught Melvin Bragg and Nigel Tranter when they were at school) used to say that there was nothing wrong with "mental chewing-gum" books, including comics, because "mental chewing-gum keeps the mind in shape for mental steak-pie". She didn't read SF - but she used to compliment me on the pieces of fic I'd written because she though they were "original and fresh" (I could see the themes I'd plagerised from Andre Norton - but in my defence I was only 14 at the time).
Sure, I've had a few folk say "get a life" about SF, conventions and the internet - but my reply is that I've done more, been more places and met more people through SF than these people with their "real lives".
Actually until I went to my first SF convention (1981, the same year I got married) I never had a real female friend - I had classmates and workmates, but no girlfriends that I shared enough with that I'd still be friends years later.
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Date: 2009-06-07 12:47 pm (UTC)I must admit I didn't like Joe 90 either, but I was a huge fan of Captain Scarlet - and an even bigger UFO fan later.
No one ever tried to turn me away from SF books, apart from one English lit teacher who thought that all SF was "robots and rayguns" pulp with nothing of substance to it. I altered her opinion when I took an Andre Norton book which she thought was "fluff" and got a Band 1 A pass at O level, which she said must have been a "fluke", then used the sequel to get a similar result for my Highers. (my view is that it isn't the book that's important, but what you get from it)
My other English lit teacher (who had taught Melvin Bragg and Nigel Tranter when they were at school) used to say that there was nothing wrong with "mental chewing-gum" books, including comics, because "mental chewing-gum keeps the mind in shape for mental steak-pie". She didn't read SF - but she used to compliment me on the pieces of fic I'd written because she though they were "original and fresh" (I could see the themes I'd plagerised from Andre Norton - but in my defence I was only 14 at the time).
Sure, I've had a few folk say "get a life" about SF, conventions and the internet - but my reply is that I've done more, been more places and met more people through SF than these people with their "real lives".
Actually until I went to my first SF convention (1981, the same year I got married) I never had a real female friend - I had classmates and workmates, but no girlfriends that I shared enough with that I'd still be friends years later.