For the record

[china_shop]

I did a promo for Guardian at our local mini-fancon over the weekend, and afterwards several people said they'd seen fannish activity for it around the place but hadn't realised it was SF. When I posted about this yesterday, someone else said the same -- they didn't realise it was SF until they watched the first episode last week.

(Clearly we need more Dixing powers in our fanart, gifs and general discourse! ;-)

(Particularly since we had the usual discussion at the con about the lack of fandom-friendly procedurals these days, and how the rise of prestige TV has kind of killed juggernaut fandoms. At which point I piped up that Guardian beautifully spans both: there are enough monster-of-the-week cases that you can make fanworks in the spaces between, but it's arc-y enough to be satisfying in this age of narrative continuity. Win-win!)

Anyway -- question for fans of the drama: did you know it was SF before you started watching? For myself, I honestly can't remember.

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[sakana17]

I didn't know when I first heard of it and first saw people I followed mentioning they were watching it. In fact, for a while, I got it confused with a standard American police procedural that didn't have any appeal to me, and I was very puzzled as to why it seemed to be developing fannishly. Then bonibaru showed her vid at a con--I missed seeing the vid, but my friends who did all told me you HAVE to watch this show, it seems like something you'd like, and IIRC at least one person said it seemed to have fantasy elements in it, but that info didn't stick with me until ranalore posted about the show. Then I knew it was SF/fantasy and was ready to dive in.and have not surfaced since :)

[china_shop]

In fact, for a while, I got it confused with a standard American police procedural that didn't have any appeal to me, and I was very puzzled as to why it seemed to be developing fannishly.

Ha! The character names didn't give it away? Or did you not see any talk in that much detail? :-)

Then I knew it was SF/fantasy and was ready to dive in.and have not surfaced since :)

\o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/!!!!

[sakana17]

The character names didn't give it away? Or did you not see any talk in that much detail? :-)

I didn't see/read discussion with much detail until I read ranalore's post. *g* It wasn't until then that I connected "cool-looking, possibly SF/fantasy Chinese show with gorgeous men, seen in bonibaru's vid" with the title "Guardian." Even though, had I looked at the vid's actual information, I would've seen the title of the show, obviously! Sometimes living in a fannish cave for long stretches of time has its downsides...

[china_shop]

Ha! I know what you mean, though. You have to screen out things you don't think will be relevant to your interests, or you'd just spend all your time sifting through random stuff, but that screening inevitably means things lack context, impressions are misleading, or connections get overlooked.

Anyway, you're here now -- yayayay! \o/