SCI-FI EXPERIENCES

[mark42_PREV (deleted)]

Hi everyone. I'm new to this site, but I was wondering (given that it's something we all have in common) what experiences of sci-fi have stuck most in our minds, from childhood, which have sent us all down this path (and onto this site!). I'd love to hear some great early sci-fi/horror experiences, but don't stop there! Tell me about anything comparatively recently that blew you away!!
To start things off, I was frustrated at everyone in school watching Alien before me. Next time it was on TV (I was about 15) I taped it, watched it totally alone (and in darkness) and was scared out of my wits!!!

Come on guys n gals, tell me some more!!!

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MX

[invisiblesteph]

Well I was just starting highschool when Buffy began showing on tv and I watched it every now and then but didnt really get into it until a friend of mine became obsessed and started to rub some enthusiasm off onto me. So I sat down and watched a buffy marathon and was hooked. I had also heard someone mention star trek and I really didnt know much about it...this was when Voyager was still going.. so I sat through a few eps of TNG and Voyager and was hooked again. I used to have a little sunday night ritual of TNG, DS9 and Voyager... the sense of adventure, the pure escapism.. who could resist.

[mark42_PREV (deleted)]

Steph, you're a girl after my own heart for mentioning ST marathons. I've started getting TNG, DS9 & BSG DVDs for that very purpose. When Picard was captured by the Borg, that was it for me, resistance really was futile, I made absolutely sure I never missed a single episode. I have to say, although I watched every episode of Voyager, reruns don't appeal to me so much. True, there were excellent episodes (eg. Scorpion, Year of Hell) but when it finished, I just found myself missing TNG & DS9 even more.

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mx

[fringey]

I've had some awesome experiences over the years, mostly related to different sci fi conventions I have been at. I have partied with Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen), and Jason (Kane Hodder). I keep saying if I could ever party with Pinhead (Doug Bradley) I would have a complete set!

The most awesome exeperience I had though was at Dragon Con in 2003. I am a huge horror fan and Famous Monsters of Filmland was my favorite magazine from my early pueberty into my twenties when it quit publishing regularly. Forrest Ackermn was at D*C in 2003 and this man was a major hero to me. Basically, he was a fan like me who had made a career out being one. I went to his panel and listened to him talk about his experiences with all these legends over the years. At one point, he wanted a doctor to volunteer to help him onstage. There were no doctors. So he looked at ME and said, "You look like a doctor." and asked me to come up onstage with him. Of course, I jumped at the chance! Then we proceeded to do a scene from the original "Frankenstein" movie together! I was onstage performing with this legend! Incredible experience! I told him afterwards that I hoped when I was 80 like he was, that I would be at a convention telling people about my experience with him, the same way he had shared his experiences with us.

Patrick
a.k.a. Fringey, The Fringe Element
"A life lived without passion is a life not lived.

[scryer41]

For me, I started out originally watching old horror and really bad Sci-Fi B-Movies with my mother late Friday nights. The first movie that comes to mind that I remember the most was Night Of The Living Dead and I went to see that with my Mom and her friends when I was but a lad. Can you imagine the effect such a film back when it was first shown on the impressionable mind of a young boy?

Oh My! I didn't have nightmares. But I did start liking anything truely odd that was ever put on the screen. How cool was it to see things that wouldn't really happen in real life. I was hooked. About the same time, I started watching Star Trek and reading all the John Carter Of Mars books I could get my hands on. My interest in space was fueled even more by such adventures. I wanted to go "Out There". I even wanted to follow my uncle into the Air Force. But when I found out they wouldn't let me fly because I had to wear glasses, I said "Forget it."

My interests continued to grow mostly in Star Trek. I went through all the stages a person who likes the show went through. From Trekkie to Treker. Then, I found that I was more interested in how such an insignificatant series of the 60's could actually become such a Cult Favorite. I started to study the social, political, philosophical, and economical affects this thing called Star Trek has had on the cultures of the world. I was truely stunned at some of the stories I was hearing. This once little three year long adventure on T.V. has touched so many lives. Affected the lives of so many famous people. It makes me wonder... What would they have been like if there had been no Star Trek?

By the way, I like to refer to myself as a "Trekologist". I don't really run around in the uniform, but I do like to study the Trek Effect.

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