Something Geeky This Way Comes

Damn was that last post ever broody. All it needed was some greasy hair and torn jeans to become a written embodiment of a teenager. Onwards and upwards! Or...sideways most likely.

For years I have never been one to start watching a show that has long been over. Watching something that has a definitive end just made the episode count seem more like a countdown. Seeing as a lot of great series never truly got their own end, TV execs doing what they seem to do best and killing dreams (not that I'm bitter or anything), I never wanted to get invested only to be left hanging and asking what happens next. Kind of like avoiding a relationship just so you don't get hurt.

(Ha ha! "Avoiding a relationship" is that what you call it?)
Hush brain!

But lately this thought process has been turned on it's head. In the ever maddening craving for another space opera since the untimely demise of Stargate Universe (damn you network heads!) and with nothing on the horizon, I have turned to past greats to get my fix. Star Trek: The Next Generation and Firefly being the main contenders for my time. That's when I noticed it.

I'm becoming a bigger geek than I used to be. And I love it.

Geek. Nerd. Dork (the other one not the penis one). Label it, don't label it, the point is as time goes on I'm becoming more comfortable with who I am. This is almost entirely down to the friends I've made over the past few years (tissues at the ready). Thanks to the likes of Download Festival and the social-maker that comes in bottles and cans I was lucky enough to become good friends more like-minded people. Sure there are folk I know who like their free times gaming fried or basted in science-fiction, but when it came to comic books, cartoons, bad movies and the like, there wasn't really many to share some "Oh em gee, did you see what the Doctor did to that Dalek?" or "Batman's latest story arc is so blasé," moments around the water cooler. Which brings to mind the fact I have never had any conversation around a water cooler and now believe it to be an urban myth like Bigfoot or people who use the word blasé.
 Over time I have discussed the geeky subjects as one one might discuss a great novel or a fine wine, only with more capes and explosions. Being able to openly talk about these things has weakened a sort of wall I had put up to protect myself from the kinf of mocking most geeks receive from the general public. Combine that with the likes of The Big Bang Theory popularising the stereotypical geek/nerd and such aspects as geek-chic in the fashion world, it is downright cool to be what once was considered uncool.
 Of course I'm still not completely open about my penchant for the superpowered, the hi-tech, or the magical, lest those of other persuasions suddenly acquire a love for torches and pitchforks. This entire article may well let the spcae-cat out the bag of holding but having already written a review of a comic book I doubt this is news. Now if you don't mind, the Enterprise has been stolen and only Picard and Riker are left to save it. The suspense!