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fly-by Pros nostalgia
Sep. 10th, 2013 02:39 amMy tivo keeps bringing me random episodes of Inspector George Gently, and every time I see it in the list, I get a jolt of "aw, Martin Shaw! <3" In my Pros days, I watched all kinds of things because Collins or Shaw were in them, because -- to my latecomer eyes, at least -- Pros fandom seemed to have just cheerfully annexed every single source with either of them and declared it vaguely canonical to the wider Pros fandom universe, and would write stories about those characters without any explanation of who they were.
I was out of the fandom when Gently started airing, but I'm still on some of the mailing lists, and must have seen the show mentioned at some point to have such an instant reaction to the name.
... Man, looking at Shaw's IMDB page, Pros hasn't been a primary fandom of mine in a decade or more. The last non-Pros show I actively sought out eps for was Always and Everyone, which went off the air in 2002; I'm pretty sure I only got some first-series eps and just never kept up with it, because I was already drifting away. Wow, how does that even happen? In my memory, I was in Pros for years and years, but if this is right, it was maybe five years tops.
Time really does fly, whoosh.
(Okay, I just went link-hopping, as you do, and holy cow, Dave is still regularly updating the "authorised guide" site. That's some serious dedication.)
I was out of the fandom when Gently started airing, but I'm still on some of the mailing lists, and must have seen the show mentioned at some point to have such an instant reaction to the name.
... Man, looking at Shaw's IMDB page, Pros hasn't been a primary fandom of mine in a decade or more. The last non-Pros show I actively sought out eps for was Always and Everyone, which went off the air in 2002; I'm pretty sure I only got some first-series eps and just never kept up with it, because I was already drifting away. Wow, how does that even happen? In my memory, I was in Pros for years and years, but if this is right, it was maybe five years tops.
Time really does fly, whoosh.
(Okay, I just went link-hopping, as you do, and holy cow, Dave is still regularly updating the "authorised guide" site. That's some serious dedication.)
