[ SECRET POST #2520 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2520 ⌋

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Re: How did your first impression of [insert work here] influence your perception of it in odd ways?

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My first exposure to Doctor Who was a fanvid, and something of the tone and the sense of inexplicable and utterly bewitching, breath-taking fantastical imagery and clips and the fact that it was made with a strong context of something important that fans obviously understood but which I knew nothing of at the time just grabbed me really hard and I think little bits of that tragedy and beauty and wonder seeped into my brain and colored all my subsequent perceptions of the show.

A reversal: I had never ever ever seen a single Sherlock Holmes adaptation of any sort before I first started reading the stories (which was when I was about twelve or thirteen), and so I never had any "pop-cultural image" of the characters to taint my experience, which is a rarity for most people. Also, the first story I remember reading was Charles Augustus Milverton, which was not exactly typical Holmes fare. So, a lurid, highly sexual cover-up plot, Holmes ranting at length about about how shitty Victorian mores were and breaking the law for the greater good while talking about how he'd make a good criminal, and Watson almost beating up a guy with a chair, bluntly strong-arming Holmes into letting him help him, and then unabashedly fangasming about how much more fun it was to break the law than to uphold it. And both of them the type of guys who cared a great deal about each other's safety, joked about spending the rest of their life in jail together, whip up a burglary plan off the cuff, and lie to the police. And sprint long distances and scale six-foot walls. Yup. (I think that impression is a lot better than the reverse one that comes through osmosis, FWIW.)

I was spoiled for pretty much every single major plot twist (except "Becoming") in both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly via TvTropes before I watched a single episode of the shows. This definitely altered my impression of several characters, mainly the ones that eventually died, quite a bit. Tara and Wash had me pretty much interpreting everything they did through the lens of "they get killed off", and Willow through the lens of "she goes evil and nuts".