You
Know You're Obsessed
About
Stargate: Atlantis When...
By Leesa Perrie:
- You buy something containing citrus and either a) feel
guilty or b) snicker evilly, because you can have it but McKay
can’t.
- Someone mentions Captain Kirk and you immediately think of John Sheppard.
- You know what a flux capacitor is and what movie it’s
from, even without having watched said movie, and think that one is a)
stupid, moronic and unscientific or b) kinda cool.
- Your family and friends can recite general Atlantis trivia even though they’ve never seen the programme.
- Your pets are called after Atlantis characters, ships,
planets, races or… you get my drift. (There is little hope
for you if your kids are named after them too!)
- You think it’s highly amusing to call whales Flagecallus.
- You want to learn stick fighting (unless you’re a McKay fan, in which case you really don’t!).
- You start hiding knives in your hair.
- You like wearing beige or grey jackets with blue, yellow, black or red panels…
- You drink too much coffee and eat too many PowerBars.
- You also eat a lot of pudding cups and blue jell-o.
- You eat random food that you find cooking in a pot over an open fire even though you don’t know what it is.
- You offer said food to a friend.
- You have a sudden desire to watch and read all Batman related programmes, films and comics.
- You think the team is like the Fantastic Four even though they are nothing like the Fantastic Four.
- You take up skateboarding and surfing.
- You buy all of Johnny Cash’s records and hang a poster over your bed.
- You a) flirt with every good looking member of the opposite
sex, b) flirt (badly) with members of the opposite sex with short,
blonde hair.
- You get a tattoo on your neck.
- You start a campaign at your local school: Just say no to Wraith enzyme!
- The boy/girl of your dreams finally asks you out on a date
on the night that a new episode is aired, you turn them down in case all of your recorders break down at the same time.
- You can’t go to the wedding/insert important event of
your brother/sister/insert family member because it clashes with a
convention that you booked into AFTER receiving the invitation to said
family event...
By Jayne Perry:
- You think of a great plot for a story and you just have to tell someone.
- You learn Czech, because you want to know what Zelenka is really saying.
- You start snapping your fingers at people.
- You find yourself talking techno-babble.
- You start thinking of medicine as 'voodoo' and you call your doctor a witchdoctor.
- A character in a TV programme is called Rodney and you think to yourself that he is nothing like McKay.
- You comb all of YouTube and other sites like it for Atlantis songvids and convention appearances by the cast.
- You won't date anyone unless their name is Rodney or John (or Elizabeth or Teyla).
- You buy all the magazines in the newsagents that mention Atlantis or one of the actors/actresses.
- You take your holidays in Vancouver on the off chance you may see someone from the show.
- You post hundreds of comments of David Hewlett’s YouTube page.
- You check the blogs of your favourite actor/actresses and
also any by their family and any production people’s blog several
times a day.
- You visit your computer in the middle of the night to see if
anyone has posted anything new on the yahoo group/other group/message
board/LiveJournal or other such fannish sites (including the above
mentioned blogs).