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Current Talk '24 I / Re: A Very Interesting Blog Entry
« on: June 13, 2020, 05:22:52 PM »
Post cancellation, I wasn't involved in fandom in the '70s and throughout most of the '80s (I didn't come into fandom until '88 after I'd been watching DS for a few years in syndication - in fact, until I started watching DS again in '86 (after attempting to resist for the longest time), the show was but a fond memory of childhood that I rarely thought about). I had no idea there was such a backlash against Julia back then. But it's completely true that during the show's original run fans were always writing in to the daytime magazines about their love for Julia. Most letters insisted that Barnabas should forget his SYT obsessions and focus on Julia. I particularly remember one letter (which I'm pretty sure I shared around here somewhere) in which a fan insisted that unless Barnabas and Julia got together the fan was going to stop watching DS.
What's really interesting in light of the '70s-'80s put-down of Julia is that by the time I got involved in online fandom in the mid-'90s Julia fandom had not only been in full swing, it was widely expanding. While there had been all sorts of fanzines devoted to Julia, online fandom soon created Julia e-mail lists and dozens of Websites devoted to her...
What's really interesting in light of the '70s-'80s put-down of Julia is that by the time I got involved in online fandom in the mid-'90s Julia fandom had not only been in full swing, it was widely expanding. While there had been all sorts of fanzines devoted to Julia, online fandom soon created Julia e-mail lists and dozens of Websites devoted to her...