Share Your Pop-culture Inheritance With The Hype

[Slade W]

Nothing that I can think of. I had to discover pop culture on my own. Star Wars, LOTR, and Harry Potter were things I discovered at the library, school, and the cinema.

It was pretty much the same with me. There are some things that my Dad tried to get me into like football (the European one) and Bond, and failed to get me interested in them at the time, but then as I got older, I became interested in them myself.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

It was pretty much the same with me. There are some things that my Dad tried to get me into like football (the European one) and Bond, and failed to get me interested in them at the time, but then as I got older, I became interested in them myself.

What about other family, or family friends, teachers, mentors and the like?

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

My dad introduced me to James Bond. We used to watch the movies all the time as a kid. Only good memories I have of him

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Basically my love for Sci-Fi came from my dad exposing me to ALIEN and Star Wars at such a young age, also being open to letting me try out comics and stuff.

 

[Duke]

My parents exposed me to James Bond & the rest is history.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

My parents exposed me to James Bond & the rest is history.

your entire hype persona is G.I. Joe.

 

[Duke]

your entire hype persona is G.I. Joe.

99.9% of Kemo Sabe.

 

[MrMaooz]

I pretty much had to get myself into movies and sports. My dad doesn't gives a rat's ass about movies. He just works, sleeps, and watches football. I got my parents into football, and sports in general. Well, anyways, I'm pretty sure the only movies he has seen in full are Demolition Man and Rambo Part 3. He came to America in 1988 so he knows the movie stars and such, but just doesn't really watch films. It might sound cliche, but what got me into movies eventually was Star Wars. Wasn't even the actual movies that got me into Star Wars at first. It was a damn cereal box. It was a POPS cereal box that had Star Wars characters. I thought they looked cool, so that same day I had the cereal, I forced my dad to buy a DVD player and DVDs of THE PHANTOM MENACE along with ATTACK OF THE CLONES. Keep in mind, this was before REVENGE OF THE SITH. Then eventually my uncle bought me the original STAR WARS trilogy. I got into sports the same year as well. My parents never watched sports, but now they do, due to my brothers and I. So yeah, I was never really shown movies and introduced to sports by my parents. They were just things my brothers and I had to get into.

However, my following of MAN OF STEEL is what ultimately got me to keep tabs on movies and have a greater interest in them. Taking a film study class my freshman also enhanced my drive for movies.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

It is funny, how one's family can often be just not that into entertainment at all. While others... My buddy Ed helped me bring some stuff to my mother's a few years back, and we watched some films and later he was like, "Uh... Your family is just like you. They have seen these movies a thousand times and know all the lines..."

 

[flickchick85]

My mom sat me down to watch Star Wars when I was 6-years-old because "trust me, you can't go through life without having seen this." And I of course watched it and fell in love.

Years later I find out she's a Trekkie who's never been all that into Star Wars herself. She was just lookin' out for her kid.

 

[rogbngp]

Once my older brother showed me a comic book that was all she wrote. I was probably 5 or 6. As a child my exposure was to the DC characters at first. Then by the time of about 5th grade I discovered the Marvel superheroes. DC will always be first in my heart, though. I had talent for drawing, and I spent a lot of time sketching comic book and cartoon strip characters.

Star Trek was another major influence. After watching that I read science fiction voraciously from about the 6th grade onward.

And finally Tolkien was a gigantic influence. My older sister turned me on to The Hobbit and LotR. I also enjoyed Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and Gray Mouser short stories.

This led to DnD in my late teens. Reconnected my love for DnD gaming in 2000 when I discovered Baldur's Gate. Tried a number of RPGs in the decade to follow but never enjoyed any as much as BG.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

My mom sat me down to watch Star Wars when I was 6-years-old because "trust me, you can't go through life without having seen this." And I of course watched it and fell in love.

Years later I find out she's a Trekkie who's never been all that into Star Wars herself. She was just lookin' out for her kid.

That's pretty funny CC. But that can happen. Take this... I am a huge fan of FARSCAPE, and frankly, was never into the BUFFYVERSE at all. Everything about the characters and the show has no appeal to me, while I can admit, the pop culture references can be fun, I just get nothing from the show itself. As such, I was not into Whedon enough to follow him to a new show. I read the ASTONISHING run of his X-MEN so I know he was talented as a writer, but I wasn't so enraptured that I would tune into his "space western".

Cut to a few years later and a friend gifts me for Christmas the complete set of FIREFLY. "Uh... What's this for?" "You are a huge FIREFLY fan, right? Here's the whole series." "Dude... I'm into FARSCAPE. I've never seen FIREFLY." "Oh... Well it's a good show. You should check it out." And so the collection stayed in my locker for close to a year and half or more. Finally I decided to give it shot not knowing the cult following and man, instant conversion from the first episode.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Once my older brother showed me a comic book that was all she wrote. I was probably 5 or 6. As a child my exposure was to the DC characters at first. Then by the time of about 5th grade I discovered the Marvel superheroes. DC will always be first in my heart, though. I had talent for drawing, and I spent a lot of time sketching comic book and cartoon strip characters.

Star Trek was another major influence. After watching that I read science fiction voraciously from about the 6th grade onward.

And finally Tolkien was a gigantic influence. My older sister turned me on to The Hobbit and LotR. I also enjoyed Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and Gray Mouser short stories.

This led to DnD in my late teens. Reconnected my love for DnD gaming in 2000 when I discovered Baldur's Gate. Tried a number of RPGs in the decade to follow but never enjoyed any as much as BG.

This is the one area where my fandom is thin... I admit now... I just never got into Tolkien. It's insanely influenctial but... Meh.

 

[flickchick85]

That's pretty funny CC. But that can happen. Take this... I am a huge fan of FARSCAPE, and frankly, was never into the BUFFYVERSE at all. Everything about the characters and the show has no appeal to me, while I can admit, the pop culture references can be fun, I just get nothing from the show itself. As such, I was not into Whedon enough to follow him to a new show. I read the ASTONISHING run of his X-MEN so I know he was talented as a writer, but I wasn't so enraptured that I would tune into his "space western".

Cut to a few years later and a friend gifts me for Christmas the complete set of FIREFLY. "Uh... What's this for?" "You are a huge FIREFLY fan, right? Here's the whole series." "Dude... I'm into FARSCAPE. I've never seen FIREFLY." "Oh... Well it's a good show. You should check it out." And so the collection stayed in my locker for close to a year and half or more. Finally I decided to give it shot not knowing the cult following and man, instant conversion from the first episode.

Ha, I love that KRYPTON. Firefly is my least-favorite Whedon show (unless you count AoS, which I don't, as he was never showrunner there), but I kind of love its "hidden gem" status that allows non-Whedonites like yourself to stumble upon it.

 

[Victarion]

My love for fantasy:

It began with Harry Potter when I was in 4th or 5th grade. Flash forward to my senior year of high school. Deathly Hallows is out, the series is finished.

I discover The Dark Tower and decide that fantasy might be one of my favorite genres. After TDT, I went through a period of Dragonlance, Drizzt, and chasing down other recommended fantasy works - none of these hit the spot for me, and i considered that maybe the genre wasn't for me.

Then I found Michael Moorcock's Elric series and became enthralled by this bloodthirsty albino prince with his soul-stealing sword, reliance on drugs and demoniac sorcery for sustenance.

From there I found GRRM, Steven Erikson, Joe Abercrombie, Mark Lawrence and Glen Cook. Martin, Erikson, Cook, Abercrombie, Lawrence, and Moorcock are why I still love the fantasy genre.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Did your parents get you the books to encourage reading?

 

[Victarion]

Yes. I distinctly remember trying both Potter and Narnia for my school's accelerated reader program. Narnia was easy points; Potter was fun reading.

I also recall check out a copy of IT from the town library when I was in 4th grade. I don't recall how far into the book I got, though.

 

[rogbngp]

This is the one area where my fandom is thin... I admit now... I just never got into Tolkien. It's insanely influenctial but... Meh.

Tolkien transported me. As I read it, I felt like I had stepped into that world when I first read the trilogy at the age of about 14.

If not Tolkien, but do you still enjoy any stuff from the high fantasy or 'swords and sorcery' genres? Conan the Barbarian maybe?

I enjoy what I broadly term "fantastic adventure." If it was a music it would be a sextet consisting of six such genres: 1) superhero, 2) high fantasy, 3) swords and sorcery, 4) sword and sandal (usually Greco-Roman mythology), 5) Arthurian legend/medieval, 6) science-fiction.

And I love them all about equally. Although what we are currently seeing with the superhero genre is like nothing I ever dared to dream would come to pass. This is utterly amazing. I've never been so enthused about a pastime in all my life. And during the 00's I spent more time than any human being ever should worldbuilding for NWN Forgotten Realms persistent worlds (working inside toolsets, writing extensive lore) and modding Baldur's Gate.

Btw, I think Willie Nelson is still with us!

 

[Matt Mortem]

My pop-culture inheritance would be a love of comic books. I was raised by my Step-Dad rather than Biologicial and my stepfather had a real love of DC and Marvel comics. Had a decent collection too. I inherited that collection when he passed away 8 years ago.

Both my Dad's were gamers too so I grew up with those types of entertainment always around the house.

My Mother is a super movie fan and that really fed my interest in film and lead to my current career as a film critic.