
My friend Pat has been a comics fan for decades - he's a DC fan, and a Green Arrow fan, and he likes Superman. So when Smallville started he and his wife Sandi watched it, but they didn't like it much and soon stopped watching. I, on the other hand, adored the show, and glommed onto it, and made it my primary fandom for - what, four years? I loved it for the Luthor Family Soap Opera, which was precisely why Sandi and Pat didn't like it. Besides, they aren't into slash and didn't even see the delightful sexiness of it all.
Now that various things on the show have quelled my passion for it, suddenly Pat and Sandi are into it and enthusiastic about it again. They love it that it has superheroes in it now. They recognize it as something more like the world of DC comics that they want, and they're watching happily. I'm watching... somewhat belatedly... with a combination of hope and cringing. I still haven't seen the past two episodes.
Funny how things change.
Pat and Sandi don't like Heroes. They love Eureka, which leaves me cold. Lucky thing they both love Doctor Who, or I'd think we had no tastes in common!