How did your...

[flighter]

... family and close friends look at your addiction or dedication to Avatar and everything around it?

[Xacoon]

This! ---> and

[flighter]

Wife watched it together with me so it was easier for me

[Seth]

My friends and family knew I really liked Avatar, although I think I kept it hidden how obsessed I was with it.

[Kiyevanie]

They always thought I was kinda crazy... that was just another confirmation

[flighter]

They always [s]thought[/s] knew I was kinda crazy... that was just another confirmation

I fixed it for you

Now seriously, define "crazy". If that is someone who uses the brain above the (very low) average level, then it's perfectly fine to me

[Kiyevanie]

Mmmhm - defining "crazy"... more like "being different". For example, when I was a teenage girl all my female friends were into Saturday Night Fever and that kind of movies. MY room was plastered with Star Wars posters

And I somehow missed the part about "growing up and being a serious, adult personality" :p

[flighter]

Sounds very familiar, ahahahhhhhhhhhh...

When I was, I think, 8 or so, maybe 9 or 10 but not more, my grandpa gave me Clarke's 2001. I went through it, had a few questions, but wasn't really interested. Playing at his farm every day after school was far mor einteresting. Then, I think I was 12, I got the book again, this time from the library. I was, to say the least, hooked 101%. I sleep until I finished the book. City library had a quite good set of SF books so I guess I had every single one of them. Many years later, I got a (commercially available) CD with 160 SF books, all translated. It was a treasure. I didn't like all of them, but even these 80-90 I did... well, that was enough.

What I am searching for now is Gentry Lee's continuation of Clarke's 9and his) RAMA series... After Clarke died, Mr Lee wrote last two books, I think. Not as good as Clarke's, but good enough I guess.

[Kiyevanie]

Actually for me it was my mom who hooked me when I was about the same age - she was a big fan of Star Trek (had a secret crush on Mr Spock ) and Perry Rhodan (a german SF series, published weekly in a kind of magazine).
From then on I made my way through the whole public library at our town.

Made me kinda suspicious in the eyes of my fellow girls: At first - reading that much at all and second, no horse comics but scifi books.... ugh

[vanyahaheights]

Well, since I'm not really an Avatar addict anymore, it'd be a "no comment" for me...

[flighter]

Well, I am not an addict either, but that doesn't prevent me from enjoying it

[flighter]

Oh, and when I want to demonstrate how good a screen is in HD (the company sells, among other things, screens for exhibiotions), I play, guess what? Avatar Blueray rip... 22GB file.

[Fnu Aw]

My family strongly considered an intervention at first. They stopped caring after a few months.

[YoungGrace]

My parents take it like all of my obsessions - first it was Harry Potter, then Star Wars, next it was exactly Avatar, after that My Little Pony and now it's Iron Man (I'm talking about long-lasting ones - I've had tiny crazinesses over other movies or TV shows like Pretty Little Liars, too). They're used to me talking about one particular thing for months.

[Nawmtirea]

I still like to have my morning coffee in one of the Avatar mugs that Kiy brought me from Germany when she came to the Toronto Meet.

And Ato and I still throw the occasional Avatar quote into text messages and conversations with each other.

And we still have that atokirina seed hanging from our rear view mirror in the car.

[Kiyevanie]

Nice to know they're still in use

[Nawmtirea]

One day I'm going to have to buy a putter and a golf ball and try practicing my putts into the RDA mug.

And we have 4 Avatar blankets that we use on the couch all the time. So we always have a little bit of Avatar every day.

The bulb died on our TV projector (which wasn't HD anyway), so we finally bought a big LED HDTV, and of course had to christen it by watching Avatar CE on it. 81 viewings for me and counting.

And over Christmas break I took my kids to my work to see Avatar in 3D for their first time! They've seen the movie 8 or 10 times, but never in 3D. They were too young to take them when Avatar was in the theater.

[Tsatu]

Bravo! That sounds pretty fun.

[Bogo]

My family!

Ha ha. It was: That's expensive going to see that movie so many times. Money doesn't grow on trees. Your weird.

1) Its my money.
2) it's my money.
3) I'm me, not someone else. Thanks for the compliment.

[Kiyevanie]

Eh - from your family that's indeed a high compliment...