Yeah, watching it when it was airing might have been more fun. Although I'm sure it would have driven me mad with all the cliffhangers. They really had a knack for letting each episode end on one. As it was, I watched the whole show in one go. It was hooked pretty much as soon as they whumped the hell out of David in the first five minutes of the pilot. I think it took me less than a week to plow my way through all 52 episodes. It was kinda crazy. (In my defense, we had a bank holiday that week where I stayed home.)
I got my Master's degree in biology in 2001. I then went to work for a CRO (contract research organisation) for a little over two years and have been with the pharma company I now work for for six years and counting. I always enjoyed the lab work, but I don't think I'm made to be a true research scientist. While I liked that part, I was never completely passionate about my experiments. I'm certainly no Jill Langston or David Sandström. :-)
ReGenesis made all the lab stuff look like so much fun, and for about a split second I thought, 'Hey, it would be fun to go back to that.' But it didn't last long, because then I remember all the things that I didn't like about the lab work. I don't think I could go back to that since in Germany it's really hard to do research if you don't have a PhD and at university you only get contracts with a time limit. Plus, I was never interested in a career in academia.
I don't get why Shaftesbury never released the whole show on DVD. Like I said, it was probably that they didn't make enough profit off the first season to warrant a complete series release. I'm pretty sure seasons 3 and 4 were never released in the UK. S3 was up for pre-order for a while, but it never came out. I actually wrote to the DVD publisher and asked, but they said there were no plans to release the last two seasons at the moment. The German DVD publisher actually went bankrupt, so luck there either. I have a codefree DVD player, so I don't have issues with other region codes either, at least with DVDs. Blu-rays are a whole other matter.
You're spot on with the storylines for the later seasons. I agree that it seemed they were trying to explore more and more sensational stuff, and more and more unrealistic stuff. The whole Riddlemeyer and Roth thing started to get a little out of control, though I'll have to admit that Riddlemeyer was a fabulously creepy villain you really could not help loving to hate.
The fanfic I've written so far is just shorter pieces. 'Martyr' is an episode tag for season one, basically just a missing scene. 'The Past Is Never Past' is a very short piece I wrote as a response to a comment fic meme thing on LJ and 'Picking Up The Pieces' is probably the only "real" ReGen fanfic I've written so far. It's an angsty David/Jill one-shot. I do love my angst, so that one was kind of a guilty pleasure to write. The post-series story will be much more involved, and is more in the style of a complete episode with most of the season four characters and also some new ones I introduced. It's kinda like my version of what episode 4x13 should have been. I will be bringing back Lilith as well. Yay! \o/ However, it's slow going and I'm writing on and off on that one. I'll be a while before I finish it as real life is pretty busy too.
Who was your favorite character? Carlos? I must admit, as much of an arrogant, spoiled brat as David was, I just couldn't help but fall for him. I've also developped an interest in Peter Outerbridge's other work since then (okay, that is actually an understatment...), and he's such a versatile actor. He's done some pretty impressive stuff (and also some pretty crappy movies that I regretted subjecting myself to).
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I got my Master's degree in biology in 2001. I then went to work for a CRO (contract research organisation) for a little over two years and have been with the pharma company I now work for for six years and counting. I always enjoyed the lab work, but I don't think I'm made to be a true research scientist. While I liked that part, I was never completely passionate about my experiments. I'm certainly no Jill Langston or David Sandström. :-)
ReGenesis made all the lab stuff look like so much fun, and for about a split second I thought, 'Hey, it would be fun to go back to that.' But it didn't last long, because then I remember all the things that I didn't like about the lab work. I don't think I could go back to that since in Germany it's really hard to do research if you don't have a PhD and at university you only get contracts with a time limit. Plus, I was never interested in a career in academia.
I don't get why Shaftesbury never released the whole show on DVD. Like I said, it was probably that they didn't make enough profit off the first season to warrant a complete series release. I'm pretty sure seasons 3 and 4 were never released in the UK. S3 was up for pre-order for a while, but it never came out. I actually wrote to the DVD publisher and asked, but they said there were no plans to release the last two seasons at the moment. The German DVD publisher actually went bankrupt, so luck there either. I have a codefree DVD player, so I don't have issues with other region codes either, at least with DVDs. Blu-rays are a whole other matter.
You're spot on with the storylines for the later seasons. I agree that it seemed they were trying to explore more and more sensational stuff, and more and more unrealistic stuff. The whole Riddlemeyer and Roth thing started to get a little out of control, though I'll have to admit that Riddlemeyer was a fabulously creepy villain you really could not help loving to hate.
The fanfic I've written so far is just shorter pieces. 'Martyr' is an episode tag for season one, basically just a missing scene. 'The Past Is Never Past' is a very short piece I wrote as a response to a comment fic meme thing on LJ and 'Picking Up The Pieces' is probably the only "real" ReGen fanfic I've written so far. It's an angsty David/Jill one-shot. I do love my angst, so that one was kind of a guilty pleasure to write. The post-series story will be much more involved, and is more in the style of a complete episode with most of the season four characters and also some new ones I introduced. It's kinda like my version of what episode 4x13 should have been. I will be bringing back Lilith as well. Yay! \o/ However, it's slow going and I'm writing on and off on that one. I'll be a while before I finish it as real life is pretty busy too.
Who was your favorite character? Carlos? I must admit, as much of an arrogant, spoiled brat as David was, I just couldn't help but fall for him. I've also developped an interest in Peter Outerbridge's other work since then (okay, that is actually an understatment...), and he's such a versatile actor. He's done some pretty impressive stuff (and also some pretty crappy movies that I regretted subjecting myself to).
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