Fandom Snowflake Challenge 2016 - Day 14

In your own space, share your love for something fannish: a trope, cliché, kink, motif, theme, format, or fandom.

Is fanart about the Avengers being fluffy and domestic your jam? Are tentacle fics your thing? How about podfics that have characters talking dirty? Is your Pinterest filled with images of knitted fanart? Make a post about it! Squee to your heart's content, tell us why you love it, gives us some examples.

Okay, I've been thinking all day about this - here goes. It's terribly appropriate for the sad news we received recently, but long before today, this has been a favored trope: the affectionate parody. This trope gets me each time it's done correctly because it shows knowledge of the fan base, knowledge of the media which engages the fan base, and how tweaking the parody just so renders the work recognizable, yet not in a mean or snide fashion. Galaxy Quest succeeds on so many levels: parody, straight out adventure, comedy, rueful acknowledgement of time's passing and what it does to us all if we're lucky enough to survive ... Let's just say it's one of the few films I actually bought *in glorious VHS format! No director's cut! No interviews! No Easter Eggs in the mini-video game!* in order to watch it more than once. I've introduced it to the kids, and enjoyed it with them umpteen times. It's just perfectly realized.