Trying things on a whim......and having them hit you like a train.

[dex-dex]

H2O: Just add water.[footnote]Best Australian show about 3 teenaged mermaid girls with magic powers ever[/footnote] Surprisingly well written for a kid's show. And dark, when they use their magic powers to harm people, in a serious and not played for laughs way.

Also, Blade Kitten. Which is targeted more at my demographic.

weird thing is that I have seen that show. and thought it was awesome as well!

OT: Doctor who. watched it as a one off when I was sixteen when the CBC use to play them and GOD DAMN! WOOSH!
This was also the point in my life when I thought being nerdy and a chick was not cool. yes I was stupid

 

[dex-dex]

Borderlands

I saw the commercials and didn't really care about it at all until a friend borrowed a copy of the game from a roommate and brought it over. I was crazy addicted to that game for months and do not regret a single moment of it.

I know this has nothing to do with your comment but you avatar is just awesome!
SWIPER NO SWIPING!
SWIPER NO SWIPING!
SWIPER NO SWIPING!
aw man...

 

[Tallim]

My love for MLP started off as checking out what the big deal was. I guess you could consider that "on a whim."

I found MLP by accident before I even knew it was hitting off big online. I already had Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie toys before I even saw the show :/

<- Pony Modder but those two I never touched.

 

[Wintermoot]

Gundam I started with the kits but I really like the series to

 

[WafflesandBacon]

Dr. Who and Homestuck, both took everything I knew, destroyed it completely, and replaced it with themselves.

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

Firefly, as others have said, really took me by surprise. I started watching it and I was done all of it and Serenity within a day or two. Really is a shame about the cancellation.

 

[Cheesus333]

I bought Fable: TLC and KotOR 2 together for, what was it, £15? It must have been, that's the deal GAME has on PC games: 3 for £10 range and 2 for £15 range. Anyway, I bought them both a few years ago, loved 'em. Fable moreso, admittedly. I bought Fable on the off chance that my friend's enthusiastic recommendation was accurate, and KotOR on the basis that it would be as good as the first. It wasn't, but still worth it anyway. And Fable was - and is - fantastic.

 

[wooty]

I've heard an awful lot about Firefly, never seen it, or even heard of it until I joined these forums.
Maybe its time to go and investigate it a bit more.

 

[Squarez]

I picked up The xx's album when just browsing because the album just...I dunno...jumped out at me. No idea why. This was before all the hype about it started.

I'm glad I bought it.

 

[Free Thinker]

My Little Pony had me at Friendship.

But WoW was a huge one for me. I played a trial before Burning Crusade came out. WoW had me at Dwarf Hunter. But I've quit it. A good 4 years or so of gaming.

 

[Queen Michael]

I got a Starman trade paperback from the library because I thought that maybe it would be worth reading. Now I consider Starman to be the best ongoing superhero series ever.