You are not the only one who doesn't get "Us"! And I am reasonably plugged into the whole media-fandom-history thing (there are people who are much more so than I, I hasten to add). thefourthvine and cathexys and, um, someone else wonderful, whose name I forget, explained it to me in very small words, several times over, and I started to get it, but I still have trouble. So, you know. Solidarity.