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penfold_xSo I've just time-traveled back though the last week in the land of Who, and I've got one message for fandom:
Stop telling me how to react to the Eleven casting decision.
Seriously, if there's anything worse than people expressing snap, emotional judgments, it's fussy, busybody, know-it-all arbiters appropriate fandom reaction. Any regeneration is a big change. People are going to overreact (we're fans, we have investment in this). People are going to take every scrap of information and try to figure out what the next Doctor will be like, a difficult job considering how little we know and how long it's going to be until we see Eleven eps. Not everyone is going to be happy with what they read in the tealeaves, but just like the last 10 times, people will either be pleasantly surprised or turn off the set. Telling them to simmer down a waste of breath and condescending to boot.
And the repeated entreaties to "trust Moffat"? Yeah, I already have a god, thanks, and my church requires less blind faith than the Temple of the PTB. Stuff it, voice of reason.
Stop telling me how to react to the Eleven casting decision.
Seriously, if there's anything worse than people expressing snap, emotional judgments, it's fussy, busybody, know-it-all arbiters appropriate fandom reaction. Any regeneration is a big change. People are going to overreact (we're fans, we have investment in this). People are going to take every scrap of information and try to figure out what the next Doctor will be like, a difficult job considering how little we know and how long it's going to be until we see Eleven eps. Not everyone is going to be happy with what they read in the tealeaves, but just like the last 10 times, people will either be pleasantly surprised or turn off the set. Telling them to simmer down a waste of breath and condescending to boot.
And the repeated entreaties to "trust Moffat"? Yeah, I already have a god, thanks, and my church requires less blind faith than the Temple of the PTB. Stuff it, voice of reason.
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Date: 2009-01-09 08:22 am (UTC)Oh yes, we should definitely do that because we all know how well trusting the Stargate PTB worked. *cough*
Don't you just love commentators and their ilk? I had a field day yesterday with a news report about the UK economy, during which the commentator informed us that the Bank of England were contemplating the unthinkable and that a future scenario was so unlikely to occur it wasn't even hypothetical. My brain fell out of my ears in protest at the nonsense spouting forth from his mouth.
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Date: 2009-01-09 01:52 pm (UTC)Precisely! TPTB have interests and agendas they have to serve apart from the fan community. Even with the best of writers/producers, that's just the way it is. And then there are flat-out incompetent bozos. You never really know who is who until they're in charge.
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Date: 2009-01-09 01:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-09 01:55 pm (UTC)My first thought at seeing the photo was "When did Flock of Seagulls get back together?"
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Date: 2009-01-10 03:46 pm (UTC)