Fan-noth
Keeping on the City of Death theme, I can’t help but wonder if the world of Doctor Who Fandom will, starting a week tomorrow, split off into a further number of different splinters from the explosion of new Doctor Who, similar to what happened to our good friend Scaroth.
Doctor Who fandom is already a diverse entity, from the different groups of people who have different Doctor’s & different eras of the show as their favourite, combined with the fact that once the show went off the air some fans only paid attention to the videos, others only read the new books while others only listened to the audios. Now we have a new series which, while it should increase the number of fans, is also bound to create new divisions within fandom. After the first season of the new series airs I suspect we will see:
1.Fans who only like the new series
2.Fans who only like the original series
3.Fans who like the original series and the new series
4.Fans who like the original series, the new series and the audios
5.Fans who like the original series, the new series and the books
6.Fans who like the new series and the audios but not the books or the original series
7.Fans who like the original series and the audios but not the books or the new series
8.Fans who like the original series and the books but not the new series and the audios
9.Fans who like the new series and the books, but not the original series or audios
10. All of the above possibilities with the TV Movie thrown in for further variation
11. Tom Baker-only fans
12. Billie Piper-only fans
13. Fans that like it all (and you can include the Peter Cushing movies here too if you like).
I have left out a category for the DWM comic strip, since nobody has admitted to liking that since 1987.
Which category will you fit into?
Posted by John on Friday, March 18 at 8:41 am
5 Comments...
all of the above yo.
Posted by John on 03/18 at 10:28 AM
What about the webcasts? Won’t somebody please think of the webcasts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(with thanks to the wife of the Reverend on The Simpsons. What is her name BTW?)
((and if BTW can’t answer that I’ll take an answer from anyone else))
(((and if anyone else can’t answer it I’ll… forget it! I’ll quit while I’m ahead.
With thanks to Groucho Marx and Abbot&Costello;.
Posted by Ryan on 03/18 at 10:31 AM
That’s an exhaustive list! Whew… I’m not sure where I will fit in. There are not enough hours in the day (nor money in the wallet) to follow EVERY media incarnation of the show… If I were wealthy and had the life span of a Time Lord, then perhaps it would be a different story! The only Doctor I do not care for is the seventh (although Sylvester McCoy seems a nice chap); his interpretation never clicked with me. I enjoyed some of the audios, and a few of the books… I suppose I’m somewhere in the middle between the “Tom Baker (only) Fans” and the “All of the Above” fans. I am certain that an entire generation of people will discover the new show who have never seen the original (and who might not care for it if they did), and that is a good thing, in my view. New fans need to pick up the torch and carry it forward. No long-running entertainment franchise can survive indefinitely on “old” fans. Good luck to the new Doctor Who! (but my most pressing question is: will the new Doctor meet the Brigadier?)
Posted by David on 03/18 at 11:12 AM
But don’t forget:
14. fans who only like the original series prior to 1977,
15. fans who only like the original series prior to 1980,
16. fans who only like the original series prior to 1984,
17. fans who only like the original series prior to 1986,
18. fans who only like the original series prior to 1987,
19. fans who think the 1987 series was on to something and that it was the later episodes with Ace that were too dark and pretentious,
20. fans who think that a long-haired, Victorian-garbed Doctor with a wood-paneled library for a console room is too Hollywood,
21. fans who think that a crew-cut, T-shirt and leather-jacket-wearing Doctor outrunning an expanding fireball is not.
Posted by Curt on 03/19 at 09:10 AM
How about “Sylvester McCoy Fans who happen to like new Who, old Who, and some assorted other things”?
Posted by trinalin on 03/19 at 09:26 PM
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