The Eleventh Doctor
Jan. 3rd, 2009 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ghost2I... actually have no great reaction to the casting news, seeing that it's too far soon to tell what the new Doctor will really be like. Mostly, I'm sitting back and watching with some amusement as portions of fandom implode.
X throws a fit and threatens to defriend people who didn't LJ-cut the casting news!
Y thinks the Eleventh Doctor isn't hawt enough!
Z decides to stop watching the show because the new Doctor isn't exactly who she wanted!
And the whole mess quickly made it onto Fandom Wank.
Frankly, I couldn't care less if anyone didn't (or doesn't) cut the news. I've already seen two major American outlets post it online in huge headlines, and that was just during a random browse around the Internet. It isn't feasible to expect to avoid the news for any real length of time.
As for the "hawtness" issue, those people sure must hate certain earlier Doctors.
I also had never heard of most of the frequently mentioned names in contention for the role. They meant virtually nothing to me, and I had no particular expectations. Knowing the outcome, I still have no specific expectations. I've ended up so laid-back about the matter, I'm practically reclining.
(And this fandom still isn't as insane as The X-Files fandom got during the Mulder vs. Doggett wars. NOT EVEN CLOSE.)
X throws a fit and threatens to defriend people who didn't LJ-cut the casting news!
Y thinks the Eleventh Doctor isn't hawt enough!
Z decides to stop watching the show because the new Doctor isn't exactly who she wanted!
And the whole mess quickly made it onto Fandom Wank.
Frankly, I couldn't care less if anyone didn't (or doesn't) cut the news. I've already seen two major American outlets post it online in huge headlines, and that was just during a random browse around the Internet. It isn't feasible to expect to avoid the news for any real length of time.
As for the "hawtness" issue, those people sure must hate certain earlier Doctors.
I also had never heard of most of the frequently mentioned names in contention for the role. They meant virtually nothing to me, and I had no particular expectations. Knowing the outcome, I still have no specific expectations. I've ended up so laid-back about the matter, I'm practically reclining.
(And this fandom still isn't as insane as The X-Files fandom got during the Mulder vs. Doggett wars. NOT EVEN CLOSE.)
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Date: 2009-01-04 02:57 am (UTC)I received the most beautiful flames when I wrote a Doggett/Scully story. My favorite might be the one that started by calling me a sicko with serious mental problems and deteriorated from there. I also knew an author who was regarded as a traitor because she switched from writing Mulder/Scully to Doggett/Scully. And so much more. Those were the days, indeed. The Buffy fandom also got bad at times, much worse than DW has so far.