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 09:38 pm (UTC)The X-Files was my first major online fandom. I remember the moderator of a popular forum publicly expressing her relief that Robert Patrick didn't get an Emmy nomination, because she hadn't wanted to deal with the fan backlash if he had. And the intimidation tactics of flamers who opposed the posting of any Doggett fic, particularly Doggett/Scully material. I was a Mulder/Scully fan at heart, but I wrote my Doggett/Scully story mostly because the flamers pissed me off so much.