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Doctor Who meme
Jul. 3rd, 2007 10:10 pm"When you see this, post a favorite quote from Doctor Who."
A bit of background. Feel free to skip.
I'm 31. When I was a kid, Doctor Who was this mad, wonderful programme I watched fairly regularly, and was vaguely aware had been around for a while. And at 14, just about the age when previous generations had either given up on it as "kids stuff", or realised it was a mad, wonderful and surprisingly deep programme, it disappeared.
If this hadn't happened, I'd have been in the latter camp, of course. If Doctor Who had been on continuously from 1989 until now, I'd certainly still be watching it. But I don't think I'd be a capital-F-Fan, exactly. It was the absence that led to me discovering past Doctors on video, reading novels and episode guides and DWM, increasing my output of fanfic. I even think my first filk, long before I knew the word, was a protest about the cancellation. And I always knew that, even if the mad, wonderful programme never returned to TV, the concept of Doctor Who still existed.
"Somewhere there's danger. Somewhere there's injustice. Somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on Ace, we've got work to do."
A bit of background. Feel free to skip.
I'm 31. When I was a kid, Doctor Who was this mad, wonderful programme I watched fairly regularly, and was vaguely aware had been around for a while. And at 14, just about the age when previous generations had either given up on it as "kids stuff", or realised it was a mad, wonderful and surprisingly deep programme, it disappeared.
If this hadn't happened, I'd have been in the latter camp, of course. If Doctor Who had been on continuously from 1989 until now, I'd certainly still be watching it. But I don't think I'd be a capital-F-Fan, exactly. It was the absence that led to me discovering past Doctors on video, reading novels and episode guides and DWM, increasing my output of fanfic. I even think my first filk, long before I knew the word, was a protest about the cancellation. And I always knew that, even if the mad, wonderful programme never returned to TV, the concept of Doctor Who still existed.
"Somewhere there's danger. Somewhere there's injustice. Somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on Ace, we've got work to do."
