I think it's something about fans becoming increasingly entitled over time; at 45 years this is one of the most entitled fandoms ever! Plus there was that gap period where fans kind of did control canon, and you can tell a lot of them aren't happy about having to hand control back over to the professionals!
Especially with RTD throwing out beloved fanon like the Looms and asexuality. I do kinda get the frustration... I guess. It just kinda seems pointless. It is canon now that the Doctor loves Rose enough to want to spend a lifetime with her. And the general audience adored it (91 Audience Appreciation Index for the two final episodes of S4 speaks pretty loudly).
It's such a contrast with BtVS, where Joss was "god" to most fans. Most of DW fandom acts like RTD is spitting on their childhood every time he writes an episode! And I'd argue that RTD is at least as talented as Joss if not mor
You won't find any disagreement from me! They each share the title of the only TV writers to ever genuinely scare me (Joss for "Hush" and RTD for "Midnight" -- interestingly enough, both episodes are about stolen voices, though in different ways). RTD is less cynical than Joss in his writing, which I think people underestimate (just like people don't understand how hard good comedy is).
It's true! Not that I don't like him angsty--I love season three, too. But you need the happiness to balance it out, otherwise the misery just gets tedious. :)
Exactly. We needed S2 so that we could actually feel S3. If we'd just gotten S3, it wouldn't have been as emotionally satisfying.
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Date: 2008-09-08 07:53 pm (UTC)Especially with RTD throwing out beloved fanon like the Looms and asexuality. I do kinda get the frustration... I guess. It just kinda seems pointless. It is canon now that the Doctor loves Rose enough to want to spend a lifetime with her. And the general audience adored it (91 Audience Appreciation Index for the two final episodes of S4 speaks pretty loudly).
It's such a contrast with BtVS, where Joss was "god" to most fans. Most of DW fandom acts like RTD is spitting on their childhood every time he writes an episode! And I'd argue that RTD is at least as talented as Joss if not mor
You won't find any disagreement from me! They each share the title of the only TV writers to ever genuinely scare me (Joss for "Hush" and RTD for "Midnight" -- interestingly enough, both episodes are about stolen voices, though in different ways). RTD is less cynical than Joss in his writing, which I think people underestimate (just like people don't understand how hard good comedy is).
It's true! Not that I don't like him angsty--I love season three, too. But you need the happiness to balance it out, otherwise the misery just gets tedious. :)
Exactly. We needed S2 so that we could actually feel S3. If we'd just gotten S3, it wouldn't have been as emotionally satisfying.