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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:09:14 +1000
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The True Doctor wrote on 26/4/24 12:08 pm:
> On 25/04/2024 10:41, Daniel70 wrote:
>> The True Doctor wrote on 25/4/24 5:27 am:
>>> On 22/04/2024 11:21, Daniel70 wrote:
>>>> The True Doctor wrote on 21/4/24 11:11 am:
>>>>> On 19/04/2024 22:39, Blueshirt wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <Snip>
>>>>
>>>>>> Fan fic as a term doesn't automatically make something bad or
>>>>>> wrong. I've read some good fan fic over the years. I'd also
>>>>>> consider most of what Big Finish produce as fan fic, just
>>>>>> licensed by the BBC and released on audio... and a lot of it is
>>>>>> very good.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Being fair I suppose that's what any Doctor Who is really when
>>>>>> it all boils down to it if a fan of the show is the Executive 
>>>>>> Producer... it's their ideas and their vision of the show. Just
>>>>>> like it would be yours or mine if we were writing our ideas
>>>>>> down on paper. The only difference is, they are paid by the BBC
>>>>>> which makes their ideas legitimately part of the show.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's fan fic if it's written in order to entertain fans instead
>>>>> of the general audience
>>>>
>>>> Is there really any such thing as 'the general audience"??
>>>>
>>>> Sure, anybody could watch a program once or twice, three times
>>>> even, but if they keep coming back again and again and again and
>>>> again, aren't they, then, really, FANS??
>>>>
>>>>> or just one group of fans or one fan or fake fan alone as in the
>>>>> case of Chibnall who utterly despised the show
>>>>
>>>> "utterly despised the show"?? REALLY?? If someone 'utterly despised
>>>> a show', couldn't they just STOP watching it?? Or are they strapped
>>>> into a chair with toothpicks keeping their eyes open??
>>>
>>> Chibnall hated Doctor Who so much that he destroyed it for every. No
>>> one one can watch it at all.
>>>
>> Sorry, Aggy, but I think you might have forgotten the "IMHO" or 
>> something!! I mean, obviously PEOPLE *ARE* WATCHING!!
> 
> Since Doctor Who ended in 2017 how can anyone possibly be watching? 
> Unless it's old episodes.

But, have you noticed, Aggy, PEOPLE *ARE* WATCHING, maybe not in the 
numbers you would like, at least what *THEY* think *is* "Doctor Who" 
..... just like people might think they are watching "JAMES BOND 007", no 
matter WHO is portraying the LEAD CHARACTER, Aggy!!
-- 
Daniel