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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The True Doctor Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Re: From the Archives ..... Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 03:08:18 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 53 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 04:08:19 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d381eb7e04287067d2a2174fce9c891e"; logging-data="3624501"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+fH/aExd08LOUHHz1x1OBc66k27C+1Rco=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:doXOUn2NMuLICttWa9DJc0mjGnY= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3449 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: >>> >>> >>> >>>>> 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. -- The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw "To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it stands for." -William Shatner