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The True Doctor wrote on 21/4/24 11:11 am:
> On 19/04/2024 22:39, Blueshirt wrote:

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>> 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??
-- 
Daniel