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From: The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Doctor Who Infinity Poll on the Timeless Child...
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 08:42:00 +0000
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Just to demonstrate that Dave was fishing in a small, selective pond 
with his last poll, I set one up in another Facebook community - but a 
more diverse one and one that has about 90,000 members. I also allowed 
for a range of nuanced thoughts rather than Dave's binary view of "you 
must retcon it or you're ant-Doctor Who". Engagement was fairly low 
(this is, after all, very old news now) but nevertheless ...

Two days on, here is the position:

What do you now feel about the Timeless Child narrative in Doctor Who? 
(583 votes total)

It was a great addition to the lore, adding mystery and setting up 
opportunities for a whole lot of new stories. 37%  (214)

It could have been a great idea but it was presented poorly. 12%  (64)

We didn't need it but we've got it now so let's just move on. 23%  (136)

It was a bad idea. Let's try to forget it happened. 10%  (53)

It was an abomination and must be rewritten out of continuity 
(retconned). 15%  (91)

I don't care. 2% (9)

Timeless Child? What was that again? 1% (6)


Interestingly, almost 50% of voters LIKED at least the idea of the 
Timeless Child. with 37% being very positive.

25% were neutral.

25% were negative about it, but only 15% went so far as to demand a retcon.

Very different than what the very predominantly "old school white male 
fan" pool of Ian Levine's followers believe to be the majority case.

As an aside, in the comments, more people had negative things to say 
about the "bi-generation" of RTD, than about the Timeless Child, even 
though this poll never even mentioned it.

-- 
There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible 
things. Things which act against everything we believe in.

They must be /fought/.