A Sad Sorry Story of a Life

[meddow]

There was once a very young girl who thanks to the influence of her Who-obsessed father would run around screaming “exterminate.” Thankfully Doctor Who was cancelled before she was actually old enough to watch it and so she was saved from herself.

By the time “Because We Want Too” was playing on the radio she was fourteen and Prime TV was re-running first doctor episodes she was in thorough moody-teenager tinged denial she knew of the existence of the show and refused to watch.

Then, shockingly, Doctor Who was resurrected and she initially turned her noise up at it. But she made it past the farting aliens, the casting of a pop star she would rather not admit to having sort of liked back in the day and the fact the Doctor did not have a scarf and soon she was having an argument with her flatmate because the flatmate had decided on incredibly short notice to throw a party for her co-workers on the day Dalek aired.

Things were compounded the next year by broadband internet, livejournal and her discovery of wikipiedia and thus old canon but thankfully held back by her issues with Ten.

However, things have gotten progressively worse over the first few weeks of 2007 and now she’s miserable because she’s fourth (fourth!) in the hold queue at the local library for Genesis of the Daleks (though I’m in spot number one for The Hand of Fear) and she has come to the revelation that she can longer deny it any more, Doctor Who is now one of her major fandoms and that she has turned into her father.

I was doomed from birth, I tell you. Doomed.

Comments

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

There are other sources for Classic Doctor Who. *shifty look*

I'm very glad I had no notion of who Billie Piper was prior to watching "Rose" though. Otherwise I am not sure I could've forced myself to watch it, even if I was massively in love with Christopher Eccleston already.

[meddow.livejournal.com]

I think I'm fine with the wait for now, I have this Doctor Who/SJA/Torchwood crossover I really want to get written and the wait is motivating me get it done.

I’m actually kind of glad that I knew of Billie before. It’s great a great feeling when my cynical side gets it wrong, gives me a bit of hope in the entertainment industry as a whole.

Then again I was made to watch the first episode by my father so it didn't really matter who was actually in it.

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

Excellent. For what it's worth "Genesis of the Daleks" is a fabulous story. It's one of the first ones I saw (having started with "Robot" and then straight through to "Invasion of Time" over and over again for 3 years or so) and it's one of the best. I always liked "Hand of Fear" too so you're in for treats.

I remember the great hue and cry about her prior to the show re-airing -- it didn't give me a lot of hope which is why I kind of avoided seeking out the new show until a friend bestowed the first 6 episodes on me in late Spring of 05. She surprised me in terms of how good she was. I didnt hear "Because we want to" until I was at Gallifrey (big DW convention in Los Angeles) last February. The DJ played it at the dance.

I made my parents watch it here. Actually, my dad wasn't interested so I convinced my mum instead. It was only after we were hooked on it that my dad showed any interested and seemed miffed that we'd excluded him (we hadn't - he just refused to watch it! LOL)

[nfwbls.livejournal.com]

You do realize that as a parent, I've indoctrinated all three of my sons into Whodom now? My children *do* go around screaming "exterminate! exterminate!" at them (they also do the funniest riff on the the cybermen ponderously chasing people and marching into walls and streetlamps, etc)

Alas, they've only seen the new ones (Nine and Ten) - I have to get my hands on the Baker years (the reruns of which filled my high school years with joy and made them worth living) for them (but I'm afraid that after the new ones they'll think the old ones are too cheesy for words and will refuse to watch them)

[meddow.livejournal.com]

If I have kids they will be wandering screaming “exterminate” as well. Instead I have my friends staring at me blankly when I try to explain to them the awesomeness of having genocidal pepper pots as a bad guy, which is not as much fun.

That’s the wonderfulness of Who though, it’s passed down through the generations. There's not much these days that gets parents as excited as children.

The FX might put them off. But really, compared to LotR and Pirates of the Caribbean, new Who’s special effects aren’t all that brilliant, so they may be receptive.

[lyra-lupin.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. I'm a BIG Dr. Who fan as well-- we're watching 'new earth' right now, but at the end of the season, I was so sad.

:( Lyra

[meddow.livejournal.com]

Doomsday was absolutely gut-wrenching. I knew it was coming because Billie Piper was leaving, but it was just so damn sad when it happened.