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Yeah I think nanoblogmo is a bust. :( But I'm going to push on with keeping up with this journal since I have Things to Say and I don't think Tumblr (which is my default home now haha sorry everyone) isn't the correct venue for it. Tumblr hates thinky text posts unless they're accompanied by whizzy-bang graphics and I'm too lazy for to make whizzy-bang graphics right now. Also, a lot of times Tumblr thinks that the shoutiest person wins everything. And I don't feel like being shouty. :|
People are wanking about the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary and I'm kind of sick of it right now. :| It's annoying that people are judging The Day of the Doctor on the merits of what Moffat has to say about it, which I really don't trust because he's lied before. RTD has lied before too about plot points, BTW. Fans are upset that the classic actors haven't been included, and there's a GIF set going around Tumblr with a miffed Colin Baker explaining how he and other classic Doctor Who actors have not been included in "The Day of the Doctor" and how that's upset him.
Yes I am upset by this, but is this actually true? I'm not sure because Peter Davison and Paul McGann's voices are CLEARLY audible on the first trailer (I'd recognize Peter's voice anywhere), and some more speculation has suggested that another voice on that trailer could be Colin Baker's. I don't know. So...I'm not sure when that interview with Colin happened or whether he's actually doing something for the 50th. Peter has definitely said that he IS doing something for the anniversary, whether it's the voiceover heard on the trailer or something more, I don't know. But the idea that the classic actors were banned from participating ever? NOT TRUE. MOFFAT LIES.
Also, Big Finish has done a multi-Doctor audio drama already called The Light at the End, and it's brilliant. Maybe I'm not that upset about the TV anniversary episode because Big Finish already did a great story and since everything is canon, The Light at the End is just as valid as The Day of the Doctor. It's a big universe. Etc. etc. etc.
I'm suspecting that the 50th anniversary will be chock full of Easter eggs for Whovians to find, because as much as a lot of fans hate Moffat, Moffat is still a Doctor Who fan and he knows the canon. I know a lot of people hate Moffat for what he's done to the franchise so I'm guessing it's that hate which fuels the dislike of the anniversary before it's even aired.
Okay, apparently, John Hurt plays a previously unknown incarnation of the Doctor (which a lot of pedantic fans are tearing their hair out over), and that this incarnation was responsible for the events of the Last Great Time War, and it's a part of the Doctor's life he'd want to forget. I think this is a great idea (yes, unpopular opinion) and (best part) it doesn't saddle McGann's Doctor or Eccleston's Doctor as the one who committed mass genocide to protect the universe.
Also if you look at classic Who, there's precedent for the Doctor having more incarnations than he suggests (and that we've seen). The serial The Brain of Morbius clearly shows Four having all these other past lives which we've never known about before. So where did all these other faces come from??? My only theory (which is farfetched and I don't care) is that when the Doctor regenerates, his timeline splits and the Doctor that the show follows is only one possibility in the Doctor's life. Kind of like in quantum physics where once there is a deviation in an observation, then that deviation creates multiple states of existence which branch off and become their own little universes.
tl;dr I hate it when Whovians fight and we should judge the 50th anniversary episode when it actually airs
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People are wanking about the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary and I'm kind of sick of it right now. :| It's annoying that people are judging The Day of the Doctor on the merits of what Moffat has to say about it, which I really don't trust because he's lied before. RTD has lied before too about plot points, BTW. Fans are upset that the classic actors haven't been included, and there's a GIF set going around Tumblr with a miffed Colin Baker explaining how he and other classic Doctor Who actors have not been included in "The Day of the Doctor" and how that's upset him.
Yes I am upset by this, but is this actually true? I'm not sure because Peter Davison and Paul McGann's voices are CLEARLY audible on the first trailer (I'd recognize Peter's voice anywhere), and some more speculation has suggested that another voice on that trailer could be Colin Baker's. I don't know. So...I'm not sure when that interview with Colin happened or whether he's actually doing something for the 50th. Peter has definitely said that he IS doing something for the anniversary, whether it's the voiceover heard on the trailer or something more, I don't know. But the idea that the classic actors were banned from participating ever? NOT TRUE. MOFFAT LIES.
Also, Big Finish has done a multi-Doctor audio drama already called The Light at the End, and it's brilliant. Maybe I'm not that upset about the TV anniversary episode because Big Finish already did a great story and since everything is canon, The Light at the End is just as valid as The Day of the Doctor. It's a big universe. Etc. etc. etc.
I'm suspecting that the 50th anniversary will be chock full of Easter eggs for Whovians to find, because as much as a lot of fans hate Moffat, Moffat is still a Doctor Who fan and he knows the canon. I know a lot of people hate Moffat for what he's done to the franchise so I'm guessing it's that hate which fuels the dislike of the anniversary before it's even aired.
Okay, apparently, John Hurt plays a previously unknown incarnation of the Doctor (which a lot of pedantic fans are tearing their hair out over), and that this incarnation was responsible for the events of the Last Great Time War, and it's a part of the Doctor's life he'd want to forget. I think this is a great idea (yes, unpopular opinion) and (best part) it doesn't saddle McGann's Doctor or Eccleston's Doctor as the one who committed mass genocide to protect the universe.
Also if you look at classic Who, there's precedent for the Doctor having more incarnations than he suggests (and that we've seen). The serial The Brain of Morbius clearly shows Four having all these other past lives which we've never known about before. So where did all these other faces come from??? My only theory (which is farfetched and I don't care) is that when the Doctor regenerates, his timeline splits and the Doctor that the show follows is only one possibility in the Doctor's life. Kind of like in quantum physics where once there is a deviation in an observation, then that deviation creates multiple states of existence which branch off and become their own little universes.
tl;dr I hate it when Whovians fight and we should judge the 50th anniversary episode when it actually airs
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