[ SECRET POST #3927 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3927 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I don't know what show this is but I agree with this secret 100%. I don't know why some people feel the need to be gatekeeping assholes, as if it's some major accomplishment. Why do that to potential new friends you can squee and discuss a good show with?

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed so hard. I've never understood that attitude, either.

[mimi_sardinia]

To give context, it's Doctor Who. The picture given is from the new series that started in 2005, but DW originally started in 1966.

Now I do agree with the OP on Old School fans who sneer at NewWho fans, but I do understand the idea of side-eying people who are not clear that they were in the fandom only from the start of the new series.

Also I can hardly claim to have been a fan from the start, but I did watch reruns in the 80s of the Third and Fourth Doctor and new episodes from Sixth and particularly Seventh.

[(Anonymous)]

The older a franchise is and the greater its output, the less tolerance I have for that kind of gatekeeping. Especially since not all media is equally accessible to everyone in the first place. Then there's the fact that fandom wasn't always as accessible as it's been since the internet came along and more people have gained internet access. I pretty much had no way to be in Who fandom as a kid because I couldn't go to cons or fanclub meetings under my own steam.

I agree about your last point! I was a little beside myself the first time someone called me an old school Trek fan because I had been watching since TNG! New Who is already fairly old as a currently airing show, but still.

[(Anonymous)]

I started watching with Nine and carried on from there. At the same time though, I am working my way through the classic episodes too. Just finished series 4 last night. It's taken quite a few years so far but i'm getting there.

[(Anonymous)]

I know Doctor Who was off the air long enough for an entire generation to grow up without it so they see the New Who as a new and original thing, but when one of the New Who fans was gushing to me about an episode and how exciting it was because we'd never been shown any room in the TARDIS except the control room before, I felt compelled to point out that may be true in the new series, but Castrovalva is an episode that happened.

It just really bothers me when new fans categorically state that something has never happened on the show without ever having seen all the episodes of said show.

[mimi_sardinia]

As I said up-thread, I totally understand both sides and totally agree.

I dislike the idea that someone who has only watched the new series might dismiss the old stuff as irrelevant, because the showrunners of the new series don't do that, and throw in little nods to the old series whenever they can! Hell, the upcoming Xmas special is a huge nod because it will have the First Doctor, as played by the guy who also played William Hartnell in the TV movie about how the series started. (BTW, David Bradley, aka Filch and Walder Frey.)