[ SECRET POST #1998 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1998 ⌋

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

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[Peter Gabriel]


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10. [SPOILERS for the Hunger Games]



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11. [WARNING for abuse]



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[Hetalia]


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14. [WARNING for gore, animal abuse]
http://i.imgur.com/SjfD3.jpg
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[Video Games Awesome Live]


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[Avatar: the Last Airbender]


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[American Horror Story]


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18. [WARNING for dub-con, grooming, brainwashing]



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19. [WARNING FOR general discussion of triggery topics (there's bound to be triggering material in the comments)]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #285.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 1 (warning for rape) - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[dancing_serpent]

I've seen plenty of others advise new fans to start there with the Eccleston series

I had pretty much the same problem as the OP, and that was exactly the advice I got from all the friends I asked where to start - so that's what I did, and it worked fine for me.

Skipped the Classic Who, though, and haven't started with Eleven yet, but I love Nine and Ten. ♥

[sparklywalls]

I'm glad it worked for you! I'm one of those people who was exposed to the classic series first (after it stopped, I was very young when it was cancelled) and I honestly don't mind if people stay with the 2005 revival. At least at the start the writers did enough so that it works on its own, but they dangled enough carrot in front of viewers so if they wanted to find out more about previous incarnations, they could. It kinda gets a bit fuzzier when they start making direct references to the old series - such as when you see actual brief footage of the old incarnations but it's not like you need to know much about them beyond the fact they're his previous lives.

[dancing_serpent]

*g* Yeah, there were enough carrotshints at the Doctor's past to make me curious. For now Wikipedia and other sites are still enough to fill the gaps, though. Especially as I've been told that quite a lot of the older episodes got deleted and aren't available any more. :(

[(Anonymous)]

Only 1st and 2nd!

[dancing_serpent]

Ah, thank you. It's still sad, though.

[idran]

They're not available in video form, but audio recordings of every episode still exist, at least. Old-school fans used to sit by their TVs with tape recorders to record the audio, and thanks to them we've got at least that much from every single Doctor Who serial. :D

Doctor Who's really lucky for that, it's crazy how much culturally significant stuff just had its recordings erased since people at the time couldn't think of any reason people would want to see something they'd already seen before. Like, did you know that until last year, there were literally no known recordings of the first Super Bowl still around? Even not being a football fan, that's still astounding to me. And there's only a handful of episodes of Johnny Carson's first ten years or so still around because NBC kept reusing the same tapes to record them, that's hundreds of shows lost forever. Jack Paar's entire run before him is basically completely gone too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiping has a lot more information on it, I can't believe how much stuff is just gone forever. The biggest one for me is that 99% of the DuMont Television Network's entire run over its entire span of existence is gone because a later broadcast network dumped the tape warehouse into the East River to clear out space.

[writerserenyty]

I think the great thing about Eccleston Who is that it's pretty much built for people who don't have prior knowledge of Doctor Who, and doesn't assume you have knowledge of that universe.

I recommend starting with that as well, and if OP gets into it they can go back and watch Classic stuff if they so choose.

[dancing_serpent]

Yes, that! Although I do sometimes question RTD's judgement when it comes to gateway characters. :) But Eccleston is a very strong actor, and that helps a lot, too.