Fandom: Yeah, I've mostly steered clear. I've got a few Whovian friends that I either found through some roleplaying I did online back in the day or through other fandoms, and occasionally I lurk on the Outpost Gallifrey forum, but that's about it. I poked around the infamous Rec.Art.Dr.Who for a while back in the day...and wow is Who fandom divisive. My first real fandom experience had been with the Scapers (Farscape fans), who really are the big family every fandom wants to think it is. Who...it's a bit more like armed camps. There are a lot of beautiful people, but also a number of very loud grumpy folks clinging to their One True Doctor and spending too much time deriding all the others. Ah well...
K-9 Blooper: Heheheh
New Earth: I could be remembering wrong, but I thought the New Earth was in a distant solar system from the original? Which to me is still totally alien. Well, maybe not totally...I can see how a New Mars or whatever would be different, not based on the Earth template. I still loved that city, though...and found the idea of a city called New New New New etc. York disproportionately hilarious--because I'm still 12, especially when watching Doctor Who. *g*
Alien worlds: Yeah, I definitely see your points. The flipside...the jungle in Kinda was a studio set, and Who studio jungles got to be sort of infamous. I rarely mind them, but I can respect the new crew wanting to avoid them. Then again...I also get the feeling sometimes that like the crew in the 3rd Doctor's era, they're big fans of the "Yeti in the loo" theorem...the idea that the monsters are scarier in your own backyard, in your own world. While I don't always agree and love my alien worlds, I do think we've gotten some wonderfully creepy moments out of it in the past year: the sleepwalkers in Christmas Invasion, the Cybermen in the living room, etc.
I'd also say, as much as I love a good alien culture, it's not what Who tends to focus on...which is usually more with the monsters and macguffins and humans in trouble, whether at home or out in the galaxy. Which doesn't mean it can't do an awesome alien culture...just not where they tend to put their focus, unlike Trek or even Stargate.
Actually, too, a good alien culture doesn't need to be on an alien world...I found the aliens in 'Fear Her' rather imaginative and cool.
Of course, I totally WOULD be going out to see some crazy alien cultures when not popping back for concerts totally not including ABBA. *snerk* I'd love to see some of the places the 7th Doctor describes in the last speech in 'Survival'...
Hope I'm not getting annoying with all my glass-three-quarters-full-at-the-very-least! fanboyism. :?P
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Date: 2006-07-16 11:48 pm (UTC)K-9 Blooper: Heheheh
New Earth: I could be remembering wrong, but I thought the New Earth was in a distant solar system from the original? Which to me is still totally alien. Well, maybe not totally...I can see how a New Mars or whatever would be different, not based on the Earth template. I still loved that city, though...and found the idea of a city called New New New New etc. York disproportionately hilarious--because I'm still 12, especially when watching Doctor Who. *g*
Alien worlds: Yeah, I definitely see your points. The flipside...the jungle in Kinda was a studio set, and Who studio jungles got to be sort of infamous. I rarely mind them, but I can respect the new crew wanting to avoid them. Then again...I also get the feeling sometimes that like the crew in the 3rd Doctor's era, they're big fans of the "Yeti in the loo" theorem...the idea that the monsters are scarier in your own backyard, in your own world. While I don't always agree and love my alien worlds, I do think we've gotten some wonderfully creepy moments out of it in the past year: the sleepwalkers in Christmas Invasion, the Cybermen in the living room, etc.
I'd also say, as much as I love a good alien culture, it's not what Who tends to focus on...which is usually more with the monsters and macguffins and humans in trouble, whether at home or out in the galaxy. Which doesn't mean it can't do an awesome alien culture...just not where they tend to put their focus, unlike Trek or even Stargate.
Actually, too, a good alien culture doesn't need to be on an alien world...I found the aliens in 'Fear Her' rather imaginative and cool.
Of course, I totally WOULD be going out to see some crazy alien cultures when not popping back for concerts totally not including ABBA. *snerk* I'd love to see some of the places the 7th Doctor describes in the last speech in 'Survival'...
Hope I'm not getting annoying with all my glass-three-quarters-full-at-the-very-least! fanboyism. :?P