Newsgroup: it.comp.console.playstation
Titolo: Talons?

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How many Doctor Who fans does it take to change a lightbulb?
None, they just sit around and wait for it to come back on. 
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 longer.
Well, it is obvious where your viewpoint lies, but it is interesting to
note in various polls (DWM especially) that some McCoy stories are quite
highly regarded; had the Beeb dropped the series at 24 then we'd have
missed out on those (at least those of us who happen to like McCoy).
One point: the series was made for the public and not for the fans!
Yes, it may have pampered towards them, and that is generally where I
think it probably failed, in that it alienated the general audience.
So, I would say that the fans are indirectly responsible for the series'
end. Had fandom been more conservative in their opinion and their
relationship to the production office then it is quite possible that we'd
still have a series today.
IMHO!
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In a message dated 1/31/00 1:56:18 PM, 
Chuck....@uk.uu.net
 writes:
<<So, I would say that the fans are indirectly responsible for the series'
end. Had fandom been more conservative in their opinion and their
relationship to the production office then it is quite possible that we'd
still have a series today.>>
I couldn't disagree more. Although this may sound like a reversal of my posts 
a couple of weeks ago (in which I said fans' anger at BBC 2 for dropping the 
Pertwee repeats could endanger the idea of repeats period), the only people 
who deserve any blame whatsoever for the demise of Doctor Who are the BBC 
programmers. No matter what the fans may or may not have done, they didn't 
have the power to cancel or continue the series. 
You can say JNT should have made a better show (although there were and are 
fans who loved the eps produced durin his tenure). You can say the fans 
should have been less antagonistic (but that would also mean having been less 
passionate). You can say the BBC was only responding to the lower viewing 
figures (although they themselves did just about everything they could to 
*lower* those figures). 
The fact remains that blaming the fans is futile and useless. We didn't make 
the program, we didn't decide when to air it or how much to spend on it, we 
didn't choose the producer or the script editor or the actors or the writers. 
We just loved it. 
It's easy to blame ourselves, since we can make each other feel bad. We can't 
make the BBC feel bad, so where's the sport in blaming them? But they are the 
ONLY ones to blame.
Tom Beck
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blaming them? But they are the ONLY ones to blame.
I didn't realise it was a sport.
Paul
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