Re: Toxic fandom

On 2024-06-11 19:26:32 +0000, Blueshirt said:

The Doctor wrote:
 

In article <xn0omxhmdara3wn005@post.eweka.nl>,
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

 The Timeless Child is going nowhere, you'd want to start
getting used to it... move on.

 The Timeless Child deserved to be rubbished!

 Yes it did. BUT... it was still part of the show.
 The McCoy era deserved to be rubbished, BUT... it was still part
of the show.
 Like any long running TV show Doctor Who has been good, average
and bad... that's the way it goes. But even so, it's ALL Doctor
Who.
 That's the point that YOU are not getting.

Yes and no.
Although "reboots" do usually re-use the same or similar names and are echnically in the same franchise, they are in reality completely different shows. The most obvious example being "Battlestar Galactica" - there's the real Glen Larson original version, then the horrible "Galactica 1980" version, and then there's the awful Moore-Ron "reboot" version. (There is also a planned movie version which will be different again, and an even sillier planned movie that will somehow supposedly link the two very different versions while ignoring "Galactica 1980").
The problem with Doctor Who is that the main character's ability to regenerate so they can replace the actor, makes it harder to spot the "reboot" attempts.  The gender-swapping and now race-swapping are two of the more blatant "reboot" attempts within Doctor Who franchise, mainly to appease the Politically Correct / Equality brigade ... because as we all "know", there were never any female nor black actors on TV shows before about 2010,  :-\
"Reboots" are never a good idea, and simply a sign that the creator doesn't really know what to do. Another term covering a simialr sudden change is often "jumping ths shark", named after an episode of the US sitcom "Happy Days" when they decided to make big changes to the format becauser they had run out of sensibly fitting ideas.