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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 408655" data-attributes="member: 22">I guess meaning is in the eye of the beholder.Maybe yes, maybe no (I mean, I guess even I qualify as a pre-Chibnall &quot;fan&quot;, but I did absolutely nothing to keep the show visible during the wilderness years, unless you count buying a second-hand copy of the 25th Anniversary Soundtrack LP), but even if you&#039;re right, that doesn&#039;t mean Who is under any ongoing obligation to those fans, who presumably aren&#039;t all one collective hive mind anyway, but are made up of&nbsp; hundreds/thousands/millions (delete where necessary) of individuals, who all have their own idea of what Who should be. For example, I subscribe to a Who podcast called &quot;Too Hot for TV&quot;, which is dedicated to &quot;the extended universe of Doctor Who&quot; (i.e., everything but the series itself) and is hosted by the kind of wilderness-era fans you describe and they&#039;re quite dismissive, maybe even contemptuous of other wilderness-era fans who don&#039;t view Who the way they do.&nbsp; And it&#039;s not as if all those wilderness-era books, videos and fan-made whatnots don&#039;t contradict each other and the series itself six ways from Sunday. In a way, that&#039;s the beauty of them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 408655, member: 22"] I guess meaning is in the eye of the beholder. Maybe yes, maybe no (I mean, I guess even [I]I [/I]qualify as a pre-Chibnall "fan", but I did absolutely nothing to keep the show visible during the wilderness years, unless you count buying a second-hand copy of the 25th Anniversary Soundtrack LP), but even if you're right, that doesn't mean [I]Who[/I] is under any ongoing obligation to those fans, who presumably aren't all one collective hive mind anyway, but are made up of hundreds/thousands/millions (delete where necessary) of individuals, who all have their own idea of what [I]Who[/I] should be. For example, I subscribe to a [I]Who[/I] podcast called "Too Hot for TV", which is dedicated to "the extended universe of [I]Doctor Who[/I]" (i.e., everything but the series itself) and is hosted by the kind of wilderness-era fans you describe and they're quite dismissive, maybe even contemptuous of other wilderness-era fans who don't view [I]Who[/I] the way they do. And it's not as if all those wilderness-era books, videos and fan-made whatnots don't contradict each other [I]and[/I] the series itself six ways from Sunday. In a way, that's the beauty of them. [/QUOTE]

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