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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 394767" data-attributes="member: 22">I haven&#039;t read it but I&#039;ve seen reactions to it here and there. I&#039;m inclined to take it with a pinch of salt: RTD is a showman, a provocateur: he knows full well that anything he says that&#039;s remotely controversial will result in lots of attention and publicity for the series, which is part of his job. So I regard it as I would any other piece of clickbait, i.e., I try to resist clicking on it thereby taking the bait.Yeah, me too, hopefully.Good.I read a very interesting piece this morning about Taylor Swift that weirdly made me think of Doctor Who. I came to Swifty relatively late, so I feel like I&#039;m forever playing catch up with all her songs, same as I do with Bob Dylan. They&#039;ve both produced so much great stuff and I&#039;ll never fully get on top of it all, which in a way is quite nice because it always feels fresh and new. I&#039;m kind of the opposite of the fans who, encouraged by Swift, pore over her lyrics to decipher precisely who and what they&#039;re about. It&#039;s fun to hear or read their theories (or rather, it&#039;s fun to hear or read a music writer writing about their theories), but I can&#039;t retain any of that stuff when I&#039;m listening to the songs themselves.&nbsp; And I think I prefer it that way: I don&#039;t want to have too much extraneous knowledge getting in the way of me experiencing the music. The same goes for Who, especially the new episodes. I want to know as little as possible going in so I can be surprised by everything.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 394767, member: 22"] I haven't read it but I've seen reactions to it here and there. I'm inclined to take it with a pinch of salt: RTD is a showman, a provocateur: he knows full well that anything he says that's remotely controversial will result in lots of attention and publicity for the series, which is part of his job. So I regard it as I would any other piece of clickbait, i.e., I try to resist clicking on it thereby taking the bait. Yeah, me too, hopefully. Good. I read a very interesting piece this morning about Taylor Swift that weirdly made me think of Doctor Who. I came to Swifty relatively late, so I feel like I'm forever playing catch up with all her songs, same as I do with Bob Dylan. They've both produced so much great stuff and I'll never fully get on top of it all, which in a way is quite nice because it always feels fresh and new. I'm kind of the opposite of the fans who, encouraged by Swift, pore over her lyrics to decipher precisely who and what they're about. It's fun to hear or read their theories (or rather, it's fun to hear or read a music writer writing [I]about[/I] their theories), but I can't retain any of that stuff when I'm listening to the songs themselves. And I think I prefer it that way: I don't want to have too much extraneous knowledge getting in the way of me experiencing the music. The same goes for Who, especially the new episodes. I want to know as little as possible going in so I can be surprised by everything. [/QUOTE]

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