Hiya. I got here from your doctorwho comment, hope you don't mind.
You know, they pulled a similar thing with a completely different fandom a few years back: Trekkies, specifically the ones who watched The Next Generation, will probably gladly recount to you the story of "The longest summer" where they had to wait an entire series to find out if the main protagonist had been assimlated by evil aliens and if his former crew had just blown him up... it didn't have the same effect for me popping in a DVD ten years later but it must've been HELL for the fans at the time... you can get there was a big ratings jump when autumn finally rolled around.
I guess he COULD be just doing the whole "putting on a brave face" thing (at the very least I get the series was adveristed to the bosses at the BEEB based on the whole "this will bring in more money and viewers" thing; though whether or not that reflects on his own reasoning for it is anyone's guess: what they think and what they tell the bosses who hand out the cash in order to get stuff done could be two different things) but at the moment I'm trying not to think that way, because... well because I don't want to spend six months to a year getting stressed out over this. I can't change it...I've loved what we;ve had the last five or six years so much, the thought of it going out that way leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, and seems unnessecary since that this point we have no REAL conclusive proof that this is the beginning of the end.
Though I agree with you that the Beeb is at it with their budgeting lately. The BBC seems to be a bit of a mess. I'm doing animation at uni and they actually opened up to a FIRST YEAR CLASS offering a contest for aniamtion series pitches: five years ago, the BBC would NEVER have done that. So that says something about how... well, desperate they are.
On the other hand... with that in mind, why would they then cut one of their BIGGEST merchandise earners and a show which, even in spite of a slight drop in viewers lately, is bringing in more attention than almost everything bar the televised football matches?
As for having to wait months to see a conclusion... irking, yeah. But then Doctor Who's endings are... not always happy, not always great but usually it leads to a victory for the good guys and I'm going to stick with that mind set for now. it's not like they're gonna destroy the universe XD so (tempts fate)... how bad can it really be?
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Date: 2010-08-29 11:57 pm (UTC)You know, they pulled a similar thing with a completely different fandom a few years back: Trekkies, specifically the ones who watched The Next Generation, will probably gladly recount to you the story of "The longest summer" where they had to wait an entire series to find out if the main protagonist had been assimlated by evil aliens and if his former crew had just blown him up... it didn't have the same effect for me popping in a DVD ten years later but it must've been HELL for the fans at the time... you can get there was a big ratings jump when autumn finally rolled around.
I guess he COULD be just doing the whole "putting on a brave face" thing (at the very least I get the series was adveristed to the bosses at the BEEB based on the whole "this will bring in more money and viewers" thing; though whether or not that reflects on his own reasoning for it is anyone's guess: what they think and what they tell the bosses who hand out the cash in order to get stuff done could be two different things) but at the moment I'm trying not to think that way, because... well because I don't want to spend six months to a year getting stressed out over this. I can't change it...I've loved what we;ve had the last five or six years so much, the thought of it going out that way leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, and seems unnessecary since that this point we have no REAL conclusive proof that this is the beginning of the end.
Though I agree with you that the Beeb is at it with their budgeting lately. The BBC seems to be a bit of a mess. I'm doing animation at uni and they actually opened up to a FIRST YEAR CLASS offering a contest for aniamtion series pitches: five years ago, the BBC would NEVER have done that. So that says something about how... well, desperate they are.
On the other hand... with that in mind, why would they then cut one of their BIGGEST merchandise earners and a show which, even in spite of a slight drop in viewers lately, is bringing in more attention than almost everything bar the televised football matches?
As for having to wait months to see a conclusion... irking, yeah. But then Doctor Who's endings are... not always happy, not always great but usually it leads to a victory for the good guys and I'm going to stick with that mind set for now. it's not like they're gonna destroy the universe XD so (tempts fate)... how bad can it really be?