You can't spell fannish divergence without 'fun'! Except you totally can.

[doyle]

March-ish 2005: doyle_sb4 is persuaded, very reluctantly, to watch Rose, first episode of the new Doctor Who series; she whines that she's not at all interested in DW but is swayed by the fact that the episode's written by Russell T Davies, creator of (the original) Queer as Folk.
Three viewings of same episode later: connorbeast asks "so, do you want to just write Buffy fandom that Dear John letter now?"
March 2006: doyle_sb4 looks at her floor-to-ceiling bookcase full of DW books, videos and DVDs and thinks "you know, I must get onto that."

God, I hate it when I go third-person. Anyhoo, I'm just dropping a note here to say that if any of you guys have me friended purely for Buffyverse fic/stuff and are liable to be very annoyed if I start talking even more about Doctor Who than I have been doing - and I want to, it's my exclusive shiny lovely One True Fandom and I want to do the squeeing and reviewing thing and have been holding back for fear of annoying people, which is kind of insane - like it says on my userinfo, every day's defriending amnesty day and I understand completely if you want to take me off your reading list. (I'll probably reciprocate, since I'm rapidly approaching LJ's mythic 750 friends limit). I promise I will neither hunt you down like a wild dog nor shed an emo tear as I wonder where it all went wrong.

Comments

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

'Rah! I am filled with glee just a bit at your Ten-n-Rose icon. (Did you get that vid uploaded okay?)

[gloss]

I know it's all newbie and lame of me to love Ten as much as I do, but I can't stop myself.

I'm still waiting to hear from Miss Sheila re:vid.

Speaking of DW, I have decided to scan the book I got for you? Because package rates to your fair isle start at $20 here and, trust me. The book is not that good. *g*

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeesh! I know we're the back end of nowhere but that's just silly (I can send a small package to the US or Canada for a couple of quid). Which book is it? I bought a job lot recently and I might have it already. *glomps for the lovely thought anyway*

[gloss]

Canada Post is EVIL. This is why privatization is bad, kids.

The book is...Christ, now I can't find it. Baker-era, but no Romana or K9, a guide to all the eps and favorite characters, companions, and villains. Skinny and cheesy as hell, but I read it to cover to cover after TCI. *g*

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I hope you get extras to make up for it, like singing postal deliveries...

[gloss]

*rant on*
You know what I get? Misdeliveries to evil neighbors who rip open my VCD goodies packages from _divya_, take out selected episodes of dS and Slings & Arrows, then toss the open package down in the lobby for me to find a week later.

*breathes* I'll be all right. Some day. I never thought I'd [a] miss the US Postal Service and [2] be quite so old and crotchety that I'd complain about the mail.

[dodyskin.livejournal.com]

*points at the old lady*

Ha

[gloss]

*rattles cane and/or dentures*
Just you wait, Missy!

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

i KNOW. i mean, i haven't even gotten through nine yet (though i'm close). but ten omg ten.

sigh. i think it's just tennant, though. casanova! crouch jr! there was no hope for me.

[gloss]

*whispers* I don't even have Nine. I saw a couple eps broadcast and had bad flashbacks to endless PBS marathons of Four. *bad fan*

Tennant. And he's just...oh. Oh, God, he's awesome. (I saw GoF *after* TCI? So it was very odd.)

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

see, what happened is i watched a few that archie burned for me and was like "okay then, that's nice and all" and then i hit the one with simon pegg -and- tamsin greig and it was all. over. NO FAIR, BBC. though i guess it's not their faul there are only twelve actors.