Yep, I'm a Wilderness Years fan. I started in 1992, started with novelisations, New & Missing Adventures, then the comics and EDAs/PDAs. It was a long time before I saw a complete TV serial, and that was through libraries. Until about 1997, I picked everything up at random, so I don't really have an era, more that I pick out my favourites of every era. (I never did follow the Big Finish audios, because they were hard to get and I don't really follow audio very well. Even on TV, I prefer subtitles even though I hear well enough.)
Yeah, we all have different perspectives. As I said, Who has been so many different things, there are fans of all these different aspects of it. For me, I've seen the Time War, twice; I've seen the Doctor destroy Gallifrey to end it with a big red button, twice; I've seen it all retconned and undone, twice. I've been pissed off enough to quit following it all, twice. I think going through all the eras and changes, having all that fannish experience, makes a veteran fan, someone who can be ambivalent and inured to changes they don't like. Maybe in a couple of years I'll give the first seven seasons of the new series another go and like it, accepting it for what it was and not what I wanted it to be.
In the early Hartnell years, the Doctor was essentially the antagonist, and he's come back to that at times: the Sixth in a very poor way, the Seventh and Twelfth in a much better way. Some efforts to pain a "Dark Doctor" tend to ring rather false, but I've seen the concept go as far as it can (the Doctor as Jack the Ripper was probably too far...). Season 8 was an exercise in "good is not nice" or needing to be manipulative and aloof to save the day isn't a good thing to be.
Hey, Trav, speaking of which, that reminds me of a webcomic today:
http://interrobangstudios.com/...ay.php?strip_id=1673
The female Doctor there seems more like the Traveller. :)
One day, if the chance comes up, I'll mess around with Kang genders. Fire Escape said "What are boys?" but where did they go? Separate all-boy gangs in another tower? Or maybe they're Kangs too, with long dyed hair and the rest? Maybe they don't have genders. I wonder what kind of society children could build without any negative adult influence.
It's true, this is the best and most successful DWAITAS game on RPoL. Good posters, a stable group, long-lasting. I really want to start my own DWAITAS game again, now I understand the system and game-play better. Last time, I had a problem of player apathy (they just got slower and less interested until I finally closed) and always removing ex-PCs and inserting new ones, which gets tricky when you're in different times and worlds. So, what do you all think is necessary for a successful DWAITAS game?
I hope everyone had a good Christmas, or whatever. Who-wise, I got
A History of the Universe, 3rd edition (I've read the first, and was unprepared for the sheer size of this one); the
Engines of War novel with the War Doctor; the
Dead Romance reprint; and a Mr Potato Head Dalek. :)
This message was last edited by the player at 13:17, Fri 26 Dec 2014.