The Worldwide Minority - are you part of it?
I apologise for this rant, but I can hold it in no longer, I've tried.
Worldwide minority; this was defined by myself and a group of friends , a few years back, as those of us who still, despite no longer being teenagers, enjoy well written sci-fi & fantasy, from Terry Pratchett to BSG and a lot in between. We also tend not to want endless soaps, reality TV or Jeremy Kyle (poor man's Jerry Springer) it' s amazing how many of us are out there and often those you wouldn't expect, try talking to people.
Thinking about all the comments flying around about how it is only a very few of us that are upset over CoE, I found myself thinking about the fact that I have accepted the fact that I am part of this worldwide minority. I am lucky though that I work for a small company that employs 12 people in the UK and 4 of us are part of this minority, I mean they hired me after I used Buffy as the basis of my presentation at the job interview.
We like Buffy, Angel, Firefly,BSG, Dr Who (pre Matt Smith), Torchwood S1-2, Reaper, The Wire and we do get a bit obsessive about the programmes we love. The strange thing is when we love a show we bring our friends with us and when annoyed or betrayed we leave again.
We Mr Davies whether you like it or not are the ones that got Torchwood from the obscurity of BBC3 to BBC1, by being loyal and encouraging others , so without us you couldn't have got there, something to ponder on when considering future projects. I know I am not the only one who will not bother with your efforts again as there is no point in investing in your characters as the odds are they will be killed or I need to have amnesia or be retconned as regards previous plot/backplot.
Worldwide minority; this was defined by myself and a group of friends , a few years back, as those of us who still, despite no longer being teenagers, enjoy well written sci-fi & fantasy, from Terry Pratchett to BSG and a lot in between. We also tend not to want endless soaps, reality TV or Jeremy Kyle (poor man's Jerry Springer) it' s amazing how many of us are out there and often those you wouldn't expect, try talking to people.
Thinking about all the comments flying around about how it is only a very few of us that are upset over CoE, I found myself thinking about the fact that I have accepted the fact that I am part of this worldwide minority. I am lucky though that I work for a small company that employs 12 people in the UK and 4 of us are part of this minority, I mean they hired me after I used Buffy as the basis of my presentation at the job interview.
We like Buffy, Angel, Firefly,BSG, Dr Who (pre Matt Smith), Torchwood S1-2, Reaper, The Wire and we do get a bit obsessive about the programmes we love. The strange thing is when we love a show we bring our friends with us and when annoyed or betrayed we leave again.
We Mr Davies whether you like it or not are the ones that got Torchwood from the obscurity of BBC3 to BBC1, by being loyal and encouraging others , so without us you couldn't have got there, something to ponder on when considering future projects. I know I am not the only one who will not bother with your efforts again as there is no point in investing in your characters as the odds are they will be killed or I need to have amnesia or be retconned as regards previous plot/backplot.