SF fans getting nearly everything they want
It's far too vague and Usenetty to call a proper wank, so I apologise for a lack of links, but reading all the rants from hardcore Doctor Who fans who hate Christopher Eccleston for leaving is too much fun to leave alone.

The posters got so heated that major registration-only board Outpost Gallifrey allegedly had to close down for a while and the bitching has overtaken discussion of the actual new series. An added layer of fun is that the original quitting announcement was made very close to April Fools' Day.

(some links might be spoilery)



(The legendary British SF show returned to TV three weeks ago after 16 years (give or take a TV movie) and just after the BBC recorded excellent ratings for the first episode and a reschedule for next year, it was announced leaked that the lead actor would be leaving at the end of this season for fear of being typecast/ not enough money/ rows with the producer/ a carefully pre-determined plan/ all of these. Eccleston is the ninth actor to take the title role)

Various random comments on Tachyon TV and suchlike hint at spoogers talking of sabotaging Eccleston's future theatre career with placards, but all the serious action is registration-only. The thought of a bunch of SF spods wandering into a production of Hamlet waving banners and chuntering about betrayal is an image of wank at its finest.




Quoted in a newsgroup

We FINALLY get a return to Doctor Who's Golden Age - the best set of episodes since Philip Hinchcliffe. Russell T. Davies has done THE most superlative job...Then the announcement of a second series of thirteen episodes and a Christmas Special, and we were all on Cloud Nine.

But now this......
I saw it coming but refused to believe it. I could not accept that an actor like Eccleston, ONE WHO ASKED RUSSELL FOR THE ROLE, could betray all the fans so badly by jumping ship just as things were getting good. Ten and a half million viewers, a bright future, a second series guaranteed, and he has to ruin it for everyone.

There was no need for this.

I adore his acting, but my opinion of him as a person has sunk lower than a cockroach.

When I THINK how hard we all fought back in the early nineties to try to save the show. When I THINK how we've suffered for sixteen years, and also really my opinion of the twelve years prior to that is public knowledge. When I THINK that we after so so so so long had a return to the glory days and had something to celebrate, yet this selfish individual has done his best to spoil it for everybody, MY BLOOD BOILS.

I put it to you all that he had no moral right whatsoever to take on this role, if he was gonna quit after thirteen episodes. What a slap in the face and a betrayal of the trust that Russell placed in him. And how unfair to Russell, who has been Doctor Who's messiah, in not only bringing the series back, but giving us a series worthy of being proud to be a fan. If Eccelston cared at all, he wouldn't have even considered quitting till at least two years had passed.

But NO, he's worried about his precious reputation.

DAMN HIM !!!!!!!!!!!

It Russell has confirmed David Tennant, lets hope they've made him guarantee at least five years. But after all the wonder and magic and brilliance and excitement and awe and thrills of topping the ratings, and joy at seeing posters everywhere, it just all seems so futile.

Why oh why oh why ???
I feel sick.
Please let it all work out in the end.
PLEASE LET DOCTOR WHO STILL HAVE A FUTURE.
PLEASE.



Futurewank alert - David Tennant, the most likely candidate for Eccleston's replacement, is appearing in the next Harry Potter film...