200th Blog Post! & A Huge Epic Thanks To My Whovian Friends! :D

Over on zowbux and Twitter (Mostly Twitter) I asked a few of my lovely friends if they could help me with a tiny questionnaire the questions where..


Question 1:- When you view Doctor Who what cultural aspects do you see within it? (for example does it have that British theme to it? )

Question 2 :- What connects you to the show? (For example what do you do as a fan? Do you attend cosplays? Collect items related to the show?

I wanted to ask fans on their views on the television series Doctor Who, Wednesday of this week was the deadline (short notice i know sorry! D: ) I managed to write about..600-ish words on the fan aspect of the show, if you think this is a lot? It's nothing compared to what i need to do next year, but onward to the paragraph! A shout out to Kehlan (TimeBoyInTheVortex) Stephen (Cybermat1963) and the captain of the good ship Zowbux- Oliver! Thanks guys for your help with my proposal! Now i have taken essences of all your answers and mixed them up into this paragraph, some are quotes to get the ball rolling and some are there to keep it rolling! Enjoy the 625 words! ^^; I could of written more seriously..limitations and everything you know =d

"Knowing  a  brief  summary  of  the  history  and the  first  script  ever  written  we  will  forward  onto  the  questions  that  where  listed  above,  these questions  have  been  asked  by  a  number  of  fans  from  the  television  show.  Asking  the  first question  this  is  what  fans  have  told  us:-  " I  think  it  has  a  bit  of  every  culture  in  it,  British, American,  etc... Which  is  what  makes  it  so  enjoyable  to  watch  because  you  learn  new  things from  the  show."  There  are  similar  view  points  to  this  comment,  another  young  fan  commented  that  it  does  have  a  sense  of  British  culture  within  the  series  but  not  everyone agrees  on  this  point  as  we  also  made  contact  with  a  older  fan,  they  told  us  that  they  can 

put  anything  into  the  show  these  days  and  some  of  the  plots  do  not  make  any  sense  but science  fiction  plays  on  the  role  of  fantasy  and  sometimes  make  believe.  These  three comments  are  all  very  bias  towards  Doctor  Who  and  in  some  shape  or  form  we  can  all  relate  and  agree  with  these  statements,  with  the  quote  from  a  fellow  fan  posted  as  a individual  one  does  agree  that  within  the  new  series  there  is  bit  of  British  culture  with  some of  the  location  shots  and  establishments  but  also  pointing  out  that  some  locations  have  been shot  in  American  and  also  gives  off  some  of  the  American  culture  though  saying  that  for British  culture  not  all  towns  and  cities  can  related  to  London  and  the  same  applies  to  the dusty  plains  of  south  of  the  United  States  but  fans  do  adore  these  different  cultures  in different  episodes  as  another  "Whovian"  states- " I  loved  the  use  of  London  and  Cardiff settings  and  like  to  see  this  is  happening  again"   Just  to  explain  the  term "Whovian" is  a name  for  a  group  of  fans  who  follow  the  show  which  the  term  has  been  added  to  the  Oxford  Dictionary:- "noun  informal  a  fan  of  the  British  science-fiction  television  series Doctor  Who:  as  a  fan  from  way  back,  Barrowman  is  well  aware  of  just  how  passionate Whovians  are  about  everything  ‘Who’ " . Moving  onto  the  next  question-  What  connects  you to  the  show?  (For  example  what  do you  do  as  a  fan?  Do  you  attend  cosplays?  Collect  items

related  to  the  show?  One  reply  was- " Collect  Items  (Such  as  a  Half  size  Collector's  Dalek) and  much  more,  also  went  to  Manchester  when  my  dad  was  alive  to  see  full  size  props."  and  another "  make  a  whovian  social  network  for  fans" . Many  passionate  fans  do  tend  to collect  items  from  the  television  series  some  more  than  others  due  to  extreme  costs  in auctions  and  sometimes  bidding  sites  for  example  ebay  being  one  of  the  sites  in  question  but there  are  specialized  stores  that  sell  products  that  replicate  certain  aspects  of  storylines  and actors.  Looking  at  the  amazing  point  about  creating  a  social  network  based  on  the  series  is incredible  it  has  that  sense  of  giving  back  to  the  community,  while  researching  there  appears to  be  a  certain  number  of  sites  related  to  Doctor  Who  but  in  this  case  the  fan  site  made  for fans  by  a  fan  has  a  different  mode  to  it  in  a  sense  you  could  say  it's  a  lighter  version  of Twitter,  site  in  question-  zowbux.com.  Also  to  add  on  the  fan  experience  the  BBC  has released  a  few  free  to  download  games  and  some  games  that  you  can  play  on  the  BBC  site including  such  titles  as,  The  Gunpowder  Plot,  Blood  of  the  Cybermen,  City  of  the  Daleks  and  Shadows  of  the  Vashta  Nerada  to  be  only  a  few.  These  are  quite  interesting  games  for children  of  all  ages  to  play  and  have  fun.  

If you managed to get this far and your not a Whovian congrats! Once again i just want to say thank you guys for helping me! I was going to make a video but then i felt kinda silly and awkward so i made a blog post ^^;  But behold! A picture! =o