Here I wanted to post a couple of extra facts about the fandom that I think are extremely entertaining and helpful when I was doing research on the fandom, and in the spirit of collective intelligence, I wanted to post this information for anyone who wants to know more about the Doctor Who fandom:
Also, although this video is a couple of years old, this guy sums up Doctor Who quite nicely and touches on the same ideas that I do in my main analysis as far as the fans and many other people interacting within Doctor Who that have transformed the series into the complicated discourse that it is.
- 20 Sites that Whovians Should Explore: This site was extremely helpful. I had no idea that there was a forum for just Doctor Who fanfiction or that there was a fan magazine. And, this list of sites demonstrates my point that the fandom itself is so large and complicated that it is definitely to nail down one theory to it.
- Fan Wikis: Just tons and tons of knowledge about anything you could want to know about Doctor Who
- Doctor Who Science : Some fans are so hard core that they have even proved that the Doctor Who Science is actually based on real science, and there is even a film by Brian Cox called the Science of Doctor Who, in which he lectures about the science behind space and time.
- 10 Times War Broke Out in the Fandom : This demonstrates just how divided the fandom really is as well as some of the issues that members debate over.
- Fan made sequence inspiration : A fan made a title sequence and posted it on youtube, and Moffat took this video and used it as inspiration for the official title sequence. This is significant because this demonstrates how fans are influencing the official text in visible ways now.
Also, although this video is a couple of years old, this guy sums up Doctor Who quite nicely and touches on the same ideas that I do in my main analysis as far as the fans and many other people interacting within Doctor Who that have transformed the series into the complicated discourse that it is.
