bowties-are—cool:

So I’ve seen people saying that some Whovians are better than others based on when they started watching. And I’m sorry, but what utter crap.

I think I’ve seen a couple of people claiming superiority over watching since ‘Rose’; those people may have forgotten that Doctor Who began in 1963 – probably before they were born. I’m lucky enough to have watching since the reboot, but does that make me a better Doctor Who fan than, say, somebody who picked it up at LKH or even TWORS and then caught up? No way. Yes, I’ve been watching the show since the Ninth Doctor, but I was eight years old at that point. I generally understood the plotlines, but not all of it, and I certainly didn’t get the finer points of the Doctor’s relationship with Rose.

I only started really, really getting into it through Series Five, and I became a complete addict at AGMGTW, for heavens’ sake. However, I count myself as a huge, massive, enormous, etc., Doctor Who fan, and it feels like I’ve been a super-Whovian forever. It’s not about when you started watching.

If being a fan was some kind of club that could only be visited by those with a certain amount of loyalty, the fandom would be a hell of a lot smaller than it actually is – how many Whovians do you reckon got sucked into the fandom by the amazingness of Series Six? And if they love it, and think about it, and basically breathe Doctor Who, then who cares how long they’ve been watching? They’re a fan, and that’s what counts.

Above: FACT.