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How Things Change
May. 9th, 2006 12:19 pmSo, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kradical mentions rewatching the old school Dr. Who episode "Mawdryn Undead," and I think "I haven't seen that in a while, now why do I remember there being a problem with it?"* So I score a copy of the novelization, and spend a little time being nostalgic.
But fandom has seriously changed in the last 23 years:
Target Who novelizations, circa 1983: Cheap and badly written, but less expensive than buying an early generation VHS or Beta recorder.
Target Who novelizations, circa 2006: Yellowing, cheap, and really badly written, but less expensive than buying the rare NTSC videotapes of the same episodes off ebay.
And then there's the writing. Namely the line: "He must have woken up when the Headmaster slipped into the room, though he was too sleepy to remember how their unusually intimate conversation began."
Nea circa 1983: "That is so the Black Guardian!"
Nea circa 2006: **SNARF!**
Honestly, is that the line that launched a thousand Potter slashfics or what?
*There's nothing wrong with the show, actually, it's just that I'm a Brigadier fan, and he definately ends up the worse for wear this adventure.
kradical mentions rewatching the old school Dr. Who episode "Mawdryn Undead," and I think "I haven't seen that in a while, now why do I remember there being a problem with it?"* So I score a copy of the novelization, and spend a little time being nostalgic.But fandom has seriously changed in the last 23 years:
Target Who novelizations, circa 1983: Cheap and badly written, but less expensive than buying an early generation VHS or Beta recorder.
Target Who novelizations, circa 2006: Yellowing, cheap, and really badly written, but less expensive than buying the rare NTSC videotapes of the same episodes off ebay.
And then there's the writing. Namely the line: "He must have woken up when the Headmaster slipped into the room, though he was too sleepy to remember how their unusually intimate conversation began."
Nea circa 1983: "That is so the Black Guardian!"
Nea circa 2006: **SNARF!**
Honestly, is that the line that launched a thousand Potter slashfics or what?
*There's nothing wrong with the show, actually, it's just that I'm a Brigadier fan, and he definately ends up the worse for wear this adventure.
