FYI

[jjpor]

You know how it is. You decide to dust off the old LJ after a couple of months of inactivity in anticipation of the new series of Doctor Who (tomorrow, folks, as if you weren't well, well aware of it), and discover that...well, I'm sure you're also well, well aware of the Putin-related Terms of Service unilateral auto-foot-shooting that Livejournal's owners have indulged in. I actually wasn't until I tried to log on yesterday, but I am now.

So, in all conscience, I don't actually feel I can continue to post things to LJ. This post, assuming the cross-posting still works, will probably be the last thing, unless the world unexpectedly comes to its senses at some point in the future. I'm not hopeful of this happening, I'll be honest.

This goes too for the Who@50 comm, to which I will post a separate announcement. The LJ version of the comm is effectively defunct as of now. It will, however, continue pretty much as normal over here on DW, if normal is the word. Not sure how to announce this on LJ without agreeing to the ToS, so I guess I'm just hoping people see it here on DW.

I had planned to be the last person on LJ along with lost_spook. Alas, it was not to be.

I now return you to your normal programming.


EDIT: And the crossposting did fail, so not really sure whether to log in over there to repeat this or not. If you read this, and you're still active on LJ, maybe pass the word on to anybody you know I know. Thanks. ;)

Comments

[ravenskyewalker]

Ah, yes, the Wilderness Years... still feel jinxed by them. lost_spook might remember my expressing fear about falling so hard for Capaldi as the Doctor, because the last time I was that engaged with DW, the Seventh Doctor and Ace got put on hiatus. So, you can understand how well I reacted to the year's hiatus, Capaldi leaving earlier than he really needed to (and the persistent feeling that the BBC pushed him), and the feeling I get that #12 and Bill will remind me of #7 and Ace (especially since Ace called him Professor and #12 has somehow become a university professor), so another (possible) favorite TARDIS team for me gets cut short...

Too much spoilery stuff I want to debate, but will shut up. No one needs to stumble across spoilers they've somehow avoided until now.

[jjpor]

The parallels are definitely there. I'm trying to adopt a wait and see attitude, as I don't want to prejudge Chibnall's stewardship of Who the way I think a lot of RTD partisans prejudged (and still do tbh) Moffat and his Doctors, but I agree Capaldi is going to be a very hard act to follow, and I like Bill very much as well.