Do you ever wonder how drastically different your life would be if that one thing hadn’t occurred?
did the fandoms ruin another hipster post?
Yes. Yes we did.
BBC America: the proud sponsor of three of these fandoms and the fans who come with it.
No, but quite seriously, I would be a very different person. Doctor Who crept into my brain when I was so young I barely knew what stories were. It is literally my first memory of television, and even then, the Doctor was already an old friend. Before anyone ever had the chance to separate science from wonder, reality from imagination in my mind, Doctor Who had got there first and melded them together into an indivisible whole.
I think the way I do because of Doctor Who. I marvel at the things I do because of Doctor Who. It has informed a lifetime of interests, of passions, of logic, of my ability to accept things beyond my ability to understand and my ability to reason toward things and learn to accept them. To cherish the weird. To reach beyond the surface. To believe that belief and rationality can go hand-in-hand. To believe that in this bizarre, cold old cosmos, there’s still room to try to do good.
Every person has building blocks that lay at the foundations of their selves, which touch and shape everything they are and become as they grow throughout their lives. Doctor Who is one of mine. I was two years old when I met the universe. I don’t want to know who I might’ve been without it.