WTF?
This seems like a minor "issue" with which I needn't concern myself...
The Register is issuing a call to arms after learning that the jeggings-clad, floppy-haired boybanders in One Direction, who would never hurt you girl, have decided to livestream seven hours of caterwauling the word "baby" on the very day that Whovians celebrate a half-century of The Doctor. The 23rd of November marks the …
At least your typical whovian doesnt scream loud and high enough to burst your ear drum, and drive your dog mad.
Besides, who is actually going to remember 1 Dimension in 50 years time, let alone being a fan of theirs in 50 years time?
Anybody fancy doing some "gardening" at Simon Cowells house? I'll bring the quicklime.
Make me ignore both groups in their entirety. The world doesn't involve solely around either of them, but it seems both are unaware of that little fact.
Instead it's much more important to remember the flood which happened in 1334 around the Belgian and Dutch coasts.
Although I doubt anyone would remember that event without looking it up it is at least something real which has had much more impact than the running of a TV show or the existence of a boy-band.
Simply top grade manipulation of hapless child sheeple. I don't believe, for one second, that this a mere unintended coincidence of events.
What could be more successful in driving total idolatry for the Dr Who/1D event than creating conflict between siblings and classmates at an age where arguments rarely extend beyond, 'my (fill blank) is better, ya-boo'.
Repeat after me, 'Sheeple are that breed of sheep that follow APPLE. These One Direction kind are a totally different breed and should not be compared to the Apple breed.'
Got that?
No?
Take 500 lines.
Write out 500 times, 'One Direction are a pile of steaming dog poo that are MADE up to look nice.'
Aqualung is still the best album ever made.
"Do you still remember, December's foggy freeze,
When the ice that clings onto your beard is screaming agony?
And you snatch your rattling last breaths with deep sea diver sounds
And the flowers bloom like madness in the spring..."
Also, Locomotive Breath is pure rock.
See, it's easy to sneer at other peoples music. But if you do, don't follow by name checking a dreadfull prog folk nightmare from the 70s. No one likes Jethro Tull, no one. Oh yeah, some people say they do, but no one actually enjoys listening to them....
Good grief! It's like listening to the conversation in a sixth form common room in the early eighties. Music didn't stop being good just because you gave up finding new stuff.
And how up yourself do you have to be to proclaim your favourite album is the best album ever?
Oh, hang on, I get it! This is just hilarious banter! I know, best album ever is Alphataurus by Alphataurus! (try it, just google "obscure prog rock" and pick one at random! Hillaire!)
Only if they could take the members of One Direction and transport them to some place on the other side of the Galaxy.
Then come back and follow that up with transporting Simon Cowel and every other 'Boy' band and 'Girl' band to different locations around the cosmos. Let some other people/beings suffer their wailing and gyrating.
I've been a 'Who fan since I was a kid. Collected books, magazines, videos, DVDs, and watch the new series avidly with my family as we're all now fans. It's been some of the best TV I've even seen, but also some of the worst ("Love And Monsters"!).
I remember The Three Doctors (10th anniversary) and The Five Doctors (20th), and I'm looking forward to the Day Of The Doctor as it's a big milestone and worth marking. But I'm also a little bit worried that it might be ruined, like some of the other series climaxes, by CGI overload and a look-at-how-clever-a-writer-I-am plot, frenziedly squeezing in way too many rushed ideas and twists into an hour or so!
So we'll definitely be watching, but I'll also be 'behind the sofa' a bit just in case...
"Frenziedly squeezing in way too many rushed ideas and twists into an hour or so!"
It'll have some way to go before it's anywhere near as bad as the squeezing-in-way-too-many-rushed-ideas-and-twists-into-THIRTEEN-F*****G-MINUTES 30th anniversary Children in Need "special", Dimensions in Time.
Okay, I'm very, *very* sorry I mentioned that.
Not a Whovian myself, so I am not sure what "the Silence" is. However, this weekend I was at the movies and I saw an ad for One Direction's "This Is Us" film (or whatever it was named).
This was my first experience with One Direction. I have seen the clean-cut face of what I now know to be the enemy and I want to assure Whovians of my allegiance in the face of our common adversary. While I have to admit I have awakened too late to the danger that by now has undoubtedly consumed millions of European tween' lives prior committing it's cultural Pearl Harbor on America, it won't be the first time that Americans have arrived late to the game and have yet played an important part.
If there are any brave Brits who have taken up their fathers' fathers' burden to save Western Civilization from another dark threat, let me know. I will be happy to provide some Lend Lease electric cattle prods if you need them to herd One Direction into a hopefully same-size-on-the-inside-as-the-outside police box. I'd give you a Lend Lease power drill too, but I don't want anyone punching air holes in the box.
The problem is, there's an overlap :/
Honestly tho, I think those bronies are more interested in trolling and cyberbullying at facebook pages belonging to a particular TV network in the US and a particular toy manufacturer than causing trouble with the 50th Doctor Who anniversary. At least, hopefully. I don't think Season 4 of that show starts on the same weekend as the Doctor Who special, and the overlap will help alleviate things if it does. Otherwise they can get really nasty. They're already nasty towards fans of many other shows and even those who like the earlier versions of MLP :/
Seriously, Who was brilliant right up til it went all Buffy. Ecclestone onwards, pretty meh. It's freakin' popular now, what's with that?
Once, being a Dr Who fan meant that you were part of a secret society that saw things and went places the rest of society couldn't comprehend. Things greater than TV romance - science vs ignorance, peace vs war, the struggle of good vs evil within each of us. It was more than overproduced creepypasta with a prettyboy lead and boy-meets-girl cliché.
(I hear Blakes 7 is being made again. It could be so cool, but I bet it won't be.)
As for 1D, what's the thing? It's all quantum. They're only big because everybody's paying attention to them. Stop collapsing the waveform! Ignore them and they'll cease to exist...