I don’t need signs. My dear mother simply told me “I just don’t get your Doctor Who and stuff” so… My dad almost never gets anything I like. My grandma can’t understand the plot when I put up a dw ep on TV, but she simles when things like 11 greeting Clara in the TARDIS naked happens, and that’s lovely.
One of my best friends, the one I met over dw, he doesn’t like dw as much as I do now. He watched New Who as a kid, and read a few of the NSAs and 12 Doctors, 12 Stories in high school cuz I insisted recommended or gave them as a gift for his birthdays. But no more now. Can’t get him into the audios so I’m working on another guy I met in high school who’s way better at English.
I met my wife a few weeks before the 1996 TV Movie aired. We’d been on a few dates before it was on. She called me up just after it finished, to tell me that she thought it was crap. In the early years of our marriage she took to calling it “Doctor Poo” and would mime flushing a toilet to the sound of the TARDIS.
I think it’s fair to say that she didn’t really understand my interest.
My dad doesn’t really like the show but tolerates my fandom and has bought a few pretty good bits of merchandise in the past that he’s found in charity shops.
My mum and brother both enjoy watching it.
What I think most of them, including my wife and kids, struggle with is when I point at the screen and go ‘that’s so and so from Full Circle, or that’s the one from Victory of the Daleks’. I love Doctor Who actor spotting.
The first thing I do at the theatre is check the cast’s TV credits to see if any of them were in Who (unless I already know they were). No one from The Mousetrap I saw on Thursday has been in Who as far as I could tell - although I’d missed Miles ‘Braxiatel’ Richardson by a month or two
Actually my favourite ‘they were in Doctor Who’ recently was when I took my eldest to see a touring production of Blood Brothers (brilliant musical) in Bromley and one of the main cast had been in The Ultimate Adventure! How’s that for obscure!
Mine as well! I love British TV shows and movies overall and it’s fun trying to spot the DW actors in them. I also occasionally point them out to my wife if we watch something together!
That’s like my parents with me regarding The Simpsons. My parents both enjoy Doctor Who, but they really don’t understand why I also love The Simpsons. They say the humour does nothing for them.
