If I'm really looking forward to some new entertainment coming down the endless pipeline, I'll stop reading or watching anything about it a few months in advance, because it sucks all the fun right out of it. I don't watch the last trailers, I don't read the reviews, and most of all, I don't listen to the endless and dull speculation about what's going to happen, based on blurred set photos and desperate fan entitlement.
But I might have to extend it further than a few mere months, because the dumbness is starting so early now.
Consider Beep the Meep. I am, Rassilon help me, a total fucking Doctor Who nerd, and for the past couple of weeks I haven't been able to avoid Who dorks talking about this fucking furry. He's a character from some early Doctor Who comics by Mills, Wagner and Gibbons - a super-cute bundle of fur who was also a ruthless intergalactic despot.
He got his just desserts, of course, because this is Doctor Who and that's how it works. He's returned a few times in more comic strip tales and the inevitable audio adventures and that's where he belonged, until blurry photos of someone in a Meep costume started showing up online.
It took minutes for the intense speculation of what it all means to start, and how it ties into the grand canon and all that rubbish. It's obviously important and a sign of the future times.
Or it's just a two-second joke in the background, a tiny easter egg that will mean absolutely nothing to 98% of the TV show's audience, and all the desperate theories and badly-written articles about it are just a lot of wasted air.
It's still a while away, but I am looking forward to the next era of Doctor Who and am frothing to see what Ncuti Gatwa will bring to the series. Russell T Davies knows how to go big with the show and has only become a sharper and more sensitive writer in the years he's been around. But I'm checking out, as much as possible, on the dumb rumours.
There's a chance that the Meep actually is the big bad guy, because Davies' Doctor Who might be just ridiculous enough to try that on. But everything isn't important, and everything doesn't have to be a fucking clue.
Sometimes it's just some silly shit, and we could all use more of that in our lives.
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