theoldbluebox | Critique (Reply)

When I am interested in something, I'm interested enough to look at it in depth and examine every point in it. And then I like to mention the continuity errors/other errors. But often people think I don't like a program because I've pointed out an issue, which is hugely distressing and Just Not True. I thought to start with that it was just because I hung around with non-geeks (aka my husband!) - but I've had people get upset in fandom about it, like because I'm pointing out an illogicality (is that a word?) I'm saying "this program is rubbish". If it were rubbish, I wouldn't be bothering to watch it closely enough to notice minor inaccuracies!

This comes to you apropos of having watched Partners In Crime again today with my son (who thankfully is a fellow geek and also, fortunately, likes having things pointed out to him!).
And Ms Foster says that there are one million people taking the Adipose capsules, so when she goes to total parthenogenesis (sp?) it will be "one million birthdays". But - but - but - more than one Adipose comes from each person at such times (we see two coming from the bloke the Doctor talked to early on, for example) so it should be massively more than one million Adipose birthdays, no?

Does this spoil my enjoyment of the program? No. Does it help my son to understand maths? Yes. Is it actually increasing my enjoyment of the program that having seen this episode several times, I've now noticed something which passed me by on the previous viewings? YES!

But am I spoiling your enjoyment by pointing this out? Should I keep my pedantic moments to myself and not share them with fandom?