Board Thread:The Celestial Toyroom/@comment-188432-20141210233606

Thanks! (But our lives just got harder.)
I wanted to say thanks to everyone who helped us make it through to round 2 of Wikia's Year in Fandom contest! We had a tough draw going up against Guardians of the Galaxy, but now it just got tougher.

It's now just a straight-up fight between Capaldi and the Star Wars Episode VII trailer.

Looking at the rest of the competition, this is undoubtedly the hardest round of the whole competition. If we make it through this, we're a good bet to win the whole tournament.

But I like Star Wars, too! How do I decide?
If, like me, you're a Star Wars fan, you may have a problem with this particular vote. But consider this: all we got from Star Wars was 1m 28 sec of film. Granted, it was a particularly great 88 seconds, but it's still nothing compared to the 14 or so hours we got of Doctor Who. And remember: this competition is about the Year in Fandom. And I think it can be successfully argued that no franchise tried harder than Doctor Who to cater to its fans. Remember the World Tour? When everyone else was staying safe in their Comic Con bunkers, Capaldi and Coleman were out there meeting the fans all over the globe. And don't forget how much the production office have embraced the fans this year by making several documentaries about fan presence and creativity. Heck, they've even included one in the iTunes package for the Christmas Special.

Maybe Episode VII will deserve the award next year, once there's something to actually see. But for the here and now, no franchise has worked harder in 2014 to keep its fans happy than Doctor Who. And when we look back ten years from now on Capaldi, that's what we'll say about the way his era started.

Led by a fan, Doctor Who was never more positively fan-engaged than 2014.

So go here and vote Capaldi today.  